Motivation Isn't Dead. You're Just Using It for the Wrong Job.

Happy, happy, happy, happy Friday. Come on in here. You know, I haven't mentioned for a long time. You'll see me on Instagram from time to time. I'd love to hear from you.

Hey, Scott Smith on Instagram. Common name. You've got to be creative, right? Hey, Scott Smith on Instagram. Go chat over there. So today we're going to take on the motivation sucks, guys.

Thanks, Jocko. Yeah, we're going to do that today, and I'm going to challenge you. I'm going to throw some stones at them, and I'm going to break down their glass walls of their house and say, you're not smart as you think you are, okay? So hang on for the ride.

I'm going to put something in perspective today while you absolutely need motivation, but while it's not always the only thing you need. There's actually more, okay? It is a daily boost from MotivationToMove.com, the positive boost you need every single day.

You help you grow your life, grow your business, do some cool stuff. My name is Scott Smith. Thanks for stopping by. You know, you can tell when you like what you're doing.

Can I be honest? Some TMI for you right now, because on this show, you get me. You're going to get some TMI. I know it doesn't sound like you're getting me, because I got that DJ voice.

Oh, this is a guy like a DJ. I know, I don't sound regular. I don't. Sorry, this is Race is a Boomer. That's what it is. I call you on the phone. Oh, what's he selling?

I'm not trying to sell anything. This is who I am. But I'm passionate about what I do. And you know why? Because I got to pee. I do. I like to record five podcasts.

I like to kind of sit down and just be in the vibe and just go it, right? And I got to pee. In fact, I'm talking slow right now. I probably shouldn't.

I'm like a little kid. It's like, I'm just in it, in it, in it. Then I got to run to the bathroom. And when you get to be my age, it's really kind of an issue.

Yeah, there you go. I've just shared some personal info with you there. All right. That question I used to ask many years ago. And occasionally I'll drop it in on a Friday.

Write this one down. Have the courage to answer the question, honestly. How do I want to feel? You're an emotional creature. Your feelings mean something.

You get to choose how you want to feel. So just write it down and take a minute when the show's over and say, how do I want to feel today or tomorrow or this weekend or about life in general?

One thing that's cool about doing that is, you know, when you introduce it into your thinking, it kind of replaces some stinking thinking. It gets good. All right.

Let's get into some motivation today. Sort of. Motivation isn't a problem, by the way. It's just the wrong tool. There's a big thing going on right now.

The internet says motivation is dead. I have this argument all the time. My buddy, Billy, he's execution guy. He'll listen to this show. It's an execution guy, discipline show.

He'll do stuff like, you don't need passion. You don't need motivation. You need execution. I'm like, yeah, okay. We go back and forth all the time. We're all going in the same direction, right?

And he's just got his little niches in. But motivation is that, you know, Jocko willing, right, Jocko? He says, don't count on motivation. Count on discipline.

I get it, but I don't buy it. Motivation may not be the first thing, but it is always a thing. Always. It's amazing to me, Jocko says, don't count on motivation, but they hire him as a motivational speaker.

What the F? Right? Am I right? Am I right? I don't talk about motivation, but hey, come here. Let's get you in the game here. Zig Ziglar has a comeback to that.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does taking a bath. That's why we recommend it daily. Motivation isn't a one-time event. It's maintenance, right?

So with a guy that has a company called Motivation to Move and a guy that gets up and does hard stuff every single day and works with people all the time, I work with some of the most disciplined people in the world, and I will tell you from my personal experience or discipline, They get the job done all the time. You can count on it. And I cannot tell you how many times I say, Scott, man, I'm just, I need some help to get moving.

Hundreds of times, maybe thousands. A lot of people get fired up and they still don't move. That ever happened to you? Typically, if that happens, you're fired up, you still don't move, it's because you don't know the next step or you're scared of it.

And both of those, very, very practical. They live kind of in the top five or six of what we need to do. You can get all fire you want, but you still need to know that next step and you still need to know that you're not going to die doing it, right? You have to know that.

Either one of those two things will stop you. So the fired up by itself, being motivated by itself is not a thing, right? So there are three tools and I think there are three jobs that make this work.

Number one, motivation is why. Number two, discipline. What's that? It's showing up. Number three, execution is knowing what to do next. Use the wrong one and you blame yourself.

Why didn't I do it? Why didn't it work? It's three things. It's three tools, three jobs. So there's a real reason that people stall. The more I talk about this, the more it just kind of comes down to these top three or four things.

We can get more confused and we can talk about all kinds of things, but ultimately it's this. Usually there's some fear involved. In fact, this week on my Face Your Passion group, I had a great call and a couple of questions just about that. Why do I feel so afraid to do this?

A lot of reasons for it. It can be unpacked. It can't be really unpacked on a podcast. Well, probably could, I guess, but But a lot of people have fear.

