Daily Motivations - HESITATION

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

In this episode, we explore why we hesitate, how fear and doubt play a role, and ways to overcome them Speaker: Ben Lionel Scott Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg Please Kindly support this show  Support Us

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Bet on the sports you love with BetRivers Sportsbook. Take a chance. The longest time in the world is the hesitation between thought and action. It can actually be forever. You can hesitate for one second to get started on something, a workout, a project, a task, something that you know you should do. You can hesitate for one second. That one second of hesitation, all of a sudden it turns into five seconds and then 10 seconds and then 10 minutes. And then just like that, you drifted into the eternity zone. One second became an eternity because something that was going to happen is now never going to happen

ever. Why is that? Because you hesitated. So don't take that chance. Instead, take action. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. A body at rest tends to stay at rest. You've had enough damn rest. You've got to get to the point in your life where you decide, I have had it. I'm tired of being a loser. I got tired of losing. I got tired of coming up short.

I got tired. I want to move to the nicest neighborhood. I want to fly first class. I want to go to Hawaii. I made a decision. Enough is enough. It's showtime. In order for you to go from one level to the next level, in order for any woman to transition, for any man to transition, the thing that they want must be greater than the thing they currently have. Humans do not transition to another level when they're comfortable with the level that they're on. You only go to another level when you say enough is enough. I want you to live the life you were meant to live. You hear me? Not the life that was given to you. You deserve to see what your life would look like if you gave 120%. And what I need you to do is I need you to look at yourself in the mirror and say, come

on, stop playing. I deserve to see what my life would look like if I gave 120%. That's lying mode. And you got to get to a place where you start executing. Making a freaking plan is the easy part. And you have to understand if you don't execute on the plan, if you don't get up in the morning when you're feeling tired, scared, if you don't execute, you're not just cheating yourself, dude. You're cheating your family. You're cheating your employees. You're

cheating your team, whatever you're a part of. It's bigger than you, man. And guess what? I had to get up even though it was hard and I had to take ownership of my life, take ownership of my time, take ownership of my day. And if those of you, you messed up, why? Because you don't understand. Think, act, eat, rest. We're talking about a schedule. I realized that my strength is in my routine. Why? Because I'm not as strong as I thought I was. I'm not as intelligent as I thought I was. It's in my routine. It's what I do every day repeatedly. The DNA of your success is in your routine. You're not as deep as you think you are. You got to find a routine. I'm getting up at three and stick with it. I'm getting up at five and stick with it. Yeah, out of 365 days, we'll have a bad day or two, but I'm trying to tell you the

strength is in the routine. Find a routine and stick with it. No more dreaming. Dreaming is over. I need specifics. What are you doing on Monday? What are you doing on Tuesday? What are you doing on Wednesday? You need to be very specific.

It's time to put your piece in together of your puzzle. Nobody gave me this. I earned it. Life wasn't a crystal stair for me. Didn't nobody give me a network. I earned the network. I walked my way to the NBA. I walked my way to the NFL. Everybody say, hey, how did you crack the code? I grinded my way through the code. That's how I cracked it. I got up every day at three. I don't care what the economy is doing. I don't care who the president is. Nobody helped me to get here. I had to get

up. I had to go to class I had to read I had to study I had to write I understood that the dream is real, but the lifestyle is realer It doesn't matter what everybody else is doing stay predictable stay Consistent and the reason why many of you are not getting it is because you're not consistent You start and you stop. You get pumped up. You start strong and then somewhere in the middle you quit. You have a little success, but you don't experience exponential growth because you're not consistent. You got to be persistent.

You got to be locked in. You can't scoreboard watch. Too many of you scoreboard watching. Every time you do something, you're looking up to see the score. You stopping working to look at yourself. You not grinding. You glaring. You should be grinding and you looking at the score. The score

is what it is. The score ain't about to change because you looked at it. Keep playing the game. Keep grinding. Keep working. And that other stuff will take care of itself. I'm challenging you to get from where you are. I'm challenging you to of itself. I'm challenging you to get from where you are. I'm challenging you to stop settling.

I'm challenging you to stop accepting the life that was given to you. And I'm challenging you to give 120%. If you're going to do what you say you're going to do, be what you say you're going to be, you're going to have to lie in me out. You're a gazelle, you're going to come up short. You're a gazelle, you're not always going to get what you want out of life. You're a gazelle, you're going to have an average experience gazelle, you not always gonna get what you want out of life. You a gazelle, you gonna have an average experience. You a student, I need you in lion mode.

