Everything Is Possible

Come on in here. Good to have you here today, Ben. You know what? I'm going to share with you. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever had a day, maybe it's today even, and you're really trying and it's just not going the way you thought it was going to go, right?

And you're trying to get something done, make something happen. It's just like not happening, right? Well, it could happen tomorrow, right? It could. I'm going to tell you a story today that's pretty close to me.

And at the end of the story, you're going to have a little mantra that a lot of people already have. You're going to be able to use this, and it's going to drive you. I promise. Okay?

It's coming up. It is a daily boost from MotivationToMove.com. My name is Scott Smith. Good to have you here today. Thanks for stopping by. By the way, people said, Scott, how can I get a hold of you?

I know I'm typically, have you figured out yet? I just kind of walk in to do my thing. And I just cross my fingers and hope that I can help you. And sometimes I miss some of the details because I'm too worried about just doing the thing.

But if you want to get a hold of me, a nice way to do it is on Instagram at HeyScottSmith. Yeah, I've got a common name. I have to be kind of creative, right? At HeyScottSmith.

And I will respond to you. Don't be surprised if we get in a full-blown conversation. It does happen. The other question I've had recently was, Scott, why are you starting this Face Your Passion community?

Well, a couple of reasons. First off, because I get out of bed every single day and I face my passion. I say passion, purpose, meaning, and legacy. I don't want to fiddle around wasting my life.

I want to decide I want more meaning. Therefore, my focus every single day, as I said yesterday, is to figure out what it is to make it my way and go make it happen every single day. And I know you're like that too. And I thought we should get together, hang out.

I should give you the Face Your Fashion course. I should give you a couple other things. I should give you some interaction with me. I should give you Operation Reinvention.

I should make this a place that people hang out and think, let's get on this thing, okay? And so that's something I'm working on. But you know what? About 20 years ago when I started this program, I had a community.

We had about 1,000 people. I launched it that way. And it was really, really good. And, you know, after 10, 12 years, it kind of faded away and I moved away from it.

And then Facebook was around. So I jumped into Facebook. I thought that'll do it. But Facebook is just people aren't committed. It's not intentional. You know, it's not the thing.

And it's never worked for me. I got a big Facebook group. I just I'm never there. So I said, how am I going to do it again? I'm going to make this private just for people that are like minded and intentionally want to be there.

That's why I'm doing it. So next Thursday on the 17th at 10 a.m., I'm going to open. Why Thursday? It's kind of random, right, Scott? Yeah. I just literally picked it off the calendar when I had time.

So it'll be Thursday. I'll tell you more about it as time goes on. Hopefully, you'll come in as a founder. It is a paid community because I want you to be intentional, but I've kept it really, really reasonable as much as we possibly can given the service I'm going to put into this thing.

Really reasonable, scary freaking reasonable. It's like, why am I doing this, man? Because I want to. And I want you there too, okay? I'll tell you more later.

So many, many years ago, before I started this business, I was set off to interview a man named Grandmaster Lee. He was the president of the American Taekwondo Association, the founder of it, actually.

And I had been flown to Little Rock, Arkansas. I was doing lots of documentary and television and film work. And I was brought in to do a documentary about his life.

And I went to interview some friends and the family. That's what I was there for. Now, Grandmaster was a really American success story. He didn't speak a whole lot of English when he arrived, probably none at all.

Pretty much all he had on the airplane, I'm sure, was his black belt. No formal business training. And forget the fact that people in America just really did not even understand what Taekwondo was. I mean, it was a different time going back 40, 50 years, right?

What? We didn't even hardly even, we had no Korean food in this country. But Grandmaster did what he loved. He came here and he taught because of it. He changed tens of thousands, if not millions of lives because everything has a trickle effect.

When you teach one kid the power of martial arts and get that mindset that goes along with it, that goes a long way. So what I didn't know was I was coming here to interview him and interview family and friends and all that kind of stuff. And I didn't know this would be the last interview before his death.

I didn't know that. They hadn't told me that until I got there. He had cancer and he was not going to make it. It would be it. They also said, listen, later on, we're going to sit with Grandmaster and do the interview.

But right now, what we want to do is because he's too ill to actually walk in. And we have to wheel him on the stage. And he doesn't want to do that. He wants to be Grandmaster, right?

So I got an idea. Why don't we just do this thing like he's arriving at the arena and we'll kind of shoot it. We'll put him in a wheelchair, let him walk a little bit. We'll shoot it so it looks like he's walking in entirely and strutting.

