Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - WHEN YOU FEEL BROKEN

Episode Date: November 17, 2022

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There will be times that try your heart so severely that everything in you wants to quit. Everything in you wants to collapse. Everything in you wants to go down. Everything in you wants to go crazy. There are times that you're going through adversity and that you feel alone. You're in the midst of a storm. And it is what you do when you are alone that determines how much you really love. is what you do when nobody's looking.

It's how you react to the issues of life. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Anybody can be strong in comfort. Anybody can be powerful when you're not challenged. But when life gets so punching you in the gut and the eye and the head And you get through losing people and burying people

and going through sickness and trauma and justice of all types. It will humble you. Whatever you do, don't lose your head. Pull your feelings out of it. Pull your insecurities out of it. Your vulnerabilities. And stand on what you don't. Yes, the road's been bumping.

Yes, the road's been tough. Yes, the road's been difficult. Yes, you've shed some tears. And yes, you've endured some pain, but it is the bumpy road to better. You can't get to better without bumpy. You can't get to better without pain. You can't get to better without tears. There is no pill you can take.

There is no simple solution. It is the bumpiness of the road that leads you to better. Whatever you're going through right now, it's happening on purpose in order to forge you into the person that you were created, to be ultimately. But if you quit, you will never get to be the person that you were created to be. Mighty man of valor, they accept the challenge of life. They accept responsibility. They don't blame everybody for everything. They stand them saying, I was wrong about it, but this is what I'm going do to fix it. Doesn't mean that you always get it right. It means you don't run home to mama.

When you get it wrong, you stay there and work it out and put it back together again because you're a mighty man of valor. See, if it was easy, if you had to be smart to do it, all the pretty people, all the brains would make all the money, have all the responsibility. Thank goodness is tough. Thank goodness you got to get down there and slop it up. It's your ability to compete to pick yourself up off the bat one more time to go for it one more time. This is going to determine success or failure. Nobody can motivate you long range.

The only real motivation that lasts comes from inside. Cover your head. Cover your fox. Cover the words that are coming into your mind. Cover what you're saying to yourself. What you are saying to yourself determines whether you win or lose. What you say to yourself have all the world to do with how far you get down. The rain falls on the just and the unjust.

Everybody in here goes through hell and high water and sometimes life ain't fair. This is no time to lose your head. This is no time to quit. This is no time to say. This is no time to collapse. This is no time to give it. Lay your hands on your head and say, give me a new mind. Give me a new mind means give me a new perspective.

Give me a new perspective. Give me a new way of looking at my situation. Give me a new way and looking at my circumstances. Dump out all jealousy, all pettiness, all unforgiveness, all strife, all malice, all confusion, all blaming other people for your mistake. get rid of every poison that's triggering you. I'm going to press my way. When it gets tough, I'm going to press my way. When I get tired, I'm going to press my way.

When it's not convenient, I'm going to press my way. When my heart is broken, I'm going to press my way. When I'm rejected, I'm going to press my way. When I'm broke, I'm going to press my way. When I'm dispaired, I'm going to press my way. That means that you've been kicked, you've been shoved, and you've been shot, but you're still standing on your post. Ready to fight the good fight.

That means that you can take a licking and keep on ticking. That means you've been through hell and back, but you're still standing. Your eye may be black and your teeth may be busted and your lip may be swollen. But you look the devil in his eye and you say, baby, I'm still here.