Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - WHEN LIFE GETS HARD

Episode Date: August 26, 2023

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — Amidst immense struggles, when life feels its hardest, the pivotal choice arises: to crumble or rise. Adversity defines us; a relentless spirit can transform darkness into triumph. You're the author of your path, either defeated by challenges or empowered to conquer them. Spoken by Jocko Willink. You can see more of Jocko Willink at instagram.com/jockowillink. The music is Darkness of Light by Secession Studios. You can see more of Secession Studios at thesecession.bandcamp.com.

Some of you right now, you're in the worst pain you've ever been in. Your marriage is falling apart. Your family is falling apart. That sickness in your life is getting worse. You've failed over and over and over again. And you don't know what you're going to do now. And you reach a point where you're not sure how you can possibly get out of this mess. And it's not one thing that breaks you.

It's everything. It's everything you've been through all the years before, compounding together. And just to find out that the things are never going to stop coming at you, that finally brings you to the point that you say, I'm not sure if I want to get up out of bed today. If all I'm going to face is another fight. And this is the point that can either make you or break you. This moment right here can become your big.

biggest turning point for the better or the moment you lose everything. The choice is yours of what it becomes. You choose the outcome by your choices. Do you give up or do you get up? When you're in that hole and surrounded by darkness, you have to remember, this is not the end for you. can still change your circumstances. It doesn't matter what's happened, how much pain you've endured, who's betrayed you, what's gone wrong. The only thing that matters right now is what are you going to do about it? Things are always going to go wrong in life. That's a part of it. But you have to become more powerful to be able to push through those battles. Things won't get easier. So you got to get stronger.

You have to find the reasons that make it worth fighting for. Because if you can find a why, you can get through anyhow. If you're doing it for a car or a house, you will quit. But if you're doing it for your family, if you're doing it for your spouse, if you're doing it for what it represents about you, you can make it through anything. And if you can pull yourself together, if you can find a way out of no way, if you can find opportunities where most would see dead ends.

If you can find life where others see death, you can make your dreams, your goals, your vision, a reality. When there's a will, there's a way. When you want something bad enough, you'll find a way, and you'll stop at nothing to reach it. I need you to remember that it's always darkest before dawn. I need you to remember that you are still here. You are still alive.

And as long as you're still alive, As long as you're still breathing, you have another chance to come back once again. When life punches you and clobbers you to the ground, it's your job to find the strength, find the intestinal fortitude to pick yourself up and fight back. Life's not always going to be easy. Sometimes you've got to fight for what you know you deserve. It takes believing in an outcome that is in your favor and make no mistake about it. People won't see it for you. Most people will tell you to give up. Most people will think you're

wasting your time. But you are not most people. You've got to believe in the possibilities for you and your future so strong that it outweighs anyone else's opinions. You need to have something that knocks you to your needs. That's the only way you ever discover what's inside of you. Life doesn't give you what you want. Life gives you what you'll accept. If you'll accept failure, hardships, disappointment, that's exactly what life's going to give you. If you want to win, you've got to show up and demand success and fulfillment and happiness for yourself. In spite of all those feelings, every day of wanting to give up, of quitting, of throwing in the towel, in spite of all that, it's going to be your ability to somehow, some way to muster up the courage,

to flush that out, to reach down deep and find something inside of you. you that will allow you to go for it one more time. Adversity defines true character. Don't quit. Don't collapse. Don't fate. Don't get in. Either way you go.

You got a fight. All of us, we got the same ending. We're going to die. So if you know you're going to die, why are you playing it safe? I'm going to build something. I'm going to make something happen. I am not going to live and die and not leave anything in the earth as a sign that I was here. I'm going to build something.

thing. I'm gonna harness this challenge and turn it into my triumph because I will not stop. There are ways to break physically. You can break mentally. You can break your heart. You can break your spirit. And none of those are fun. And all of those are going to leave a mark. They leave three. I relish it. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna use it. Because if I'm broken, And then I just found my limitations. And until I know what my limitations are, can I get better? Once I feel it, once I see where I was broken, then I can attack that weakness. I can fill in that gap force, that breach.

You break, it means it's time to fortify your will to make it stronger. Because every time you break and in every way that you break, while it's a chance for you to give up and for you to fall upon. But there's also opportunity. There's opportunity to get stronger and get smarter and get smarter and get faster and get tougher and get more stable and get more resilient and get better. You break. you have the opportunity to show the world what you are really made of.

The fight isn't over. The fight is just beginning. And as you crawl up and out of that dismal and wretched place, covered and you're covered in blood and sweat and dirt and filth, As you rise above what you were, and as you take the form of who you are supposed to be, you will see standing up in the very act of fighting on, you will become, and you will remain. Download this video and audio by becoming a member at Ben Lionel Scott.