Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - BELIEVE

Episode Date: October 4, 2026

This episode is/was in early access for members from Sat, 3 Oct 2026 until Sun, 4 Oct 2026. Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — Your belief in your dream will be tested. Right at your hardest moment, is when the tide will turn. Don't give up. Spoken by: Les Brown instagram.com/thelesbrown Owen Cook twitter.com/OwenCookX David Goggins instagram.com/davidgoggins Inky Johnson instagram.com/inkyjohnsonmotivate Eric Thomas instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher Tyrese Gibson twitter.com/tyrese Music: Audiomachine - Wars Of Faith (Ben Lionel Scott Remix) Audiomachine twitter.com/audiomachine Secession Studios - And The Sky Turned Red Secession Studios thesecession.bandcamp.com

No matter how much you prepare, no matter how tough you think you are or how good you think you are, sometimes life just happens. You will be tested. Some of you already have. Life is going to test that will every turn. Life is going to see how bad you want what you say you want. How bad do you really want it? How bad you want it? You're going to lose all of the materialistic things you have. How focus can you be?

You're going to lose your job. People who you thought will help you won't be there for you. How positive can you be now? That's going to happen to you in life. And how you face that test and how you overcome that test determines the rest of your life. Some of these tests will go on and on and on and on. You're in this tunnel. And all you see is a pinprick light and you just put one foot in front of the next and it's like,

How long is it's going to last, dude. I just want to go back to normal. I want to be out of this. But you're being prepared. It's killing the things that have to be killed within you and is purging and shedding the things that had to be purged and shed. What you become in the process, if you hang in there, what you become as a person, the kind of spiritual growth,

personal growth, the kind of commitment, the kind of things that you have within you now showing and revealing themselves that you would have not known was there had you not gone through this. When you come through that valley, when you come through that fight, there'll be a look in your eyes that everybody will know this is a different person here. I'm looking back at my life. Every major setback in my life, when I got through it, I was stronger and better because of it. And I say that what's necessary is that, You stand courageously, daringly, that you become bold.

In spite of this, I'm not giving up on my dream. There's one thing about being in dark places. If you had the courage to stay in the long enough, your eyes will start to adjust to the darkness. Your body and mind will always adjust to more suffering, to more pain. Your mind quits way before your body does. So you have to be willing to go away into that darkness and find more yourself.

But I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel because you are trying to see what you are. You are the light. You're going to go for some stuff that you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. That you sometimes will feel powerless in the face of it. You feel helpless.

It just doesn't look that there's any way that you can pull it off. Don't let it intimidate you. No. Don't get intimidated. By the numberdated by. Don't give up. Hold on. Hold on to your dream. Don't stop. You're being tested now. Don't give up. You're being tested now. Don't give in. You're being tested now. So you can have a testimony. Don't fail the test. Don't give in. Don't quit. My arm and my hand is paralyzed. My heart isn't. My own in my hand is paralyzed. My mindset isn't. My own in my hand is paralyzed. My My spirit isn't. My own in my hand is paralyzed. My work ethic isn't. My own in my hand is paralyzed. My commitment isn't. Most people when they encounter adversity and opposition, they resist, they retreat, and they question.

When I encounter adversity, opposition, uncertainty, and change, I'm like, let's fucking go. Like, it's on. Like, I've been waiting on you. Like, I know I'm on the right path. When I encounter that, it don't make me retreat. It don't make me go in the fetal position. It don't make me fold up. I'm like, let's go. I've been waiting on you because if I can figure out how to use you, how to navigate you, I'm going to be a better man, I'm going to be a better father, I'm going to be a better team member, and let's go. This is why I play the game. This is what I signed up for. That's spirit.

That's mentality. That's believe. That's a certain thought process. That's what commitment is. And I'm not talking about the commitment that says I'm going to show up. No, not that cheap stuff. I'm talking about the commitment that says I'm going to stay true to what I said I would do long after the mood that I've set it in has left,

meaning every single day I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna fight for my character and I'm a building. I control this narrative, man. And so by being committed to everything that I started, I finished it, it built a certain type of spirit, it built a certain type of mentality, it built a certain type of individual.