You a teacher, I need you in lion mode. You an entrepreneur, I need you in lion mode. You trying to lose weight, lion mode. You can't do nothing significant in gazelle mode. Nothing. Nothing impressive happens in gazelle mode. Nothing happen in run mode, give up mode, quit mode, scared mode, fearful mode. Nothing happens.

Everything happens in line mode like I'm coming to get you. You concentrate on this opportunity. You don't worry about tomorrow. You concentrate on this opportunity with all your might, with all your soul, with all your heart. You focus on this and tomorrow will take care of itself. Are you going to say you want to do something, do it for two weeks and then quit like you did last year, like you did the year before last? You say you want to lose weight, get in shape, get your business off the ground and then

turn around and party drink alcohol eat like crap and continue to live below who you were created to be how long is it going to take to make the decision to make the shift and show some courage

it is time to go from mediocre to meteoric it is time to go from mediocre to meteoric. It is time to go from being counted out to being counted on. I've never met anybody who became incredibly successful in any area of their life until they had suffered and sweated and sacrificed and kept their focus and fought through tears and trials and tests. And if you have a dream and you fully commit to it sooner or later, if you do not surrender,

if you do not quit, it will happen. When I wake up in the morning, I don't think, am I motivated to go do what I'm supposed to do? No, I don't think about it for one millisecond. When the alarm clock goes off, I have no thought about whether this is easy, whether this is hard, whether I want to do it, whether I don't want to do it. None of that matters. It's an emotionless, thoughtless discipline. When the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you get out of bed, and you go do what you're supposed to do.

I don't care how it feels. I don't care if it's easy or hard. It doesn't even matter to me. It's just a reaction. It's a discipline. And it's life. And that's the way I choose to live my life. Too tired.

Too hungry. Too sore. Too hot. Too cold. Too whatever. People ask me what I do when I get those little feelings running around. Well, let me tell you what I don't do. I don't tell everybody.

As a matter of fact, I don't even let those words run around inside my own brain housing group. I keep it secure, lock it down. To me, this is an everyday gig. Every day is a Monday. An opportunity to come out of the gate like a man possessed and attack the day without mercy. Today, I'm taking scalps. I'm putting the pressure on. I'm the aggressor. I'm on the attack.

It's a lifestyle. Instead of hitting that snooze button in the morning and not making your bed, you don't hit the snooze button. You get up. You don't want to go run. You go run. You don't want to go swim. You go swim. You don't want to make your bed.

You make your bed. You don't want to clean your house. You clean your house. You don't want to study. You go and study. It's going to suck. It's not going to be fun. Do something that sucks every single day of your life.

That's how you grow. The only thing you do for success is sweat, is blood, is tears. You think you're going to get 50%? You think you're going to get 70%? You think you're going to get 80? There is no discount. You can't get 50% off. There are no shortcuts to success. Stop thinking they are. And stop wanting people to put you somewhere that you didn't earn. The real beast is when their legs give out. The real beast when they're tired. The real beast find a way to pull something out when nobody else ain't got nothing. When you really want it, you no longer hit the snooze button. You no longer lose focus when you're studying. You no longer take shortcuts. You are willing to do whatever it takes. That

means getting up early, going to bed late. That means you don't go to sleep when you're tired. You go when you're done. You might have put in some time, but you didn't put in the time. Yup, you did some workout. Yup, you studied a little bit. Yeah, you put in some time, but you ain't put in the time. The time that's required to make your dreams become a reality. You can't shortcut success. You got to grind and you got to put in the time. If you had the qualities of fortitude, grit, discipline, mental toughness, you wouldn't need a program for your finances. You wouldn't need a program for your finances. You wouldn't need another fitness program.

You would understand how to execute. The missing link is and always has been you. In order to be the best, in order to get to the next level, you've got to sacrifice. You've got to be willing to do whatever you're asked to do. There are no shortcuts to success. There are no shortcuts to success. There are no discounts to success. It's always sweat. It's always blood.

