Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - YOU MUST STAY FOCUSED

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe  —  Your level of focus will determine how far you go. Spoken by Eric Thomas, Andy Frisella, Les Brown, Tyrese Gibson, Robin Sharma. You can see more of Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher, Andy Frisella at instagram.com/andyfrisella, Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, Tyrese Gibson at twitter.com/tyrese, Robin Sharma at instagram.com/robinsharma. The music is I Can Get It Back by Zack Hemsey. You can see more of Zack Hemsey at facebook.com/zackhemseymusic.

Where is the wealthiest place in the world? Do you know? It's the graveyard. Because in the graveyard, you will find inventions never invented. Business is never erected. Songs never sons. Books never written. Ideas never nurture.

People never realized. Because they never prioritized their dreams. They never made them important enough. The things that are the most important to you are the things that get done. I need you to reevaluate what you're prioritizing in your life. Are the things you're doing each day, the things that are going to move you forward in life, lead you to a happier, healthier, more fulfilling life, or are you wondering around distracted, caught up in the noise and chaos of social media, news, or what's happening around you?

Your focus, your attention is a laser. And what you point that laser at is what will grow and, increase. So I need you to focus on what you are focusing on. Be aware of how you are using your attention and direct it towards where you want to go in your life. You are where you are because of who you are. And if you're going to get somewhere else, you're going to have to change something. I don't care what happens in your life. I don't care what it looks like. I don't care where you are. Every single day you wake up, if you're going to have energy, if you're going to have passion, if you're going to have drive.

Every day you wake up, you've got to start with that vision. Every day when I wake up, people say, why are you so excited? Because I have a mental picture of where I want to be. I have a mental picture of what I want to do. And even when I was in an abandoned building, I saw that I would not be an abandoned building forever.

And I was homeless once. Now I own two homes. Because although my circumstance was homeless, my vision wasn't. The first level to success in life, the very first level is you seeing Like it's clear to you. You know exactly what you want.

You know exactly when you want it. You know exactly what it tastes like. You know what it looked like. Before you really blow up, blow up and you get success, you literally have it in the palm of your hand without amnance. What does your dream look like? What does it smell like? What does it taste like?

What do you want in your health? What do you want financially? Like, how much money do you want to make a year? How do you want to live? Stop just waking up like an accident. What do you want to live? do you want? And then once you find out what you want, spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it. Look at your belief system every single day and stick with it.

Don't rush the process. Trust the process. Don't rush the process. Trust the process. Don't rush the process. Don't rush the process. Trust the process. Stop looking for affirmation. Stop looking for somebody to pat you on the back. And you just get up on Monday and gride and get up on Tuesday and grine. and get up on Wednesday and grind and get up on Thursday and grind and get up on Friday and grind and if you grind no days off no holidays no snow day

no weekends off no birthdays you heard me and you keep grinding and you stay persistent and you locked in one day you're going to wake up and you're going to be exactly where you bring you leave because it's easy to say

I want to be this and I want to do that hey I want to be significant hey I want my life to matter hey I want to be a millionaire hey I want to drive a fucking Lamborghini but unless your actions on a day daily basis reflect that goal every single time, every single move, every single second that you're awake, your goals aren't really your goals.

You're just full of shit. Because if you really want it, nothing would stop you. All of the silly things that happen that we let slow us down is related to our lack of hunger and desperation. So how desperate are you for what you want? Everybody wants to wait and put off the things they truly want in their lives for tomorrow, Your mystical place where 99% of dreams go to die. It's, oh, well, you know what? I didn't get that much today.

It's okay. I'll wait till tomorrow. Tomorrow's going to be there. No, tomorrow isn't going to fucking be there. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow. Ain't no such thing as tomorrow. We only got today. What I've learned about the greats

is that they understand it's a sense of urgency that once the clock goes out, it's a W or an L. You either win or you lose. There's a sense of urgency. You don't have as much time as you think you do. And so you've got to pick. You're walking too slow.

Pick up the pace. You're moving too slow. Pick up the pace. You don't have a lot of time. You only got 24 hours. So all of your energy needs to go into your goal. Why? Because I love myself too much to get distracted.

I love myself too much not to execute. I need you to stop just randomly letting stuff happen to you. And I need you to take over your life. And a schedule is about bossing your time. The secret is to make a plan, execute the plan, come assess with the plan and make it your entire life from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed for 20 fucking years. It takes dedication. It takes time. It takes effort. It takes obsessive, ridiculous amounts of effort. I get sick and tired of people telling me how bad they want it, yet their actions don't back up that statement.

Don't be somebody who talks shit. Be somebody who does shit.