Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - DISCIPLINE YOUR BRAIN

Episode Date: August 10, 2026

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Your mind has to be stronger than your feelings. Think about every poor decision you've made in your life. There was more emotion that was involved in it than there was mind. Every single one of them. Your feelings keep you in bed. Your mind tells you, get up. Do you feel like getting up? No.

Do you feel like making that cold call? No, you don't. Do you feel like doing that third set of reps? No, you don't. If you can't control your own brain and your brain controls you, you're going to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there. See, it's easy to be on the bottom. It doesn't take any effort to be a loser. Doesn't take any motivation any drive in order to stay down there on a low level. But it calls on everything in you, ladies and gentlemen.

You have to harness your will to say, I'm going to challenge myself. Sometimes I have to pull myself out of bed and come on less. Things I know I should do, I don't do. Things that shouldn't do I do. I found that the biggest enemy you have to deal with is yourself. If you do what is easy, your life will be hard. But if you do what is hard, your life will be easy. When you want something, don't expect everybody to say, oh, you want this?

Oh, great! We want to give this to you. You're such a nice person. You're doing it for your family, aren't you? Great. No, no, life isn't like that? But that's how people look at success. They look at it like you do a few things.

I fucking ate right for three days. Why am I not a fitness model? I did my tasks that I needed to do. I set five emails. I called 10 people. Why am I not running a $10 million company? Because they don't understand what mastering the monotonous means. It means doing the shit that most people are too fucking undisciplined to do day in and day out with perfection, doing it better than.

everybody else doing it to the best of your ability and most people will give up but you've got to decide that i'm going to be religious i refuse to be denied and i'm going to go all out effort is isolated the reason why effort is isolated because nobody can't dictate because that's all about you effort is 100% in the mind that's what wins championships that's what wins battles no excuses you're an adult now you're not kids no more do it going full of no girlfriend Do it. Tired or not, try, do it. You say you was going to do it out your mouth. You're a man now, and a man is only as good as his word, not his emotions.

Their emotions don't win championship. So whatever's going to cause you not to be your best, stop it. It's going to be a fight. At some point, you got to go take the life out of it. You got to take that thing out like. You got to take the breath out. So some of your heart, afraid of man. Go after it.

Go get it. Don't run from it no more. Go get it. You go in there and go get that grade. You go in there and get that information so you can pass that class. You gotta go get it. They say an alligator is so ferocious that a killer lion. But I can kill an alligator with my bare hands.

How? You kill it right after it eats. Because right after it eats, he gets satisfied. And it goes to a state like it's almost paralyzed. Some of y'all in this room were you paralyzed? You had a little success. You've done with nobody else in your family is done and now you chill.

Come on, you ain't hungry. I need you to stay focused. Focus. Why? You should still be hungry. What have you eating that's got you satisfied? What have you done? What have you accomplished that got you so full? While he was golfing, I was studying. While he was shooting hoops, I was studying. While he was playing games and sitting up and eating and joking in the restaurant, I was studying. You can't get out of something, something that you're not willing to put into it. You have to put your everything, your everything, your mind, your energy,

Your effort, your discipline, your tenacity, nothing is going to jump out the fire. If you don't throw something in there, it's not going to happen. You have to be committed through the storm and the raid and the heartache and the pain and the disappointment. It's a commitment. It's not a feeling. Commitment is so hard to do with your feelings. You do it because you're supposed to. Push through pain enough and there's glory on the other side of it. But you've got to get through it.

I realized I was on the right path because it stopped being easy. I'm fucking exhausted. I'm tired as fuck, but I'm not going to complain because I ask for this shit. So I'm going to smile with tired fucking eyes and realize that everything I'm doing on a daily basis is for a fucking reason. Too much is given, much is required, but don't worry about it. Because if you do what's required, you're going to get the reward that comes with it. Tired, don't mean nothing. Tired is only in the mind.

Tell yourself you're going to be tired. I don't get tired. Get control of yourself, get control of your emotions, and figure out how to move forward. I don't care how small it is. I don't care how minusual the movement is, but make movement. Move forward and do that every single day no matter what. You've got to focus on the result. You've got to focus on what it is you are gaining, not what you are giving up.

You're talking about wheel now. You're not talking about how strong you are. You're not talking about how tall you are, how fit you are. You're talking about will. It is a mentality. It has everything to do with what time you wake up. It has everything to do with how you eat. It has everything to do with how you work out, how you prepare.

It has every single thing to do it how you think. And when you want it as bad as you want to breathe, says, I'm willing to make any sacrifice, I'm willing to go through any pain, I'm willing to go through any suffering. I'm willing to go through whatever it take. So when I get in there, that I guarantee you at the end of it, I won't be the one surrender. Whenever I face anything that's challenging, whenever anything sucks. I like it. It's going to make me tougher. It's going to give me a good story to tell. It's going to toss in my mind. You know what military training is? You know how they form a bond in military groups?

