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This episode is/was in early access for members from Sat, 21 Jun 2025 until Thu, 26 Jun 2025. Become a Member for early access, ad-free listening, video versions and exclusive content: https://benlionelscott.com/subscribe — No more waiting. No more coming up with the perfect plan. No more excuses. Get to work. Nothing happens until something moves. Spoken by: John Maxwell twitter.com/JohnCMaxwell Mel Robbins instagram.com/melrobbins Andy Frisella instagram.com/andyfrisella Eric Thomas instagram.com/etthehiphoppreacher Jocko Willink instagram.com/jockowillink Trent Shelton…
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Everything worthwhile is uphill. Everything. There’s nothing quick. There’s nothing easy. There’s nothing fast. There are no shortcuts to success. It’s all uphill. We need to accept that life is difficult. Life is challenging. Life is tough. Life’s not easy. Always has been. Always will be. The problem is we have uphill hopes, we have downhill habits. And downhill isn’t going to get us where we want to get. No one is going to come into your life and do the work for you.
No one is coming to save you. No one is coming to walk over and turn off Netflix. No one is coming to tell you to get out the door and go on a run. No one is coming to tell you to pick up the phone and make the phone call. It’s up to you. And it’s always going to be up to you. And whether you succeed or whether or not you fail is up to you. Action separates the players from the pretenders. Nothing happens until you take action. Talk equals regrets.
Action equals results. If you can believe it, you can achieve it. This is something that you hear a lot of. But guess what? Belief by itself doesn’t get you anything. Everyone wants some magic pill, some life hack that eliminates the need to do the work, but that does not exist. No. You know what you need to do. It’s in your mind right now. So make yourself do it. You’ve got to hold the line. You’ve got to make it happen. Work. Action. Actually doing something.
That’s what you have to do to achieve anything. Don’t think anymore. Don’t plan anymore. Don’t make anymore excuses or justifications. No. Eventually, you know what you gotta do? You gotta do the work. Don’t keep playing around. Yeah, you gotta believe it, but you better get the work done. Every person who has experienced the highest levels of success was the type of person of pure action. It wasn’t because they had a great idea or a breathtaking dream, but because they executed that idea and acted to turn that dream into reality.
So the most life-changing thing you can do for yourself is to stop f*cking dreaming and start f*cking doing. stop excusing and start executing. Stop wondering why you don’t have the resources and opportunities that other people do and stop whining about all your so-called problems and get to f*cking work. You got to make a decision that you are not going to be like everybody else. You are not going to f*cking do what they do. You are not going to live how they live.
You are not going to eat how they eat. You’re not going to drink how they drink. You’re not going to do the kind of work they f*cking do. And then you’ve got to go do that. And you’ve got to do it one day at a time. Violence of action. Go on the attack. You start feeling that procrastination set in? Attack it. With violence of action. And start doing what you’re supposed to do. If you could fix procrastination, what would your life be like? You better wake up every single day, and when you wake up, you better create your own sense of urgency.
Because some kind of way, urgency is a motivator. If this year was your last year, how would you live it? How would you show up? Not just for yourself, but for your kids, but for your spouse, for your parents, for your brothers and sisters? I’m talking about healthy urgency. To say, you know what? I’m not gonna waste a day. I’m not gonna waste a moment. I’m not gonna waste my life anymore. And your f*cking life tells the story. There ain’t no f*cking unfair bullsh*t happening here.
You’re not a f*cking victim. You’re a victim of yourself. You’re a victim of your own f*cking b*tch ass voice that tells you not to do the sh*t that you know you’re supposed to do. Plan what you do and then do what you plan. People who are extremely driven, extremely successful, they have the ability to mentally flip that switch to where they don’t have a choice, but to do the things they need to do. ’Cause they’ll talk as if they don’t have a choice.
they think that if they don’t succeed, their world will end. And you know what? Their world will end. Because that’s how much f*cking pride, and how much focus, and how much intensity and how much drive, and how much value they put on success. To where if they don’t get to where they want to go, their life will have been a waste. And too many people look for a scapegoat to pass the blame for their lack of progress in any area when they should be looking in the mirror and asking themselves, have I done the work?
Look at anybody who’s in great physical shape. You don’t see them out drinking beers every f*cking night. No, they’re at the f*cking gym. And guess what they’re doing at the gym? They’re working the f*cking plan. Winners believe in cause and effect. Winners understand that they’re in control. And winners do what they’ve got to do, whether they feel like it or not.
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