CONTROL YOURSELF

Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott

Ben Lionel Scott

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — You're not where you want to be because of your excuses. Acknowledge this, stop taking easy paths, and discipline yourself for real change. Spoken by Les Brown, Eric Thomas, Jocko Willink, David Goggins. You can see more of Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrown, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher, Jocko Willink at instagram.com/jockowillink, David Goggins at instagram.com/davidgoggins. The music is BURN by 2WEI. You can see more of 2WEI at twitter.com/2weimusic.

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0:00.0	You are not where you want to be in your life right now.
0:04.4	Not because of your struggles, not because of the opposition, not because of the forces against you.
0:11.5	You are not where you want to be because of you.
0:16.2	You are the only one who holds you back.
0:21.6	It's all you.
0:23.0	You tell yourself all these lies, reasons,
0:26.7	justifications to why you're not winning in life.
0:29.4	I'm too tired.
0:30.5	I need to rest.
0:31.6	I don't have the right gear.
0:33.1	I don't have enough money.
0:34.6	I don't have time.
0:35.9	Something else is more important.
0:38.4	The day you'll start to actually make changes in your life to move forward is the day you acknowledge that all those
0:44.7	excuses are bullshit. They're all fabricated lies to make you feel better about taking the easy road.
0:52.8	And when you take the easy road, it'll be more comfortable.
0:56.7	It'll make you feel warm and safe and not too stressed, but only in the short term. Long term,
1:04.2	it'll create a nightmare. Things will begin to fall apart. But if you decide that you are willing
1:10.5	to deal with those tedious, annoying,
1:13.8	and hard tasks today that you know needs to be done, you start paving a road to a life that will
1:22.4	be smooth in the long term. Doing what's easy makes life hard,
1:29.2	but doing what's hard makes life easy.
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