Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - STOP YOUR EXCUSES

Episode Date: October 7, 2022

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by Jocko Willink, Eric Thomas, David Goggins, Les Brown, Andy Frisella. You can see more of Jocko Willink at instagram.com/jockowillink, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher, David Goggins at instagram.com/davidgoggins, Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, Andy Frisella at instagram.com/andyfrisella. The music is Lines of Infinity by Ninja Tracks. You can see more of Ninja Tracks at twitter.com/ninjatracks.

All your excuses are lies. Little lies that you think makes life easier, but they don't. Now I know in the morning, you got that blanket, giving you a warm hug. You got the pillow, which is whispering in your ear. Telling you it's okay. Telling you stay just a little longer. But don't listen to them. They're lying to you.

Listen to your alarm clock, which is telling you to get up and get some. Listen to the wait room, the pull-up bar, which is telling you to face reality. And listen to your will, which is telling you to get up and crush everything, regardless of how you feel. Don't negotiate with weakness. Kill it. See, in life, you can go through life. You can come up with reasons. or you can come up with results.

You can come up with excuses or you can come up with achievements. You can go through life blaming or you can come up with solutions. The choice is in your hand. Satisfaction or despair. We can choose that. You don't get better on the daggone couch. You get better by coming out here and getting the fuck after every daggone day. When that long clock goes off at four or five in the morning, your mind says no.

You just say, this is what we do now. My new norm is you get up every fucking morning at four o'clock. and you suffer. That became my new fucking life. Most people want to get out of it. I said, no, motherfucker. This is your new life. This is who you are. I don't care how small it is. I don't care how minuscule the movement is.

But make movement. Move forward and do that every single day, no matter what. You aren't getting any closer to your five-year plan or your three-year plan or your seven-year plan or any plan that you've got unless you get up and start getting after it.

Teddy! You're finally get to the next level and you're just interested. You kidding yourself. Forget about it. If you want to get to the next level, if you want to eat it, if you want to live it, if you want to be it, if you want to do it, stop talking about it and give me full committed. You can be the person who says, this is going to fucking work no matter what happens, no matter how frustrated I get, no matter how angry I get, no matter what, I'm fucking doing this. If you're committed, you'll start today to let go of your story. your excuses, your reasons why you can't and why you won't. You'll upgrade your knowledge. You'll upgrade your skills.

You'll come in every single day and figure out how you can achieve those goals. It's about executing regardless of your emotions. These test days, they test your fortitude, your endurance, your discipline, your grit, your dedication, your determination, your mental toughness. At the very moment when everything in you wants to do absolutely. Absolutely nothing. You've got to get the job done. Stop having dialogue with your emotions. Stop negotiating with your feelings and start to act.

That's where people separate themselves from the pack. That's where people earn the right to success. They earn the money. They earn the life. They earn the relationship. They earn the body in those little moments where they don't want to do what they need to do, but move forward regardless of how they feel. That's what champions know, champions understand, and champions

thrive on.