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It is true, my name is Scott Smith. I walk around the block walking my dogs, and my neighbors are all saying, your wife said to check in on you, how you doing? I'm okay, but I do have one dilemma. I just have one. My wife is the kind, she has scales everywhere. She has scale in the bathroom, she has two scales in the kitchen. She weighs all her food all the time. And about twice a week, she gets up and goes to the freezer and gets some ice cream out, and she measures out, I don't know how much, it's probably four or five ounces, I don't know exactly. But she hands it to me, and it's good stuff, and I appreciate that, but now she's out of town, and I want some ice cream. So I got up and went to the freezer, and there was ice cream, half a gallon, pretty good stuff, don't know what it is, it's just good, didn't care, it's ice cream, gonna eat it, right? So I started eating it that night, and the next night, and the next night, and it's so good, and I have as much as I want. Sometimes I gave myself too much, I say, oh, I see why she measures it. But then I realized something, I have a problem now. What do I do? I mean, do I eat the whole thing, and just throw it away and pretend as if it was never there? Do I eat most of it and leave a little bit and let her just get all over me about how much ice cream I ate for the week? Or do I eat it all, throw it away, and then go to the store and buy replacement, identical flavor and put it back on the shelf where I got it? That is where I'm leaning. Now, is that wrong? Is that a lie? I don't want to lie, but then, hmm. What's it going to do? I don't care. I'll lie. Ah, welcome all you life coaches. Appreciate you being here. It happened again this week. People that actually are clients of mine, who say, I get on your calls because you teach me so much, and I go talk to my clients, I teach them what you taught me. Okay. You're welcome. Also, welcome to all the podcasts out there. I've been listening to some podcasts lately, and you guys are stealing my stuff. I am your show prep. You're listening to me and you're rewarding it slightly. In some cases, you don't do it. You just steal my stuff. That's okay, man. I can't stop that. But know this, that if I come up with any really good idea, and I say the words, I already have the domain registered before you ever get your chance to get your hands on it. I'm a little spicy today, a little having some fun. Maybe it's my week being a bachelor, I'm having some fun. But what I thought I'd be doing is I was doing some research yesterday. I spent a lot of my time doing research. I'm one of these guys who has a massive amount of thinking time, more than I probably should have. It might not be good for me. But I dig in. I'm very curious, naturally curious. I'm naturally curious about history and what's going on now, what helps, what doesn't help. I just dig into that. That's why I do the show. So I was digging into other people's quotes, and there's so many of them out there. They're actually kind of easy to find these days. But I wanted things that you had heard before, and yet maybe hadn't thought it through a whole lot. And I was wondering what I would think about it. What would my mindset be about some of these quotes? So I started digging, didn't really know where I was going with it, just kind of followed the bouncing whatever it is. And I stumbled upon a quote by Woody Allen. Think what you will about Woody Allen and I have my thoughts for sure. A lot of them. That's not today's podcast for sure, it could be like a 10-hour podcast for sure. 80% of success is showing up. Have you ever heard that? 80% of success is showing up from a guy who has coached thousands of people, tens of thousands of hours now, I will tell you, he's dead on right. But you know, when I put Scott Logic in it, I think about competition. I know, Scott, there's no competition. You're only in competition against yourself, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Listen, this is Scott Logic. Here's a deal. Maybe that's right, maybe that's true, and I agree that it probably is, maybe, you know, halfway, thinking about that. But the truth is, in your little mind, you better damn well believe there is competition. You're looking over your shoulder. Why is he doing that? He's better. I need to beat him. It's human nature. Is that too much honesty for you? It's true. But the competition, by the way, is mostly imaginary. Even though I think it's there. See, half of your competition never even started. The other half has already quit. They're not even in the game. If you manage to show up 80%, I say 70% of the time. You show up enough days in a row, the math kind of takes care of itself. Math is math. It's like working out. For years, I've given this advice. I've said, work out most days of the week. What was that? It was seven days of the week. I'm sorry, there's seven days in a week. It was workout four days a week. Where did my Scott Logic come from? It's simple. Everybody says, I work out three days a week. Wink, wink. But most of America is fattened out of shame. I say, well, that ain't working. It just makes sense to me that if there's seven days in a week and you work out four days, you've gone, you're above. You're doing more. There's less days you're not working out than more days you are. It's gonna work, right? See, simple Scott logic, four days a week, be happy. Okay, Yogi Berra. This may be a long show. Evidently, I'm having some thoughts in between the lines today. Yogi Berra. So this is a great one. I love this. