Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

This episode is/was in early access for members from Thu, 26 Jun 2025 until Wed, 2 Jul 2025. Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — How you do anything is how you do everything. The level of effort you put in when no one's watching, determines how far you will go. Spoken by: Greg Plitt instagram.com/gregplitt Tim Grover instagram.com/attackathletics David Goggins instagram.com/davidgoggins Eric Thomas instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher Mike Todd instagram.com/iammiketodd Music: Really Slow Motion - Breaker of Chains Really Slow Motion facebook.com/ReallySlowMotion

When no one's around, when no one's looking at you, when no one's cheering. It's you and your chatter. Who are you? How do you hold yourself? How do you see yourself? What do you do when no one's watching? Greatness has a lot of small things done well. Day after day, work out after workout.

Obedience after obedience. Day after day. You know what do you got to do to get to paradise? You got to fight like fucking hell to get to fucking paradise. Paradise starts in hell. It's the early mornings, late nights, being misunderstood, having very few friends, being your own cheerleader. Are you those things?

People always talk about, you know, you got to work smarter and not harder. No, you got to work smarter and you got to work harder. You're going to have to be disciplined. You're going to have to be consistent. You're going to have to do it when nobody else is doing it. The greatest version of you is the disciplined version of you. The greatest version of you is the version that has parameters. No, I don't do that.

I don't drink that. I don't go there with these people. I'm focused. I have a prize that's in front of me. I know what I'm supposed to do and that ain't it. I have to stay right here. I discipline my body. I stay uncomfortable in these situations like an athlete.

training it to do what it should. After I get disciplined to do it for a long time, I start desiring it. You are now turning a discipline into a desire. And now what used to be a dread becomes something that you know is making you better. I'm better uncomfortable. You don't get better on the daggone couch. You get better by coming out here and getting the fuck after every daggone day. A real man in the dark, when nobody's watching, he put me in work.

Because he loves the process. It is in practicing. It is in lifting weights. It is in resting. It is in eating right. It is in making good decisions that you look a certain way. It is the process of the grind that shaped you and forms you. The real grind is in the dark when nobody sees you.

When nobody knows what you doing, when you're putting in those extra reps, it isn't a process that you get better. It's in the process that don't nobody know your name. And five years later, you're one of the best in the world. Why? The process. I don't get up at 3 o'clock in the morning because I'm broke. Then why do you get up at 3 o'clock in the morning?

Because I ain't finished yet. The deeper the process, the greater the reward. We're not living by the clock, man. If you got a clock to 10 o'clock time to go to sleep or 9 to 5 time you go to work, that's bullshit. If you're in bed right now and you're rolling around and you can't fall asleep, get the fuck up. It probably means you haven't done an honest day's work

to earn that rest at night. 2 a.m., not a fucking person's here. I can put an honest day's work in here that more than anyone does. in a week and no one sees it. Because it's supposed to be that way. This is the fucking means to the ends. It's not the ends.

You're not in here to get an achievement. You're in here to pay your fucking dues so later in life, you never wonder what if. Not run by the clock. Run by our desire where we're going to go tomorrow. Our competitions get asleep right now. We're getting ahead of that competition. The margins between first and loser.

The second place, finisher. Growing and growing and growing. They're all going to fight for second place. Do you think Michael Jordan was interested in just being a basketball player? Do you think Kobe Bryant was just interested in winning championships? Interested is a fucking hobby. You have to be obsessed. Excellence is not an accident in somebody's life.

When no one's watching, do you get up and run in five in the morning when it's pouring down rain? There's a person of principle, a person of character, that values who they are. And everything they do, they do accordingly. You don't go in here blindly. and going to the fucking purpose. Mentally believing it, like Muhammad Ali. He called himself the greatest fighter before he ever won something.

He believed it. He had a strong directional path where he's heading. Going to work every single day when no one was watching. Paying your fucking dues, every single day so that this belief rises to a level of maturity that others are like, yeah, man, way to go. There's no half-ass here, half-ass there, half-ass there, and then when it matters, oh, I'll give it in my own.

It doesn't work that way. If you half-ass it here and there and there, you learn to half-ass it. So when it does matter, you don't know anything else but half that. You would never succeed that way. Who stands up? Picks up the trash and no one's looking. The same person that's on top of the podium later in life.

If you start short-cutting these things, as if no one's watching doesn't matter, you eventually's gonna come back, the bites you in the ass. It won't. If everything you do, you put your name to, to the best of who you are, how do you know you on the right path? When the small things mean as much as a big fix.