Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - WHEN YOUR LIFE IS HARD

Episode Date: January 26, 2023

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by David goggins, Inky Johnson, TD Jakes, Eric Thomas. You can see more of David Goggins at instagram.com/davidgoggins, Inky Johnson at instagram.com/inkyjohnsonmotivate, TD Jakes at instagram.com/bishopjakes, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher. The music is Tangled Earth by Audiomachine. You can see more of Audiomachine at twitter.com/audiomachine.

You aren't giving any breaks in life. You make them for yourself. We are all being tested in life. And how you face that test determines the rest of your life. There's a lot of times where I don't know how I'm going to move forward, but I ask myself one question, can you take another step? And that answer is always yes. Those circumstances will make us stronger.

And most fucking demons are coming at you and they're attacking you. If you feel you can't handle them, you have to invent someone that can. We all have the ability to transform ourselves to bring more out. Regardless of what's in front of you, you still must grind. I feel that most things I do, but still I grind. I don't want to do half the shit I do, but still I grind. And that one day, you see me down a dark alley run at 1 o'clock in the morning, no one thing. I was flying.

It happens in solitude where I try, and I try and I try again. With everything I have to be the best that I can possibly be better than I was yesterday. Better than people thought I could be. Better than I thought I could be.

Because I will not stop. I won what all other men want. But when the pressure hits, when the opposition hits, when the challenge hits, when the pain creeps in, When the uncertainty creeps in, when the cuts, when the scars, when the bruises come, I just want it a little bit more than they want it.

And if you ain't got more heart than me, if you ain't been working harder to me, if you ain't sacrificed more to me, I'm going to destroy you, 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 run. We don't retreat.

You know how hard I work to get here? And you think I'm about to get us up? Have you lost your mind? I put in too many hours. I sweat too much blood, too much tears. I worked hard to get here. Didn't nobody give me this. I didn't grow up with wealth.

Didn't nobody pay me. I work for this. Sweat, blood, tears. I earn every dime I get. I work for this. I put in time. To be anxious is to have anxiety about something that hadn't even happened yet. Some of you are so worried about the threat of trouble.

You're not in trouble. It's just a trouble has threatened you. And the threat of what might be. happen what could happen is wearing you now careful the things that you thought were going it will succeed at robbing you of your peace rob yourself into a nervous break down you thought yourself into depression you thought yourself into defeatism 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 here you may look fast for a while saying you might be embarrassed but saying no devil in hell can destroy you. If you keep in the back of your mind, I'm coming out of this. You gotta cry, you got you got you, whatever you do, you cannot give up, you cannot give in. You're the only person I can stop you, so stop talking like a victim, stop thinking like a victim, stop acting like a victim, and walk into your destiny, walk into it.