Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - WHEN YOU CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE

Episode Date: November 21, 2022

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Have you ever had anything bring you to the point that you wasn't sure if you could get out of this? Somehow it's not the one thing, but it's everything. It's everything you went through all the years before. And to find out that the things are never going to stop coming at you that finally brings you to the point that you say, you know what? I'm not sure I want to get up out of the bed in the morning if all I got to face is another fight. Maybe you have doubt in your life. Maybe you don't know for sure what's going to be happening in the future and it scares you. Just that fear paralyzes you.

And I just want to ask you today, do you think you have hope? You can't stop life from happening. You can do something about it. Life is 10% of what happened to you. It's 90% what you do about it. You've got to stop tripping every time. something happened to you like it's the end of the world. It ain't. It's not the end until you've given up. Either you lie to yourself and get bitter and blame everybody for your own weaknesses

or you strengthen yourself. You see muscle. Muscle is created by repeatedly lifting things that have been designed to weigh us down. So when you shoulders feel heavy, stand up straight, lift your chin hell call it exercise remember that life is a gym membership with a really complicated cancellation policy remember that you will survive remember things could be worse remember we are never ever given anything that we can't handle when the world crumbles around you you have to look at the wreckage and then build a new one out of all the pieces that are still here remember you are still here the human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour, in each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words, you are still alive. You are still alive. Act like it.

There's something in front of you. You stop fighting. You stop breathing. You stop breathing. You stop reaching. You need to have something that knocks you to your knee. You'll never discover what's inside of you until something challenges you. Life don't give you what you want. Life gives you what you will excel. If you will excel failure, hardships, disappointment, that's exactly what life's going to give you, right? If you want to win, you've got to show up and demand for yourself, success and fulfillment and happiness. In spite of all those feelings every day of just giving up, of just quitting, in spite of all that, it's going to be your ability somehow to muster up the courage, to flush that out, to reach down deep, and find something inside of you that will allow,

you to go for it one more time. And first city defines true character. Don't quit, don't collapse, don't faint, don't give in, don't succumb to depression. Either way you go, you gotta fight. All of us, we got the same indie. We're gonna die. So if you know you're going to die, why are you planning safe? I'm gonna build something.

I'm gonna 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 gonna build something. I will not settle, even if I have to start over, even if it took longer than I expected, even if I have to make payments, even if I have to crawl on my belly, I will not give up on my dreams. I will not neutralize my tenacity. I will not give up on my integrity.

I will fight every day. If you knock me down, you will have to do it tomorrow because I'll get back up again. will not go quietly away until the night.