Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - NOW IS THE TIME TO CHANGE

Episode Date: December 29, 2022

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by TD Jakes, Eric Thomas, Les Brown, Tony Robbins. You can see more of TD Jakes at instagram.com/bishopjakes, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher, Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, Tony Robbins at twitter.com/tonyrobbins. The music is Arcade by Hans Zimmer. You can see more of Hans Zimmer at instagram.com/hanszimmer.

It is not the movement of the clock that produces the newness of life. It is the movement in your mind. Every time you dedicate yourself, this is my year. I'm going to make it happen. You don't make it happen. Not because you can't do it, but you can't outlast you old you long enough to get to your new you. What stops us from making the changes that we need in our behavior and our situation, it's the mind. You got to get tired.

I'm losing. You have got to get to a point where you say, I'm sick and tired of living like this. I have had it. I had it barring money from people. I'd had it living like a cringing animal. When you don't have any money, it runs your blood pressure up. I'm tired of doing what I used to do. If I always do what I've always done, I'll always be where I've always been.

I'm not going to live like this anymore. No, there's got to be more for me. I got tired of losing. I got tired of coming up short. I got tired. I see other people winning and I'm not winning. And I want to be a winner and I'm tired. And I got tired, y'all.

So I did something about it. I woke up every day in Stargwana. I was tired. That's when people go out and strike out on their dreams. Let me tell you something. You deserve it. There is more to your life than you have been living. You deserve it.

No more dreaming. Dreaming is over. I need specifics. What are you doing on Monday? What are you doing on Tuesday? What are you doing on Wednesday? You need to be very specific. It's time to put your pieces together of your puzzle.

Ain't nobody stopping you but you. You're not average. Stop acting like it. You're not average. Why are you being average? You're not average. Why are you being good when you're not good? You're great.

You're phenomenal. When you're going to step up to the plate? This is not a year that you're going to be doing a lot of talking. We're not dreaming no more. We're not wishing no more. We're not watching other people. people ride to ride no more. This is the year for grinding.

You want it. And you're going to go all out to have it. I'm going to do something about this situation. How are you going to make it? I don't know, but I will. I don't need a bear to chase me to get up in the morning. I don't sleep in. If I slept in, it's because I worked so hard the day

before that I was tired. What do you need to motivate you? Are you not enough? Is your potential not enough? Is your brain? It's not enough? You're putting in work. And just because you can't see the results, you want to quit or give up. I ain't never quit. I ain't never give up. I never give in. I just kept grinding. If you keep going, you're going to break through. The only people that don't break through is the people who scoreboard watching. Wake up every single day

and if the opportunity to work out is there, work out. If the opportunity is there to read, read. But whatever you do, wake up every single day and know that you should work as if everything depends on you. And do whatever it takes. Let's go. Stop playing with it. Stop telling me I don't got time. Make it work. Fix it. Let's go. You gotta go all in. If you want things to get better, you gotta get better. If you want things to change, you've got to change. But you've got to do it deliberately and consciously.

You've got to constantly find a way to feed that mind. Something that's got strategy in it. Knowledge is not power. Execution trumps knowledge every day of the week. Turn your shoulds into musts. Because everybody's got a list of shoulds, don't they? I should lose weight. I should go on a diet. I should make more phone calls.

I should, I should, I should, I should, I should. You want to create results, and those results come when you raise your standard. You've got to turn the shoulds and the musts. Discomfort is your friend, because discomfort may move you to actually go for the life you deserve. You have a chance to control your destiny. Come on, let's go. Take ownership. What am I going to do about it?

And Mitchell Toughness says, not only do I climb that doggone mountain, I enjoy climbing the mountain. I get a kick out the mouth. I get a kick out the weights. I get a kick out of going up against the number one team. I get a kick out of going into the sixth, seventh week. I get a kick out of fatigue. I get a kick out of the grind. I get a kick out of it.

You take advantage of this opportunity. You let everything else go. You eat different. You study different. You practice different. I don't know how much longer I got. So I got to do it why I can. I might not be able to do this in 65.

75s. But I can do it now. You will never regret making a sacrifice ever.