Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - PROVE EVERYBODY WRONG

Episode Date: April 27, 2023

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When you have a dream and you start working toward it and you share that dream that you have with other people, they're not going to see it like you do. They'll laugh at you. They'll think you're crazy. And sometimes you're going to think you're crazy too. You're going to question yourself. It's hard. It's hard when everyone around you is doubting you and making fun of you and telling you to give it up.

That you're wasting your time. It's very hard. But you know what? Every great successful person was ridiculed before they were revered. Life is not easy. It is not. Don't try to make it that way. Life's not fair. It never was. It is it now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap, a feeling like you're a victim. You are not. Get over it and get on with it. Stop telling your visions to other people because they're not going to see you. Because they're not going to see it.

Why you think you keep imagining opening a business? Why you keep imagining graduating, getting a better job? Why do you keep imagining buying a house? Why do you keep imagining driving a really nice car? Why do you keep imagining getting rich one day? Why do you keep imagining that? Because the universe is talking to you. It's showing you something that it has for you.

Your perception. has everything to do with how this year is going to work. It is not what you perceive about me. It's what I perceive about me. Have opinions and feelings about yourself, independent of the feedback. The day that you allow the opinions of the outside world to dictate the way you feel about yourself,

it is the beginning of the end of you living a blessed and self-loving, secure life. It is not the car that I drive or any of the jury that I own or the size of my house that defines my self-worth. I'm hot. I'm hot. I'm hot when you don't think I'm hot. I'm amazing when you don't think I'm amazing. I love me even if you stop loving me. You can say the nastiest, meanest, evil as shit that you could ever conjure up. It will never change the way I feel about myself. It's not what they say about you. that matters, it is what you say about you that threatens your destiny.

You will never be defeated by what they say about you. You will be defeated by what you say about you. I am great and I don't hold anybody an apology. I am phenomenal and I don't owe anybody an apology. I am going to do great things and I don't owe anybody an apology. Stand up in your dreams. Stand up for what you want in your life. You've got to talk to yourself day in and day out.

You've got to say, yes, I can make it. The last chapter to my life has not been written yet. If you judge me now, you'll judge me prematurely. I'm still in the process of transforming my life. I'm still in the process of becoming. Yes! Yes! It's your dream! Nobody's gonna see it like you do it.

It's your dream. Nobody's gonna feel it like you feel it. It's your dream. is going to be as dedicated to it as you are. It's your dream and they don't have to understand and they don't have to like it and they don't have to do it. It doesn't make a difference. It's your dream and you, my friend,

have been given the task to make it happen and you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to do. I was created to do great things and I will no longer ask others for their permission. I don't expect you to believe in my dream like I believe in my dream. And the problem with some of y'all is you won't

somebody else to support your dream is yours I don't know you a dime it's your dream if you wanted to have it get your butt up and make it happen if you wanted to have it rise and grind because it's my time this my moment tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow ain't no such thing as tomorrow we only got today 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 I'll put you doing on Monday I'll I put mine together. I put this life together. I made this happen.

Nobody helped me to get here. I had to get up. I had to go to class. I had to read. I had to study. I had to write. I understood that the dream is real, but the lifestyle is real.

You gotta earn this. Let the dream strip you. Let it remake and mold you. Life going whip your mind. Life is going to bully you. Stop crying. Be demanding. Let it hit you, but don't let it punk you.

We all go through it. go through it. Some of you though you let your pain pump you. You let your pain make you quit. You have come too far to quit now. You have invested too much to quit now. You have lost too much to quit now. Get a reward for your pain. Don't cry about it. Don't whine about it. Get a reward for it. And for some of you, you stop dreaming. You dream for a week and you stop. Those things around you don't look good. You dream for a month. Then when you get hit in the mouth, you quit and you give up. You dream for a while and when people tell you crazy, when people tell you you're stupid,

and when people tell you can never get done, you stop dreaming and you go back to knowledge. And I dare you to use your imagination. I dare you when you broke to use your imagination. I dare you when you're rich to use your imagination. I dare you under every single circumstance. Keep dreaming. Keep focusing on your dream.

Keep going after the dream because that's where true success is.