Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - GRIND HARDER

Episode Date: May 29, 2026

Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — Grind so hard in the dark that when the world finally sees your hand raised, they mistake your sacrifice for talent. Spoken by: Eric Thomas instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher Andy Frisella instagram.com/andyfrisella Andy Elliot instagram.com/officialandyelliott Ed Mylett instagram.com/edmylett Music: Louis Viallet - Adrenaline (Ben Lionel Scott Remix) Louis Viallet Really Slow Motion - The 25th Hour (Ben Lionel Scott Remix) Really Slow Motion facebook.com/ReallySlowMotion

How bad do you want it? How bad do you want it? Some people just want a little success, but some people want to dominate. You got to get to the point where it hurts. You got to want it as bad as you want to breathe. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

And you can go further than you think. You in three and you got six gears. But you're accustomed to three, you're accustomed to four. I challenge you to push it to all the gears you got. There's another level to this thing, and I'm not afraid to go get it. I am most focused on the expansion of my being. Yes, I want to be the best. I'm all about winning. I hate losing.

I want to give everything that I have. I want to see how far I can go. I want to see what I can accomplish. I want to see what I can do, what I can be, what I can have. I want to see. I want to see what my life would look like if I didn't count the cause, and if I was willing to go further than anybody else was willing to do, push.

Your dream counted me for you. Push, push hard. Find something hard, push yourself, go dark. Don't think about anything else except for this is you versus you. It's the choices you make on every thread, every set when the pain sends a load, you say goodbye. What are you doing? How bad do you want it? Are you already seeing yourself stronger from it?

Before you enter it, it must be that way. Our lives are made from the decisions we've made on the moment-to-moment basis. Champions are never open up and born into success. They're created, they're mature, they're struggled, then whether through that effort of hard work and dedication and sacrifice to achieve that championship status. It's these moments, these decisions we make on daily basis, do we get up early and go for a run, do we hit the snooze button, do we go that extra rep in the gym, and our bodies dying, do we push past that? All these little things are the inches that add up to be the measure of difference between first place and forever forgotten. Those inches you need to be number one then, or around the other things. are around us every single day.

It's not a bad break, it's not the ref making a bad call. It's that you get up that day and do those little tiny things, a little details, a little nuggets of life. That's what adds up to be the difference. By doing this, every day, repetitively, those are the measures that lead to the big moments of success that every sees in life. No one sees the struggle, no one sees a hardship,

the early mornings you get up, no one sees any of that. They just see if your hands raised or not. And if it is, oh, what a great guy. I wish I could be that. I wish I could be that guy. But they're not clapping, wishing they could be you at 5 in the morning when you get at bed when it's the rain outside to come and train for that hand to be raised. They don't want to be that guy.

They just want the glory. You faking it, you want the job but not the responsibility to job. You want the reward but not the responsibility. You want the money but you don't want the responsibility. You want the love. You want your name and light, but you ain't willing to work in the dark. You can't have what people who work in the dirt have. You can't have it.

And that's the differential of a champion. Losers talk about hating to lose. Losers say they hate to lose. Losers talk about how they want to win. While the winners just do the work. And that means beating the next guy. It means being better than the next guy. It means dominating the next guy no matter what it takes.

You know what's great about our culture, y'all? The world's lazy. It's a good thing for you and me. Nobody wants to do it. Everybody will talk about it. Everybody will post about it. but nobody wants to roll up their sleeves and just go get it. Winners want to be the best.

Winters have pride in being the best. Winters have pride in being dominant. To be great, all you got to do is just a little bit more than the next person is willing to do. One more push-up than the next man. One more free throw than the next man's willing to date. That's all you got to do. I'm talking about beast mode.

I want you to come out. No plan. I want you trying to do something like y'all. They never done before. I just want you to run the score up. Just run the door and score up, have them looking like shoot. There's no way we can come back. It's about creating a new normal.

