Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - YOU CAN MAKE IT

Episode Date: November 24, 2022

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — This episode is spoken by TD Jakes, Les Brown, Eric Thomas. You can see more of TD Jakes at instagram.com/bishopjakes, Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher. The music is No Time To Die (Edit) by Hans Zimmer and Billie Eilish. You can see more of Hans Zimmer and Billie Eilish at instagram.com/hanszimmer and Billie Eilish at instagram.com/billieeilish.

Discouragement can creep in secretly and tell you life is not worth living. If you listen at discouragement, you will wonder if you're ever going to get out of what you're into. Don't make a permanent decision over a temporary circumstance. If you don't like where you had, don't worry about it. It's just step. You don't like how you're at. feel right now, stop crying. It's just a step. Why are you up all night crying? We're being worried over one step in the whole topography of your life. You can't judge your life by where

you are in this moment. Do you not know that what you're worried about will pass? Don't you understand that one day you won't look back and laugh at the thing that kept you up all night? Don't you understand that it's not nearly as major as you thought it was? You can live without your house. You can live without your car, you can live without your friend, you can live without your husband, you can live without your wife. I measure the value of a man by how hard he presses. How hard you press tells me how hard you hit. Energy is measured by motion. That's why the devil wants you to sit and feel sorry for yourself.

But you ought to blow the devil's mind this morning. Just when he think he got you down, you ought to shock him and press. You better not start crying on the steps. You better not give up on the steps. You better not collapse on the steps. I don't care whether sunshine or rain, play as you're a pay. When you get up in the border,

put your pay as home and craft! And you've got to believe even if there's no reason to believe. When everything appear to be going wrong, you're working on your dreams, and somebody that you love and trust decide to walk out on you, you've still got to believe. When you see those things that you've been working on crumble in your face, you still got to believe.

When friends who should be a source of strength and encouragement, Relatives who should be there to inspire you and motivate you and tell you, you can't do it, you still have got to believe. With no money in your pocket and bit of times more a month left at the end of the month, then after your money, you don't know how you're going to make it. You know your paychecks gone before you get. You still got to believe. I don't care what it takes. I don't care how many speeches I have to give, how many seminars I have to give. I know I ain't got the money.

I know I don't have the education, but I ain't going to let that stop me. I'm going to do it. I fought my way up. I fought to get up on my feet. I fought to carry on. I fought to live. I fought to get out the bed. I fought with my fears, my anxieties, my insecurities.

I fought with haters, liars, backbiders and betrayers. And many times I laid in the bed, I couldn't go to sleep because I was fighting with myself. I fought. I lost a lot of friends. I lost a lot of strength. I lost a lot of time. I lost a lot of money down on my knees. I was still believing.

Broke, I was believing, lonely I was believing, betrayed, I was still believing. And no matter what you're going through, as long as you still have breath in your body, as long as you're still alive, you're still in the game. Because any time you wake up and you don't have a white chalk outline around your body, it's a great day. It's possible you can live your dream. And if life's got you backed up, you can't quit, you can't give up, you can stop. You fail in class, get back up and try again. You lose a job, get back up and try again. put all your money in investment, get back and try it again.

If you start a business and it don't work, don't stop, don't quit. Your obstacles are not obstacles. They're there to teach you. They're there to forge you into a fucking machine. You are one idea away from what you saw in your dreams. You are one idea away. Because out of your hand comes your thoughts. And out of your thoughts comes your companies, your self-perception, your creativity.

And so every night I'm dead, you need to get your head to die!