Live Your Dream Even If It Kills You

Well, come on in here. Let me ask you a question. It's noon. You're in the desert. It's 130 degrees, and you have decided that you're going to go out for a run in the desert, right?

Is that smart? It is the Daily Boost from MotivationToMove.com. It's the positive boost you need every single day because I'm going to help you grow your life, grow your business, and everything in between. The messy middle, which is where it all happens.

Frankly, I've become a specialist at working in the messy middle, honestly. Somebody the other day said, Scott, you're my chief decision maker. I said, yeah, I know. No, I am.

I got this mess on the table. I can't figure out what to do, and you seem to always know what to do. I don't always know what to do, but I can see some patterns. I can make some recommendations, so...

Maybe today you get a couple of those. We'll see what happens. Again, my name is Scott Smith. Nice to have you here today. If you want to follow up with me, if you want to see a picture of me with a very silver fox's hair, I've said for my mom and dad were gray very early on.

And I always said, man, if I could get a great head of silver hair, not that, you know, that salt and pepper stuff, but silver and maybe even white, I'd be happy. And little did I know. Watch what you wish for. But very cool pictures on my website, motivation2move.com.

First time I've ever looked at myself with gray hair and liked it. It's kind of awesome. While you're there, you can check out the stuff that I do. And I'm, can I be honest with you?

I'm just going to move this podcast in a more stream of consciousness kind of talk because I think I can bring some value to that way instead of framework-y stuff and just tips and tricks and all that stuff. Let's talk for real, all right?

I decided to launch a community. You can go to motivation2move.com, all spelled out. You can click on the thing, join community, and then you can join. You can't go in yet, but you can join.

Now, I decided to do it because I thought, well, let's see if they want to do it. Let's see if the kids want to play. I don't need a community. I got plenty of stuff going on, but I want to kind of play with you.

And it's going really slow right now to the point that I'm actually thinking, maybe I just won't do it. I haven't opened it yet. I don't have to do it. So this is on you guys, completely on you.

I'm going to sit here and wait. I don't know what the number is going to be, but it's got to be a decent number. And so if you're interested in me doing this, just go over there and join. I'll see the number.

There's no commitment. There's no obligation. It's free. And if you don't do it, then I'm going to say, well, they don't want it. We just won't do it.

I'll go do something else. No problem. Does that sound mean? I don't want to sound mean. If you take it as mean, take it as real more than anything. Okay.

Motivation2Move.com. I feel a little bit bad saying that, but it's true. There's somebody out there going to say, you shouldn't be that way, Scott. You should commit to it.

You should do it. If you're going to do it, go do it. Why? If you don't want it. I'm just saying. Let me tell you a story today. A motivational story.

An inspirational story. One that you may need. One that may help you. It's about anticipating, about setting a goal, about finding what drives you, finding what really makes you excited, gets you out of bed and goes after it.

So you've heard me talk before about my inner circle. My inner circle is small. It's 12 to 20 people usually. It's not real expensive. We charge 300 bucks a month for it.

It's not expensive for what you get. But it's cool people who care about each other. It's not a curriculum. I'm not selling the inner circle. I'm not.

Don't worry about it. I'm just telling you what it is. It's not a curriculum. It's us showing up. I kind of guide it and facilitate it. But we're a bunch of people who care about each other.

We help each other move through the world. We have great conversations. And sometimes we support people who had a death in the family. Sometimes we're celebrating a wedding.

Everything in between. But we show up, have a conversation, feel good about it, get on with our day. One of my members is Croy. Croy Sather. You've heard of me talking about Croy before.

You may know his name. He's Googleable. Croy has been with me. I've known him 15 years now. He's been in my group about two years ago. He was having kind of a tough time, kind of had lost his way a little bit.

I said, well, come on in the group. Come on in. You can bring a lot to the group and you can help us and we're going to support you too. And he's been here.

He's religiously twice a week. We do two calls a week. You don't have to come to both. He does. And I think it's smart. Here's what happens. He shows up and for a couple of years, he's a complete loss.

Now, by the way, I won't be honest with you. I'm, I'm, I'm sharing his name because I know him well. And if I had the conversation right now, I just talked to him five minutes ago. If I had the conversation now with you, he would say the same thing.

I'm not sharing anything that he would be uncomfortable with. In fact, he's like, yeah, talk about me, man. Tell him what I'm doing. I need some press.

So this is, I'm completely comfortable with doing this. So don't think I'm giving any secrets away here. And if there are any, I won't give them away. Okay.

Anyway, so he's in the group and we're helping him out. And to be real frank, I said, we're a group that helps each other. And we, about last October, we were kept every single week. We talked to Croy.

We said, man, another idea. He's trying to find a way. He's trying to make money, trying to get his career going, trying to get balanced again. A lot of people are doing that right now.

It's a tough time to be alive and a very exciting time to be alive. They're like, man, you got another idea. You said you were going to do this. Now you're doing this.

