Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - KEEP GRINDING EVERY DAY

Episode Date: March 2, 2023

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You don't become what you want. You become where your habits take you. Nothing's ever going to be given to you. Everything's going to be earned. If you don't go out there and put it in the work, you don't go out and put in the effort. One, you're not going to get the results. But two, and more importantly, you don't deserve it.

You didn't earn it. There's certain things you want out of life. You want the finest things, but you're not willing to work for them. You cry about, you don't get this opportunity, you don't get this break, but you're not positioning yourself. and you're still trying to get a handout. You got to work. It wouldn't be fair if just anybody

could just get a degree and not have to work. Because guess what it would mean? It would mean your degree is worth nothing. If other people didn't have to work hard, didn't have to sweat, didn't have to stay up all night, didn't have to do research, didn't have to go to the library, didn't have to sacrifice sleep,

didn't have to make sacrifices in life. If everybody just threw out degrees, they wouldn't be worth anything. You see, the only difference between the one who quits and the one who doesn't is that they showed up Every day. They worked hard every day.

They hustle every day. They improved every day. They did all this, even though they felt like quitting every day. You're putting in the work, and the only reason you piss, the only reason you quit is not because you want to quit, because you keep looking up and you're saying, we three in, who cares what you are? If you keep going, you're going to break through. The only people that don't break through is the people who score for watching.

That's the problem with some of y'all. You stop and working to look at yourself. You're not grinding. You glaring. You should be grinding and you're looking at the score. The score is what it is. The score ain't about to change because you looked at it. Keep playing the game.

Keep grinding. Keep working. And that other stuff will take care of itself. Wake up every single day. And if the opportunity to work out is there, work out. If the opportunity is there to read, read. Because you've got to tell the flesh who's in control. I'm in control.

You're not in control? I know you don't want to wake up. You don't have an option. Get out. We're trying to eat. There's a certain lifestyle we want. You look at any person who's done anything great in this world. They've had to be fully committed.

Any goal that you want to achieve that's worthwhile in your life requires you to go all the fuck in. I mean, jump the fucking the pool, head first. Don't fucking worry about the what-ifs and make yourself fucking swim. We're all being tested. And that road is successful. The success is a bumpy-ass-fitting road, has fucking potholes, nails, detours and shit. A lot of you are going to die with a nicely preserved body. No plates, no bad knees, no bruises, no scars.

You also have an empty fucking resume. Don't be afraid to get scars. The scars show your willingness to get to their side. They show your failures. And so you're willing to start from scratch. And so what you're willing to do to go the distance to see what you're careful of. And there's a big difference between 99 and 100%. And to find that last 1%

It takes ignoring your personal desires and comforts If you're able to endure when all around you says stop You will find that 1% It's a commitment, not a feeling When you get up in the morning, you don't give yourself a choice You grind no matter what When you're just not feeling it, you gotta force yourself When your feelings tell you no

You tell them to shut the fuck up You don't want to get up and get out of bed You get up and get the fuck out of bed You don't want to study. You fucking study. You don't want to get to work. You get to fucking work. When everything in you is kicking and screaming,

you have to take control and tell yourself, I do not stop. I'm not going to sit around and wait for good things that happen to me. We fight. I'm going to do everything in my power to become the very best version of me. When you do the things most people aren't willing to do, you'll live the life most people never will.

When you look back after working your ass off, you will see every challenge, all the knockdowns break, and every bit of the pain and daily struggles will all be fucking worth it.