Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - WHEN LIFE IS HARD

Episode Date: April 10, 2023

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by Les Brown, Andy Frisella. You can see more of Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, Andy Frisella at instagram.com/andyfrisella. The music is Time by Hans Zimmer. You can see more of Hans Zimmer at instagram.com/hanszimmer.

You're going to go through many storms where your life is going to be hard. And it'll seem unbearable at times. There are types of storms. There are emotional storms where you're worried. Something that you hope won't happen or something that has already happened. With emotional storms, you can find yourself stressed out. An emotional storm you can find yourself depressed. Mentally fragile because of the experiences, the turbulence that you have gone through.

The state of this world can have you in a state of confusion and a heavy cloud over your life. It's very depressing. A storm is going to come. I don't care who you are. No one is exempt. It's called life, ladies and gentlemen. So how do you handle it when you're in the storm? You must have faith.

You must have the faith to call forth those things that be not as though they were. The strength and the courage to make it through, the enduring power, the ability to persevere, to handle it, it will pad you. The inner power to overcome,

to come back again. So in order to begin to prepare for the storm you've got to go within and start working on yourself. You've got to get grounded. You've got to train your mind to serve you. Meditation, is one of the ways in which you can do that.

Reading is one of the ways that you can do that. Listening to music is one of the ways that you can do that. Exercise is one of the ways in which you can do that. Things that you can do to steal your mind, to clear your thoughts so you can think. I had a program for myself. I have books that I read that inspire me, tapes that I listen to, that fire me up.

Because you're going to have sometimes long moments when you won't want to get out of bed. You just want to stay there. At times you won't want to come out of the house. The times you'll be feeling bad and don't know why I was wrong. I don't know. Just leave me alone. The first tendency is to panic when they said,

your mother has breast cancer. I panicked immediately when I start grieving and crying. I fell out of God. I can't handle this. I never thought this day would come, but I can't deal with this pain. You got to talk to yourself sometimes, hear me? You got to talk to yourself. And yes, I was scared.

Leslie, get up. Get up. Leslie. Come on, man. It's easy to have faith when Mama's got her health and all as well. Come on, get up and cover the house. She needs us now. Come on, Bill Man.

Come on in this room and face it. Be still. Know that all is well to pull this through. And I made up my mind. I don't care what it takes. I don't care how many speeches I have to give, how many seminars I have to give. I know I ain't got the money. I know I don't have the education.

But I ain't going to let that stop me. I'm going to do it. it. And yes, it's going to be hard, it's going to be difficult, and you get more knows than you do yes. But when you hold out, things will begin to happen. You won't even understand how. See what the storm does, ladies and gentlemen, it empowers you. It strengthens you. When you go through a storm, when you come through that kind of experience and able to reclaim your life, you'll come back with a certain kind of power and you'll never be the same again after that experience. There's certain things when you go through those things and you come up out of those things, you come up a different kind of person, different spirit, different power, different energy.

But builds character. Don't ever say when you're going through some rough time. I'm going through a really bad, tragic time. No. Say, I'm going through a character building experience. Tough times never last. But tough people do. You should take pride in wanting to quit and not quitting.

Hey, shit's really hard right now, dude. You're really struggling right now. But here's the thing. Right now is when everybody else quits. Right now is when everybody else is going to fall behind. Right now is when everybody else decides to do something that's easier or faster or not as hard. And that's what gets you ahead. That's what gets you to have pride.

Because those struggles, those feelings, those things that are difficult, they are there to test you. This pain, this conflict, this tragedy, this tribulation is the test. Don't fail it. Stay strong. ever quit, struggle is a privilege. Hardship is a privilege because those struggles, those hardships, those things that you face will turn you into an unstoppable motherfucking machine. So if you want to create super high confidence, super high self-esteem, super high momentum, that feeling I'm super powerful, I'm invincible, I'm the fucking man or I'm the fucking woman,

you have to take pride and not quitting when other people are going to. to quit. You have to take pride in executing your job to the very best of your ability when everything around you is going wrong. That's what gets you out of the storm. You can't just focus on this moment. You've got to hold the vision. Hold the vision of things improving. Hold the vision of your health coming back. Hold the vision of being financially independent and debt-free. Hold the vision of your relationships working out. Hold the vision of everything being all right. Because It'll give you power. Give you strength, give you faith, give you patience, give you perseverance.

It'll give you the ability to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. And when you discipline your emotions and you don't allow them to control you, when you tell yourself, I'm in charge here, I set the course for my life. These storms that I face, they do not have power over me. When you declare that to yourself, the limits for you become non-existent.