Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - SELF BELIEF

Episode Date: July 22, 2026

This episode is/was in early access for members from Mon, 20 Jul 2026 until Wed, 22 Jul 2026. Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — When things go wrong, don't go with them. You are the light in the darkness. Spoken by: Les Brown instagram.com/thelesbrown Eric Thomas instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher Rich Wilkerson Jr twitter.com/richwilkersonjr Greg Plitt instagram.com/gregplitt Music: Zack Hemsey - Soothsayer (Ben Lionel Scott Reimagined) Zack Hemsey facebook.com/zackhemseymusic

When life's been beating you down, you've lost your spirit, you've lost your job, you've lost everything. Life's been hard, and it feels like you can't hold on for a minute longer. Never give up then. But that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. When you're working on doing the things you want to do and fulfilling a dream, and things happen. There are times and your energy feels so depleted that you want to give up that it looks just totally impossible. And I can tell you from my own personal experience,

don't give up then. That's when you've got to fall forward, when life is kicking dirt in your face. Don't give up then. That's when most people turn back. No, if you've decided that this is what you want to do, you've got to become courageous to stand up within yourself to face it and step forward. Life is like a grindstone.

It can polish you or it can pulverize you, depending on how you position yourself. It's in your adversity. The thing that comes out of you is what defines you. When life is squeezing you and pressure is on you, what's really inside of you? It shows you who you are. And your storm is creating a stage. The world is watching. What will your response be?

We all fall. The question is who gets back up here? During those hard times? We didn't know how you're going to make payroll? When you fail and things didn't work out? All of that will create you into a certain kind of person. Those things will begin to strengthen you like you can never begin to imagine. As you go through that experience, what you become in the process,

you'll discover a part of you that you did not know was there. The heart of the battle, the sweeter the victory. No guts, no glory. No, no, don't talk about what has happened to you. Keep the faith. Anchor yourself. Calm yourself. Miracles still happen.

I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel because you are trying to see what you are. You are the light. And you're gonna be stronger. Every major set back in my life. When I got through it, I was stronger and better Because of it. The things that happen, the hell you have to go through, the pain you got to deal with, the trouble you got to face.

They happen for us, not to us. It's the training. It's the preparation for what life has in store for you. No test, no testimony. You're being tested now. Don't stop. You're being tested now. Don't give up.

You're being tested. now. Don't give in. You're being tested now. So you can have a testimony and you don't know how strong you are until you have to become strong. As you're going through your go-through, you're ready to quit, you're ready to give up, you're ready to give in because it don't look like you think it should look. You've been in it for three years and you got to quit. It doesn't look like you think. You didn't get the grades you thought you were going to get. So maybe I'm not meant to be a lawyer. Ho! Ho! Ho! You've been doing it for five years. and it don't look like you think. You put all your money in it. You put all your time in it.

People are looking like you crazy. Five years you've invested. Hold. You put too much in it to quit now. Hold on to that dream. When it doesn't make sense to anybody, include you sometimes. Just hold on.

If it gets hard, you tied not alone yourself. You double tied if you have to, but you hold on. Hold on. I don't care how long it takes you to finish school. Hold on. I don't care how long it takes you to pass that par example. Hold on.

You close. You're close. You're about to drop out. You've gone too far now. You have invested too much to quit now. You have lost too much to quit now. Get a reward for your pain. You can't quit now. Hold on. This is going to be all right. But this is about six times taking it. You're going to pass on the seven. Hold on. Don't cry to give up. Cry to keep going. Get a reward from it. You ought to get excited. You can see it in the distance. You can taste it. And the enemy know you could taste it. But you ever notice that the closer you get to that thing, the more he going to discourage you, The more he gonna try to break you, you close, don't quit, don't get...

Push! Push your way to success! Push yourself to the next level. You gotta get something from all that hell you've been through. I didn't get here through academics. I got here because I refused to quit. Every year I just kept going, and I kept going, and I kept going, and I kept going, and I kept saying one day gonna be my day. Every single day, I just kept grinded it. I just kept giving, I just kept going, I kept getting better, and I just kept getting better, and I just kept

kept going and nobody gave me nothing and nobody paid me and nobody asked me to do it and there was no sponsorships and I kept doing it and I kept putting forth 60% effort 70% effort 80% effort 90% effort 100% effort 120% and boom I outlasted the pain every single day when I woke up I kept telling myself this might be your current circumstances but this will not be how the story is All you have to do is to survive today. Today might not be today, but soon it will be my day, and I will recycle my pain. Average people live on talents.

Phenomenal people live off efforts. And you ain't gonna get there by quitting. Every time things go wrong, I need you to believe. Just believe. You can get through this, because you bigger than this, you better than this, you're tougher than this. And when you get to the other side, you're gonna be better. You're going to be bigger.

You're going to be bolder. You just got to work a little harder. You just got to press a little deeper. You got to bleed. When you see those things that you've been working on just crumble in your face, you still got to bleed. Oh, in those moments in the middle of the night, when doubts start creeping in your mind and you wonder whether or not you have what it takes. And sometimes you wonder if you're going crazy. You don't know how you're going to make it.

Sometimes feeling lonely and crying and feel like your back is dressed up against the wall. You still gotta bleed. It is part of the process. It's part of the journey. How do you think you're gonna grow if you'll never fail? Don't rush the process. Trust the process.

Don't rush the process. Trust the process. If you would just believe that your day coming, that the sacrifices you are making today, they're gonna pay off. But if you do not believe, it ain't gonna happen.

But you know what I'm not gonna do? I'm not gonna quit in the process. I'm not gonna give up. I'm not gonna give in. The power to hold on in spite of everything, the power to endure, the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up. This is a winner's quality. You have that quality within you. You do not complain.

You do not whine. You do not talk about the problem. You spend all of your waking hours on a solution. You take that information and you take that determination, that's focus. And you keep going and you keep going. And nothing is going to stop you because you don't. don't stop and you're not going to quit and you're not going to give up and you're not going to give in because you're focused. You don't need more time, you don't need more money, you don't need more

help. All you need is you. You can do this.