Be the Change

How are you? Happy Monday. Come on in here. Good to have you here today. Is it Monday? I think it is. Oh, my goodness. That's fun today. How about a purely motivational show today?

Just kind of really good stuff for you to get you thinking a little bit. And as usual, I'll fill in the lines in between with some practical stuff and you'll be like, how do you put that together? And my answer will be, I don't know, just what I do.

Be the change you want to be. That's the main title as we work into this day. Hang on for the ride. It is a daily boost from MotivationToMove.com, the positive boost you need every single day.

How you doing? My name is Scott Smith. Nice to have you here today. Nearly 20 years doing this show, a little bit of a boost every single day. And it's been designed that, you know, the original concept of the show was not to come and just give you a bunch of facts and figures and things like that, a bunch of things to do, which is...

It was never that way. Now you can get it on ChatGPT, but it's really the nuance in between. It's for you to listen to the wisdom and the philosophy that comes out of my mouth. And for me, underneath the hood to go, listen, if I put this together right, they're going to get a couple of nuggets and they're going to feel more inspired when the show is done.

And maybe they don't want to know what happened to them. Maybe it just happened just because they tuned in and decided to listen to me. Sometimes I get it right and sometimes I don't. You know, it just happens.

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So being the change you want to be, be the change you want to be. That's kind of a, hmm, is that on the spiritual side or the motivation side? Which one is that? Listen, I live in that world too.

I'm a positive, upbeat, motivational guy, but I also understand, well, come back here. Motivation is seriously almost the first thing that has to happen for you to get anything. I think you know that, right?

Give me some motivation so I can do. And there's a couple of steps that take place before we get to that, but it's really the first big step. So we have to have that, but it's not the only thing.

So when I say be the change you want to be, some people say, well, become the person you're meant to be. It's the same thing. It's motivational. And it's a great place to head.

I always like that. But then we get practical about it and try to figure it out. People have always kind of sought to change themselves. Maybe you too.

Change your life. Maybe you want to change the world. I don't try to change the world. I don't think I have that power, that ability. It's not my drive to do that.

But one thing I do know is by me showing up with multiple tens of thousands of downloads a day, I think I'm having a little impact. I think there's somebody who's probably being infected by what I say. Somebody's like, he should shut up. Others are like, man, he just changed my whole day.

I don't know what you're trying to do, but that's what I do. But if you want to change something about your life, there is a constant truth out there.

You must change before anything else does. As a coach, as a guy who spends a lot of time working with people, and I can be a very hard coach. I'm an advisor in a lot of ways, but as a coach, I'm going to hold you to your truth.

And if you're looking to change everything around you, but you're not willing to change yourself, I'm one of the few guys in the world who will say that. I will risk getting fired to tell you that you better change your damn mind. You better change your actions. You better change what you're doing.

I don't care how much you pay for me. People look at me all the time. They're like, I'm paying you a lot of money, and you just said what to me? I will risk getting fired, and I've gotten fired before.

But usually what happens, I'm the only person in the world who has the balls to say that to somebody. High-powered type A people used to get in their way, and I'll say that.

But if you will not change before anything else, your world will not change, and you're just really, really in a fantasy world. A lot of people agree, by the way, Mahatma Gandhi. Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Leo Tolstoy. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Happens all the time. Man, that deep interpersonal work, that's hard to do.

I do most of that stuff here, but I just kind of move into more of the practical stuff as well. But trust me, if you don't get your mindset right, nothing happens.

What about Albert Einstein? The world, as we have created, is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. That was a smart dude there, right?

You want to change something about today? Do you want to change something about tomorrow? How about the future? You have to change before anything else changes.

I don't have to change at all, man. This is who I am. You hear that all the time. Listen, I'm the same way, man. And sometimes being who you are is actually really a good thing.

That's when you got it right. And sometimes you just figured it out after 40 years. Well, I used to be who I are back then, but I got in trouble all the time. And now who I are now is a little better.

I morphed when I started out as a disc jockey. I was a shock jock. It wasn't that far from where I am right now and how I deliver things. I sound remarkably pretty much the same.

My content was different. My goal was different. My mission was different. I was exactly the same person. It didn't work that well. I got in trouble all the time.

Have you learned lessons from past experiences? You've already changed, and your future is better for it. You became something different. Rumi, yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.

Today I am wise, so I'm changing myself. As I've gotten a little bit older and gone through every possible thing I can think of in terms of the personal growth world, read the books, been in the seminars, done this stuff, decades and decades and decades of doing this and then working with tens of thousands of people over time, I understand now I'm in a stage of life where wisdom or changing how I think and changing how I operate and changing my trajectories all come down to that. I always knew that, but it's gotten much more important now.

If you want to make more money, if you want to serve more, if you want to be happier next year, it's coming fast. Something has to change this year. What is that something?

That something is you. It is. And if you get in my groups, you come and face your passion. I'm going to have all the patience in the world. I'll hold all the space for as long as I possibly can.

But when you make a decision that, you know what, Scott, I'm fine. I'm not going to change. I'm good the way I am. I'm like, guess what I say? Okay. Okay.

But don't expect me to change. Don't expect me to give you anything different just because you decided to be where you're going to be. Don't expect me to accommodate you. You are who you are.

You've made that decision. You're going to get what you will get. So if you're not going to get, if you're not getting what you want, you got to change.

This is a hard one. People don't want to do it, but I'm here to tell you too. Oh man, this is, this is, I've seen this so many times. The very thing that you don't want to change is what you must change.

You know it in your heart, but you're being a hard head. But the very minute you do and you relax, you kind of give it up. I'm just going to let it go. I'm going to find the new way.

The very thing that you hold on to the tightest is the thing that is holding you back right now. I have a client right now and a friend who made a stupid choice.

Made his decision. And I am not saying much with him. I'm having great conversations. I'm supporting every step of the way, but I have ceased to try to help him change.

He's decided. And it's not good. Happens. It's not for me to make him do anything. So I just support him, be his friend and just, okay, fine, cool. Thanks.

Good. Sounds good. If you want this life to be well-lived, something has to change today. That something is you. What if you want everything about your life to be perfect?

Listen to Winston Churchill. To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often. It is so simple. And I like simple because simple works. You must change before anything else changes.

And it is massively confusing. Sometimes you wonder, why am I doing this? Why am I thinking this way? Why, why, why? And you'll get the resistance from it, but then everything changes.

It is so simple. And simple works. You have to become the change you want to be. Every single day, faceyourfashion.com. We're working on that kind of thing.

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