Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - DO WHAT SUCKS

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

This episode is/was in early access for members from Sun, 10 Aug 2025 until Mon, 25 Aug 2025. Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — Do something that sucks every day. The more you do that, the stronger you get, the easier your life will be. Spoken by: Les Brown instagram.com/thelesbrown Brendon Burchard twitter.com/BrendonBurchard Andy Elliot instagram.com/officialandyelliott Andy Frisella instagram.com/andyfrisella Music: 2WEI - Run Baby Run (Rok Nardin Remix) 2WEI twitter.com/2weimusic

It's hard. It's hard living your dream. It's hard changing your life. It's not easy reaching your goal. There are times when you're looking at it and you say, I know I need to do this, but I don't feel like it. I don't want to do it. See, most people want it easy. Easy come, easy go.

It's easy to be on the bottom. It doesn't take any effort to be a loser. Doesn't take any motivation, any drives. In order to stay down there on a low level. But it calls on everything in you. You have to harness your will to say, I'm going to challenge myself. Because when we seek the low road,

when we seek the easy road, when we decide to go through life, evading or avoiding things because they're hard, that's when we are really evading our own greatness. See, you cannot discover yourself. You cannot discover the greatness that you have within you. You cannot begin to expose. yourself to new parts of yourself of talents and skills and abilities you have

going through life trying to make it by easily you can't learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse it won't happen like that airplane has to have resistance of the air in order to fly so in order for us to begin to do what we need to do we need to embrace the fact that it's hard not avoid it you got to fortify yourself and say come on with it I've got to step into it every freaking day of your life, live uncomfortable, run to pressure. Every single thing in your life that's hard, run to it, get in it. Test yourself, that looks hard. Good, go get in it. This is an opportunity for me to grow. If you never step out of your comfort zone, you're going to be very uncomfortable

later. You're going to have a hard life at some point. Some of you guys, you're like, dude, I ain't willing to do that right now. Cool. Someone else less talented than you is going to do it. and then you're going to look up in two years and you're going to wish you to have done it. Everything that you want and need in your life is always going to be on the other side of being uncomfortable. I need you to fall in love with being uncomfortable. Because the process of getting better at what it is that you do is painful. It's excruciating. And there's a reason why there is the phrase,

growing pains. Losers want to be coddled. They want to be comfortable so it doesn't ruffle their little delicate fethers. Winners, they're able to push their personal feelings aside. They say, you know what, so be it. I don't care. They want to be pushed and put through the pain because they know that going through that pain is going to produce the best possible product in themselves. They want results. And so the question is, are your feelings so delicate and so sensitive that you're going to let you getting your little feelings hurt, get in the way of becoming what it is you wish to become? Or do you say, you know what? My feelings.

If there's no pain, there's no fucking gain. You have to embrace the suck. When it sucks, embrace it. It's hard. Good. That's part of it. Like, yeah, this sucks. What, it makes us awesome.

Let's dig in. Let's get better. Let's skill up. Let's use this to build our character, our strengths, our skills, our ability to win in the future. So all the things that suck right now. You're like, oh my God, I can't figure this out. It's going to make you better. Honor it.

Your next level of success, that's what builds your character. But you don't get to it without the struggle. Stop bemoaning the struggle and celebrating something you endure, you engage with, you persevere for. Successful people, they love the problem. process of hardship. They don't complain about it. Listen to your complaints. Our culture is dominated by complaint right now. Be the problem solver, the solution builder, be the leader, be the person who takes us to another level. That's your job. I'm no longer a complainer. I challenge myself to go. You can't even go back. Because you hear yourself complain. You're like, no, no, no,

that's the small part of me. The big part of me builds. Good shit takes work. And the hardest things in life are also the most rewarding. So every time you get thought of how you want to achieve this great thing or do this great thing, do you are selling yourself short of that experience that will ultimately dim the quality of your life for your entire existence. I'm angry. I want it all, man. How are you going to get? I'm willing to work for it. So therefore, I demand to get it. And I want harder and harder and harder for once in your life. Has some ownership, some credibility behind your actions and your words. Mean what you say.

Do what you say. Follow through for something for one time in your life. One time, follow through in what you say. You will feel a high that you've never thought before. When you follow through

of things in life, guys, you achieve the confidence, the mentality that anything's possible. Focus on your action because that's what matters. Not your talk, not your doubts.

It's all about what you do. If you do what is easy, your life will leave. hard, but if you do what is hard, your life will be easy. Let your fucking actions do to talk. Build the life that you actually want. Go after the shit that you actually want. Reletlessly.

Take pride in doing the hard shit nobody else will do. Take pride at working out in the elements when no one else is fucking willing to do that. It doesn't just happen. You have to fucking make it happen. So stop talking about how I'm thinking about doing it, but I don't know. No, you have the ability to do that. do it and you have to prove to yourself that you can do hard things. So what better opportunity and what fresher start do you have than right now?