Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - WHEN YOU ARE HURTING

Episode Date: July 16, 2026

This episode is/was in early access for members from Wed, 15 Jul 2026 until Thu, 16 Jul 2026. Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — When you're going through hell, keep going. Spoken by: Rick Warren twitter.com/rickwarren Mike Todd instagram.com/iammiketodd Tony Robbins twitter.com/tonyrobbins Les Brown instagram.com/thelesbrown Jocko Willink instagram.com/jockowillink Trent Shelton instagram.com/TrentShelton Eric Thomas instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher Music: Really Slow Motion - Sinking Into Flames (Ben Lionel Scott Reimagined) Really Slow Motion facebook.com/ReallySlowMotion Secession Studios - Of Gods And Men, Our Reckoning (Ben Lionel Scott Remix) Secession Studios thesecession.bandcamp.com

When life hurts, when you're in real pain, when you want to quit, when you feel like this could be the end for you, when everything in you is telling you to give up, what do you do? In time of adversity, you don't have an obstacle to deal with. You have a choice to make. That's what you have to do. Do you give up or do you get up? Do you let life just trample you and accept the fact that your life is too hard? And what you want is never going to happen. Or do you decide to dust yourself off, rise from the ashes, and keep fighting? You know the one thing that's common among all champions? They keep going.

Every successful person that you look up to. The only reason you know them is because they kept going. They went through rejection, heartache, betrayal, stress, challenges, frustration, failure, and they kept going. If you want to make it, just keep going. Your emotions are like waves. And when things get hard, the water gets rough. But instead of drowning in this, you can learn to sail these conditions. You've got to activate the thinker in you.

Don't allow your emotions to control you. We are emotional, but you want to begin to discipline your emotion. If you don't discipline and contain your emotions, they will use you. There's going to be things that go on that are out of your control. The worst thing you can do is let something that's out of your control control you. Get control of yourself, get control of your emotions. Don't get angry. Don't get frustrated.

Instead, stay calm and figure out how to move forward. If you want to begin to move into your own personal greatness, If you want to begin to really enjoy a happy, successful, healthy life, you've got to be willing to go against the tide. You've got to be willing to harness your will. And say, in spite of this, I'm in control here. These roadblocks, these obstacles, this opposition won't stop me from doing what I want to do. It can temporarily cripple me or make it inconvenient. But it won't stop me.

It will not determine my reality. See, most people will say to you, oh, you're being unreal. You're dreaming. Yes, I am dreaming. Don't you stop dreaming? A lot of people have given up. A lot of people don't even want an ask life for anything because they don't believe they can have it. No, that's not true. You can have this, you can keep this. This is not something that's passing through that you're up today and now you're down tomorrow. That doesn't have to be your reality. You want things to go good for you from now on. It's on you. You can make that happen. You've got the point. But you've got the power to do that. You can change things for you.

See, it really doesn't matter what has happened to us in the past. It doesn't matter how many failures we've had. No, the fulfillment of your dreams lies within you and you alone. When you understand and accept this, then nothing or no one can deny you greatness. The power to succeed or fail is yours. And no one can take that away from you. You gotta start walking because the perspective is not going to change.

You have to start moving through. You have to start moving forward. You have to start taking steps in order to improve your vision, improve your perspective, change your perspective, make some kind of progress. And worst case scenario, you figure out that you walk the wrong direction. Okay. Now you can walk in the other direction. And that's going to be fine.

But standing there lost and not doing anything is just waiting to die, waiting to starve to death. Don't let that happen. What's going to keep going? Purpose. Every person you see who's on fire and successful knows the why. You're going to know why you're doing this right. this right now because that's where all the emotional juice and fuel is that you get you to go through

when the challenges show up your mission is your magnet people have been asking me Trent how have you been able to seal push through how have you been able to seal overcome how have you been able to do it has it been hard hell yeah it's been hard and that magnet is so strong with my mission that it's like a tugboat that even when I want to give up and quit it continues to roll for me even when I want to Give up and quick. It continues to be the engine that pulls me through the trouble water, that pulls me through the rise and tide, and I'm able to keep progressing and keep going. You've had to make your magnets stronger. That mission, is it strong enough to still pull you through your hardest times?

