Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - WHEN LIFE FALLS APART

Episode Date: July 6, 2023

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What do you do when everything in you is telling you to quit? When you lose your car, when you lose your job, when you lose your spouse, when everything in your life falls apart, what keeps you going? Some of you are going through the worst experiences of your life right now. You're thinking about quitting. You're thinking about throwing in the towel on yourself. When you have these feelings, you have to rest. Remember, this too shall pass.

This is not permanent. So don't make any permanent decisions. Sometimes not getting what you want is the most valuable experience of your entire life. Sometimes utter pain. Pain is the greatest asset in the world because when people succeed, they party and when they fail, they ponder. That's where the change comes from. What if problems were always gifts? What if every single problem really was a gift in your life?

What if every problem you ever had was life happening for you? you, not to you. What if everything in our lives is guided? What if everything in our life was divine timing? Everything, even the pain. Every problem is temporary. Only your soul is permanent. This is not the end for you. There is still hope. If you can muster up enough strength to hold on and hold out, you can get through this. Because you're tougher than this. You can overcome more than you think you can. You're more powerful than you can ever begin to imagine. The way you get to the next level of your life is keep going. Keep going. Keep running. Even when you don't even know, even turns into chaos. You cannot be great if you cannot operate

in chaos. That's my life. Because if you can operate in chaos, the world becomes Disneyland. Problems become scratches. I can lose my car. Somebody can blow it up. I'm going to have some sushi with my wife and think about the solution. Not the problem. There is another level. The only reason you keep seeing there isn't is you feel so exhausted about where you are. But life, the universe of God, is just testing you because there is another level. There's a level where all your dreams are realized.

There's a level that you've always dreamed about. It is real. It has not gone away. But it takes that extra burst when you think there's nothing left. There's no way you've tried everything 10 million times and you keep going. If you keep hitting this wall enough times, I will see that you will not stop, that you will fill with that level of determination and faith and courage, and then the door opens.

And it's just 2 million years above and most people give up because they're exhausted. And there's some people who go, the harder I hit it, the more I hit it, sooner or later it's going down. I'm not stopping. And when you do that enough, it pops open. When you're in the darkest place. you feel like all is lost, when you think there's no way to turn it around. Remember this.

Victory is near. I don't care if you have to inch your way day by day, even if you have to crawl, even if it hurts like hell, even if it's harder than anything you've ever been through. And nobody can see what you're really going through. And people are laughing at you, and they're doubting you if you don't quit. This pain, this tragedy, this trial, this will become. your greatest moment of growth. This is what makes a champion.

I'm telling you right now. Your lowest moment will be the birthplace of your biggest success. Even when everything inside of you screams that you stop, you've got to keep fighting. Fight through the tears. Fight through the storms. Fight through the battles with your family. Fight through the battles with yourself. Fight through whatever is in front of you.

And don't ever stop fighting. What you're going through right now, is necessary. You are forging the skills. You are forging the determination. You are forging the grit. You are forging the fortitude. You are forging all the things that nobody else is gaining because they're sitting on their hands and you're willing to push through. And it's not going to be easy. If it was, everybody would do it. But I know you have the ability to make it happen. You've got to learn how not to give up or how not to give in. But you're not to be easy. But you're You got to find your why, and you got to understand that greatness is within you, and you got to pull it out.

You got to cons every mountain. You got to pick up all the way. You got to cry if you got to, but whatever you do, you cannot give up, you cannot give in. And if you give up and give in, you will never experience greatness. So keep going. If we can realize that life is always happening for us, not to us, game over all the pain and suffering disappeared. and realize if it was easy, everybody would do it. Nobody ever said it would be easy.

But I know, I know greatness is within you, and you got what it takes. So get up and let's make you happen. Everybody's got big plans, but the plans out the window when they get punched in the face. See, in your life, everybody has a turn back moment. You have a moment where you can go forward or you can give up. But the thing you had to keep in mind before you give up is that if you give up, the guarantee is it will never happen. No way under the sun. The only way the possibility remains that it can happen is if you never give up no matter what.

A person's character is not judged when they ride a wave of success. When everyone chance their name and you want to be their friend, no. Your character is put to the test when you're back. is against the wall. It's very easy to be motivated on those good days of life. It's that cat who can be at the bottom of the fucking sewer.

Who can find great motivation alone. There's no coach. There's no trainer. There's no nothing. There's no mom, dad, sister, cousin, brother's wife, husband. It's you and you alone in the worst possible spot of your life.

If you can find, drive, determination, motivation. In those times alone, you figured it out. And we have it all in our minds. It's how you talk to yourself and how you visualize coming out of it. It's how you see yourself in the dungeon of life. Many of us can't find strength there, but there's so much strength in the dungeon

because so many people just stay there. It's that motherfucker who's willing to come out of it that becomes glorious at the end of it all. I want the guy who struggled. I want the guy that failed it could still get back up again. Your problem is your pain has identified you. Your pain was weak to you. And some of you, as long as it's a perfect day, you operate in excellence. But as soon as the circumstances change, you quit, you give up. So what makes ET different than everybody else? Every year, I just kept going.

And I kept going, and I kept going and I kept saying one day, going to be my day. You know what I'm not going do, I'm not going to quit in the process. I'm not going to give up. I'm not going to give it. You want your stuff. It's necessary you take responsibility for it. That you make it happen. That you don't give up, that you don't take any objection or disappointment or defeats personally,

that you keep on, keeping on, that you don't decide that I can't make it because you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, that you realize that's a part of the program. And here's something you've got to resolve. Say this to yourself every day. It's not over until I win. Not over till I get through. Not over till I get over. Not over till I get what I want.

That's not how you got to do that. You've got to have that kind of courage, that type of determination. I don't care how low you are. I don't care what you have done. I don't care what you have experienced. I don't care how devastated your life might appear to be. The shambles it might be in. Wherever you are in life, ladies and gentlemen, you've got comeback power.

What you're going to do? do what you're going to do in these days of darkness? What you're going to create? You're going sit there and whine and cry or you're going to use the creative powers, the creative juice. Your God gave you. Don't expect people to understand you. Don't expect it to make sense to anybody why you've got to do this, why you have got to go, why you leave. This is a good job. I'm going. They pay you well. I'm going. Why? I don't understand. You don't have to. I'm going for me because I've made a different kind of community. with my life. This is something I have got to do.

It's not what they say about you that matters. It is what you say about you that Gregens nor destiny. You will never be defeated by what they say about you. You will be defeated by what you say about you. I see what are you doing, man. You're out of your mind. What I understand what you're doing all is for? You know, it doesn't make sense. But the person inside believes them what they say.

I don't care with anything. I'm gonna stand the course. I believe it. Stay the course. Give yourself a reason to wake up. Stay in a course. Give yourself a reason to get dressed. No matter how possible your situation may say, stay on course. I guarantee you cannot pass it if you quit. I guarantee you're gonna fail, but you don't know what's gonna happen and you keep going.

Will you stay the course? This is what you do. You are built for this. You would just believe. Just believe that your day coming, that the sacrifices you are making today, they're going to pay off. But if you do not believe, it ain't going to happen.