You'd be very surprised how many people are just very successful in so many ways, very smart people, and yet they have fear. The other thing is no clear path.

That's why in the past couple of years, every coach is selling frameworks and blueprints and methods. That's why. Because we know that you're afraid to get started.

We need to help you. And plus, you don't know what to do. So we just gave you a path and say, here, do this. But isn't that what an expert does anyway?

Somebody comes to me and asks me how to do something. if I'm an expert in that category, all I do is tell them what to do. That's it. Do this, this, and this.

And if they're really smart, they'll do it and come back to me and say, okay, what's next? So if you have fear or you can't see exactly what to do, it makes sense you're going to be kind of lost, right?

Behavior needs motivation. Belief will drive your behavior for sure, but that behavior needs motivation. Ability and a prompt at the same time. Fear and confusion kill ability, and there is no pep talk, no motivation in the world that will fix that.

That's why just be disciplined. It falls really too short. People do that all the time. Discipline can't march down the road that you can't see. That's not a character fault.

That's being human. I run into this all the time. These people who are talking about discipline and execution all the time, and they just go to the deathbed talking about it. I just laugh at them because I look at all the time they spend trying to motivate themselves or having to motivate their clients to do it.

Motivation doesn't work. Just be disciplined. And then they got motivated to go be disciplined. You see, this is the world Scott lives in. It's a practical world.

I'm a practical philosopher more than anything. It just doesn't make sense. And I think talking to you, you're getting it right now too, right? What's the fix?

Well, we kind of shrink it, if you will. Have you ever heard the if-then plan? This is a real nice fix for things like this, okay? So motivation is there.

We need that. But basically what ends up happening is that we can kind of think things from a very small step to a larger step by putting on a if-then way of thinking.

Meaning that, okay, I'm kind of motivated. I'm a little afraid and I don't really know all the steps here. but I got a little bit going on anyway. So if this happens, then I'll do that really changes the world for a lot of people.

It's very cool stuff. It just kind of, it's not a fire of everything in front of you that you think, man, I can't get done. It's just a little clear step you can take.

So motivation gets you, if you will, to the start line. That's in most ways. I always say motivation is caused by inspiration. You have an idea and you get motivated.

How many times has it happened to you? where it's like you just found yourself fired up to go do something. What are you so fired up about? And it's because you got inspired some way and you got instantly motivated.

You may come to the show today to look for motivation. And my job is to see if I can fire you up just a little bit. You go, oh, I can do that. So I think motivation gets you to the start line.

And there's another thing that motivation does. It brings you back. It's like if you take off on a track and you take off on the start line and you run and run and run and you're going to go, you know, four laps and do a mile.

When you get that third or fourth lap, it's going to get kind of tough to get across that line again, isn't it? Motivation is going to kick back in right there. I don't care how disciplined you are or how in shape you are or whatever. It's going to come down to your heart.

Isn't that what they always say? That's motivation. It's going to get you to the start line, and it's going to bring you back. Discipline keeps you showing up.

That's what it is. This podcast, 5,600 episodes every single day for 20 years now, it just happened because I showed up. A lot of days I came in here, I wasn't feeling motivated.

I just did it though. Just the discipline was there. Execution makes it feel real. It makes it is, it makes it real. It makes it real. I have a lot of friends that have do podcasts and you know, I want to do one.

Yeah, I do it every couple of weeks and that's, that's okay. I just can't get myself in the studio to do it. Then they do, they come in and they do it and they don't post it. I said, why not?

I can do five a day and you can't do one every three or four weeks. I get off track a little bit there. It's pretty simple stuff. So do me this favor.

I plead to you do this. Whatever you hear out there about the motivation, not being necessary. It's built into you. It's built in your DNA. It's built in your mind.

That's why you think this way. So harness it, let it get you there and let it bring you home the whole thing. But understand that if you don't have the discipline to do the things you need to do, it's never going to work. And you can't get me on the phone and say, Scott, I need some help.

Can you get me the discipline to do this thing? I've done this so long now. So, okay, I'll try. But the truth is you're going to do it or you're not. If you had to, you will.

And execution mostly is about just knowing the next step. So you find yourselves not being able to do it. I say it always comes down to this. It comes down to you don't want to do it in the first place or you don't know what to do next.

That's it. So I work with clients and I work with a lot of them. The conversation I just had would be something I would have over the course of an hour with a client. And it would just evolve and unfold as we go.

And eventually we would kind of solve all these things. But that's kind of what's going on. See it all the time. You know everything. You have all the skill set that it takes to get what you want.

These little things are stumping you. You should join my school group. We take care of this. FaceYourPassion.com. That's a good thing. Go do it. All right.

Have a good weekend. I'm going to see you Monday right here because that's what I do. Thank you.