Because the truth is, none of us are exempt from hard times. And oftentimes, your commitment gets expires when inconvenience shows up. Your commitment gets expands when struggle shows up. When you ain't got nothing left in your tape, you got to think about the people in your life that you're doing this for. And then if you can think about them, you could go one more mile. You will go one more day at work. The truth is, you got to find something within. And that's got to push you, and that's got to elevate you, and that's got to drive you,

and that's got to move you. And when you find out what your why is, if you find something to move you, you find a way to make it happen. There is another level that you've always dreamed like. It is real. It is not gone away. The only reason you keep seeing there isn't is you feel so exhaustive. about where you are. But life is just testing you, but it takes that extra burst when you think there's nothing left. There's no way. You tried everything 10 million times and you keep going.

It's almost like the universe is saying, if you keep hitting this wall enough times, I will see that you will not stop, that you will fill that level of determination of faith and courage, and then the door opens. And most excellent people give up because they're exhausted. And there's some people 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, the palms open. I just need you to keep moving.

I need you to make up in your mind that the only way you can lose is if you quit. I just need you to keep going. Day after day, after day, after day, guire, after guise, have to guise, have to guise. Keep moving forwards. Keep moving forwards. Stay focused. Stay focused on the goal.

Oh, I'm feeling depressed. I'm going through it. You got to keep moving forward. Keep moving forward. Do not look back. Keep moving forwards. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. You're unstoppable.

Sometimes it's not about skill, it's about will. And if you have the will, if you have the determination, if you have the heart to persevere, that when you cannot see it, that you're going to keep moving. We got too many scars to give up now. You come too far with all your scars to give up now. You better learn from your scars. You better allow your scars to take you to the next level.

You better let your scars get you to that next level to make their dreams become a reality Too many scars to quit too many scars to give up now You come too buck I dare you not to give up I dare to put in your rucks If you are able to get up every morning have no passion no drive No motivation and still get up with that kind of fire coming out of your soul in the darkest of times you will be successful in life. I guarantee you that. What do you do when you have been telling yourself you can reach a goal and you lose it every day? What do you do when you've lost your spirit, you've lost your job, you lost everything, life been devastating.

Once you are defeated in your mind, ladies and gentlemen, it's all over. Your problem is your pain has identified you. pain has waking you. You have a choice how you respond to your pain. And some of you in this room for real, I'm just going to be honest with you. You're getting wimpy on me. You're getting soft on me. You are not the only person that's been through a divorce, boo. Get over it. You're not the first one. You won't be the last one. You can turn that divorce into something. You're not the first one to lose your promotion and get fired. You're not the first one. You're not the first one they let go up. You won't be the last one. The question is what you're going to do about

I know it is to walk the floor and you don't know how you're going to make it. When people no longer believe in you. And you are your God. And you've got to say to yourself, when you fail again and again, they tell you no. Sometimes with tears, guys, it's possible. When life stagger you, the thing that'll get you up on your knees and get you standing in the center of rank and find something from somewhere deep down in to keep on slugging and keep on fighting is it's possible. It's possible if I just stand long enough, I can pull this all.

When you're facing defeat, disappointment, seem like life has ripped you off and everybody say you can't do it. You don't have what it takes. All you need to affirm that in spite of this, it's possible that I can do it. So what makes any too different than everybody else every year? I just kept going. And I kept going.

And I kept going and I kept saying one day, don't feed my day. You know what I'm not going to do? I'm not going to quit in the process. I'm not going to give up. I'm not going to give it. I invested too much to quit. I made too many sacrifices to give up. I've paid too much. Listen to me, I cannot stop what happens to me, but I can dictate how we're small. So when life happens, I will just sit there and cry. I buck back. I will greet this day with loving my heart, and I will overcome evil. And the problem will summon you in this room, you will never be late.

never be great because every time you go through pain, every time you go through a problem, every time you go through discouragement, you give up and you quit and you do not understand that at the end of pain is your millions. At the end of pain is your reward. At the end of pain is your productivity. At the end of pain is your problems. So do me a failure. Stop crying about it and use your energy to get through it. I'm talking to you, you're going through a storm like now. And I'm telling you that this too shall pass like every storm that has come to you. I'm telling you, whatever you're going through right now, if you can just muster up enough strength to hold on and hold out.

If you do not quit, if you do not give up, it's coming, baby, hold on! I don't care how long it takes you to finish school, hold on, I don't care how long it takes you to pass that bar example. You keep going, you keep studying, you keep writing, you keep singing, you keep rapping, you keep rapping, you keep boxing, you keep fighting, you keep dribbling, you just keep on, keep on, keep you keep, And if you persevere, every storm that's come, it will pass. Recycle your brain. You can decide to shape the form.

You can decide the product that comes from your day.