And we'll do some voiceover in the background. And then we'll play that to the audience as he's actually arriving, play some cool music behind it. So imagine the scene. You have 10,000 people in an auditorium and they're watching a video of Grandmaster arriving in the limo.

And getting out and heading in, they get so excited he was going to head to the stage. And we're standing behind the stage with him. And we're kind of tapping on the curtain at the right time. He's there.

He's there. He's there. I wasn't actually behind the stage. I was actually in the audience watching this. But those guys were doing that for me. And they opened the curtain.

There he was. He did his thing. It was fantastic. But then I had to interview him. As I recall, the interview was actually the next morning. And I'm waiting for him.

And the camera's set up and the crew's set up and everybody's there. And I'm waiting for Grandmaster and thinking, where is he? And his son said, he'll be here. Turns out the cancer had a bad night.

He came and did some work and he ended up in the hospital. But he was determined to show up for this interview. That's what he was going to do. And yes, we had a little bit of time, and here he comes walking in the door, kind of striding in and then sits down in that chair ready to go, just like that, serious as it could be.

And he started telling a story. Now, it was very interesting. If you've ever experienced interviewing somebody who has been a very powerful person in their life, and now they know they're leaving us, when they sit down, they're intentional. When they tell their story, they tell you exactly.

It's their legacy. They're going to get it out the way, especially if it's on tape, right? So I ask great questions, but he just took me on a journey.

And he continued to teach lessons the entire time. It's pretty amazing. He was showing us why Grandmaster was Grandmaster, to be honest with you. It went about two hours.

He just stopped. It was like, that's it. He was done. I mean, I could have had 10 more questions. It didn't matter. He was done. But he sat there and then this look came across his eye and he gets up and he bounds across the room.

He tried to anyway, because I had this room filled with camera gear and with cables and lights. And it was crazy. It was a small room. We didn't have a lot of places to go.

He literally is going under lights and he gets to a desk at the back of the room and he dug through a drawer and And he found the word, a little pin, a little flag, an American flag pin, and it said the word instructor on it.

Then he worked his way back to where I was standing, and he walked up to me, and he attached that pin to my shirt. And I was a bit confused because I saw what it was, and I said, thank you, but I am not an instructor, thinking I'm not a martial arts instructor. It was a black belt, yes, but I wasn't technically an instructor.

And he smiled. He said, you know, I wasn't either when I began. Only in my heart. Like yours, you're just doing it. I'm counting on you to keep helping people in your own way.

I just said I'll do the best I can, I guess. I didn't know what that meant. I hadn't started this yet. This was kind of a glimmer in my mind. I was like, I had this idea for this thing called Motivation to Move and the Daily Boost.

But I hadn't started it yet. The mechanism wasn't there. Podcasting hadn't arrived yet. But I never forgot it. And a lot of people have said they want to do something like this.

They want to be an influencer. They want to be a content creator. I don't consider myself any of those. I just do my thing. And if it helps you, I'm a happy guy.

But one of the things that happens is when you start something new, it looks like a mountain you can't climb. If you're listening to me right now, you think, hey, I want to do a podcast. You think, Scott's got 20 years and 5,500 podcasts under his belt. What am I?

I'm nothing. No, you just haven't started yet. When I started, Tony Robbins out there, everybody was ahead of me back then. And suddenly I get 5,500 podcasts behind me.

Suddenly I've been all over the world. Suddenly I've coached tens of thousands of people. Suddenly I have a content library people would just die to have. I have so much I can't even use it all.

How? One day at a time. But I didn't feel like I could. I didn't know if I could. In many days, if I were to tell you what happened in the early days when I was trying to face my passion and go after this and make it happen, I could also tell you about crying in my hands and wondering when I'm going to get done with 90-hour weeks because I've got to work a full-time job to pay the bills and I want to do this thing.

And on my bulletin board is a little pin called Instructor. And I'm remembering that. The Grandmaster did something. He said to me directly and personally, I'm very proud he said it to me.

I'm not the only one he ever said this to. In fact, he became very famous for what he said. But I really hadn't heard it before. But I said, man, I'll do the best I can.

He said, today not possible. Tomorrow possible. I'll let you put a little Korean accent in there if you want to, okay? Today not possible. Tomorrow possible.

So I sat down. It wasn't too long after that. I don't know the exact timing. And I started this thing. And when I started this thing, it was completely impossible.

It would not happen. Little did I know, my entire life, my entire legacy, everything would boil down to 5,500 podcasts. And I ain't done yet. So what you got in mind, what you feel like starting, maybe today's a good day.

I'll see you tomorrow.