Why Your Life Is Stuck in a Personal Recession

What is happening? Happy Tuesday. Come on in here, man. Good to have you. I used to call Tuesdays. I guess I still do. But I used to really call them Reality Tuesdays.

Because I'd get up on Monday morning, like, ready to go. I'm going to save the world. I'm going to slay the weak. And then everything got in the way that possibly could.

You know, because things broke. People couldn't get a hold of people. People got a hold of me and took up all my time. And I eventually realized that Reality said it on Tuesday.

I could finally get work done. So I hope you're getting some stuff done today. We're going to talk about forming your own government. Mm-hmm. At least your own government system for yourself.

It's not political. Don't worry about that. Although maybe I'll drop some snide remarks in there along the way. Equal opportunity offender today. Don't worry about that.

It is a daily boost from MotivationToMove.com, the positive boost you need every single day. Listen, we can't laugh about it and figure out what to do about all the stuff that's going on. We can't stay sane in an unsane world. I mean, come on, man.

Let's try anyway. Hold that chin up and say, oh, game on. Let's go. My name is Scott Smith. Nice to have you here today. Hey, Scott Smith on Instagram.

Have an assignment for you. Here's some homework. Y'all like homework, right? It's time to pay the piper. It's time to pay the fee. Some of y'all have been listening to the podcast for a long time and you have not paid your fee.

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And if you're belated, that's okay, too. I'll cut you some slack. But the bill's due right now. I'm making changes to this show by the end of the year.

I will tell you this. Let's see. Let's see what happens. So there you go. That's your assignment. I'm not going to say any more. No. No. You don't get to know all my secrets.

Uh-uh. Sorry. All right, knuckleheads, let's get to work here. So forming your own government. And this is not political at all. So let me tell you how this came to be.

As a guy who does what I do, I'm always working on metaphors to get my lessons across. Stories to help support my lessons. I do that all the time, right? So when I come up with something, it has to be tested.

It's almost like a... It's almost like a comedian on an open mic night, write a bunch of jokes, go there and tell the jokes and see if you get a laugh, right? See how it works. See how the timing and the cadence works.

Almost like that. In my case, I kind of do that, but I also have to get a result. I've got to see that what I gave you actually worked. So I'm always watching that.

And I always know because people tell me or I have a coaching group, I'm face your passion group that I, that I run. And these people, they will say, man, that worked well last week, had a great week.

So that's what I have to do. So I introduced this concept to the group last week, and we saw some very instantaneous reaction to it. I've heard emails back and forth that think you're going to like this. So bear with me as we get into something political here.

Not being political. So consider yourself building your life and getting what you want, just building a government. Now, by the way, I'm building a little bit on what I talked about yesterday as well. So if you hear some of the same wording, it's because I broke this into two for you, okay?

So I can slow down a little bit if that's possible. The government builds an economy. Kind of what it does. Every government does. And a big number is called the GDP, the gross domestic product.

How much money did the government make? Did the country make overall, right? Not the government. I'd love to have all that money, right? No, you've got enough.

Your GDP. How much money is, as a group of people living in America or whatever country you live in, how much are we making? But I care about your PDP, your personal domestic product.

How much money do you get to make? How much more freedom do you have? Because I think that's a payoff, isn't it? How many great relationships do you have in your life?

When I get out of bed, I'm trying to have all those things that make a great life. To me, that's my PDP. That's the payoff. That's the return. When I have all that stuff, I feel great.

When I don't, I'm in a recession. That doesn't feel great, does it? By the way, if you're not an American, if you live in another part of the world, you might use a term called personal economy for your budgeting, right? In America, we don't do that.

I had no idea why. You know, guys, I'm just going to say this. I'm beginning to believe that what you've said about this all these years may be right.

Just going to say it. I'll leave it at that. Anyway, same system, different results here. So let's ride through this really quickly. I'll see if I can make sense of this for you.

So a government is building this economy. You're building that personal one. It starts with demand. Now, obviously, a government is going to have a demand of their citizens.

It has to be fulfilled, right? So you have to do that. You have to create that and stimulate it and all the stuff that we do. We're not going to go down that road.

But unless demand is there. But in a personal life for you, I like to think of it like knowing what you want is the demand. You're your own little citizen.

And, well, this is what I want. Okay. Then I'm the government of me, so let me go build it. So that's the demand. You know what you want. It's your life.

Nobody else gets to set the demand for you. You get to do it for yourself. And if you're smart, you will. There is a big trend these days. So much noise on the Internet and in the news and every other place.

And, by the way, I'm part of the noise. I absolutely am. I'm running my mouth all the time, making more of a mess than I should be. But so are you, and so is that guy.

It just happens. But you are the one that creates your demand in your life. So if you're going to run your own PDP, be your own government, you have to recognize that you're creating this demand, and therefore you've got a couple things you need to do.

