Steve Harey's Morning Inspiration - 8.28.26

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I sure will. Good morning, everybody. You are listening to
The Voice. Come on, dig me now. One and only
Steve Harvey got a radio show. Yeah, man. Steve Harvey
got a radio show. Trying to do something with it too, man.
You know, I was having a conversation the other day

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with a young person. And they were telling me how
they felt that their life was stuck. that their life
was in a rut, that they, uh, didn't know what
to do next. And one of the things that was
causing them, uh, this sadness or this depression, I mean,
they're really, really into something right now. One of the

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things that was causing it, um, was the fact that, um,
they had made a list of things they wanted to
accomplish by a certain age. And, um, They just had
a birthday recently and they were looking at the list

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and the list hadn't been fulfilled. And because that list
hadn't been fulfilled, they were really, really sad about it.
You know, one of the things that they had on
the list was marriage, kids, And I don't know everything

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else that was on the list, but that was one
of them. And because she had reached a certain age
and she wasn't married and she didn't have the kids
and she had just celebrated her birthday, she's gone into
this mode of sadness where it's really, really taken a
toll on her. And as I was learning about her situation,

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I was thinking about it. And I just wanted to
share this with you all this morning that one of
the things about making a list about what you want,
which I happen to be a proponent of, I do
it myself. I have people have dream boards. I have
a goal sheet. I have I've been doing it for years.
It's a wonderful way to set goals and to keep

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it in front of you as a constant reminder. And
I always go over this goal list every day. You know,
I mean, I go over it all the time, every day.
Sometimes I miss a day here and there, but mostly
every day I pull my goal sheet out and I
look at it, I read it. So I was going
to these rallies and I was learning about, you know,
people who were successful and how they kept their mind

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right and positive. And one of the things I learned
was to make these dream boards, these lists, these goal sheets.
And in making a goal sheet, and you make the
sheet according to what you want. Think about one thing.
When you made your goal sheet about what you wanted,
does your goal sheet have on it? What God wants

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from you? Did you ask in any of this? What
was his wheel in your life? You know, look, man,
what we want oftentimes is, is, is, is not what
he wants for us. And you know, if, If you're
fighting against what you were created for, if you're fighting
against his will, I mean, what do you want to happen? See,

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don't be so hard on yourself when you look at
your goal sheet and you look at what you've not become,
what you thought was a great idea. Don't be so
hard on yourself because you just made a minor mistake,
as do most people. We oftentimes make our goals and
set our goals up without ever considering what is it
that God wants from us. We keep talking about what

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we want without ever finding out or knowing what it
is God wants for us. Well, guess what, man? Maybe
you fighting against the grain. Maybe you just a salmon
heading upstream. That's a tough fight upstream. Not all salmons
get up to the spawning grounds. You know, some of
them don't make it upstream, you know, but all of them,
nearly all of them, except the ones that's killed by prey.

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When they spawn, they go out to the ocean. That's cool.
Cause you going, cause you going with the grain, you
going downstream, you going with the flow. That's, but, but
when it's time to go against the grain, It's tough.
And a lot of us have just been going against
the grain for all of these years. But you know what? Listen, man,
I did it. I know a lot of people who

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did it. Very few people get it right from the
very beginning. Man, you got to stumble through life sometimes.
Sometimes you got to fall through life. You got to
make a lot of mistakes, man. But these mistakes are
not failures. You know, when you fail at something, don't
look at it as a failure. Don't look at yourself
as a failure because you're 30 and your goals ain't

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reached that you had on your list. That was your list.
What about the things that's going right? Stop looking at
what you're not. Take some time out and thank God
for what you are. How about the fact that you
keep waking up to be 30? You know, you get
depressed about these birthdays. You really want to throw yourself
in some depression. Miss a birthday. You really got a

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problem now. Look at where you are. You keep reaching birthdays.
That's a glorious blessing. You keep waking up. You got
your health. You've accomplished something. Something on your list is done.
People spend too much time on the negative side and
you just throwing yourself into depression. So what you wanted
to be married by a certain age and you wanted
to have kids. Okay, cool. You could have done all

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that with the wrong person. There's a blessing in not
being married to the wrong person. There's a blessing in
not having kids and nobody to help you raise them.
There's a blessing in that, man. You're talking to somebody
who can tell it to you. You can marry the
wrong person if you want to. I'm telling you, you're
going to be up in some mess you can't count on.
So instead of being angry because you're not married, you

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don't have kids. Why don't you thank God, the man?
Maybe he spared you from some misery here. Maybe you
could have married the wrong person. Maybe you'd have kids
and you're not really ready to be a mother or
a father. You got to look at the upside, man.
Quit looking at what you don't have. Take some time
to thank God for what you do have. When you
do that, you make more room for blessings to flow
into your life. I'm not saying how God thinks because

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I really don't know. But I'm telling you, if a
person comes to me and I always give a person
something and they never appear grateful or they never say
thank you, please know you can quit coming to me. Now,
I don't know that's how God works because I've gone
back to him several times without being grateful or thanking him.

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And he's filled my basket up again. So I really
think he's not like that. But I can't make the
call for sure. But I think at one point in time, me,
just me talking, I'd be a little ticked off at
somebody who was always taking, taking, taking and never showing
any gratitude. At one point in time, I would just

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stop the flow of the take. You know, you just
you can't take no more from me. That's what I
would do. Now, I'm not calling it like that because
I ain't him, but I know he's merciful. He's full
of goodness and he and he'll forgive you again. And
thank God he does that because he's shown up done
it for me. But wow, man, take some time out
today and be grateful for what you have. Stop complaining

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about where you not and think about where you are
and then take it from there. And the next time
you make a list. Make sure on that list you
have God's will. What does he want for you? God create,
give everybody a gift and a talent. Some of us
never apply gifts and talents. We head off in another direction.
Then you wonder why your life ain't where it's supposed

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to be. Have you ever thought about what God gifted
you to do? Have you ever thought about doing that? Skip,
skip what you want. I wanted to play in the NBA,
but I got to tell you something. At dribbling and
shooting and running all at one time was throwing me
off a little bit. You know, they just, So I'm
doing what I do. It's pretty cool. You can look
at it that way, okay? You're listening to the Steve

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Harvey Morning Show.