Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - DON'T GIVE IN

Episode Date: September 18, 2022

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by Jocko Willink, Les Brown, David Goggins, Eric Thomas. You can see more of Jocko Willink at instagram.com/jockowillink, Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, David Goggins at instagram.com/davidgoggins, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher. The music is Tangled Earth by Audiomachine. You can see more of Audiomachine at twitter.com/audiomachine.

The sun doesn't shine every day. The storms will come. There are times when the nights will be long and dark and you will be alone. There will be times when the darkness seems to consume everything. But don't let it consume you. Even in the darkest times, even in the strongest storms, even when the sun is blotted out in the world, is falling apart, the darkness cannot extinguish your light. You, your will, your determination,

no matter what is happening, no matter how hard the fight is, as long as you keep fighting, you win. Only surrender is defeat, only quitting is the end. When it just doesn't make any logical sense to go on, that's when you use your emotion, your anger, your frustration, your to push you to say I don't stop when your feelings are screaming that you have had enough override that emotion with concrete logic and willpower that says I don't stop life is one big tug of war and you don't win that tug of war by pushing the fucking road you have to pull that motherfucker and a lot of times you to pull yourself through life pull yourself out of bed pull yourself out of a funk pull yourself out of whatever the f f f f f f fift to gain

that conference. Everybody's got a fucking plan so they get in the fucking mouth. So when your plan fails, when you get knocked down on the fucking canvas, when everything falls apart in your life and your plan is fucked up, what the fuck is you going to do? There's only one motherfucking option. Stay fucking hard. Don't shape yourself around the comings and goings of this world. Don't shape your opinions and your attitudes around circumstances that you cannot change. Be not conform to this world, but be ye transform. When you get inspired, realize that person is made up of the same whatever it is as you. And the only difference is that person is the one who is thought just that little harder.

If we were all only made up of atoms, then why don't you become the stronger energy, the superior one? Can't you see we live off each other and it's the people that shine brightly who affect us positively? Stop waiting for others to do it first and break through and go do it yourself. Look at the thought. minute mile people thought it impossible and now every day people can achieve it if you want something you can get it only takes will to want and to be ambitious and to want to be successful is not enough that's just desire to know what you want to understand why you're doing it to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve if you feel you have something to

If you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for, then there's nothing you can't achieve. Life says game of inches. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. In any fight, it's the guy who's willing to die who's going to win that itch. And I know if I'm going to have any life anymore, it's because I'm still willing to fight. and die for that edge. It is not easy, but I'm not about to quit.

I'm not about to give up, and I'll do whatever it takes to maintain it. When living life, try new things. Jump, fall, fight, create love. Live extreme and push your boundaries. Why? Simply because there will be no other time for you to do this. You're going to die. You can't get out of life alive.

Live your life now. Live your dreams now. Start acting. This is your last day on the planet. I don't care how young or old you are. Age is a number and nothing more. And should be determined by experience. By what you have done and tested,

how many times you have pushed your limits and broken down. You can become whatever you want. It's you that has to want it. It has to fight for it. It doesn't matter about the money. Because when you truly love something, money is no object, it appears. When there's a will, there's a way.

When you truly need something, you can find a way. And you stop at nothing to reach it. But you've got to work on yourself. You've got to develop yourself, you've got to talk to yourself day in and day out, selling yourself on you and on your potentials. I'm coming out here at first. I'm going to get my head out. I'm going to get my thinking out. I'm going to get my mentality out.

As soon as you decide to stop looking for answers in other people and miracle somewhere down the Yellow Brick Road and click the heels of your mind, you could have been free years ago.