Finish Your Day Before It Starts

How are you? Well, happy, happy, happy Monday. Come on in here. Good to have you here today. It's funny. I have a call here in exactly 13 minutes. So this show is going to be a 13-minute show today.

What am I thinking? Do a podcast, evidently. How are you? Well, happy Monday. I hope you had a great weekend. I certainly did. I'm going to share my positive energy with you, Taylor, a little bit.

I had a great time. Oh, I only have 13 minutes. I have a call in 13 minutes. This show will only be less than 13 minutes long for sure. is the Daily Boost from MotivationToMove.com.

That's my place where I spend my time, MotivationToMove.com. All the stuff, the podcast, more about me, stuff like that. You can go there and get that. I just think about people that do the work that I do, coaching, consulting kind of work.

And I just do it a lot. I do tens of thousands of people now. We have this thing about being on time. So to the second, by the way, it's so funny. My wife laughs at me.

I have a call coming up and I will wait. I'll have a clock in front of me to the second and I will push connect a couple of seconds before just to connect at the right time. It's just, yeah, it's psychotic. It really truly is.

I mentioned last week we're going to get together. for this thing, this workshop, this webinar, this non-sales thing called the inner circle. Listen, I've done sales my whole life and I just don't want to over pitch and I don't want to chase you and I don't make you feel uncomfortable. I figure either you'll like me and you want to come work with me and give me some money and I'm going to give you a return of great value for that or you don't.

That's cool. So I said, let's get together. June 11th at 2 p.m. is when we do it this week, June 11th at 2 p.m. Eastern time. an inner circle call, face your passion, inner circle, a guided coaching group.

What I do is I guide the call. So I'm going to teach you, give you some homework, some strategies, some thinking time. You're going to walk away really going, man, this is, I know what it's going to be. You're going to learn a lot and your brain's going to be going, what the hell just happened to me?

Plus the other part of the call is we have a bunch of people. Usually we only have 20 people on the call. We'll probably have a whole lot more than that this time because it's a free thing.

But I will facilitate the people in the conversation in a way that I don't think you've seen before. And I think you're going to go, wow, this is crazy. It's the power of the mastermind. Although we don't build it as a mastermind because a mastermind means you've got to come and prepare and do your homework.

We don't do that. We want to be a support group for you. We want to be a peer group for you. We want to have a very comfortable, supportive place to be.

Yet we're driving for something. And that's what we push for every single week. So if you want to sign up for it, just go to motivation2move.com. All spelled out.

You'll see a thing. I don't even know because I'm recording it in advance. It'll probably say sign up for the workshop. Just sign up. For those of you who are worried, Scott's going to get on and pitch me and sell me something.

Uh-uh. You're going to dig my vibe. You're going to see what we're doing. And I'm going to say, do you want to know more? And if you do, I'll just give it to you.

And you can sign up if you want to. That's it. I'm not going to do a replay. I don't think. I'm leaning toward not. I figure if you're serious, you'll carve out 75 minutes at 2 o'clock on June 11th.

You'll be there. Okay, that's enough of that. Let's get into this thing, okay? So I'm kind of in the motivation world. It's kind of what I do. And I will die on that mountain.

Alex Hormosey and all these guys are out there talking about motivation doesn't work. I'm seeing it everywhere. You guys are asses. You absolutely are.

And all they're doing is for a motivational marketing standpoint. That's all they're doing. Find the opposite and go pitch after it. Throw stones at your enemies.

Boom. Boom. Yeah. Sorry about that. My motivation is a little bit different. I'm positive. I'm a good guy, but I'd rather kick you in the ass and get you out the door to go do what you say you're going to do because I find that works the best.

Raise your hand and say, hallelujah. Some people say, no, don't do that. But it's true. Best motivation I've ever had in my life is when I thought I was going to lose my job or lose my girl.

Got my act together fast. Motivation does work. It's not the first thing, though. But it is there. We talked about that last couple of days. So the first motivation dude, back when they used to call themselves motivational speakers, they don't do that anymore.

It's kind of gone out of style. I'm not that, by the way. But the first motivation dude I knew was Zig Ziglar. Great guy. And my introduction came from a wealthy boss that I had.

Now, I don't know how much money he had. It was more than I had, which meant it was a lot. A big house, nice car. Gave me a car. He made me pay for it, but he gave it to me.