It's always tears. You always have to give all to be the best. I'm not gonna sit around and wait for good things to happen to me. I'm gonna grind. I'm gonna fight. I'm gonna do everything in my power to become the very best version of me. When you do the things most people aren't willing to do, you will live the life most people never will. If you're willing to take the harder way, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes, the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory,

then you will not regret it. If you stay in bed, if you stay on the couch, if you stay in your comfort zone, if you only do what is easy, your life will be hard. But if you do what is hard, if you get up, if you grind, if you are relentless, if you work as hard as possible, when other people are slacking off, your life will be easy. One plus one is always going to equal two.

Two plus two is going to equal four. And ten years of work when everybody else is partying, making excuses, doing the cool thing on the weekend, it's going to pay off. I get frustrated with humans when somebody's late and they upset. I get frustrated with humans when somebody borrows money from you and they don't pay it back and you're upset. I get upset with humans when you go out to eat and they don't bring your food out the way you want your food out and you are so upset and you let them have it,

but then you disappoint you and you don't let you have it. You give you a pass. You give you a pass. You give you a pass. You are not where you're supposed to be financially, and you gave yourself a pass. You know you're better than that. You know you should be further in life, but you keep letting you slide.

That thing that's holding you back, that thing that's dragging you down, that thing is you. Your biggest enemy is you. People don't understand it's you against you. The only person that gets in your way is you. Nobody else. It's you.

I need you to confront you because you're the one holding you up. I need you to confront you. I need you to look in the mirror and tell you, you are not going to do me like this no more. You're not going to continue to sabotage me. You're not. You're not going to keep procrastinating. I need you.

You're not. You're not a loser. You've just made decisions that have created an environment that feels like it. Go look in the mirror. Take responsibility for where you are. And admit to yourself that you are where you are because of decisions that you made, because of weakness that you had, because of your lack of ability to do the hard things when things got hard. That's why you are where you are and start right now fixing that. Start

making better decisions right now and before you know it, you'll be living a different life. The only person you can control is you. So focus on making yourself who you want to be. Discipline your body. Get up early and go. Get after it and you'll become the person you want to be. And you become that person through one small decision at a time. Become the person who cannot quit.

Become the person who can say no to the things that they know they're supposed to say no to. Become the person who makes the right decision regardless of the circumstances, regardless of the hardships, regardless of the pain, regardless of the frustration. if you become that person, you have no limits in your life. There is no stopping that person. I challenge you to push it to all the gear you've got. I want to see how far I can go. I want to see what I can accomplish. I want to see what I can do, what I can be, what I can have. I want to see.

I don't want to see what I think I can do. I don't want to see what I think is possible. I want to see what my life would look like if I didn't count the cars, if I had the mentality that you've got to want it. I'm going to try to be the best that I can be, the strongest, the fastest, the smartest human being that I can become, better than I was yesterday, better than people thought I could be,

better than I thought I could be. When you cut this off, I want you to go look yourself in the mirror and I want you to vow, no more excuses. Like from this day forward, I'm not gonna be getting pumped up, I'm not just gonna be fired up, I'm about to start applying. Because listen to me very closely. The difference between people who talk about it and people who do it is one simple word, application.

They hear it, and they don't just hear it. They digest it, and when they digest it, boom, they do something with it. I don't need you to learn a lot of stuff this year. I don't need you to learn 40 things this year. If you can learn one thing, I'm talking about learn it. I'm talking about put it deep within. Not you hear it. Not you read it, not you see it. If you can give me one principle a month that you own, that becomes a part of who you are, that changes how you think, that changes how you behave. If you could become an executor, if you could execute,

you can do the unthinkable you can make all your milestones become a reality if it stopped being a hobby you're doing it when you feel like it you're doing it when you get time you're doing it on your lunch break you're not serious you're not eating it you're not eating it you're not dreaming it it's not hard in your dreams at night i'm telling you right now there are those of you you are going to do the unthinkable and you can shut it down. You got to shut the TV down. You got to shut certain people down.

You are minimizing right now and you need to optimize. This is going to be a full commitment to creating the kind of person that can make the right decision even when it's the last thing they want to do. When they're tired, when they're sore. When they're tired, when they're sore, when they're hungry, when they're stressed, when they're frustrated, when they're angry, when the world is crashing down on their shoulders, they will still make the right decision. Your only solution is to become that kind of a person. Start today and in 365 days you will look back and you will say,

that was the day. That was the day that everything changed. That was the day that my life changed. That was the day that my family changed. That was the day my community changed, my state changed, and my country changed because I changed. Make that day today. It's going to feel better when it's over. You know that when you get done doing the hard thing, you know you will feel better when it is done. You also know that if you don't do the hard thing, the thing that you don't want to do, that you don't feel like doing, you know if you don't do it, you're going to feel inferior. You know you're going to feel weak. Those are the two outcomes. One will cause you some short-term gratification. You'll get to sleep a little bit more. You won't have to put out during a workout.

