Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

Episode Date: July 7, 2024

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe  —  The only person you need to believe in you is the one you see in the mirror. Spoken by Les Brown, Eric Thomas. You can see more of Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher. The music is No Man's Land by Zack Hemsey. You can see more of Zack Hemsey at facebook.com/zackhemseymusic.

To every person in this room who's had a struggle, who's had some pains, who's had some tests, who's got some creative ideas, but you've gone through some really tough stuff. Whatever you do, don't lose your head. Pull your feelings out of it. Your emotions, your negative thoughts, your insecurities, your vulnerabilities. Do not allow these things to control the trajectory. of your life. If you are going to birth your dream, your calling, your passion,

you can't draw back when life gets tough. You've got to stand up to it. Bush throw it. Tragedy and trials come to everybody. Only the strong survive. The stuff you've been through

don't pay it any attention. If you start something, you're going to finish it. Make a way. Figure it out. Just pivot, have a certain level of mental agility and get it done. Keep going. Press on.

This two shall pass. There's nothing that we come up against that's stronger than anything that we possess internally. The world is not giving you what you deserve because you don't think you deserve it. And you need to change your mindset. Why are you timid? Why are you timid? Why are you passionate? Why are you afraid? There are those of you in this rule.

You don't need another book. You don't need another course. There are those of you in this room You don't need to do anything else You are enough as you are You just don't believe in yourself In the way you're supposed to believe in yourself And it comes out when you talk to other people

They sense that you don't believe it They feel it You can feel when somebody's not committed When they're not all in When they're not dedicated And there's another level you get to When you go all in When you come to an engagement

And you speak as if you're making the most You've ever made when you're not when you get up at six when you don't have to. And if you change your mindset, mindset is important because we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we use to create them. You better change the way you think.

All you need to do is change your thinking and you change your world. You don't need to change anything else. Don't complain. Don't murmur. Don't talk negative. Average people talk normal. Average people talk problem.

The greats talk solutions. Average people use their time to why and complain. But I used to be average. And when I would talk like that, I ended up getting kicked out of school. And while I talked like that, I was broke. And then one day I woke up and said, Eric, nobody's coming to save you. Nobody's coming to get you.

But you can go to the library and get yourself. You can start reading books. You can go back to school. You can start coming to conferences. There's something that you could do that would radically change your life. Somebody could take the hand you've been dealt and win with it. Same circumstances, same ideas. They would do it through what they thought about your life.

But we don't need somebody because we had you. You are the one. I haven't had my best idea yet. I haven't had my most creative moment yet. I haven't produced my dream yet. I don't care whether you're 30, 40, 50, 60, 70. There's something down inside of you that's still kicking inside of you that wants to get out and it wants to live. I want you to lead this room and embrace challenges.

Stop quitting and giving up. If it's hard, keep on coming back again. If folk oppose you, come on back again. Right out of money, come back again. Keep working on yourself. Keep parking to yourself. Many start, but few finish. Few people finish because they say, well, it was hard, and they stop.

They take that as a stop sign as opposed to a growth sign. They look at that as something to block them as opposed to an opportunity for them to grow, to become more creative. All roles to success, you got to go through pain. When you travel down success, you got to go through the road of pain, baby. If you think it's going to be easy, if you think you're just going to get that business started without any trials or tremendous, forget about it. Don't even try to be successful.

It's a rap. It's not going to be easy. But I want you to feel that pain going through your body. And as pain means your body, guess what's going to take its place? Success. And so you got to change your mindset. We got to stop looking at pain. been something negative. No pain, no gain. Confidence makes you run toward the fight. When you don't

have confidence, it makes you run away. So it doesn't matter how you look. It doesn't matter the degrees you have. It doesn't matter how much money. It doesn't matter. Without confidence, there are certain things in this earthly realm you can't pull out. When you have fear, fear makes you speak in a certain way. When you have fear, but when you have faith, you don't need to count. When you have faith, you don't need to go outside. When you have faith, you don't need to see how many horses. When you have faith, you don't need to see how many armies. When you have faith, you don't need to see how many swords.

When you have faith, you don't need to count no shields. When you have faith, you don't need to look at the parameter and see how many of your gifts. When you have faith, you just believe and it'll happen. As you're going through, you'll go through, you're ready to quit, you're ready to give up, you're ready to give in, because it don't look like you think it should look. And I'm telling you right now, because I care about you. I'm telling you right now because I've been there, I've been there for three years and you've got to quit. Oh, you've been doing it for five years, and this.

don't look like you think you put all your money in it you put all your time in it people looking like you crave five years you've invested hold you put too much in it to quit now hold it doesn't look like you think you didn't get the grades you thought you were going to get so maybe i'm not meant to be a lawyer hold most people retreat during the pain are broken by the pain but gladiators gladiators approach the pain embrace the pain and dominate the The question is, are you a gladiator? I guarantee you if you can outlast pain, if you can get through that pain,

if you can outlast that discomfort, I guarantee you, baby, on the other side of it is success.