So what are you going to do? It's one thing after another. It just was endless. And one day, In November, he shows up and we check in. Hey, so what's going on, man?

He said, I made a decision. I know what I'm going to do. And we're like, yeah, right. And again, you got to understand that this is not some cold Zoom call that you get on.

It's like, oh, everybody shares their stuff and contributes. No, this is people actually know each other, who invest in each other. That's why I protect the group, because we get to know each other, right?

He said, I've decided to run across Death Valley and take back my record. See, Croy was the man that ran across America many years ago. Before I met him, he ran 26 marathons, 26 miles in 100 days.

He ran across America. He did a little presentation every evening. And when he got there, he got a TED Talk. He wrote a book. He got on the speaking circuit.

He did all that stuff. He was flying high. Then he followed up with an attempt to run across Death Valley. The first time he failed, 41 miles in, his body couldn't adapt to the heat.

He had quit. A couple of days later, he came back and he broke the world record. It had been 77 hours to cross, and he did it in 72. And three days later, somebody broke his record at 58 hours, 57 hours.

So in Death Valley, in Badwater, there's two races. There's one called the Badwater Crossing. It's 130 miles, and you can run across this. And a lot of people do it every single year.

It has to be done in July and August every year, the hottest time of the year. And it's assisted. You can have a crew with you. You can have people, a chase truck.

You can have all the stuff you need. It's assisted. As long as you do it, good. Then there's the other one. It's the 146 mile one. It's kind of unofficial, but official on the internet and official.

There's people who do it. There's actually people who track this. It's called the Badwater Solo Race. And you have to be unsupported. You have to tow a little wagon and you have to carry your water and you carry everything you need.

You have to do it completely unassisted. You can't get anybody to motivate you. You can't stop and get shade anyplace. It has to be natural shade. Even a gas station with an awning, you can't stand under it.

He's going to do that. Only about five people in the world have done it. His goal, because the record was broken about three days after he did it the first time, is to come back and do it and really shatter the record and run 146 miles across the desert in the middle of summer in 48 hours.

Not only starting at 200 and some feet below sea level, but climbing up 14,000 feet of vertical climb to the point that he ends on Mount Whitney and there might be snow in the mountain.

This is a bad crossing across the bad water. He said he was going to do that in November and he was so excited. We got behind him right away and we said, let's go.

And then the struggle began because now when you start to do something, when you start to, when you decide to do it, the whole world, it's seeming like, yeah, let's go. And at the same time, like you can't do it. You know what I mean, right? You can do it.

You can't, you can do it. You can't. Usually it's in your head, but it's also real too. I don't know what it takes to train for 146 mile race. And I talked to Croy several times a week.

Nobody knows what it takes. Only five people have really done it. He knows what it takes because he's done it. So he's training for that right now. But then here's the issue.

And I run into this in my world a lot. Scott, I really love to do this, but how am I going to pay my bills? How am I going to pay for it? How do I get from here to there?

I spend a lot of my time in that world. I take people that are very successful, people that have done really well in their careers, and they want to do something else, and they can't figure out how to cross from the money that's here now and the stability they have to do what they love to do and still make money.

I know how to do that. I help people do it every day. He's right there. How am I going to do that? So he struggled through it. He tried a bunch of different things to get there and it wasn't working.

And one day I said to him, I said, you know what you need? You need a title sponsor. You need somebody who just pays the whole bill. Oh, I don't know how to do that.

That's corporate stuff. I don't know how to do about that. I said, yeah, but it's easy too. You don't have to get a thousand people, Patreon, stuff like that.

You just get somebody, give you one check and they support you. You get their crew. You get all that stuff. You go help them. You build their business.

They support you. Just find somebody who's good. I don't know, man. I'll see. Well, like two weeks later, he says, I think I got a sponsor. We're like, what?

Yeah, yeah. Well, okay, let me back up a step. This show might be a little bit longer. He didn't know where to go. And I said, well, do this. Why don't you do this?

Why don't you just start calling some people? You have a lot of people on your phone. You know a lot of folks. They all love you. They're going to support you.

And a lot of them are really successful. And this may be something that helps their business. They could use the press. They would like to get behind it and support you because they like you, but it's good for their business too.

And if it is, then they're going to do this. They can cut you a check tomorrow. Just go through your phone. He goes, well, who do I call? I said, I don't care.

Just start pushing buttons. Just call anybody. About two weeks later, and he's got somebody's interest. Somebody sent him a note back. I'm really interested in this.

Let's talk about this. And the process began. And this has been tedious. It's been negotiation because once you get into a big company and cut you a big check, right, that can pay for your dream, you're now in corporate layers.

You've got your CMOs and your CFOs and all these people running your company. And you get the team that comes on board because you're never dealing with one person. The owner may own it and he may think it's a great idea, but to get the company to come on board, it's got to make sense, right? It's got to go through legal.

It's got to go through compliance. It's got to go through everything else to get there. Now, as a guy with me, I have a massive background in doing stuff like that, working in broadcast TV and film and all that stuff. I understand how to work with these big companies and agencies and everything else.

