Episode Details

Daily Boost Podcast

More Gooder Than Badder

September 4, 2026 | Episode 5535

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Years ago I made up a phrase to help somebody who was stuck. Be more gooder than badder. Terrible grammar, and it works better than almost anything else I teach.

I stopped saying it on this show about five years ago. People still email me and tell me they're living it. So today I'm bringing it back with a pile of examples: sleep, money, water, marriage, your phone, your kids, your mood.

No framework. No methodology. Just one simple question you can ask yourself all day long. Where am I right now? Let's go find out together.

Featured Story

I used to fall face first into a basket of French fries. Not a few. The whole basket. Then I'd think about ordering onion rings on top of it. That's how I stayed fat for a very long time, and I told myself it was fine because tomorrow I'd start over. Tomorrow never showed up.

What finally changed wasn't willpower. It was one small adjustment I made at the table, in the moment, with the fries sitting right in front of me. I still eat them. I still enjoy them. But the way I approach that basket is different now, and it changed a whole lot more than my weight.

Important Points

* Going to bed a little earlier more nights than you stay up late fixes your tiredness without any fancy sleep system.

* Saving a little more often than you splurge means you still get the splurge, and you stop being broke about it.

* Doing the hard thing first more days than you don't, and your afternoons quit feeling like a fight you can't win.

Memorable Quotes

* Moderation in almost everything, excess in a few things. Being more gooder than badder is exactly that one thing.

* Drink water more often than the other stuff, and your body will figure out the rest by itself.

* Nobody is happy all the time, but your mood is a volume game. Choose the better thoughts a lot more often than not.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Pick one thing today- sleep, water, or your phone- and take an honest inventory of where you really land most days.

* Then tilt it one notch, doing the better thing one more time this week than you do the thing you always do anyway.

* Then hold that tilt long enough to stack, and every few weeks, just fall face-first into the fun stuff on purpose.

Chapters

0:02 - the phrase I made up that people still email me about

1:20 - what our new community actually believes

3:35 - CEOs writing me about bad grammar and better lives

5:10 - sleep, money, water and my 80-20 rule for living

7:05 - why four days a week beats three every single time

9:00 - reading, parking spots and saying thanks more

10:40 - the basket of French fries that kept me fat

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