They make you do stuff that sucks. That's what they do. What's boot camp? It's a suck fest. When something sucks, good. It's going to make me tougher and it's going to make us stronger. So bring it. Think for how many years, what, hour, seconds, you have wasted. We sleep one-third of our fucking lives, and we think we can take it in days off. We think we have the right to sit back and give ourselves a fucking option so which way we're going to go in life. Am I going to run today? Am I going to work out today while it's Christmas?

It's New Year's. Do you think time gives us a fuck that is Christmas, that is New Year's, you're giving yourself too many fucking awesome? Time is running out. You keep on sitting around wondering what the fuck you want to do. You're just going to run out of time. Stop falling the whole fucking crowd. They may take time off, but you can't afford to. Short-term thinking says the donut tastes good.

Eat it. Short-term thinking says one workout doesn't matter. I can skip it. Short-term thinking encourages you to make short-term emotional decisions that hurt you in the long run. And they definitely don't move you toward your overall strategic goals. The more short-term decisions you make, decisions that are based on that immediate gratification. Decisions based on quick, emotional satisfaction, the further from the path you will stray. Don't do that.

Think strategic. Think long-term. You need tactical wins. You need to win. battles in order to win the war. You need to get out of bed, you need to run, you need to work out, you need to read and study and practice, and you need to do things that you don't necessarily want to do. If you do the work consistently, if you invest in yourself consistently, one plus one is always going to equal two. Two plus two is going to equal four. In ten years

a motherfuckin' work when everybody else is partying, making excuses, doing the cool thing on the weekend is going to pay off. If you can't stick to something for five fucking days, you deserve to have a shi life. You deserve to get your ass kicked. You deserve to be miserable. We're not talking about 50 years. We're not talking about

the five years it probably takes to build something worthwhile. We're not talking about the five months it could take for you to lose 100 pounds. We're talking about five fucking days. And you can't even stick to it for that. So what the do you think you deserve? You deserve exactly what you get. Think about all the people that say, man, one day if I have this,

I'm going to do this. What do you mean if you have this? Why don't you go out a naked fucking happen? The comfort zone is dangerous. When you're comfortable, you are at most danger. You should never feel comfortable. You should be happy and dissatisfied. Anybody ever tell you, hey, look, you know what? Just be satisfied with what you got. Don't believe him. Get them away from you. Never be satisfied with what you got. Because the attempt. to get more makes you into something better. All the time. You should double your business.

Triple it. I don't negotiate with myself. I don't go, oh, wait, I'm not ready. Or let me count to 10. Or maybe I'll do it tomorrow. There's not on shit with me. I say, you should do. I'm not here to discuss this with my mind.

And when I say jump, you fucking jump. Because when you get your blood pushing, when you push beyond what's comfortable, it develops this determination inside you, the sense of will. And when you do that regularly, You're going to have a different warlike. You have to learn to do when you don't want to do.

Learn to bring that savage mentality on yourself. It's an animalistic, mother. You think a savage is about how he feels, how he feels? They just do it. Learn to be your best self when you're at least motivated. Stop looking for a feeling to control what goes on in your life. It's one thing to be hungry. It's another thing when you're starving,

starving for greatness and starving for success. It's not about winning. It's the battle itself. It's the struggle. It's the daily test. That's what life's about. I want to struggle. I want to grind, claw, and scratch, and I want to dig in, and I want to push.

And I don't want it to end because that makes me tougher. That makes me harder mentally and physically. Because real lions like to hunt. They love the process just as much as they love the prize. And some of y'all just want to score. You're not in love with the process. A real man in the dark when nobody's watching, he's putting in work. Because he loves the process.

It's time to stay focus. It's time to decide clubs, partying, trying to fit in and socialize, rub elbows with everybody so people can stop calling you weird. Why are you so antisocial? Because I'm trying to get it. Why are you staying on the basketball court so much? Because I'm trying to get it. Why are you out there practicing in the high sun when ain't nobody else out there?

Because I'm trying to get it. You've still got work to do. Fuck all the homies texting and calling and trying to make you feel bad about being so focused. It's okay to be unbalanced for a while. It's okay. Don't be all this stuff. People say you've got to be balanced. To be the best in the world at which you do,

you have to be unbalanced to fight every bit of energy and strength. that you have to pull it off. It takes being being obsessed to where people think you're crazy. Without discipline, there's nothing. And discipline in doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. Losers always take the instant gratification.