Most importantly, you need to fulfill it. If you're in business, you don't really want to create demand in business. You want to find the demand that's already there. Just saying.

Basically, come here. I'll slide you here. Here's the world. Ready? Don't create demand for anything. Just find out what people want. It's like a trout stream.

It's a trout stream in Montana. It's it. Don't go bass fish and looking for the fish. Just go on the stream and stand. Let the fish come past you. That's it.

But just make sure the fish have lots of money and just keep casting out there where the people and the money are and you'll do fine. So don't create demand. If you're in business, go to the demand. But if you're a personal person, yes, your desire to do something in life is very clear.

That's what you're demanding of yourself. So we talked about yesterday building the capacity. Well, in business, in the government, do the same thing. That's why they build those dreaded AI data centers.

Oh, not in 41 cities across the world. Not doing that anymore, are we? I don't know. It's got to be controlled. I agree with you on that one. I do. But still, capacity has to be built, usually well in advance.

A long time ago, when we didn't have railroads, somebody had to build the tracks. Well, you've got to do the same thing for yourself if you're building your own personal economy, right? Your personal, your PDP.

Because the life you have right now probably cannot produce the life you want next. Something has to change. You've got to close the gap from where you are today to where you want to be tomorrow. And that means just build the capacity or personally maybe the capability, a skill set, right?

Right. It's going to take money. It's going to take time. It's going to take skills, the whole thing. But if you have identified the demand that you have in your life, then you must create the capacity to do that.

If not, you'll never get it. You'd be wishing and hoping and praying, talking to AI at 3 o'clock in the morning, wondering why you didn't get it. Just got to make it. That's all.

Number three, you need to increase productivity. Now, productivity is one of those odd things. It used to be, I've been doing this show here for 20 years now. So over the years, we talk about productivity all the time.

People search for it constantly. They don't do that anymore. Maybe people have gotten more productive. I don't know. But I look at it a little bit differently.

Productivity is just efficiencies. That's it. So once you build capacity to do the things you want to do, you must get as efficient as you can with it. Now, what does that actually mean in real life?

It makes it easy. I'm telling you. That's it. It takes the drama out. It's like, okay, this is what I'm going to do. And you just build the system so it just flows smoothly and easily and everything works.

I have a great system. I built capacity here to do what I do with this podcast. Very few people have done 5,600 podcasts for 20 years every single day.

I am so efficient at it. It's like I'm breathing, right? I can do this. Now, if I take one step and say, hey, let's do a video because everybody's doing videos now, the whole thing, right?

That changes the equation. But I must build the capacity to do the video and not screw up my life along the way. And at the same time, get very, very efficient doing it. But again, from a personal standpoint, essentially, when you know what you demand in yourself and you build the capacity to get it, you want to get it so easy and so efficient and so productive with it that you just don't have a worry.

If you don't pay your bills on time, you build a system to make sure you pay your bills on time automatically, then you don't worry about it anymore, right? So life just gets better and better and better when we do that.

Finally, monitoring and adjusting. You might see it on Fridays once a month, every week, whatever. Government puts reports out about things that are going on. They're monitoring all the results, trying to figure out what that means.

We're all guessing right. But your own life is the same thing. That's why I use what I call my daily awareness diary and my people love it. A caveat here, whenever I get them to do the daily awareness diary, they hate it for the first week or two.

But sometime in that second week, it just clicks and they go, oh, my God. And what we're actually doing is we're really just kind of monitoring. We knew we had an expectation. We're checking to see where we are.

Is it working? Because every single step you take forward to build your life or build your business or build whatever you're going to do is going to add complexity and strain to whatever's going on in your world. And that's going to slow you down. It's going to make you rethink your capabilities.

It's going to make you rethink your productivity. But you've got to be brutally honest about that, about how it's going. And discipline to make sure you get it back on track.

So if you just kind of pull back a little bit, and you may not be into this stuff at all. You may not. I am. I study this all the time. But it really tracks the same way if you're looking at it like that.

And that simplifies life entirely. Now, what makes this difficult? What makes this difficult to do? You're right, Scott. How do I do it? Yeah, that makes it difficult.

There's a lot of little steps in the middle of this. There's a lot of little steps in life. Life gets in the way. We have to continually stand up, take a step, and repeat.

But the fact of the matter is still life begins when you move. But you've got to move in the right direction, and that's what this kind of helps you do.

So, yep, there you go. Become your own personal economy. See what you want as just a demand you must fulfill. You must increase your capability to do that.

You must be very efficient and productive, or you won't enjoy it. And you've got to watch it every step of the way and monitor it to make sure you not only get it, but you continue to keep it what I call defending what you do. I'll see you at FaceYourPassion.com.

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