Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - WHEN YOU WANT TO QUIT

Episode Date: June 9, 2023

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I don't care how good you are, how well-intended you are, how experienced you are. Every now and then, something will hit you and knock you to your knees. You can't stand anymore, and you're on the verge of losing your mind. You throw in a towel on yourself, you surrender to your emotions. A lot of people become discouraged. They become frustrated, and they say, oh, what, the heck. So you give up when you can't get up and you decide to yourself, maybe I just have to make the best of a bad situation. It's going to be certain seasons in life to where you're in a season

of just enduring. No matter how much things go well, you're going to be in some seasons of your life to where you feel like ain't nothing working. You coming down to court, clear shot at the basket, ain't nothing for it. Man, you're not crazy. This is life. There's nothing wrong with you. These are the ups, the downs, successes, failures. This is the totality and the process of life. And you can't escape it. Because sometimes we don't understand like, what is this? What is my purpose?

Why am I here? Why don't have to go through this pain? Why can't it just be peaceful all the time? Then there wouldn't be life. You live life long enough. You're going to have some extreme stress. But what you do with that stress is what your life is about. Anybody can do well when things are going their way.

What do you do when everything is unjust? What do you do when it's unfair? What do you do when your own control of things is taken from you? You have to get to that place where you let go of what is or what was, and you got to create a new. But what you really got to do is decide I am the creator of my life. I'm not the manager of my circumstances anymore. There is something I can still do. When I think there's nothing can be done, that's when I know something can be done.

Because if you're creative enough, can you find the answer? Yes or no. If you're determined enough, can you find the breakthrough? Yes or no. If there's no way that you're committed, can you find the money? Even if you don't have it, yes or no. Creativity, decisiveness, passion. These are the ultimate human resources.

And if you don't have what you want, stop telling yourself the story because you don't have the money, you know, the time. Now, that's bullshit. It's because you haven't committed yourself where you would burn your boats. If you want to take the fucking island, burn your fucking boats. And you will take the outing because people, when they're going to either die or succeed, tend to succeed. I want you to say, I can beat it. I will beat it. I must. I got a family to live for. I ain't through yet. My life ain't over yet.

And I'm not retreating. I'm not running. I don't care what they say on paper. I don't care if you say we outnumbered. We live by this and we die by this. We don't retreat. We don't run. We're going to stand and we're going to live and we're going to die by what we stand for. And everybody going to know what we represent and what we're a part of. I got staying power. I got staying power. There's some things in life you don't need no degree for it. You don't need no money for it. You don't need no support for it. There's something in life you just going to get through when you tell yourself I'm going to get through this. I don't see failure.

I see grit. Determination, drive, sacrifice. Failure means you're trying. I don't look at it as failure. I look at it's my first, second, third attempt. One thing I'm like, that's the shirt. The valiant, motherfucker, always wins. Forget about the mistakes and failures of yesterday.

Focus on today. That happened yesterday. It was an arrow. Squash it. We're going to fix it and move forward. We're not going to waste today on the mistake we made yesterday. Today is a new day, and though yesterday wasn't the best day, yesterday is gone and they know we can do about us. You've got to put all your energy and focus on today, because that's all that matters.

Because as long as we're thinking of error, as long as we own that negativity is going to produce negativity. Say yes, yes to my dreams. Yes to me. Yes, I can make it. Yes, I can. Doesn't matter how many failures I've made. Doesn't matter how many mistakes I've endured. Doesn't matter about my defeat.

Doesn't matter about what I've done. Yes. Yes. It's possible if I just stand long enough. I can pull this off. I'm still in the process of transforming my life. I'm still in the process of becoming. It's going to be a fight.

But at some point, you've got to go take the life out of it. At some point, you just got to take that thing out. You've got to take the breath out. Go get it. Don't run from it no more. Go get it. You go in there and go get that grade. You go in there and get that.

get that information so you can pass that class. You gotta go get it. I think about my why. I can't quit. I can't stop. I can get tired. I can't give up. I can't give in.

