Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - DON'T EVER GIVE UP

Episode Date: March 13, 2023

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by Rich Wilkerson Jr, Les Brown, David Goggins. You can see more of Rich Wilkerson Jr at twitter.com/richwilkersonjr, Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, David Goggins at instagram.com/davidgoggins. The music is To The Gallows by Secession Studios. You can see more of Secession Studios at thesecession.bandcamp.com.

Life is not always easy. There are times when it feels like everything is going against us, when we face obstacles that seem insurmountable, and when we feel like giving up. This is harder than I thought. Hard! That must mean it's bad. No.

Every time you face disappointment, you face heartache, you face defeat, you face It's preparing you for what this world has in store for you. Life is not done with you. You're only just getting started. The challenges you have right now, they're there to push the greatness that is inside of you out. And as much as I hate some of the parts of my life depression has dragged me down to. In a lot of ways, I'm grateful for it. Because, yeah, it's put me in the valleys, but only to show me there's peaks.

And yeah, it's dragged me through the dark. but only to remind me there is light. My hurts forced me to have hope. Have hope and to have faith, faith in myself. So don't ever give up. Don't ever quit. Pressure has a point. Pressure has a purpose.

See, most people suffer from possibility blindness. They can't see themselves doing better because they've been conditioned by the world around them. Most people give up on themselves easily. You know the human spirit is possible. Powerful, there's nothing as powerful. It's hard to kill the human spirit. That when you have a made-up mind, you don't care about the facts.

You don't care about the odds. Because you are creating your own production. You are the star of your show. You are the director. You're writing the script. And you will determine whether your life is a smash office hit or flop. You determine that. Working on yourself, talking to yourself.

That's so very important. overcoming the negative conversation that inner dialogue that's going on all the time, all the time. And so learning how to empower yourself, part of doing that is standing up to yourself. You've got to stand up inside yourself sometimes and say, shut up! I'm in control here.

You've got to do this. I was going to give a presentation. And this voice inside of me saying, you can't do this, you don't have everything it takes. I shut up. I have got to do it. The power. to hold on in spite of everything, the power to endure, the hunger, the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up.

This is a winner's quality. You have that quality within you. When you come up against that thing that tries to break you, when it knocks you down on the canvas, you got to tell it, I will break you before you break me. You will not defeat me. I will take everything bad that happens in my life, and I will use that pain to push me to greatness. I refuse to be denied. You've got to believe when no one else does. No one believed in me.

I believed in myself. Belief came for me was going through those hell weeks, taping those legs up, getting up early in the morning, by myself, no coach, getting myself up, motivating myself every single day. And no one's there saying, come on, David, I'm forming belief. So when those hard times come, I know exactly how to get through them. The heart of the battle, the sweet of the victory. It's good to you.

What? See, when it's hard and there's a struggle, What you become in the process is more important in the dream. That's far more important. The kind of person you become, the character that you build, the courage that you develop, the faith that you're manifesting. Oh, it's something that you get up in the morning and you look yourself in the mirror, you're a different kind of person. You walk with a different kind of spirit. You can get through this.

You can survive this. You can outlast this. You can handle this. You've got to push yourself to your limits. That's when you grow. You have the strength to pick yourself up and keep fighting through the darkness. And when you keep fighting through it, you'll reach the light, and that light will make every bit of the dark worth it.

Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.