Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - DON'T MAKE EXCUSES

Episode Date: March 27, 2023

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There is not a day that I get out of bed. There is not a fucking day that I wake up that I don't feel like going back to sleep or that I don't have anxiety about what my day is going to bring. And I'm nervous and I'm scared. And I'm like, all right, what do I got to handle the day? And you know what I do? I wake up and I go handle it. Ideas are dime a dozen.

People say, oh, I got a great idea. Everybody's got a great idea. The real question is, can you execute? Can you get yourself to follow through? That's the only way that you're going to expand. Making a freaking plan is the easy part. And you have to understand if you don't execute on the plan, if you don't get up in the morning when you're feeling tired, scared,

if you don't execute, you're not just cheating yourself, dude. You're cheating your family. You're cheating your employees. You're cheating your team. Whatever you're a part of. It's bigger than you, man. Many of you have given control of your life to your feeling. you've got to take back control right now.

You must harden your fucking mind. You got to discipline yourself. When it's time to rise, you fucking rise. When it's time to work, you fucking work. Regardless of how you feel, you've got to execute on your mission. You don't give yourself the option to take it easy. You don't make excuses. You don't blame anything, any person, because this is your life.

You're the one who's responsible. Do you think Michael Jordan was interested in just being a basketball player? You think Kobe Bryant was just interested in winning championships? You think Tom Brady is just interested in being an NFL quarterback? Your mindset has to change right now. Interested is a fucking hobby. That's what interested is. That means you can't make a decision.

If you want to win, you want what's next, you can't be interested. You have to be obsessed. Winners don't cut corners. Winners don't avoid problems. Winners don't make excuses. Winners do whatever the fuck they've got to do to be a winner. Don't wait till tomorrow, because tomorrow may never come. Start today, start now.

Start being who you're supposed to be and doing what you're supposed to do now. Time is running out on you. There are only 86,400 seconds in a day. And you've got to not only operate in them, you've got to do it fast. You have to quit being so casual. You've got to work like your life depends on it because it does. Things just don't go your way. That's not the way the world works.

You got to make them go your way. You think things are going to just go your way? Well, they're not going to just go your way. You think things are going to just happen for you? Well, they're not just going to happen for you. You've got to make them happen. Guess what? That's the way life is.

You don't have enough time. You got to make time. It's not just going to happen. You got to make it happen. Go make things happen. Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort and intelligent execution,

it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. When you said, I'm all in, will you really all in? Let me tell you what the cost of being all in is. Early mornings, late nights, being misunderstood, having very few friends, being your own chairleader, are you those things? People always talk about, oh, you know, you got to work smarter and not harder.

No, you got to work smarter and you got to work harder. There's no shortcuts, no hacks, it's hard work, determination, and grit. Stop looking for the easy ways and start believing in the process. You want to win? Make movement. Move forward. Go fucking execute. Go fucking work. Because it's not in the dreaming. It's in the doing. If you stay in bed, if you stay on the couch, if you stay in your comfort zone, if you only do what is easy, your life will be hard. But if you do what is hard, if you get up, if you grind, if you are relentless, if you work,

as hard as possible when other people are slacking off, your life will be easy. If you are willing to take the harder way, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes, the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory, then you will not regret it. Whatever you choose for a career path, remember, the struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.