Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott - YOU'VE GOT TO BE HUNGRY

Episode Date: April 28, 2024

Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe  —  Your level of hunger for success determines how far you will go. Spoken by Eric Thomas, Tony Robbins, David Goggins. You can see more of Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher, Tony Robbins at twitter.com/tonyrobbins, David Goggins at instagram.com/davidgoggins. The music is Sinking Into Flames by Really Slow Motion. You can see more of Really Slow Motion at facebook.com/ReallySlowMotion.

This is your year. This is your time. This is your moment. What are you going to do with it? Are you going to capture it or are you going to let it slip away? Eminem said it. If you had one shot, one opportunity to seize everything you've ever wanted, would you capture it or would you let it slip away?

And so I ask you the question, how bad do you want it? How bad do you want it? Do you want it as bad as you want to? breathe or do you just kind of want it? What's the single most important key to success above anything else? It's not talent, it's not skill, it's hunger. The common

backstory for the successful people is hunger. Intelligence is not it. There are people less intelligence, less skill, less ability to perform at a higher level because they've never lost their hunger. How do you create your life? You get hungry for something, don't you? If you get enough hunger going in you for an answer, you'll find the answer.

If you get a hungry enough inside of you that says, I got to take things to a next level. I got to achieve. I got to make a difference. I got to expand. You will find the answer. People's intelligence will expand if they got enough hunger. But if you got everything and you're not hungry, you're not going to have much.

Anybody can do anything and set their mind to. It depends on how bad you want it. And if you wanted as bad as you want to breathe, nobody can stop here. Personal power means the ability to take action, to follow through, to take the steps that are necessary, to take an idea and translate it in terms. reality. And it's the number one tool that most people like never exercise and the gift that every one of us has right now and in any moment in our life. You could start using your power. You could start following through. You could take this idea in your head and turn it into

physical reality. Whether the idea is how you want to make your relationship or the kind of money you want to make or a business you want to start. It doesn't matter. It is available right now. All you do is decide and then follow through. See, Michael Jackson can move the way he does because every single day, the question he asked himself is how can I make this best? Where focus goes, energy flows. What are you gonna focus on? Because whatever you focus on, you feel and you move towards. It's your decisions that are controlling your destiny.

So the first decision you make every moment is what are you gonna focus on? You wanna change your life, make a new choice. You wanna change your income, you can go to a million classes and making more money. Until you make a shift into what is a must for you, you won't. When you do, you'll find the way. Concentration of powers is this. If you focus on something every single day, and you have a shift day and you ask yourself, how can I improve it? And you demand from yourself that somehow

it has to get better, you will master that area of focus. I don't care what it is. And if you don't have what you want, stop telling yourself the story because you don't have the money, you have the time. 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. the power to hold on in spite of everything, the power to endure, the hunger, the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up. When you're hungry, you don't care about the facts. You don't care about the odds.

This is a winner's quality. You have that quality within you. The people that are running at their dreams are the people that are hungry that know if it's going to happen, it's up to them. They know they're going to have hard times. They keep running because they're saying within themselves, I'm the one no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets I'm going to make it commitment it means taking a stand taking a stand for you commit means to carry into action deliberately commit means to make it happen no matter what see

when you make a commitment I'm going to become wealthy when you make it important when you decide I'm going to do it no matter what life changes for you see most people don't keep their commitments to their commitments that's why they lead lives of misery, lives of unhappiness. Whatever commitment that you make, keep your commitment to your commitment, no matter what. If it's hard, then do it hard. We say, oh, it's too hard, it's too hard. We don't challenge our spirit. Ladies and gentlemen, there's nothing as powerful as a human spirit. You can't destroy it. You can pervert it, but you can't destroy. The universe responds to the man or woman that refuses to be denied. That business that you want, that book you

want to write. That dream that you have of controlling your destiny, that is your, but you've got to be willing to stand there and face disappointment, not have support, be lonely, doubt yourself sometime, be rejected again and again and again and again, and refuse to turn around until life gives it up. If you just decide, I'm going to keep my word, if I say something, I'm going to do it regardless. Be more disciplined, more focused. Don't look for any gains where there's been no sacrifice. game to improve, don't looking for the record to improve, without sacrifice, there are no gains. Only those who are willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. Look, you got a wanted as bad as you want to breathe.

And when you want it as bad as you want to breathe says, I'm willing to make any sacrifice, I'm willing to go through any pain, I'm willing to go through any suffering, I'm willing to go whatever and take. So when I get in there that I guarantee you at the end of it, I won't be the one that surrender. When you want something bad, you can't count the cost because if you count the cost and you see how much it costs, you might quit, you might give up so you gotta go in knowing that I don't count the cost. I do as many push-ups as it takes, as many reps as it takes, I study as long as it takes, I pay whatever the price is. Why?

Because if I start counting the cost, I might quit, I might give up, I might surrog, don't count the cost. You just do whatever it takes to get, whatever you want. In those times when you want to quit, you make sure you never want to think, all those times, hours and days he sacrificed me the best. You will never regret making a sacrifice ever.