Had a really nice car he wasn't using anymore. He said, I'll give you this car and you just pay me for it monthly and we're good. And I took the car and paid it off. It was awesome.

Wealthy boss. I was like 24, I think. And he was trying to kind of give me some wind beneath my wings and I'm thinking about Bette Midler right now. No, I'm not going to share that.

Then he realized there was no possible way to tame the monster that my mom had named Scott. Because like I said, I can be, you can tell, I can be a little bit out there.

I think differently. I expand myself. I just go places. A little bit of monster, but a good monster. A nice renegade, right? Nope. He said it would be much better to kind of distract me with some goodness and help guide me.

And rather than do it himself, he was smart. He handed me this cassette album, this Nightingale Conant album, 12 cassettes. Was it 12? I think it was 12.

Could be wrong. Could have been eight. And there were cassette tapes. Look it up, kids. Zig Ziglar, see you at the top. And that was before we had all these podcasts and before everybody had everything out there.

This was when it was really hard to find like an inspiration or a motivational tape to train you. You had to go spend like a couple hundred bucks on it. I don't even remember. I couldn't afford them.

But he gave it to me. It was so cool. And then I gave it to somebody else and he never gave it back. It was weird. That's why I don't do that anymore.

One thing I've learned over time is that when knowledgeable people respect and drop something in your lap, you pay attention to it. You lap it up. Like dogs at dinnertime.

That's what he did, man. He gave me this thing. And over the weekend, I just soaked it in. I couldn't, I was binging before binging was cool. I soaked it up.

And one of the lessons I took from that, from Zig, great guy. I met him once and saw him a lot. A couple of pieces of advice. And this is one that was actually probably the biggest part of my Perfect Week Planner, perfectweekplanner.com.

Finish your day before it begins is what I learned from Zig. In the beginning, that meant that I would plan every little detail of my day and usually too much to really even handle, way too much back in the...

Remember the... What was the name of the planners we had back then? I forgot what they were. The checkmark chasing thing that you would do? Spend every second racing toward an impossible goal?

There was no empty space anywhere, no time to think, no time to respond, no time to do anything thoughtfully. And inevitably, that would have made things even more of a mess.

Which, of course, meant that... More second-by-second planning, I guess, came into play just to kind of get through the day, right? And my head would eventually explode. My wife would get mad at me.

My boss would get mad at me. I'd get fired. I'd quit. I'd crash and burn. Something would happen. And yes, all of those things happened. But as time moved on, I kind of learned some things.

I kind of absorbed and began to understand what Zig's message was. My day should not begin until I know the meaningful result that I want to accomplish that will get me closer to my goal, my ultimate goals.

And I have lived that every single day since then. But here's one thing that I added to that. Because life gets in the way every single day. I mean, I could get up expecting to have just a wonderful day and then

then I don't. What am I going to do? Right. And whatever plan I had, it completely gets in the way of everything. So I try to finish my day the day tomorrow before it even begins.

So I know what I'm going to do, but sometimes it just happens. And that's how I extended out. When I extended out a month or two months or a year or five years, I said, I've already know the plan. I already know where I'm heading in a year.

And so whatever happens today or tomorrow doesn't really matter. I've already thought well in advance that as long as I'm heading in that direction, I've kind of finished my plan, I could take time. And I will tell you off the bat here that a lot of people get mad at me because I will take time to do things. I will seemingly move slowly.

I'll be indecisive on things. It's not that I'm indecisive. It's just, no, stuff's in the way. I know where I'm ultimately going. And I don't even feel the need to tell you where I'm going because I know that the minute I tell anybody where I'm going or what I'm thinking, they start holding me to it.

That becomes a pressure that I don't want. So Zig taught me to, before I start my day, look into the tomorrow and make sure that I know what I'm going to be doing. I extended it into a month and a year and five years so I don't freak out all the time. It really works.

That's how I operate every single day. It's not always successful for sure. But more often than not, really, no matter how crazy life gets, it's kind of funny when you find a way to...

kind of strap yourself in a chair and think about those results that you want and then go at achieving them every single day, you usually get them. And if it takes longer but you still got your eye on the prize, you usually get it. That's how it is. And all this little crazy stuff spinning around every single day, trust me, it is insignificant.

It does not matter. It doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter, just finish it up and then get on with your life. That's all there is to it. I'll see you tomorrow.