Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - I MUST NOT GIVE UP

Episode Date: November 15, 2023

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — Life's toughest trials reveal true character. Embrace hardship, find strength within, and push through adversity without giving up, to transform and triumph. Spoken by Steve Harvey, Robin Sharma, Eric Thomas. You can see more of Steve Harvey at instagram.com/iamsteveharveytv, Robin Sharma at instagram.com/robinsharma, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher. The music is See What I've Become by Zack Hemsey. You can see more of Zack Hemsey at facebook.com/zackhemseymusic.

In your life's journey, there will come times that put your spirit to the ultimate test. You'll be tempted to break, to let go, to descend into madness. You'll feel isolated in the hardest of trials. And what you choose to do in solitude is your only companion. That's where true learning happens. It's in the silent moments. When you're all alone, where your response to life's chance, challenges truly shapes you.

The true measure of your character isn't taken when life is easy and all is going well. But rather at those moments when you're faced with trials and storms, when everything goes dark for you. The thing is about darkness, though, is most people freak out when things get dark. When they're in the dark and can't see, they start panicking and don't know what to do or where to go. But what you need to do is be willing to sit patiently in that darkness, assess what's happening, and become used to the challenge of that darkness. If you do that, your eyes will begin to adjust to the dark, and you will see exactly the way you should go to make progress. You've got to become comfortable with the pain. Stare it straight in the face.

Don't run from it anymore. Stand still and let it run from you. When things go wrong, when you run out of money, you're going to run. when things don't work out for you when the people you care about leave you what keeps you going if all you're doing it for is a house or a car that can stop you you'll give in so quickly but when you're doing it because of something within you is burning to do it when you're doing it for the people you love when you're doing it for your family when you're doing it for the pride of who you are no mountain no trial no

tribulation can stop you you cannot be broken anymore. Strength is easy when untested, but it's when adversity strikes. When you're hit hard by loss, ailment, injustice, it's in these times that your spirit is refined, no matter how rocky the path. It's nothing but a journey to a greater version of yourself. You can't reach new heights without the climb. You can't enjoy the sunshine without enduring the storm. No one's coming to save you, but you can save yourself. You can pull yourself out of the sewer of life. Anything you focus your mind on, you have the ability to change.

You don't like the way your life is going. You're the only one who can change it. You don't have to be an alcoholic. You don't have to be a failure. You don't have to be anything. You don't want to be if you just decide within yourself to change your mind. When it feels like everything is working. against you, that is your greatest moment to show the whole world what you're capable of doing.

This is the time you present your tenacity, your endurance, your strength to the world. I don't care who you are. I don't care what position you're in. I don't care what it looks like to people. You can come back again. You're not done. You got to stand up for yourself. You may be embarrassed, but stand up. You may feel like crying, but stand up. You may feel like it's all over already, but stand up. You may not see a way out of all this mess, but stand up. The more you fight, the more you keep coming back, the more you'll realize how much energy, how much resourcefulness, how much power you have left in you. You don't judge your entire life based on your current circumstances. Your current circumstances are temporary.

You will not be where you are now for the rest of your life. Things will get better. And you've got to keep in the back of your mind at all times. No matter what I go through, I must not go. Give up. Expect me to come back. I don't know how long it'll take, but expect me to come back. I don't know what I'll have to go through.

But expect me to come back. I don't know what I'm going to lose along the way, but expect me to come back. It's the chaos of the time that creates a conqueror in the person. Those exceptional people who are uncomfortable with what's happening to them and rise to the challenge because they refuse to allow the chaos around them to determine. the conqueror within them. People who resist the toe to go down and stand fiercely in spite of opposition

and say, I'm going to do it anyway. Do you not know that where you are will pass? What you're worried about will pass. One day you're going to look back and laugh at the thing that kept you up all night. One day, you'll see that it was not nearly as major as you thought it was. There's more in you right now

than what's represented in your bank account. There's more in you right now that's being reflected by your life, Now, your life at this time isn't a true reflection of your potential. You are a walking gold mine of talents, abilities, ideas. Do you ever dream of doing something like starting your own business? Mastering a skill? That's the real you knocking on the door of your mind, hinting that there's so much more to dig into.