You don't have to do this tedious task. You'll get some short-term gratification, but the long-term regret will be strong, and it will inflict pain on you. The other outcome is when you do what you're supposed to do. You do what you know you need to do to move forward. And when you do that thing, you know you're going to feel strong, and you're going to feel gratified, and you're going to feel worthy of this life. Easy choices, hard life. Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.

And most of you in this room, you can't give up six months. You can't give up eight months. You can't let stuff go for a few weeks. Some of you can't just let girls go. Let it go. Some of you just can't let parties go. Let it go. If you want to dominate in the area, you got to let everything go with that thing you pursue.

You can't chase two rabbits and catch both of them. The shortcut is a lie. The hack doesn't get you there. And if you want to take the easy road, it won't take you to where you want to be. There is no easy way. There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline. There is only one way. Get up and go.

You need to be the master of your emotions, not let them affect you. Get control of your feelings. By getting control of your feelings, you gain control of your life. When you do this over and over and over again, you change your brain. You become tougher. You become the one who decides what gets done and the level of success you achieve. Discipline is something you dictate. Motivation won't make you exercise every day. Discipline will. Motivation won't stay up late and make you exercise every day. Discipline will. Motivation won't stay up late and finish a project for you. Discipline will.

Motivation isn't going to get you out of bed in the morning. Discipline will. Remember that the pain right now will absolutely pay off in the future. Some of you are not successful because you think effort is success. You think because you put in 40 hours

that you're supposed to get something because you put in 40 hours that you supposed to get something because you put in 40. It don't work like that in the school of hard knocks. They don't care how many hours you put. They just want to see the execution. So you feeling in your spirit like, yo, but I did just as much as he did. I studied just as much as he studied.

It doesn't matter. You just got to execute. You got to get a little bit more intense about your life. You gotta stop being so casual. It's decisions we make that chase that best version of us every second, every day, because every day alters the direction of the course of our lives. We are losing control, and it's time to take control.

You've held up your someday, and here's the crazy part. All you gotta do is look in the mirror. All you got to do is deal with yourself, and then we're going to get you a whole other level. At some point, you got to tell the flesh who's in control. I'm in control. You're not in control. I know you don't want to wake up. You don't have an option.

Get up. There's a certain lifestyle we want. You need to discipline yourself. You need to learn to tell you no. You need to learn to tell you stop. You need to learn to tell you know you need to learn to tell you stop you need to learn to tell you quit every single day if you do what you say you're gonna do you're gonna get what you dream to get some days you wake up you in the mood some days you're not in the mood a calendar does not care if it's your birthday if it's a holiday if you're not

feeling good a calendar does not care a schedule does not care so what happens is if you're not feeling good, a calendar does not care. A schedule does not care. So what happens is when you are consistent and you do something every day, you do it over and over and over again. It becomes a habit. More stuff comes to you when you execute. So execution, baby, we will do it by listing our priorities. We will do it by shutting everything else out. We will do it by saying no to everything that does not apply to our priority. We will do it by saying no to everything that does not apply to our priority. We will do it by getting focused, laser focused. This will be the year that you stop half doing stuff. You stop half doing sports, half doing school, half writing that book. This will be the year of execution. And we'll do it one day at a time.

And you're going to get control. And when you get control over that one area, you're going to blow up in every area and then someday it's going to be your day. If you work for it, if you're willing to put in that sweat, that blood, and those tears, I'm telling you,

you can have what you want, be what you want, do what you want. It ain't nothing you can't have if you're willing to work for it. If you're willing to stick in there, if you're willing to stay, if you're willing to fight, it ain't nothing you can't have if you're willing to work for it. If you're willing to stick in there. If you're willing to stay. If you're willing to fight.

It ain't nothing you can't have. Discipline your body. Free your mind. Get up early and go. Get after it and you'll become the person you want to be. Rewards come after you work, not before. The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.