And so now I couldn't quit even if I wanted to. I couldn't stop even if I wanted to. I had too much sweat, equity, and my life and everything that I was doing. Once you start questioning yourself, you already lost. Once you start questioning yourself, Once you start going into a state of depression and you start thinking and wondering,

once you start wondering, you already lost. Even if you don't believe, believe. I gotta tell myself I'm the best if I'm gonna be the best. I gotta believe in me before anybody else believe in me. Stay encouraged, lose not your confidence. You gotta stay motivated, you gotta stay pumped up, you gotta stay hyped, that's half the battle. In the midst of everything we're going through,

I don't need you to talk negative, I don't need you to speak negativity. We are under dark times right now, but stay encouraged. Stay encouraged. Keep your head up. Stick your chest out. Continue to walk with pride. And know that not only shall we overcome, many of us have already overcome. And if it was easy, everybody would do it.

It's not going to be easy, but we have what it takes. It's in our DNA. You've got to keep hope alive, man. You've got to keep hoping, partner. You can never stop hoping. If you can just keep hope alive, you can keep hope alive. can make it because if you keep hoping it is really faith. Faith is the belief in things that you cannot see.

Faith is the substance of things hopeful, the evidence of things not saying. You have to believe in the unseen because if you can't believe in it, you will never manifest it. But when you believe in it, you demand the universe to assist you in what you're doing. I must say, I must work, I must believe, I will fight, I will work. I will work, I will push, and I will never quit on me. We all experience some hard knocks in light, things that can deplete your spirit, your energy, and just take your courage. There are times and your energy feels so depleted and everything goes against you that you want to give up that it looks just totally impossible. Don't give up then. Never give up then, for that is just the place and time.

that the tide will turn. That's when you've got to fall forward when life is kicking dirt in your face and you can cry over it and that won't change it. You can nag over it or you can succumb and surrender and you don't want to do that. So what do you do? Make it okay. I can become upset, nervous, tense about it, weak about it, or I can say it's okay. I can change how I respond to it. You got to make it okay. When you hold on to your dream, Don't let anybody kill it in you. Just hold on to that dream. When it doesn't make sense to anybody, including you sometimes. Just hold on. You can do it. You can do it.

Logical, practical thinking says, you can't do it today. But if you want to produce unreasonable results in your life, like living your dream and taking charge of your destiny, you've got to be an unreasonable person. You've got to be an uncommon person.

If you look at documentaries on Steve Jobs and Oprah and all of the above, They are weird because they've seen things that no one else seen for their career path. They were obedient to the vision. They have all decided that I'm going to commit myself to this career, this vision, this goal, training, education, no parties, they're going to call you names. They're going to say that you're a weirdo. Those are the characteristics of a champion.

Those are the characteristics of someone that have said that I have decided that I'm going to create a shift in this universe. Many times I wanted to give up, many times I did not know where I was going to get my next meal from, many times. I wanted to throw in the towel, but during those times, there was something in me that said, don't stop. Don't give up, just keep on, keeping on, and I decided that I wouldn't stop. We never dreamed on the block in Detroit that my girl would get multiple sclerosis. We never dreamed that my mother-in-law would get cancer, and they would tell her, go home, you got six months to live. We never saw any of that, but in the midst of everything I've been through, I hail on to the dream. Armor yourself with faith.

Armour yourself with resolve. Armour yourself with determination. Armour yourself with transforming your mindset. Armour yourself with courage, with resolve, with a fierceness, being unstoppable, being unreasonable. A mindset, I'm going to make it no matter what. You got to make a decision that when I get to my mind. my darkest moments, when I'm going through my go-through, when I can't wake up, everything and the take is gone, when I'm broke emotionally, when I'm broke mentally, when I'm broke physically,

when I'm broke, and I ain't got no more. You got to make a decision at that point. I don't care what happens, I'm not quitting. I'm not giving up. It does not matter how long it takes. We live in the world where they reward you for being mentally tough. Where you are is temporary. You will not be there for the rest of your life. You will survive. You're going to get through it. Your belief, your faith, your drive, your determination, your persistence, your perseverance, your spirit. Greater is he that is in you.

And what's out here in this world? What lies before us and what lies behind us is of small consequence to what lies within us. Keep dreaming. Keep looking at your dream. Keep focusing on your dream. Keep going after the dream because some days you're not going to feel like getting up and the dream is going to push you. Some days you're not going to feel like keep going but the dream is going to push you. Go to sleep and wake up talking about the dream.

Go to sleep. Wake up. Talk about what we did when we first started. Talk about where we are. Examining what we did right. What we did wrong. You have to eat the dream. You have to sleep the dream.

You have to dream the dream. You have to see it when nobody else sees it. You have to feel it when it's not tangible. You have to believe it when you cannot see it. You've got to be possessed with the dream. And every single day, you've got to wake up and put forth after. All the hell you're going through in the process is preparing you to make the dream become a reality.