Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - DO WHAT IS HARD

Episode Date: June 17, 2024

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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. 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. 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've 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 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 successful. You think because you put in 40 hours that you're supposed to get something because you put it in 40 It don't work like that in the school of hard knots They don't care how many hours you put They just want to see the execution

So you're 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 gotta get a little bit more intense about your life you gotta stop being so casual It's decisions we make to chase that best version of 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 got to 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've 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 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 going to do. You're going to get what you dream to get. Some days you wake up, you're in the move.

Some days you're not in the move. 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 when you're 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. Son, 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 is not applied to our priority. We will do it by getting focused, laser focus. This will be the year that you stop having stuff. You stop having sports. Have doing school. Have writing that book.

This will be the year. of execution and we'll do it one day at a time and you're gonna get control and when you get control over that one area you're gonna blow up in every air and then someday gonna be your day if you work for it if you willing to put in that sweat that blood and those tears I'm telling you you you can have what you won't be what you won't do what you won't it ain't nothing you can't have if you're willing to work for if you're willing to stick in there if you're willing to stay if you willing to fight it ain't nothing you can't have Discipline your body, free your mind. Get up early in 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.