Winters mentality is I know what I got to do. And I do it today. I do it tomorrow. And I do it every motherfucking day from here until the end of time. And then I do it some more. I got to stay home read. I'm trying to keep it humble. I walk around on

I didn't want people to know who I am. Why? Because I still want to have that dog. I still need to stay hungry. And when you got pride, it gets in the way you being hungry. And you need that hunger. But y'all ain't got no dog on motor. You get tired, quick. You do a couple hours. You tired. Man, you got to have that dog. You got to take that personal. Every single year, your appetite should go up. You should never get settled. You should never get content. Every single year. I want to be successful. I want to execute. I want to make all my dreams become a reality. So my appetite increases. It gets stronger every year. I want more. I want to do more.

I want to help more. Every year I want to be bolder. I want to be better. I want to be stronger every single year. All men are created equal. Some work harder. Some get up at 2.30 in the morning. Some of us just gride.

Some of us don't make excuses. Some of us don't surrender. The other us don't give up and give in. What we do with the pressure is we say, I got to take it, I got to take it to another level. True champions get hungrier every time they win. They don't reach a peak. They don't reach a pinnacle. Winners dominate losers.

Legends dominate winners. And your mentality on this earth should be that you want to dominate winners. Legends feel fulfilled and happy because they do what they have to do to be the best, ever was at whatever it is that you do. Just winning is not enough. You're not maximizing your potential. You're not becoming who the fuck you could become, but dominating people who are winning,

that's something that'll leave you a fucking legacy. How much time you really waste? For real. We waste so much time on our little gadgets. It's unreal. And we talk about we have no time. We all have time. What you don't have is you,

and prioritized your life correctly. You didn't prioritize yourself. You didn't prioritize that, look, motherfucker. I got to get up and win this war today against myself. We get one opportunity in life. One chance in life. To do whatever you're going to do. To lay your foundation and to make whatever mark you're going to make.

Whatever legacy you're going to leave. Leave your legacy. And it's found through effort. Winds and loss is coming dime or dust. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody. Expand yourself. Take yourself out your comfort zone. If you stay in your comfort zone, that's where you will fail. You will fail in your comfort zone. Success is not a comfortable procedure. So you got to get comfortable being uncomfortable if you ever want to be successful. We have two voices in our mind. It's that one voice. It's that soft motherfuckin' voice that says sleep the fucking in. It's okay. Well, there's none motherfuckin'

that wakes you up in the middle of the night. It's that demon fucking voice that says, get up, motherfucker. You're not fucking good enough. You gotta work fucking harder. There's that voice you want to worry away from. It's that voice you don't want to fucking hear. But it's that voice you need to fucking listen to.

What could you need if you worked as hard as you could? What could you be if you impose real discipline in your life? I say you crank up the volume on that voice. Crank up the volume on that question. Max it out. And then go. and so home. And there's some of you you know what you want, but you are not personally willing to do the work it takes to get it. What you're trying to do is do what you've done on this level and get the

next level. You're like, I'm getting up every day. I'm lifting weights. I'm eating right and I'm not getting the opportunity. It might require getting up and working out three and a half. It might require you saying no to your friends. It might require you changing your diet. It might require you moving to another city. Whatever it takes, you gotta be willing to do it and you keep saying you're not there because of something else because it's easier to blame somebody else. I have to take complete ownership. Internally, I had to look at all the things that I didn't have control over and say, I gotta take control. Everybody want to be in business. Everybody's on a six-pack. Nobody tell you the brain that come with it. You're putting in work and just because

you can't see the result, you want to quit or give up. I ain't never quit. I ain't never I never give up. I ain't never give in. I just kept grinding. If you keep going, you're going to break through. The only people that don't break through is the people who scoreboard watching. When you go out there, I need you to have that dog. When you get out there, I need to kill to be chill when you get out there. We ain't playing no more. We ain't taking no prisoners no more. When you get out there, whatever you can get, go get it. Because they're going to get it before you get it. And they ain't going to give it to you. So you go out there and jigs yours. When you leave this room, you take care of dog on every single thing. I don't care where you come from. I don't care what your background is. Don't anybody fool you. If you're willing to grind on Monday, if you're willing to ground on two, they can't stop you. I don't have to accept the life that was given to me.

I can create my own reality. There's a war going on. Good versus evil. Light against darkness. Truth against lies. I'm talking about the war in your head. That person that's holding you back. That person that's bringing you down.

That person is you. 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, get lit, drink alcohol, eat like crap, and continue to live below who you were created to be? No, no. Make a declaration to yourself. Declare all-out war that you're going to get out of this rut. Decide the day that you will no longer tolerate losing.

You are going to be a winner. Be the hero of your own movie. If your life was a movie and it started now, what would the hero of your life's movie do right now? Do that. Do those things. Write down your goals. Write down things you want to improve.

