Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - HARDEN YOUR MIND

Episode Date: July 4, 2026

Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — The thousands of hours of hard work when no one's watching, when you're pushing yourself harder than anybody with no one around, that's what makes the will unstoppable. Spoken by: Andy Frisella instagram.com/andyfrisella David Goggins instagram.com/davidgoggins Andy Elliot instagram.com/officialandyelliott Greg Plitt instagram.com/gregplitt Jocko Willink instagram.com/jockowillink Music: Factor Eight - Life Is But A Dream Factor Eight Really Slow Motion - Breaker of Chains Really Slow Motion facebook.com/ReallySlowMotion

There is not a day that I get out of bed, 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 you know what I do? I wake up and I go handle it. You don't get better on the daggone couch. You get better by coming out here and getting after it every daggone day. Consistency. Oh, imagine that doing it every day?

What? You're saying I can't do it anymore? for two weeks and then quit? Most of you in here, you're quitters. You know why you're never going to make it? It's because you quit. I don't even need to beat you. You beat you.

You beat yourself. Nobody's ruining your life. Nobody's sabotaging you. You're being weak. Because I know there's so many people that have the ability and just refuse to get off that couch. Refuse to study a few more hours.

Refuse to go deeper. To go further. And that's... where I gained the advantage. It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most people don't want to go to that extra mile. Most people don't want to find that extra,

because it sucks. It's miserable. It's lonely. Everyone does a few wrecks when it burns starts, and they stop. No one goes the extra mile and keeps going. There are no traffic jams in the last mile of the race. It's just you and your shadow.

In the beginning, everybody's there. All the pretenders and the contenders. They're all there. But the last yard of life, the last mile of journey. Ain't nobody but you and your shadow. Traffic jams don't exist that far. Does everyone else start giving up? That's what I like too, the mental concept.

I'm going that far. I love the physical high of the burn being released. I love the mental high that I've improved myself. I love the mentality that I'm beating my competitors silently, where they don't even know it. They're out partying. I'm out here getting ahead. We get the 5.30 in the morning is pouring rain outside.

Our competition's sleeping. I love that. Late at night, man, Friday night. It was our party. I love that, huh? They're all there getting wasted, man. I'm in here getting stronger for it. They get a good night's sleep with wrestling nutrition.

I'm going to wake up. They're going to be hungover. I'm going to wake up kicking ass before they even know what hit him. I'm just thinking how funny it is where I'm going to be tomorrow morning in my competition. Still drinking down their fears and trying to escape their current reality. I'm working tonight. I'll laugh on how much further I'm getting headed in.

Choices we make, guys, that leads to the differential being remembered forgotten. There's no luck in this game. The luck happens after you bust your ass and you put yourself in that lucky situation. Luck doesn't happen. You put yourself in that situation where luck might nap. The secret is to make a plan, execute the plan, come assess with the plan and make it your entire life from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed for as long as it takes. Champions aren't found on the podium with their hand up. No. Champions are found in lab studies. The thousands of hours of hard work when no one's watching, when you're in here in no one else is. And you're pushing yourself harder than anybody with no one around.

That's what makes the will unstoppable. It's doing every dream of reality for you. People are far less talented than you, far less potential in you, far less ability to you, have achieved property because they had that one song when you can't buy out of her. An undying will. That's a day's made. I hear a day is called Monday. Those two days whence starts in Friday, Saturday, and suddenly I never heard of something

made it. Some day I'm going to make a change. And that sounds good when you're tired. That sounds good when you're worn out. I'm too tired to handle this. Everybody's tired. Every single great thing that you've ever looked at in your entire life was created by tired people.

Just keep that in mind. Man, I have done a lot today. I know I didn't finish exactly what I'm supposed to finish, but this could wait till until tomorrow. That's just your own weakness. Just put off getting things done. for one more day and one more day leads to another day and then it leads to another day and then it leads to a week and then it leads to a month and then it leads to years that a little

later time accumulates and accumulates and accumulates until we're to a point where the mountain's so big that you're demoralized by the mountain and then you lose this excuse this lie that we tell ourselves about things waiting until tomorrow will ultimately cost you everything you never start tomorrow, you always wait, and then you end up with a mountain so big you don't even want to climb and so what's the answer? It's to do it now. Action gets results. And if you take action right now, you are that much closer to the place that you're struggling

to be, the place that you're angry at yourself or not being, will come to fruition that much faster if you go now. So you cannot continue to tell yourself over and over and over and over and over and over again to wait because there is no better. time than now. If you do it now, the results happen faster. And that's what you're ultimately after. The quickest way to get to where you want to go is by taking action right now and continuing to take action and pushing through these lies about, I'm going to wait until tomorrow, so that you can make the result happen faster for yourself. Do you want this result to happen when you're