My mama counting on me. My wife is counting on me. When you ain't got nothing left in your tape, you gotta 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 can go one more day at work.

You keep going. You keep studying. You keep writing. You keep singing. You keep rapping. You keep boxing, you keep fighting, you keep dribbling, you just keep on keeping on. And if you persevere, every storm that's come, it will pass. I wish I could tell you that it's going to get easier.

I wish I could tell you it's going to get easier. I wish I could tell you that if you just keep going, it's going to get lighter. The weight is going to get lighter. I wish I could tell you that, but that's not the truth. The truth is you got to find something within. 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, you find a way to make it happen.

There are some times in life where you fall down, and you feel like you don't have the strength to get back up. You sort of put a mask on your face and pretend that everything's okay when it's not. And you go home and lay in your bed when no one's looking at you, when you don't have to, impress anybody and you're yourself and fear comes in 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 maybe you're worried about what people think of you what people say about you just that fear paralyzes you and I just want to ask you today do you think you have hope every time you hit a low place don't those voices come back up again every time things go wrong don't

those voices come back. You start saying to yourself, I'm a mess up, I'm a failure, I'd be better off not being here. We just keep feeding ourselves this toxic thinking. The biggest single obstacle standing in your way to success is not lack of education, it's not lack of background, it's not lack of money, it's lack of belief in yourself. The fundamental key to success is what you believe is true for yourself. Not what you want, not what you desire. It's what do you believe.

You have never changed your belief, and you will never completely be healed or whole until you change the voice inside of your own head. What I've learned is that I have to start talking to myself. I'm like, Rich, you're great. You can do this. Rich, you can handle this. Rich, this is not a big deal.

You're amazing. Rich, this too shall pass. The predicament that you are in right now does not define your destiny. You ought to look at every negative situation in your house and say you're a liar. Every time something whispers in your ear and says you can't make it through this, you can't take this.

You're going to have a nervous breakdown. You're going to lose your mind. You're going to die like your mama did. You're going to get sick like your daddy did. You've got to talk back to those voices and say, hey, you're lying on me. I'm better than this. Every voice that said you'll never be nothing.

You gotta call it out. You're a liar. Sickness is a liar. Failure is a liar. Despair is a liar. Disease, you're a liar. Can't learn. You're a liar. Can't read. You're a liar. Can't make it. You're a liar. Can't take it. You ought to call out every liar.

You need to abort every voice that says you can't do it. You can't have it. You can't be it. You'll never get up. You'll never survive. Abort that thing. Push it out. Life going whip your butt. Life is going to bully you. Stop whining, stop crying, nobody cares, be demanding. Let it hit you, but don't let it punk you.

Now if you won't hurt anyhow, get some Yonich out of it. Get something from it. You're already in pain. Use it, do something with it. Allow your pain to push you to greatness. I don't care if you've been beaten to the floor, if your legs are too tired to lift that weight. Break through that barrier and create new ones for you and for others to show off. Get back up and live life. Whoever stays down is a loser and winners will fail and get up. Fail and get up.

You always get up. That is a winner. It's a guy that's willing to get knocked down finally, tell us it on Fortune, stand back up, stand back up, the perseverance to see it through, that never say die attitude. If I don't win, I showed up, I gave my valid effort. And tomorrow I'll do the same thing,

and I'll continue to throw shit against the wall. Every time I get knocked down, I will get back up. back up and I will succeed. I will not surrender. The moments that take your breath away are the ones that count. You need the downs to make the ups. You need the ups to create the downs. You need to feel the opposites to truly understand the full reality of the life you are living. You can dream of these things but understand you can also achieve them. Other people have done it, then we can do it.

We fail a lot of times. Well, a lot of other folks fail. And eventually they came back and they succeeded. So it's possible we can have what we want. And it's necessary. We get negative. We get negative, do-nothing people out of our lives. It's necessary. We never stop learning and growing and developing ourselves. It's necessary that we never give up.

Whatever we have to do, it's worth it.