Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - NO MATTER HOW TOUGH IT GETS

Episode Date: June 13, 2023

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by Les Brown, Eric Thomas, Nathan Harmon. You can see more of Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher, Nathan Harmon at https://www.yourlifespeaks.org. The music is The Storm by Secession Studios. You can see more of Secession Studios at thesecession.bandcamp.com.

You're going to get punched in the mouth by life. Things will happen to you, and you'll be wondering, why did this have to happen to me? I'm a good person. I do the right things. Life doesn't care. You'll be beaten over and over and over again. And you have to decide in those moments, do you fall down and fall apart, or do you get back up? The question isn't, can you handle the situation?

The question is, can you handle it? your mind? Can you manage the thoughts and the emotions that are trying to poison your progress? Forget managing the situation. Manage your mind. There are many of us that feel like giving up is an option and giving up is not an option. And everyone that are breathing in air and oxygen into those lungs, your dream and your destiny and what you have the ability to achieve. I promise you, giving up is the farthest thing from the truth. You were born to be something unbelievably special. Don't give up on your dream. You have greatness in you. You're stronger than you think you are. You can go through more than you think you can. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine. Most people, ladies and gentlemen, go to their graves, living a life far below their potential.

The question is, if you die today, what ideas, what dreams, what talents, what gifts, what die, what die, what with you. Once something's important to you, it never leaves your mind. If you always dreamt about being a singer-songwriter and you never did it, you will be haunted by that at the age of 70 because it's stored in the back of your mind. It's something that's meant for you that's trying to call to you. You see, your dreams, you either pursue them or they fucking haunt you. It's not easy reaching your dreams. It's not easy to achieve a happy and fulfilled life. It's not easy getting up every day. Fighting, going through the daily struggles, getting rejected constantly, getting laughed at all the time, going through trials and tribulations, facing the pain of defeat

over and over again. It is not easy. But if you do it, it is worth it. What is it that will make it worth it for you to face the rejections? What is it that will make it worth it for you to brainstorm and not be intimidated and say, I can do this. What is it that will make it worth it for you to raise the bar on yourself and say, I got some more stuff in me? Oh, I haven't even gotten my biggest deal yet. What is it that will make it worth it for you to go back to a customer who slammed a door in your face? What is it that will make it worth it for you to make no your vitamin that you become empowered by it? What is it that will make it for you and you want to give up and things are working against? What is it that will make it worth it for you to get? You

get out of the car when you want to keep driving past the office because of the stress. What is it? It gives you the strength and the powers. Life knocks you down. Try to land on your back because if you can look up, you can get up. What is it? That will help you get back up again. I want you to think about those goals.

I want you to taste them. I want you to internalize it. I'm telling you to dream your dream because I want you to feel it. I want you to taste it. Just like when the weather is changing, you can feel it. I want you to be able to feel when you're getting your feeling. when you're getting closer to it and closer to it. You've got to have a dream session.

You've got to take out 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, and you've got to actually go in the room, close the door, and you've got to see yourself doing it. You've got to feel yourself doing it. You've got to actually walk in it. You've got to go in the future, live it out, come back in the present, and start working toward it. You might have small beginnings.

You might not have a lot of money. You might not have a lot of resources, but there's no excuse. You said E.T. I'm not that lying. You might be the aunt. And the ant has very little, but he's determined. He's strong.

He has a dream and a goal, and he'll do whatever it takes. Whenever you feel negative, whenever you feel your life is getting tough, I want you to say, I'm responsible for my life. I'm responsible for what happens. I can't change the past, so I'm not going to spend a single second worrying about what has happened. I am going to become so busy working on my first. future and my goals that I don't have time to think about the past. I need specifics. What are you doing on Monday? What are you doing on Tuesday? What are you doing on Wednesday? It's time to put

