Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - IT'S YOU AGAINST YOU

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

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I get frustrated with humans when somebody's late and they upset. I get frustrated with humans when somebody borrows money from you and they don't pay it back and you upset. I get upset with humans when you go out to eat and they don't bring your food out the way you want your food out. And you are so upset and you let them have it. But then you disappoint you and you don't let you have it. You give you a pass. You give you a pass. You are not where you're supposed to be financially and you gave yourself a pass.

You know you better than that. You know you should be further in life. You keep letting you slides. That thing that's holding you back, that thing that's dragging you down, that thing is you. Your biggest enemy is you. People don't understand is you against you. The only person that gets in your way is you. Nobody else.

It's you. I need you to confront you because you don't want holding you up. I need you to confront you. I need you to look in the mirror and tell you, you are not going to do me like this no more. You're not going to continue to sabotage. me, you're not. You're not going to keep procrastinating. I need you. You're not. You're not a loser. You've just made decisions that have created an environment that feels like it. Go look in the mirror. Take responsibility for where you are and admit to yourself that you are

because of decisions that you made, because there's weakness that you had, because of your lack of ability to do the hard things when things got hard. That's why you are where you are. And start right now fixing that. Start making better decisions right now. And before you know it, you'll be living a different life. The only person you could control is you. So focus on making yourself who you want to be. Discipline your body.

Get up early and go. Get after it and you'll become the person you want to be. And you become that person through one small decision at a time. Become the person who cannot. quit become the person who can say no to the things that they know they're supposed to say no to become the person who makes the right decision regardless of the circumstances regardless of the hardships regardless of the pain regardless of the frustration if you become that person you have no limits in your life there is no stopping that person you in three and you got

gears but you're accustomed to three you're accustomed to four I challenge you to push it to all the gear you not 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 don't want to see what I think I can do I don't want to see what I think is possible I want to see what my life would look like if I didn't count the cause if I had the mentality that you got to want it I'm going to try to be the best that I can be the strongest the fastest the smartest human beings that I can become better than I was yesterday, better than people thought I could be,

better than I thought I could be. When you cut this off, I want you to go look yourself in the mirror, I want you to vow. No more excuses. Like, from this day forward, I'm not going to be pumped up, I'm not just going to be fired up. I'm about to start applying.

Because listen to me very closely. The difference between people who talk about it and people who do it is one simple word, application, they hear it, and they don't just hear it. They digest it. And when they digest it, boom, they do something with it. I don't need you to learn a lot of stuff this year.

I don't need you to learn 40 things this year. If you can learn one thing, I'm talking about learn it. I'm talking about putting deep within it. Now you hear it. Not you read it. Not you see it. If you can give me one principle a month that you own, that becomes a part of who you are,

that changes how you think, that changes how you behave. If you could become an executor, if you can execute, you can do the unthinkable. You can make all your milestones. become a reality if it stop being a hobby you're doing it when you feel like it you're doing it when you get time you're doing it on your lunch break you're not serious you're not eating it you're not eating it

you're not dreaming it it's not hard your dreams at night i'm telling you right now there those of you you are going to do the unthinkable and you can shut it down you got shut the tv down you got shut certain people down you are minimizing right now and you need to optimize this is going to be a full commitment to creating the kind of person that can make the right decision even when it's the last thing they want to do. When they're tired, when they're sore, when they're hungry, when they're stressed, when they're frustrated, when they're angry, when the world is crashing down on their shoulders, they will still make the right decision. Your only solution is to become that kind of a person. Start today and in 365 days you will look at the right.

back and you will say that was the day. That was the day that everything changed. That was the day that my life changed. That was the day that my family changed. That was the day my community changed. My state changed and my country changed because I changed. Make that day today.