Why Most People Never Get What They Want

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My name is Scott Smith. I am, well, that's me. You can be at HeyScottSmith on Instagram. If you send me something on Instagram, I will make you a pinky promise that you're going to hear back from me.

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Now, this is very generic in what I do, but let me frame it this way for you. I do a lot of coaching. I mean, I have a lot of new clients. I've had thousands of clients over the years.

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Come on, guys. We live in the real world. If you're triggered by me mentioning stuff like that, this is not your show. That's how it's going to be. So let's talk about getting what you want.

There's one rule that you have to put in play, and that is you must know what you want. Now, it seems really silly, but the main blockage that almost everybody I meet has, they don't know exactly what they want. They're trying to figure that out. And by the way, it's not just the big stuff like, I want to be happy, I want to be married, I want a home, things like that.

Those are things, it's not the big stuff. It's the little stuff. If you don't know what time you want to get out of bed in the morning that makes you happy, you've got to figure that out.

If you don't know how you want to manage your time, you've got to figure that out. But you've got to know what you want. If you don't know what you want, you can't get anywhere. If you came to me and said, Scott, I really want some coaching with you, I'll say, great, what do you want?

No, I don't know. So my job, frankly, a lot of the times is to help you figure that out. So rule number one is just you got to know what you want. So write that down today.

If you can't specifically name exactly what you want, keep working on it. Because until you do, you're just going to get whatever comes your way. I know, I wish we could fix that, but it's being human, right?

Number two, you got to own the skills to produce it. I see this happen all the time. It doesn't matter how mad you want something. It doesn't matter if you know exactly what it is.

If you don't know how to do it, if you can't produce it yourself, you can't make it happen, you're not going to get it. So a lot of people don't – I get people come to me all the time and say, hey, man, I want to start a podcast or a YouTube channel. I don't typically teach that. I kind of teach it as kind of a sidebar to what I do because I do it.

It's like, okay, fine. We'll talk about that. And they're like, well, this editing thing is really hard. Or this talking on a microphone. It's really hard.

How do you do it? Do you have to write a whole script? It's really hard. It's not hard once you own the skills to produce it. So you got to know what you want and you got to own the skills to produce it.

If you don't have the skills, just factor in that you're going to have to acquire those skills. Like right now, AI is one of those things. It's actually pretty hard for a lot of people. And somebody asked me yesterday, Scott, should I learn AI?

I said, yeah. Whether you want to or not, it's here, guys. If you want to excel in your job, if you want to make your life easier, the bots are coming. This is nothing we can do about it.

And so learn it, learn the skill, pay the price for a couple of months to get it figured out. Then your life gets easier. Okay. But this applies to anything.

You got to know what you want. You got to own the skills to produce it. Number three, you've got to remove everything that doesn't give you what you want. Now, that's an overstatement because in life, probably 80% of your day, you're going to run into things that are not directly going to give you what you want.

Traffic's going to get in your way. Like Zig Ziglar used to say, who kicked your cat? If you don't know the Zig Ziglar who kicked your cat story, go look it up. It's a good one.

You need to learn that right now today. But stuff's going to happen. So I'm telling you, get everything out of the way. That doesn't give you exactly what you want or lead to what you want.

Just get it out of the way because there's enough that's going to be there anyway. To the degree that you can remove everything that's in your way and focus on what you want, you're going to get it faster, quicker, and you're going to enjoy the process. So you've got to know what you want. You've got to have the skills to produce it.

And you've got to get rid of anything that stands in your way. A long time ago, I talked about blowing things up. I have mentioned this for a long time. I have two concepts.

One is going dark. That is just turning off the email, turning off the phone. Don't talk about what you're doing to anybody. Just go dark and do your own thing.

Also blowing it up. Sometimes to remove things that are in front of you, it's like a landslide came down on the highway. Sometimes you got to bring out the dynamite and blow it up to get through it. So a lot of the stuff that's in your way, stopping you from getting what you want needs to be blown up.

And I do not mean in a violent way. Sometimes it's just a mindset. Okay. So we've got to know what you want. You've got to own the skills. You've got to get anything in your way, out of your way.

Number four, you've got to focus on doing only the things that get the results you want or lead you in that direction. Now, this is a hard one because sometimes, well, if I do this, it's going to lead over there. I'll get this opportunity. And three years down the road, you're looking for another job.

So you've got to be brutal with yourself. You really have to look at it and say, you know, what's the direct path? What can I do today? The most important action right now today that will give me the thing I want now.

I tell you what, if you can get yourself dialed into that, it's pretty crazy how fast you get there. It's pretty crazy how efficient you could be and how fast you start getting the results you want. Like if you're in business, what's the thing that you need? Well, I need customers.

Okay, that's a need. But what's the thing that you could do today to get those customers? You can call them. You can get on the street corner, wave a sign around.

You can send an email. If that's all you did every single day is the one thing you did was go look for new prospects, those people will turn into customers. Your business will blow up fast. If that's what you did, do that 10 times a day, you'd be a millionaire.

Number five, consistently monitor and optimize your results. Now, you can't optimize things early on. I think right now there's a big, with the AI and all the stuff it can do, People are spending so much time optimizing their life right now, and businesses are trying to optimize their life.

Well, the problem is you've got some cleanup to do before you can get to that, right? All the stuff we just talked about, you have to know what you're doing and what direction you're heading. And then once you get that done, you can start to monitor what you're actually getting. We set an expectation of what we're doing.

This is what we expect, then we monitor it to see if we're getting that expectation and simply optimize for productivity. We'll talk about that more tomorrow.

So if you do that, if you do these five things, just keep them in your mind, write them down, put them on it in front of you and keep it in your mind as you go forward. It will transform what you do.

It's so simple, but I like simple because simple works. And as a guy that coaches so many people, it's funny how often I just have to go back to these five and I keep them. I've used Obsidian for my notepad here and I'll be on the call with somebody and I'll go and let me make sure I get it right. And I'll just pull it up really quickly and I'll respond to that.

It changes people's lives. Know what you want. Own the skills to produce it. Remove everything that doesn't give you what you want. Only do what gives you exactly what you want.

And consistently monitor and optimize those results. But notice where it all starts. Know what you want specifically. Got to be careful. Got to be careful.

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