Write down things you won't tolerate from yourself. Write down things that you've done in the past that you never want to see yourself do again And go forth from here as the hero of your own movie Every day is a new day, a new week, a new shot at life An opportunity to come out of the gate Like a man possessed and attacked the day without mercy Today, I'm taking scouts, I'm putting the pressure on

I am the aggressor, I am on the attack because I will not stop. What's your standards? I don't care what it is, but what is your standard? I got some standard. I've been waking up at 3 o'clock in the morning since I was 19 years old.

That's a non-negotiable. Every morning at 3 I'm up. That's my standard. I'm telling you, set a standard. You can't be no champion if you don't have a standard. The men who set a standard are always the ones who are champions.

As a champion, we ain't trying to cut corners. to see how much we can do and still be successful. I got a standard. I want to be the best. Finish. Effort is not good enough. Ain't nobody paying you for efforts. Don't get paid for effort.

You don't get paid for trying. Executes. Set the standard, then raise the standard, then uphold the standard every single day. You're going up against other champions? You think you're going to get 50%? You think you're going to get 70%. You think you're going to get 80%.

You're good. You're real good. at what you do, but some of you don't finish. The real beast, the real beast is when their legs get 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. Success is never on discount. Success is never on sale.

You never see Roy's Royce say, please, come by us. Why? Because of Rose Royce, when they make it, they make it one at a time, and they take their time and they're handcrafted. It never goes on sale. And some of y'all in this room, you want your job. dream to go on sale, it's never going to go on sale. But if you want to be average, they give an average out.

They got discounts on goods. But if you want to be great, you've got to pay blood, sweat, tears, and you've got to pay every single day. There are no shortcuts to greatness. To be greats, there are no days on. 95% of our decisions are made by how you feel in the moment. And that is the problem. Do you feel like getting up?

No. Do you feel like making that cold call? No, you don't. Do you feel like doing that third set of reps? No, you don't. We make decisions based on our feelings and that is robbing you of joy and opportunity. I wheel my way to the top. Some of you got that same fight in you, but you fight people. You still cussing folk out. You're still laying hands on people. That's the easy fight. Now fight your bad habits. Fight your addictions now. Fight your laziness. Fight your procrastination. Take that energy now and fight to get a degree. Fight to start a company. Fight. Most of y'all are, because you never take ownership. It's always somebody else's problem.

It's always somebody else fought while you didn't do what you were supposed to do. It's not their fault. Take ownership. Take the parts that belong to you. Why? Because I'm the one that's messing up opportunities. I'm the one that keeps repeating my past

and you need to free yourself up and start doing something new. But you can't do new until you get rid of that old. Cut it off! Cut it off! Cut it off! Do what you're supposed to do. You ain't no boy no more. I understand every time you point the finger that what you're saying to your dreams and goals is,

I'm about to put you on hold. You gotta take ownership. I take full responsibility. And I'll do whatever it takes. I take ownership. I'll get up. I'll stay late. And that's why you point the finger, because you don't like how the pain feels.

That's why you say he did it and she did it. That's why you give the power away, because it hurt you. too bad to say I did it I take ownership it was my fault that's why you point the finger you ain't ready for the pain you grow you got ideas you got talent you got gifts stop shrinking down stop minimizing yourself take the risk on you take the risk on you you oh you we don't get this again we don't get this again the car runs too fast that's what we got to say with these moments because they right now because every day is a new day every morning is a new on so now

So now you got to go out and show them that all the Denver and crazy now. Time's running out on you. Wake up! You want to win? You want to be a millionaire? You got to quit being so casual. You walk slow. You talk slow.

You implement things slow. You talk a good game. Like you're going to beat somebody. Like you're going to make hundreds of thousands of dollars. You're going to get your ass kicked, dude. You got to get focused and get in a hurry. If you make that shift, I'm going to win. We're going to play to win now.

We're not playing to play. We're not playing to see how we do. We're not playing for fun. Once you start getting some winning, you start changing. You talk different, you walk different. All of a sudden, this isn't the same damn as human being. You'd be surprised how good you'd be if you just decide to win. Be number one in your office, number one in your region.

Because I'm pissed off for greatness. You ain't pissed off for greatness. That means you're okay with being me. Every single day of my life, I feel like giving $100.20. Every single day, somebody said yesterday, E.T. You gave 120. What you're gonna do tomorrow? I said I don't know Get 140. I don't know but I don't have days where I don't feel like it. Why? Because I'm calling on me. My wife's counting on me. I don't have days to waste We're all being testing in life and guess what this is one test you can't cheat on and the other way to overcome it is for you or you're alone to face it

You got to do your best work when you're at least motivated So those days you don't want to do it guess what you gotta do you got to you got to you got to Second up and do it!