Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - YOU CAN DO IT

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

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If you can focus your mind on it, you can change it. You don't like the way your life is going. You have the power to change it. You don't have to be a failure. You don't have to be a quitter. You don't have to be anything. You don't want to be. As long as you decide to change your mind.

You got to get to the point in your life where you say, I have had it. I've had it with going in a restaurant, looking all the way. one side to see what I want to eat and then look on the other side to see what I could have poor. I'd had it living like that. I'd had it borrowing money from people. I'd had it living like a cringing animal when you don't have any money. It runs your blood pressure up. You hear me? And you've got to decide I have had it. I'm not going to live like this anymore. Let me tell you something. You deserve it. You deserve a better life. There is more to your life than you've been living. You deserve it. When you commit yourself to do better,

That's the moment you start to see real change. You better be committed or you ain't going to make it. You have to be committed through the storm and the rain and the heartache and the pain and the disappointment. It's a commitment. It's not a feeling. Commitment is no hand nothing to do with your feelings. You do it because you're supposed to. Your feelings will never cooperate with your dreams. beat your feelings into captivity

because when you beat your feelings into captivity that is what discipline is the very first level is you seeing it you gotta know what it looks like tastes like feel like because you don't you're gonna compromise find those goals that mean something to you write them out read them every day develop a plan of action make up your mind

that you have the power within yourself to reinvent you you've got to work on it When other folk are having a good time, you've got to have the strength of character to concentrate, to read, to digest information. If you want it bad enough, nothing's going to stop you. Not fear, not somebody's opinion, not how hard your childhood was, not self-doubt, nothing will stop you. You can do what you put your mind to. And if you continue to put your mind to it, the game opens up new levels.

In each new level it gets opened up, you're able to adapt to different. mindset and a different approach. You can stop at that level or you can go, I want more levels. I want more fucking levels. You can make every dream you've ever had a reality, but you've got to be willing to stand and fight for it. You've got to be willing to give up your time for it. Give up your peace. Give up your blood. Give up your sweat. Give up your tears. Give every single thing you possibly can to that dream. And you think greatness goes on sale, but True quality never goes on sale. The only thing that goes on sale is cheap stuff.

The real high quality stuff, it costs what it costs. They're not trying to get somebody average to buy it. You've got to have a certain amount of money or you are not to be in here. Greatness costs what it costs. There is a price tag to greatness. Nobody's going to hand it to you. You've got to grind for it. You've got to stick with that thing for as long as it takes and pay what you.

Whatever price is required. And while you're suffering from self-doubt, other people are intimidated by your full potential. If your past self could see where you're at today, think of how impressed they would be. One of the greatest ways you can overcome self-doubt is to realize how far you've come. Maybe you're not exactly where you want to be, but you're a lot better than where you were. And the key is to wake up every single day, put one foot in front of the other, keep moving and keep growing. You gotta have some strong reasons for why you're doing this because when you get out into the arena of life, you're gonna get your ass kicked and your reasons will be the only thing that will keep you going.

When the dream is worth it to you, you'll go through hell to get it. Who cares how long it takes? What matters is that if it's something that gives your life value, you'll do whatever's required when you feel that it's worth it. You don't need any guarantees if things will work out. You don't need to know the outcome because you will be. know that you'll either find a way or make a way. When it's worth it, you exert greater effort. And greater effort releases the creative genius in you. When you go up in there and you start

going at it passionately and working with it and working with it and working with it, it will reveal its secrets to you. And you'll discover things about yourself that you don't know right now. Long enough of a lot of stuff will come against you. And you got to throw what you got at it. You can't throw what you wish you had. You can't throw what your neighbor had. You gotta throw what you got at it. Don't tell me that you want something if you're not willing to throw what you got at it. You got to have inner strength for this fight.

It's not your outer strength. It's not by might nor by power, but by my spirit. So you gotta have that inner strength, that gut strength, that belly strength, that devil-define come hell or high water strength. That tenacity to take a licket and keep on ticking, that inner strength that when I can't do as I would, I'm going to do as I can, but I'm not going to stop doing to the best of my ability. You are excellent. Now stop playing small. You are excellent.

Stop playing small. You are excellent. Stop taking the hand if they dealt you. Take ownership. If you can get all A's in the class, do it. You don't need nobody to give you $50, $100, no pair of shoes, take you on no trip. You a grown man. Do it because you can.

Stop needing to carry. Stop needing money. Stop needing a trip. Stop needing somebody to give you a sticker on your head. And do it for the part of who you are. Do it because you can. I don't care what your friends are doing. When you leave, what you're fighting for, what's your legacy, what you're going to do?

You say you a chap, but do you can't. practice like a champ. You say you a champ. Do you fight like a champ? You say you a champ. Do you add a mentality of a champ? I want you to go to the next level and not just be a champ, but show the world where the champion looks like. The powers that we have will never reveal themselves if we don't challenge them. If we don't put ourselves in a position where we have to use them. Put yourself in a position where you can't retreat, where it's do or die, sake or swim. Here's what you'll find out. You'll develop incredible swimming skills. You find yourself stroking unlike you've ever seen before. Through the inspiration of desperation, you'll become more

creative than ever before. And if we're honest this evening, we know that we haven't done all we can do. So as we look at the future, we can decide that from this day forward, as I look at all the dimensions of my life, looking at myself mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, I'm going to do all I can do to develop me, to bring my talent out here, to make a contribution, to life. Some people are born with extraordinary size, strength, speed, and talent, but without determination, that talent never flourishes. At the end of the day, talent will not win the game. It is work ethic that will win the game. No one is born a world champion.

The successful will do what they must, what they can to be the best, to be number one. You need to get so busy, so consumed, so obsessed with activity that you don't know about the celebrities that are getting a divorce. Like who cares, man? Why? Because I'm too damn busy, dude. Your success is going to come from activity, from being obsessed, from being so into it that you lose track of time. It is this type of determination that just happens to build tremendous confidence.

Confidence in knowing that most likely your competitors are not doing the same sacrifices. Determination gives you that mental edge. Life is going to test that will every time. Life is going to see how bad you want what you say you want. People think commitment is just saying, Yes, I'll do it. Because the environment is right and it's cute. But what commitment is, commitment is staying true to what you said you were going to do

long after the mood that you have set it in has left. Meaning when you don't feel like getting up in the morning, you get your butt up in the morning, you do what you said you were going to do anyway. Meaning when you don't feel like sacrifice and you get your butt up and you sacrifice anyway. Meaning when you don't feel like being dedicated to it, you stay your butt dedicated anyway because you understand what the process will go on to produce later on in your life. And we have to get to the point where we're willing to impose our will on certain things.

Impose your will on it. Life will give in to you if it knows you're serious about whatever it is that you're trying to do. Life will give in to you. When it falls down to it, I'm a go get her and I'm a flat-out going to get it. And nothing will not stop me from getting it. Enough may not be enough. 50 cars might not be enough. A hundred and twenty might not be enough.

I don't know. I'm just telling you that sometimes enough is not enough. is not enough and so what do you have to do you got to dig deep and find more it takes energy and it takes effort that's all you need to do to be successful you need to put more energy into what you doing to anybody else so you're getting up at four and ain't working get up at 3 30 so you read the book once and then you didn't get it read it twice read it three times I don't care what happened yesterday when you got up if your dream ain't a reality don't give up don't give in I just want you to go a little harder, put up a little bit more energy, give me a little bit more effort.

But don't give up and don't give in. There's going to be some struggles. Are you hearing me? Without struggle, there is no progress. But I'm telling you, you can do it, you can make it happen.