Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 02.20.23

Today in Closing Remarks, Steve talks about taking inventory.  He also shares an analogy about pruning trees because there is a powerful message.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Steve, last break of the day. Please leave
us with some closing remarks, like only you can. This
is to help you make ready for your blessings. Now,
what I'm gonna give you is gonna be hard for
most people to do. I already know that it was

(00:20):
difficult for me to do. But a very very wealthy
person taught this to me. I didn't think much of
it until I did it, and boil, boil, boy, did
it help make room for what God had for me?
Not only that it freed me up. And I'll tell

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you what this very very successful people person told me.
If I told you his name, you probably wouldn't know him.
He's not famous, he's just extremely wealthy. And when I
tell you extremely wealthy, I mean it. But if I
said his name, you wouldn't even notice guy. If I
showed your picture of him, the average person wouldn't even
know who he was. But he taught this to me.

(01:05):
He said, in your journey, if you want to really
clear the slate, get a fresh start and prepare yourself
to receive what all God has for you, you have
to take inventory of the people in your life. And
when you take this inventory, you are going to have
to act as though you are a gardener. You are

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a gardener with a grove, and your grove is your life.
The things you want to bear fruit from God, your trees.
You want apples this season, you want lemons, you want grapefruits,
you want peaches, you want pass plums. You've got to
take care of your orchard in order to take care
of your archard. I notice you've all noticed that from

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time to time you see the gardeners outside pruning trees.
They cutting them back, They're clipping dead ends off. You
know why, because that maximizes the growth of the good
and the tree. If you take the dead, unnecessary branches off,
the withering ends, it allows for the tree to bad

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more fruit. So, Steve, how do you take inventory of people?
This is what he taught me. He said, you have
three kinds of people in your life. He said, you
have people who approach you with nothing but bad news.
All of us know him. Everybody has somebody that walks

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up to them and every time they start talking something wrong,
or every time they give you a phone call, they
bring you bad news. And the bad news don't just
be about them. They bring you bad news about you.
Did you hear that though they were saying about you
down here, and you just go mad. Have you ever
had a person that every time they came up to you,

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you just felt dark because they just bought bad news.
Those people that you have in your life, you don't
need them. I want you to put go through your
phone contacts and everybody that is no good, that never
moves your life forward, doesn't give you any helpful advice,

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doesn't help you aid you in any way, has nothing
but bad news and want something for you. One side
of friendships, I want you to put a dot next
to that contact name, a black dot. The next person
you have in your life are called sometimy people. They
the fifty fifties in your life. They cooled over here
as long as you're doing this, but they're not cool

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over here. You can take them here, but you can't
take them there. You can discuss this, but you can't
bring up that. You can lead them that way, but
you can't show them the other way. Sometimes they cool
with you about stuff, sometimes they ain't. Those are called
sometimy people or what we're gonna call fifty fifty people.

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Everybody got them in their life. When you have a
fifty fifty person. What I want you to do is
put an asterid by their name. That contact put an asterid.
Remember all the bad news people that's always bringing you
bad news in darkness, a black dot next to their name.
The next person is the fifty fifty person. They sometime

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they're cool here, they ain't cool that put an asterid
by their name. The last person that you know are
people who are very supportive of you, People who are
willing to pray for you, people who always try to
be uplifting, people who when they got news for you,
they try to make it of the positive nature. A

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person who comes to your aid and your rescue. A
person that picks up the phone just to see how
you're doing, and you bet not mention that something's wrong,
because here they come. It's people in your life, man,
that you don't even have to talk when you're around them.
You could just sit and be stealing, y'all. Just cool
like that. Everybody got that ride or die that. I

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don't care what you tell them. They don't pass judgment.
They just your friends. Well, when you have that person,
and I'm gonna be real honest with you, it ain't
a whole lot of them. I want you to put
a check by their name, so you got a black
dot next to the dark people who bring you none
but bad news, negativity, something wrong. Every time, you got

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an asterick by the name of the people who are fifty, fifty,
sometimey people, and you got a check by the people
that's always supported prayer for bringing you good news. Now
here's what you do. I want you to take everybody
with a black dot next to their name, and everybody
with an asterisk next to their name, and I want
you to block them as your contact, block them out

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your phone, and block them from your email if they family,
block them from your phone and locked them from your email.
All I want you to have is people who have
your phone number that have a check by your name.
You're gonna lose a lot of people, but guess what,
you're gonna gain a lot of ground. You don't have
no idea how much time you waste with people in

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your life who are fifty to fifty and always got
bad news. If you eliminate them, you've cleaned house, your
inventories cleaned. You now have cleared room to receive the
blessings God have for you in this year. I dare
you to try it. It works, It sounds cruel, it
sounds like it's hurtful, but man, if you want to win,
you gotta do it. Those are my closing email. Drop

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