Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - I WILL NOT SURRENDER

Episode Date: September 12, 2022

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by TD Jakes, Les Brown, Eric Thomas, Walter Bond. You can see more of TD Jakes at instagram.com/bishopjakes, Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher, Walter Bond at instagram.com/walter_bond. The music is In The End by 2WEI. You can see more of 2WEI at twitter.com/2weimusic.

There are moments in your life that you feel overwhelmed by life, by people, by your own issues, by your own circumstances, by demands, by struggles. You're going to fail and you're going to be in your head. You can be saying, I'm not good enough. Life has a way of humbling you. Life will make you shut up. Life will mute you. shut you down because all of us if you live long enough will go through a period of feeling so overwhelmed that you think of one more thing if the phone rings one more time

if I get another text if I get another email and I'll sort of lady you feel oh God just get me out of this at times you won't want to come out of the house at times you'll be feeling bad and don't know why I was wrong I don't know just leave me alone

Why did that happen? I don't know. It's called life. And you have to deal with it. Don't you give up on your dream. Don't you do it. Don't you do it. Don't you do it.

Don't you quit. The part of beginning to get unstuck, you've got to decide that the behavior pattern that you have adopted doesn't work for you. You've got to change your strategies. And changing your strategy means reinventing your life, recreating you. and you have the power to do that.

You want to take responsibility for your life. You can decide that you're going to change, that you're not going to be a whim. I got me here, I can get me out of this, and I'm getting out. I'm not going to be a volunteer victim. You can decide that you're going to stand up to life. You can permit it to let it hold you down,

or you can decide I'm not going to let that happen to me. I'm bigger than this. You can decide that I'm going to live, day as if it were my last. You can decide I'm going to work on myself and develop myself. I'm going to empower me and all of these things that are happening to me right now. They're just temporary inconveniences. They're not stronger than I am.

I'm in charge here. I am not phenomenally skilled, but phenomenally will. I will not give up. I will not surrender. I will not quit. It is a phenomenal will that says every time I get you, I will not give you. knock down, I will get back up and I will succeed. I will not surrender. I need you to match whatever effort the enemy is putting up. Whoever your enemy is master doggone efforts. The only thing

you got as a man, your character, your integrity and what you stand up, what you say, what you say, what it means to you. If there's any fear in your spirit right now, it ain't for you, they're sh** for warriors, man. This shit for soldiers, man. To him who much is given, much is required. build anything that won't bring a battle and if you're going through a battle right now it's only because you're building something your pain ain't permanent it might last for a second in my last for a minute in my last for an hour in my last for a week it might last for months but sooner or later if you do not surrender if you do not give up if you do not give in it will subsides you can talk like a victim you can act like a

victim or you could be a victor and you can say that despite the odds. I will defy the odds. What will you do with your pain? Will you let it break you or will you let it redefine? You've got to continue to work on yourself personally. You've got to decide to be relentless. You've got to decide never to give up. You've got to find some reasons within yourself that will give you the stamina when life catches you on the blind side to get back up again, to keep on calling and coming back again and again. You're going to quit or you're going to make it to yourself? You're going to quit? or you're going to make it to your goal.

Because life is a fight. It's a fight for integrity. It's a fight for character. It's a fight for a good reputation. Your goals, your dreams, your ambitions, because they don't give you those things when you're born. So every morning, I've got to wake up and I've got to fight. I got to fight for my dreams.

I got to fight for character. I got a fight for integrity. But to win fights, you got to have stamina. You got to be ready to fight and bounce back. Barts and counterpunch. jab and jab back. You better not feel sorry for yourself. You better not lay down and quit.

You better get up and fight. Because a happy spirit does a body good like mess. Shark are hundreds and predators. They never stop swimming. In fact, if a shark stops 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. 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. You got to chase it like a man. You got to go get it. And that's how you get to the next level.

You have to be disciplined every single day and train yourself to follow through on all your fundamentals. And that's how you're going to be successful. You have to do it when you don't feel like it. You have to do it when you feel discouraged. You have to do it when you don't feel healthy. You have to do it when you're under the weather. Every single day, you have to train yourself to focus and commit to your business and follow through. And don't you quit?

Until you win.