I'M GOING TO DO IT

Weekly Motivation by Ben Lionel Scott

Ben Lionel Scott

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Become a Member for ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — Every setback is just a chapter, not the end. Wear scars proudly, as they show resilience. Always strive for better, face hardships head-on, and trust in your ability to overcome. Spoken by Les Brown, Jocko Willink, Eric Thomas. You can see more of Les Brown at instagram.com/thelesbrownJocko Willink at instagram.com/jockowillink, Eric Thomas at instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher. The music is This Is Why I Was Born by 8Dawn. You can see more of 8Dawn at facebook.com/8Dawn.

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0:00.0	Most people, ladies and gentlemen, are stoppable.
0:06.2	Most people, all you have to do is tell them no.
0:10.5	All you have to do is make it inconvenient for them.
0:13.7	All you have to do is throw some issues and challenges their way.
0:19.3	And they give up.
0:22.6	They throw in the towel. They surrender.
0:24.6	See, those people don't realize that it goes with the territory.
0:28.6	That when you want to grow, when you want to achieve, when you want to experience more,
0:33.6	all hell will break loose.
0:36.6	Everything that can happen will happen.
0:40.4	It's one thing to believe when you've got money in your pocket.
0:43.5	It's one thing to believe when your marriage is working out and you've got your health, it's
0:49.4	easy to believe then.
0:50.9	But it's another thing when you get that diagnosis that says you're not going to be
0:56.0	around much longer. When you lose your job, when someone you thought you'd be with for the rest of
1:01.5	your life says no, we can't do this anymore. That's when you have to dig deep. That's when you
1:07.8	got to find something within you that won't be denied. There is something about you, there is a power within you, that regardless of what happens to you, you can stand up inside of yourself and declare, I am going to do it.
1:23.6	You've got to get to the point in your life where you say, I have had it. I'm not going to like this anymore. No, there's gotta be more for me. You gotta draw the line. You gotta say enough is enough and I'm not gonna let anything stop me. Don't go through life feeling like you're powerless. Victims are people that are powerless. You're not powerless. You're not a victim. You are powerful.
1:45.8	In the chaos is an opportunity. If you can learn to harness the pain you're going through, you can rise to the challenge and refuse to allow the chaos around you to determine the conqueror within you.
1:58.0	Resisting the toe to go down and standing fiercely in spite of the opposition
2:02.4	and saying, I'm going to do it anyway, but you don't know what's happened to me. It doesn't
2:07.8	fucking matter what has happened to you. The only thing that really matters is what are you
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