So we kind of guided him a little bit, but he's managing this and going through the process. And finally, they come up with a number, and then they start negotiating with the attorneys, and he almost gave up.

I called him up one day. Actually, it was on a call. And he told me, he said he sent the proposal up, and he hadn't heard back. And I said, you haven't heard back?

He goes, no. I said, did you call him back? Did you shoot him an email? Did you say, what's up? He said, well, I'm waiting for them. I said, they might've forgotten.

They said, when did they say they were going to get back to you? He said, Monday. I said, well, you got to, then it's Tuesday. Call them back and say, I thought I'd hear from you.

What's going on? You've earned the right to connect with them because they said what they were going to do and they didn't. So you just check in on, make sure they're okay. Guess what?

The guy was just busy. I'm sorry. Yeah. This went on, I don't know, a dozen times. where he'd communicate. He wouldn't get back what he wanted. He'd say, well, whatever.

It's going to happen with or without them. And he literally said this to me. I said, really? You got somebody that's going to give you a big pile of cash, going to really make this happen for you, going to give you the ability to do exactly what you want to do with it.

And you're willing to blow it off that fast and say, I'll do it myself. I'll take my toys and go home. So what do I do? I said, call them up to see what's happening.

So here's the thing. We kind of worked through a process. I can go on and on about the things that have happened. I'm not going to do that. But just a few minutes ago, just actually texted me Friday night.

He said, sign the contract. It's done. Should have the payment next week. And I just talked to him about that at this point, 15 minutes ago. And it's on the way.

It's been processed. It's signed off because they want me to send them an invoice. Why do I send an invoice? They have a contract. Do you know why? Come here, guys.

We're close. Here's why they want an invoice. Simple stuff. There's a bookkeeper in the back room who has to pay the bill. And when she gets an invoice and she gets a term, she's going to put it in the system and she's going to pay the invoice.

That's what she's going to do. The owner is going to forget about you. The owner's got stuff to do. You want the invoice in there so she can just pay it because that's what companies do.

They just pay their bills. So that check will arrive. And what's happened is I'm going to share this with you. I'm going to say it exactly as exactly as he said it to me and apologize for the profanity.

It's not that bad. He was on the phone with the team, not the owner, not his friend, the team that's running everything, coordinating with excitement. And the owner said, we're going to fly out. We're going to support you.

We're going to be here for you. He had an old shit moment. Oh, shit. This is freaking real. You ever done that? You have a dream to go after. You push through it.

It doesn't seem like it's going to happen. And that it does. You're like, man, dude, I'm in it now. I'm in it now. It's so exciting to see. And he's running on August 5th, so he has a ways to go.

And here's what this can do. This is somebody who decided that he was going to do this. First off, he decided who he was, a guy that runs adventures. The guys that just go out and run, he can go do a weekend 50 mile in one day run just to see if he can do it.

He decided who he was. But to actually make it something that he could impact the world and influence people and make a good living and all this stuff, that took a lot of work.

And it takes a lot of help. And we've supported him every step of the way. It continues. Still on the calls every single week. If you want to join the inner circle, send me a note.

Send it to support at motivation2move.com. This guy, I want to hang out with Croy for the next couple of weeks. He's there. I should have said that before.

It's great. It's really fantastic. But when you decide that you want to go out and do something, the world changes. The naysayers show up. And the biggest naysayers you're going to find is you not believing you can do it.

And yet if you get out of bed every single day and you stand up and you take a step and you repeat, and then you have people you can rely on who will say, hey, dude, return that phone call.

Do the thing. Because if you do the thing, you get the money and then you get to do the thing. If you have somebody who can just do that and sometimes kick you in the ass and get you to go do it, to get your stupid self out of the way because somebody cares enough to say, dude, what are you doing? I'm not attached to running.

I don't want to run across Death Valley, but I want him to. It's a process, guys. I know you want it overnight. I know you do. I know ChatTP tells you what you can have overnight.

Every single coaching call I'm on these days, my clients are doing ChatTP while they're on the phone with me. They're double-checking me. And chat doesn't have the wisdom that I have after all the time I've spent on this planet.

And I say that reluctantly going, man, that's really an arrogant thing to say. But if I don't stand up against AI, who's going to, right? It's just the truth.

So whatever you want to do, I want you to go out and decide to do it, make that change. And understand it's going to take some time to get there. Understand it's not going to happen overnight.

But if you lean into it and you do the things that maybe you're very uncomfortable doing, the old crap moments show up, you're going to succeed. You know, I used to be in the television production business, and I said, maybe I should come out and produce your documentary for you. He called me this morning and said, I'm thinking about having you do that, so I may be in Death Valley as well. I don't do it for a living anymore, but for this, I'd like to support him, and it might be an adventure for me to go do what I used to do years ago.

Why not? Get a film credit again. We'll see. Have a great day. I'll see you tomorrow.