What you used to do ain't good enough no more. How you used to act ain't good enough no more. The efforts you used to give, that ain't good enough no more. I'm telling you to take what you have what's already in your head and perfect it. Take it to a whole level. It's not a one-day deal. It's the rest of your life deal. You make the decision to level up every single day for the rest of your life.

your life. Is anybody ready to grind through a trial, anybody ready to grind through a challenge, anybody ready to grind through anything so you can make your dreams become a reality? Does anybody want to succeed as bad as they want to breathe? If you want your life to go to a home of the level, you got to get past strength and you got to go to will. When you go past hungry, when you go past hurt, when you go past embarrassment, when you go past what people think about you, you got to get in the zone. You got to learn how to run that even when you hurt, when you're going to When your body is telling you to quit, when your body is telling you to stop, you gotta get to the point when you get behind your strength. And now you're going to your wheel, because everybody stops when they get tired.

Everybody stops when that mind tells them your legs are tired. But you tell your legs, you don't run me. You tell your arms, you don't run me. You tell your mind kick your head, keep going. I need 120% because if you put 4th 120, you're going to get 120 back. You put 4th 120, you get 120. Because every time you put in work, you get the same consequences. You get paid.

You get rewarded. The fruit of everything good in life begins with a challenge. Everything is a pill that's worthwhile. And there's not going to come to you, and it's not going to fall in your lap. And it's not going to be something that, oh, my gosh, it just was so simple. It's always going to be difficult. You need a while. Why do you need a while?

Because some days you're going to look at that alarm clock, And you're gonna say I don't wanna get up, but that Y's gonna say I'll push yourself, get up. Your mama needs you, your daddy needs you, your children need you, get up. Your Wye's gonna push you when you can't push yourself. When you wanna quit and give up, your Wye's gonna give you that edge you need,

that advantage you need, that lift that you need to get to the next level. Your Wai! But your Wai does for you and said, you can't quit, who can't give up, you can't stop. If there's no money you make up something, you're gonna print it. If nobody's giving you an opportunity,

creates. Your goals are going to push you. Your dreams are going to push you. The opportunity of a lifetime is going to drive you. You will study as long as it takes. You won't go to sleep until you have the knowledge that it takes to do what you're able to do. If you do what is easy, your life will be hard. If you do what is easy, complain about your situation and your circumstances. Stand around and be a volunteer victim like everybody else. Surrender and give up on your dreams. Become depressed and bitter and angry. Anybody can do that. If you do what is easy, your life will be hard.

But if you do what is hard, keep coming back again and again and again. Get up dressed every day, knowing some way, somehow, with a spirit of expectation, I can do this. If you do that over and over and over again, your life will be easy. You have to literally visualize the connection between what you're doing. on a day by day basis with what you're wanting. What do you want yourself to look like 10 years from now? What do you want your bank account to look like? What do you want to look like physically six months from now or a year from now?

You have to connect the dots. You have to remind yourself that these little things that you do are going to lead to the big things. If you think that you've given everything, you really haven't. If you think you're working hard, you're not working hard enough. You can always do more. You always have another gear, another level of performance. You can always push a little bit harder, get up a little earlier, work a little longer.

Whatever it is you want more of, you have complete control over whether you get it or not. That's why I'm successful. I got that dog. After 20 years of doing it, I still got that dog. And with that dog, I execute sharks are hundreds, and predated it. They never stop swimming.

In fact, if a shark stop swimming, swimming, it will die. If a shark goes backwards, it will die. Think like a shark, act like a shark, and behave like a shark. In order for you to rise up, you're going to take your game to the next level. Your mindset needs to go to the next level. Your information needs to go to the next level. I'm going to think.

I'm going to execute and I'm going to win. I'm going to execute what I've been trained to do. And that's how you get to the next level. Wins don't shock winners. They aren't amazed when they got a win any more than Michael Jordan was amazed when he hit a game winning shot. That's what he expected. That's what we focused on.

That's what we acted to do. That's what we worked to do. And because of all those things, we expect to win every time. True winners, they never lose focus. They always focus on the goal. They always focus on the process. And they always focus on being the absolute best that they can. The greatest of all time, the Tom Brady's, the Michael Jordans, the Kobe Bryant's of the world.

They might celebrate hard, but they don't celebrate long. Come Monday, come the next morning, they're back at it. They're focused, they're undistracted, they're driven, they're enjoying their progress, they're enjoying their wins, but they're not over celebrating them. And that's the attitude you have to have toward a single victory if you want to make it a lifestyle and a lifetime of winning. You know,