100 or do you want this result to happen a year from now? It's up to you. Is you being lazy? Stop being lazy. You're not bringing the heat? Bring the heat. You're not working late at night, work late at night. You're not going to the gym? Go to the gym. You're not working out hard at the gym? Put your phone down. Hammer that gym out. You need to tell yourself exactly what you need to hear. Quit walking around like, who's going to give me the next answer? You're the answer. You're the answer. You have the opportunity right now to be better, to step it up, to become more. I love the awesome thing, man.

And every day, I go to single little show from next week at this street. It will be able to that day. That's a great day. If I combined that with a seven-fice and a wing for them for a month, but for a year. No one's kept it. That was like in second place. Anybody can go to the gym when they feel like going to the gym.

Anybody could show up to work and give 100% when they're in the mood to do so. But what makes successful people successful is what they do when they do when they're, don't feel like it. I see people writing on my page, oh, Andy, I'm motivated, oh, I listen to your videos and I get hyped. That's great. And I'm glad that I can get you hyped for five minutes. But what do you do after the five minutes is over? What do you do after you walk out of the seminar that you just paid $1,000 to go to? What do you do when you wake up the next day? What do you do when you have to either do what it is you know you're supposed to do without somebody there to supervise you or you get to take the play off because no one's going to know

the difference. Those are the things that make up success. That's discipline. You have to do the things that you don't feel like doing because that is the thing that you actually need to do. Well, what about jet lag? And what if there's a time change? What if there's no good gym?

Don't care. Time change? Don't care. Jet lag, don't care. Don't have a good gym. Don't care. Just do. If you want to live as well as the one to two percent in the world,

if you want to have one of the best lives in the world, which is move on your terms, you have to pay your dues to get there. I can 1,000% guarantee you that how you feel about your life at the end of your time here is going to come down to your ability to cultivate discipline. What happens on the days that you don't feel like killing it? What happens on the days that you don't feel like getting out of bed? Because those are the days that are going to find where you end up in your life. The only way you're going to get the thing that's been running through your mind is if you outwork everybody and just rinse and repeat forever till the end.

If at the end of the day you want to achieve something that other people have not been able to achieve, you've got to be willing to do things that other people are not willing to do. Where other people bend and break, you've got to get stronger. where other people fall by the wayside, you've got to keep going. If you want to do something extraordinary, you've got to set the bar ridiculously high and then surpass all expectations. You've got to decide right now,

am I willing to fight every day? Am I willing to be called stupid or a dreamer or crazy by all my friends and family? Am I willing to deal with that sort of, life to get the life that I truly want. If the answer is yes, you're going to be good. You're going to fall on your face. You're going to be laughed at. But you've got to be humble enough to understand that that's part of the deal. You're going to look like a fool. Deal with you. You're going to struggle. Deal with me. You're going to have a hard fucking time understanding why everybody that you love

and respect doubts you. Deal with it. It's all part of the game. Life is of test. And you You could choose to crumble or you could choose to get stronger. Go to work and do your work. Don't just go to work when you feel like it. Go to work even when you're down and out. Even when you're not feeling it, still doing it every single day. Work on it every day. Is it that you're not where you're supposed to be

because you don't have what it takes? Are you not where you're supposed to be because you don't have the ability? Are you not where you're supposed to be? Because you don't have a talent. Are you not where you're supposed to be? Because you don't have the opportunity? No, no, no, no.

What it boiled down to what you're supposed to be because you have to be because you have the ability. Every single thing you beat is average. And yet you want to be great and you want to be phenomenal. Forget about it. I'm suggesting to you that if you want to be great, that you're the first in the class and you last on the league, beast mode.

I suggest that you study every single fame. You take every single new beast mode. You go to the training and you're listening and you're writing and you beast modes. I challenge you to make up the gap. I challenge you to go from average. I challenge you to go from good. from good. I challenge you to go from great and I challenge you to be phenomenal. I challenge you to live in Bismo because Bismo makes more money than average does. Periods.