Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - GET UP AND MAKE IT HAPPEN

Episode Date: December 15, 2022

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by Jocko Willink, Eric Thomas, TD Jakes. You can see more of Jocko Willink at instagram.com/jockowillink, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher. The music is Desolation by Tom Player. You can see more of Tom Player at soundcloud.com/tomplayerofficial.

Most things that never get done, never get done because they never get started. You wait, and wait and wait and wait, and you wait so long that the thing doesn't even matter anymore. And the days turn to weeks, and the weeks turn to months, and the months turn to years. Years of mediocrity is what causes people to be bitter. If you want to get around bitter and complaining people, get around people who are not seeing much activity. They're bitter. They're complaining, they're cynical, and they're jealous because nothing is happening. Because nothing is going on in their life.

And if you want to stop that from happening to you, wake up in the bed and know what you're going out to get up out of the bed with an agenda. When you have an agenda, you don't spend time worrying about how you feel because it doesn't make any difference how you feel. You woke up with something to do. Because if you don't start changing your attitude, you will miss your altitude. The problem is not the conditions. It's a discipline. There is no shortcut to excellence. And your problem is you're not intentional and deliberate.

You wake up on Monday, you might be strong, but by Wednesday, you're not intentional and deliberate. You are hoping that the best is going to happen to you, and the best never happens to you. Know what you're going out. To be clear about your direction. Don't wake up in the morning and see if something's going to happen. Wake up in the morning to make something happen. Get up out of the bed with an agenda.

You've got to decide that you're going to do something, and you've got to do something. and you got to do it every Monday, every Tuesday, every Wednesday, every Thursday, every Thursday. The problem is something in this room, you're a good purchase that just hope the good stuff is going to happen to you. If dreams were easy, everybody will make them happen. The problem is that most people, they can't get up in the morning, they ain't got no energy. Some stuff is just, you got to be powerful. You wake up, take you three weeks to do what it can take 24 hours to do. It don't make you a bad person, but you're going forever be average because to be great, you got to keep up.

Take full ownership of your time, of your time, of your own. mind of your day. It is the struggle. It is the wrestling. It is the pulling. It is the trial. It is the temptation. It is the stumbling and falling and getting back up again. It is the aggravation and the intimidation that gives you foundation. It is worth it to look bad for a little while and come up looking good for a lifetime. Then to look good for a minute and come down in a flash. I've got to get some discipline. I've got to go through some struggle. I got to go through some heartache, but I'm working on something. And what I'm working on in can't be instant. What I'm working on has got to be able to stand some stuff. I learn in the doing. I learn in the struggling. My strength

tolerance increases. My ability to handle pain increases. My wisdom increases. My ability to deal with haters increasing. I'm tougher now. I'm stronger now. I'm strong. Stronger now, I got more fight, got more fire. It's not just the mechanical influence of robotically doing. It is just that as you go to do it, you learn things about yourself that you didn't know. You learned how to go through aggravation and heartache. You learn how to deal with obstacles and situations. It is the process that gives you the power.

And I'm telling you, you have not given yourself a enough credit to say I just need to get up a half hour early and my whole life will change. I just need to get up one hour early. I just need to work one hour longer. I need to stop hitting that smooth button. If you would make that one change, that one sacrifice, you would stop dreaming and start living. What do you want in your marriage? What do you want in your health? What do you want financially? How much money do you want to make a year? What do you want to try? How do you want to live? Stop just waking up like an accident. What do you want? And then once you Find out what you want.

Spend the rest of your natural life. Waking up and going after it.