Run Your Life Like a Business With a Positive ROI

Jun 12, 2025

Explore the intriguing idea of treating your life like a business for a positive ROI. Discover four practical steps to ensure your investments of time and energy yield personal happiness. Hear a relatable story about an overlooked lunch, emphasizing how personal growth requires consistent measurements of success. Learn the importance of adaptability and setting benchmarks to navigate through life’s challenges effectively. Transform your approach to life by aligning your values with your actions for ultimate fulfillment.

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ANECDOTE

Scott's Vulnerable Lunch Story

Scott Smith shares a moment when his wife forgot to make his lunch, which made him feel helpless like a child.
This vulnerability illustrates the importance of support systems in managing personal health and well-being.

INSIGHT

Life Needs Positive ROI

A business must generate a positive return on investment to survive, and so should your life.
Investing time and energy into things that leave you worse off is unsustainable for both business and life.

ADVICE

Define What Makes You Happy

Decide specifically what activities make you truly happy to target your efforts effectively.
Focus on doing more of what you love and less of what you don't to improve your life.

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Run Your Life Like a Business With a Positive ROI

June 12, 2025 | Episode - 5114

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Want to transform your life and actually see results? I’m sharing my four-step approach to running your life like a business to get a positive return on investment in everything you do.

After 20 years and over 5,000 episodes, I’ve learned that success comes down to treating your personal growth like a profitable business. No more spinning your wheels or ending up with less than you started with.

Featured Story

Scott opens up about a vulnerable moment when his wife forgot to make his lunch before leaving for an appointment, making him feel like a three-year-old asking “What am I going to eat, mommy?” This honest story leads into a powerful discussion about how businesses require positive ROI, and your life should too. Just like a business can’t survive losing money, you shouldn’t invest time and energy into activities that leave you worse off than when you started.

Important Points

Every business must generate profit to survive, and your life should operate the same way - you need positive returns on your investments of time and energy.

Most people have experienced ending up with less than they started with in some area of life, but unlike businesses that can fail completely, you have the ability to switch gears and change direction when needed.

The key to success lies in measuring your progress consistently, just like weighing yourself daily when losing weight, because “if you can’t measure it, you can’t succeed.”

Memorable Quotes

“Do more of what you love and less of what you don’t. That’s it.”

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t succeed. You can only get where you want to go if you know where you’re going.”

“Life is better when you have a positive return, a positive ROI in everything that you do.”

Scott’s Three-Step Approach

Decide what you do when you’re living a happy life and be very specific. Get in touch with what truly makes you happy - it’s probably simpler than you think and something you might not want to admit right now.

Be flexible in your approach, find what works, lock it in, refine it if necessary, and keep doing it. Expect detours and changes, but stay committed to what consistently works for you.

Set benchmarks, measure your progress, and when you miss milestones, immediately adjust and get back on track. Create key performance indicators for your life and use them to stay accountable to your goals.

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