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Duh. Although I have stopped. I've been on my motorcycle many times and come to a fork in the road and I said, hang on, guys, this is full of our waited so you can see where we're going. Used to pull a map out. Now it's just a GPS. Just a bunch of motorcycles leaning over their handlebars looking at a computer. Yeah, this should be an outlawed. Although I like mine a lot. It's good. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. So Scott Logic on this. Pick a direction. Don't care what it is. Just pick a direction. Just go. Doesn't matter. If you're lost, just go. Pick one and go. A wrong turn, you can fix. Standing at the intersection, you get honked at and hit by a truck. That's it. Life is going to run you over. So if you're trying to do something and you fork in the road, you don't know what to do, just take one. Just go. If it's wrong, go, oops. Just remember what I said. Just fix it. But otherwise, you know what's going to happen. Likely, what's already happening? In fact, most people that are standing at an intersection have already been hit. In fact, I've seen people stand at an intersection for decades. And I get on a coaching call and say, just what are you doing, man? Just pick a direction to go. 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Head to samsara.com/dailyboost to request a free demo and see how Samsara brings safety and visibility to your operations. That samsara.com/dailyboostoperatessmarter. Let me spell that for you so you get it, okay? samsara.com/dailyboost. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. So Scott Logic comes into play here, right? Being right doesn't pay. It just does not. How many times have you been right? I know so many people have been right. They stand on this principle, I'm right, you're wrong, right? It doesn't work. Moving pays. It's all about moving. A great idea with no motion is just somebody else's business plan. That's all it is. It's not a plan. It hasn't happened yet. So if you're moving forward, but you're not really moving, you're going to get run over. And it happens in all business, happens all the time. And in my business, I have different areas of my business that I work on. And a lot of people say, hey, Scott, you should spend more time here, there's more time there. And you know, you're right in some cases, because if I don't, I get run over. It happens. I'm shifting gears, by the way. You might be surprised where I'm heading here in the very, very near future. Mm-hmm. Hint, hint, hint. Not going to say, no, you don't, I'm not going to tell it to you. If I tell you everything, I'm holding some stuff back from you. You don't get to know everything about me, not anymore. Well, that's probably a lie too. Thomas Edison, I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. I love that one. Boy, is that hard in the minute, though? In the moment when you're actually working, when you're actually doing stuff and you're failing. Isn't that hard? Especially been at it for a while. I'm thinking to some clients I have right now, they're really just going through it. I mean, big aspirations, big goals, doing things they haven't done in 40, 50 years, never have done. And they're having to learn from scratch to do stuff. And they're making every mistake in the book, and it is frustrating, it will wear you down. But every time you do it, you figure out what doesn't work. So my Scott Logic here is, failure is just data. That's all it is. And if you pay attention and you collect enough of it, and you accidentally become an expert in the room, you're going, okay, it worked. Most of what I do when I'm talking to people, I'm a big pattern recognition guy. And certainly when it comes to podcasts, I can hear a podcast. I can tell you what's wrong with yours and how to fix it. I can hear audio things that you wouldn't even know existed. I just hear it. Because I've gone through the 10,000 mistakes. It's easy for me. So boom, just like that. And you've done stuff like that too, right? You have all kinds of things in your life. You've done so many times that you now know what doesn't work and you do exactly what does work. It's the difference between knowing and knowing. Yeah, I can do it. I know what to do. Or do you really know what to do? Phyllis Diller. Remember Phyllis Diller? She was a comedian. When I was a kid, she was old. So I have not. Yeah, she really was. Or she looked old. I don't know. People back when I was a kid that were 40 years old, they looked like they were 60. It was crazy. Things have changed. I was 60 years old. I'm not going to say any more. It's going to be trouble. Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Now, I actually have taken this logic to heart over the years. I have never gone to bed mad. That's a lie. I probably did a couple of times, but eventually I said, this is stupid. I just finished a conversation. I'll stay up and fight it out. Talk it out. Whatever. I don't care until it's four in the morning. I'll just do it. Not going to go to bed mad because I get up in the morning and it just festers. Unfinished business compounds overnight. Just handle it before the lights go out or it will wear on you tomorrow. It's going to wear you out. I'll go so far as to say as well that unfinished business that you don't deal with day to day, if you don't just turn into it and take care of it, it's going to fester in you. You're going to get mad. Problems are going to happen and the world's going to just run away and you're not going to get the opportunity you want to have. Things are going to change. So I am very well known for, it's kind of a, I have a fighting background, a martial arts background, and so I will turn into the fight and I often will say I'll turn into the conversation and that means when a lot of people keep their mouth shut and I do a lot of the time, but also I understand I don't want it to fester. So I'll turn right around and I'll say, let's have a conversation and I'll take it on because if you don't handle it now it's going to get worse. Be careful with that one too. Don't get mad. Don't get angry. Don't turn around to fight. Just turn around just to stop it in its tracks and take care of it. George Burns, another old guy. What's the list of old people here? This is crazy. Are they all dead? Nope, I think Woody's still alive. George Burns, I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. Holy moly, do I live that one every single day. I have done a lot of stuff that I thought I was going to be good at and I was good at and I really liked doing it, but I hated doing it. Once I get, I left the radio because of that. I love doing radio. I didn't like the radio business. I didn't like being stuck in a room for five hours a day by myself. That's what it was. You'd walk in a room, close the door, you're in a rubber room, and you're talking to the world and yet you're really by yourself. I said, I like that. I got out of it. Faking it in a job you hate is still faking it. Do the thing as they say you'll do for free and then figure out how to get paid for it. It really does work. Find the things that you do naturally. I have a phrase I say often is, what do you do when you're doing you? It's a question. And all I mean by that, and it's fun to say a little double entendre there, right? What do you do when you're doing you? But the truth is, when you find yourself just kind of to your own devices, when nobody's pushing you, when you got some time, when you're just kind of hanging around doing your own thing, what do you do? That's a big clue. That's a really big clue because imagine if you could just do that all the time. You can. Okay, last one, last old dead person. Mae West. Big boy. Are you happy to see me? She doesn't want to say that? You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough. I totally agree with that. I think if you live large, whatever way you want to, it's enough. Life is long enough. It really, truly is. If you don't believe it's long enough, just look at all the bored people at 40, 50 years old. You're not doing anything anyway, man. Look at the people that get to be 80 or 90, and it's enough. You can look at them. I mean, they're barely walking. But to me, in most cases, when I look at it, most people never reach out and live. Most people just get up and go through the day. I don't know, if that was my day, I guess it'd be okay. It's not my thing. Life is plenty long enough, and you only get one chance to live it. So go live it, and live it the best way you possibly can. Whatever values you believe in, live it. One life, no replays, stop rehearsing, go out and live the thing. I don't know what it comes down to. Wow. It's kind of fun. There's nothing new in this world, and as I spend my time practically philosophizing about what's going on, I look back in the world and go, wow, these are really smart people. Pay attention to them, and then we build on that. We tweak it based on what's going on, basically there's nothing new. I don't know what to say. Just get out and have a good weekend. Hope you enjoy the week. I'll be back next week and we shall try again.