Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - DISCIPLINE YOUR MIND

Episode Date: August 18, 2023

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — What could your life become if you started giving it 100 percent? You can do more than you think you can. Learn to discipline your mind and tell your brain where you want to go. Spoken by Steve Harvey, David Goggins, Andy Frisella, Ray Lewis, Eric Thomas. You can see more of Steve Harvey at instagram.com/iamsteveharveytv, David Goggins at instagram.com/davidgoggins, Andy Frisella at instagram.com/andyfrisella, Ray Lewis at instagram.com/raylewis, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher. The music is Crimson Blaze by 2WEI. You can see more of 2WEI at twitter.com/2weimusic.

We all have two voices in our mind. We have that one voice, that voice that we love to hear that tells you to stay in bed, to take it easy, telling you not to push yourself too hard, to take the day off, just chill today. But there's another voice in your head. It's a voice that we all want to run away from. And it's asking you a question. It's asking you, what could you become? What could you become if you worked as hard as you could?

What could you become if you disciplined your mind? What could you become if you stopped taking the easy path? What could you become if you decided to force yourself to do more than ever before? You must listen to that voice. Listen to those questions. It's asking. That voice is the beast inside you, trying to make its way out. When you want something, don't expect the world to just hand it to you. Life's not going to give you shit for free.

There's no handouts. No one's coming to say, oh, you want this? Great. We want to give this to you. No, no, life isn't like that. But guess what? That's how most people see success. They think of it as if you just do a few things and you instantly become a winner.

They stick to a diet for three days and wonder why they're not a fitness model yet. They do a few tasks they got to do, have two meetings, send five. emails call 10 people then have the audacity to say why am I not running a 10 million dollar company by now and it's because they don't get what it really takes it takes doing the things that most people aren't disciplined enough to do day after day after day after day to the best of your ability doing it better than everybody else striving for perfection every single time it's getting your ass up and working when you don't want to work it's lifting the weights

when all you want to do is lay on the couch. It's focusing on studying when you'd rather be out partying with your friends. And you might hate doing it. It might be the last thing in the world you want to be doing right now. But you've got to do it like you love it because that is what discipline is.

Don't allow your feelings to take control of your life. You're the one in charge. At some point, you've got to get fucking tired of losing. And you've got to fucking play angry. You've got to get to the point where you can't relate to lazy people.

You don't speak the same language. You've got to execute. You got to get it done. Because the world treats you different when you get it done. You've got to start commanding your mind to do the things that it's going to take to win, no matter how it feels. Rewards come after you work, not before. The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Stop spending time looking for excuses.

Look for solutions. That's what winners do. Losers are always looking for the excuse where the winner looks. for the solution. You got to look yourself in the face and ask yourself, am I working hard enough? Am I studying hard enough? Am I doing all that I can do? Am I giving it my all? Am I burning the midnight oil every night? Am I pushing myself to my limits? And don't lie to yourself. Be honest. And if the answer is no, you've got to step up your game and condition yourself to do better. Because all of us can go a little harder. Work a little longer. Try a little more. If we

decide to it's your mind that holds you back you take control of your mind you can take control of your world stop choosing the easy path the path of comfort and convenience all it's going to lead you to is a life of quality circumstances and a shh lifestyle choose the hard path the path of discipline the path of hard work the path of consistency the path of blood sweat and tears the path of giving the the full measure, the path of going the extra mile. That path will lead you to your dreams, to your goals, to everything you've ever wanted, and ultimately to victory. I love to sugarcoat this thing for you. I love to tell you, look, you can go out here and get rich, do a couple of things that ain't happening. You got to get real dogish. You got to get downright funky if you

want to make it. If you want to be ordinary, you ain't even got to listen to me. Just go on about your business. But if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations, then you're going to have to do extra. You put extra on top of ordinary and you come up with extraordinary. It's no other way. But here's the fact. All of you have extraordinary capabilities. All of you.

You have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category. When you quit, your mind says, we're done. So it doesn't expand. There's no expansion when you quit. When you say, fuck you, uh-uh, this sucks, I'm drowning, I'm miserable, I'm suffering, I'm broken, but I'm not going anywhere. What happens to your mind, it says, he's not leaving. So we got to expand. We got to grow.

We got to figure this fucking thing out. So then these compartments in your brain, they have to work. And then you start to engage parts of your mind that you never engaged before. when you're in suffer mode and you say I'm not going to quit. You got to tell your brain where you want to go and how you want to go and how you want to get there. I realize if I keep going back and going back and going back, your mind will say, okay, we're going to figure it out because he is not going to stop. Push through pain enough and there's glory on the other side of it.

But you've got to get through it. I realize I was on the right path because it stopped being easy. I'm fucking exhausted. I'm tired of sift, but I'm not going to complete. claim because I asked 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. You should fucking quit. You should quit quitting. Any path you take to get where you want to be if that place is worthwhile to go, it's going to be fucking hard. So quit judging you're quitting based upon how hard something is

because every single path that you could possibly take to get somewhere where you want to be is going to be hard. Struggle, pain, misery, frustration. Those are signs that you are on the right path and making progress. Nobody that is where you want to be has gotten there without these struggles, without the bleeding, without the pain, without the misery. Nobody. And if you want to be something great, you are going to have to learn to accept the struggle as part of the recipe. Every single day you need to look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what am I?

willing to do to get what I want. And if the answer is, whatever the fuck I have to, you'll get there in time. And most people will give up. But you've got to decide that I'm going to be ridiculous. 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 dictate it. 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. Go on 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. The emotions don't win championships. 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 you are afraid of math. Go after it. Go get it. Don't run for me no more. Go get it. You go in there. Go in there. Go go in there. You go get that grade. You go in there and get that information so you can pass that class. You got to go get it.

You're setting the example every single day of your life. You have to constantly owe that motherfuckin' machine. The machine is your mind. You got to keep challenging it every day. The price of regret is much heavier than the price of discipline. You never want to wake up one day, one week, one month, one year down the road and go, man, I wish I would have listened to my gut. I wish I would have done this thing.

You don't want to live in regret. If there's something you want to get done and work, your relationships, school, whatever it is, do it. Life is one big head game. And once you learn to play the motherfucking head game, it's no longer a game anymore at all. You can start living your life.