your pieces together of your puzzle. We turn tragedy into triumph. That's what lions do. Lions don't cry. Lions don't give up. Lions don't quit. Lions haunts. That's what we do for a living. And if you are a true lion, it does not make a difference what the circumstances is. You're not reactive. I don't care what the circumstance. I don't care what the situation. You put it on your back and you get after it. You've got to have that savage mentality. Too often we stay stagnant. Too often you have a dream of creating this or getting involved with there. But at the end of the day, sometimes this fear of will I fail, will I be accepted? Will I make it? Will I achieve it? The challenge is is learning to punch that fear, that threshold right in its mouth. I'm talking about the fear of that voice

in the back of your head that makes you think that you can't. And you know what? Maybe you'll make a mistake, but you're failing forward. The thing that we have to continue to passionately, uncompromisably, not give in on is the fact that I'm not staying stagnant. I'm moving forward because what I feed will grow and what I starve will die. There are many people who have the limitations in their minds, who have lost that fight.

in their eyes. You aren't giving any breaks in life. You make them for yourself. We are all being tested in life. And how you face that test determines the rest of your life. There's a lot of times where I don't know how I'm going to move forward,

but I ask myself one question, can you take another step? And that answer is always yes. I want to remind y'all that where you currently are in your life, drugs, alcohol, friends and family that are dying, whatever you're going through personally, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, will not dictate what the outcome of your life and your career is destined to be.

I'm asking that you don't give up. Sometimes a setback is a set up for the greatest blessings of all times. You will always grow through what you'll go through. those circumstances will make us stronger. And most fucking demons are coming at you and they're attacking you. If you feel you can't handle them, you have

to invent someone that can. We all have the ability to transform ourselves to bring more out. Regardless of what's in front of you, you still must grind. I feel that most things I do, but still I grind. I don't want to do half the shit I do.

But still I grind. And that one day, You see me on a dark alley Run at one o'clock in the morning No one thing. I was grinding. It happens in solitude Where I try

And I try and I try again With everything I have To be the best that I can possibly be Better than I was yesterday Better than people thought I could be Better than I thought I could be Because I will not stop. You have to live your life

With the expectation That great things are coming. your way. You have to expect it. Start working and developing yourself now and prepare yourself for what it is that you want because you expect to get it. I want what all other men want. But when the pressure hits, when the opposition hits, when the challenge hits, when the pain creeps in, when the uncertainty creeps in, when the cuts, when the scars, when the bruises come, I just want it a little bit more than they want it. And if you ain't got more heart than me, if you ain't been working harder to me, if you

He didn't sacrifice more to me. I'm going to destroy you. You know how hard I worked to get here? And you think I'm about to get this up? Have you lost your mind? I put in too many hours. I sweat too much blood, too much tears. I worked hard to get here.

Didn't nobody give me this. I didn't grow up with wealth. Didn't nobody pay me. I work for this. Sweat, blood, tears. I earn every dime I get. I work for this. I put it in time.

Once you start questioning yourself, you already lost. Even if you don't believe going to be. I gotta believe in me before anybody else believe in me. If you're gonna be successful in this game, you gotta have a dog within you. You gotta know it's a dog fight, and you gotta go get that fight.

Life ain't gonna be easy. Ain't nobody gonna hand you nothing. And so by being committed to everything that I started, I finished it, it built a certain type of spirit, it built a certain type of mentality. And so now I couldn't quit even if I wanted to. I couldn't stop even if I wanted to. I had too much sweat, equity, and my life and everything that I was doing.

You got put through to. that because what that does, that tension produces greatness. Stop running from it and run to it. I'm not backing down. I've come too far to quit. I'm going to get a reward for my pain. If you're willing to fight your way through, fight your way through cancer, fight your way through that academic struggle, fight your way through that divorce,

fight your way through, whatever comes up against you on the other side is a better life. Don't let this negative world get you. Don't let it win. You gotta learn how not to give up or how not to give in. You gotta cry, you got you, but whatever you do, you cannot give up, you cannot give in. You're the only person that can stop you, so stop talking like a victim, stop thinking like a victim, stop acting like a victim, and walk into your destiny.

Walk into it.