Your life right now might be on one level, but you've got so many more levels of potential stacked up inside you, ready to be unlocked. You've got to be cautious and careful of the voice going on inside your head. You've got to constantly monitor that internal dialogue. Whenever you feel a negative tone of voice playing in your head, I want you to shut it down and reinforce your brain with positivity, telling yourself, I got what it takes. Today is my day.

I'm going to make it. I'm going to do it. And nothing will stand in my way. I have enough power. I have enough persistence. have enough perseverance to make it happen. The things you're saying to yourself determine whether you win or lose, what you say to yourself has all the world to do with how far you can go. Your attitude determines your aptitude. What you feed your mind will either be the fuel for

your success or the poison for your failure. Your attitude isn't just a small player in the game of life. It's the fucking coach, the quarterback, and the crowd that's either cheering you on or booing you down, shaping how high you can clean. or how flat you can fall. If you believe you're a winner, your actions will align to that belief. If you tell yourself you can overcome, your brain starts working overtime to make that a reality. Where focus goes, energy flows. So if you're telling yourself that there is a way through this, you will look for solutions.

But if you believe you're doomed, you'll only see roadblocks. Every time you catch yourself slipping into negativity, shut that down. Replace I can't with I will. I might with I must. I hope with I know. Your words are a self-fulfilling prophecy. So speak victory, speak courage, speak success. When life hits you, don't back down.

Buck back. Life's not always going to go easy on you. It will strip you to your core and test you on every level. The amount of pressure it'll pile on you will try to destroy you. Do not allow that. This is no time to lose your head. This is no time to quit. This is no time to faint.

This is no time to collapse. This is no time to give in. Decide within you that I will get something out of this pain. I'm going to push through it. I'm going to push through when it gets tough. I'm going to push through when I get tired. I'm going to push through when it's not convenient. I'm going to push through when my heart is broken.

I'm going to push through when I get rejected. I'm going to push through when I'm broke. No matter what happens to me, I am going to push through. I am going to push through it. That means that you might have been kicked, you might have been shoved, and might have been shot, but you're still standing ready to fight whatever comes at you. Getting successful, it's not a magic trick. You have a say-so in that.

You can decide to be rich. But you first have to think it. The difference between successful people and non-successful people is here. you have to change this. If you keep doing what you've been doing, you're going to keep getting what you've been getting. So if you're in a place in your life and you ain't happy with it, you have to change some things.

But you have to make a conscientious decision that you're going to change. And it's not dependent on anybody else. It don't matter what your mama think. It don't matter what your coworkers think. It don't matter what your siblings think. It don't matter what your children think. It don't matter. They have nothing to do with it.

This decision is yours and yours alone. Never let anybody tell you that you can't. A lot of time as a leader, a lot of time as a business builder, a lot of time as a craftsperson. We will have an idea for a business or a product where the rest of the world says that's impossible. And we have to be coming from a place from within where our

I can is larger than our I can. You absolutely must do the interior work required when you have these fiery levels of confidence where when the world is saying, you know what, I dismiss your vision. Well, that is impossible. You have to be that lone

voice who goes, no, you know what? It is possible. And just watch me do it. I am not going to allow anything to shake me. I'm not going to allow anything to stop me. I'm not going to allow anything to stop my happiness and my growth. You've got to live beyond reality. Even before you do it, see yourself doing it. Even before you accomplish it, see yourself accomplishing it. Your perception is everything, not just circumstances, not just situation. It's how you see it. And if you can learn to

see it correctly, if you can learn to just get past the pain, get past the little hurt, and you can learn to see it properly, I guarantee you could be what you want to be. You can have what you want to have. You can do what you want to do.