April 15, 2024 • 7 mins
Today in Closing Remarks, the reality is talked about. Dreams are only dreams until they turn into goals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's break up the day. Been a pretty good day,
interesting day, Steve. Now it's time for you to drop
some knowledge with our closing remarks. What your cat for
us today?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, big dog, Yeah, today, I want to remind everybody
of something that gets overlooked from time to time. But
if you want to be successful and you want to
be happy, if your happiness is sometimes as it often is,
tied to your success, and if your success, oftentimes as
(00:32):
it is, it is tied to your happiness, the two
kind of go hand in hand almost, But now you
have to be using your definition of success and not
somebody else's. If you're using someone else's definition of success,
you're never going to be happy, whether they've aimed too
(00:53):
high for you or they've aimed too low for you.
If you're using somebody else's aim going to be happy
because those two are, I'm sorry, tied together. I'm happy
if i'm successful. If I'm not successful, I'm not going
to be happy because I'm going to feel like there's
(01:17):
something else I could be doing for my family, as
something else I could be doing for my future. It's
something else I could be doing to make it work.
And so my success is tied to my happiness, and
my happiness is tied to my success. Now do I
take times off from all of it and just sit
around and be grateful and happy for where I am?
(01:38):
Of course, all the time. Gratitude is a huge part
of what the principles of success. That's oftentimes to overlooked. Yeah,
I often sit around and just smell the roses, just
take a breath of fresh air and go mad. I'm
awful grateful for where I am. God, not meaning that
I don't want more, but I oftentimes stop and thank
(01:59):
Him for right where I am, because where we are
is pretty good compared to where we were. But now,
with all that said, let me share something with you.
If you want to be happy and successful, you are
going to have to put out a massive effort.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Period.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Stop thinking it's going to happen any other way. You
have got to put out a massive effort. You gotta
get at it, you gotta grind, you gotta want it.
It's got to burn a little bit on the inside
of you. It's got to make you uncomfortable not being
where you want to be. You got to have a
(02:42):
I'm gonna get it attitude in order for it to
get God. Period. You gotta have a I'm gonna get
it attitude in order for it to get God. Period.
That's the deal. No substitutions, no alternatives. This ain't sugar.
You can't use splendor in dead. This ain't sugar. This
(03:03):
is life. You have to go get it now. All
no alternatives. Well, you can pick some alternatives, but you're
not gonna be happy and successful. You got to get
a little bit of dog in you. I'm sorry. Everybody
got to have some dog in you. You gotta have
some bite back, you gotta have some fight. You're gonna
have to have a little bit of kick, and sometime
(03:25):
the kick has to come from yourself. You can't to
quit looking for other people to always give you that
little kick in the rear in to get you started,
that little jump started in the morning, to encourage you.
What if they need encouraging What if they ain't get
they jump start for the day and you waiting on
they call and their encouraging word. Man, let me tell
you something. These are people that you're waiting on to
help you. People fail all the time. Every person needs
(03:49):
the Lord God Almighty. So that might be one of
the mornings where they need him, and they don't have
nothing for you. Take your faith out of man, put
your faith in God and get at it. You and
God can make it. That'd be great if you had
a friend along the way, of course it would be.
But sometimes you're in a pattern where you got to
learn that it ain't nobody but you and him. Sometimes
(04:11):
sometimes you just need to know it ain't nobody but
you and God. That really ain't a bad place to be.
It really ain't. I've got some of my best results
out of my life when I just asked God for
the help, when I didn't call nobody else to see
what they thought about it. When I've went to God,
(04:32):
just God, I've gotten my best results. I'm just gonna
be honest with you. But you got to get at it, though.
Quit expecting God to just bless you with something and
you ain't giving him nothing to put his finger on
the touch you make one step, he'll make two. You
got to be a producer out here. You got to
go out of here and get out something. Quit asking
(04:54):
God for a job and you ain't putting no applications in.
Stop wasting his time and yours too. It's like the
story the man said you know, I've been praying. I've
been praying to God to hit the lottery. I just
been praying to the Lord to hit the lottery. One day,
the man just kept hearing him say that. He said, well,
do you play the lottery? He said, no, What kind
(05:14):
of prayers that you praying to God to hit the
lottery but you're not playing the lottery? What that don't
make no sense. If you want God to touch your life,
give him something to touch, an effort, put in a request,
be sincere. But I've decided that I'm gonna attempt so
(05:35):
many things that's within my gift and in my realm
that I'm gonna ask God to bless me with his grace.
He got something to bless. He just keeps on making
stuff happen for me. He just keeps on opening doors
for me. He just keeps on putting the right people
in front of me. Oh and it may look like
the deal ain't gonna happen, as oftentimes many of them do.
(05:58):
But at the end of the day, it always work out.
But man, you got to get at it, y'all. You
got to get off your butts and get at it.
Ain't nobody finna walk no checks up to you and
hand them to you. You got to get out here
and get at it. Dreams ain't nothing but dreams. Until
you put some work behind them, they become goals. You
(06:18):
gotta put some work behind these dreams. That's my clothes remarks. Hey,
listen to me, y'all, talk to God today. He would
absolutely love to hear from you. And it don't matter
if it's been a while. I think I'm gonna do
to just that too. All right, y'all have a.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
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we're prohibited. Participants must be legal US residents at least
eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules,
(06:54):
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Morning Show
Let's break up the day. Been a pretty good day,
interesting day, Steve. Now it's time for you to drop
some knowledge with our closing remarks. What your cat for
us today?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, big dog, Yeah, today, I want to remind everybody
of something that gets overlooked from time to time. But
if you want to be successful and you want to
be happy, if your happiness is sometimes as it often is,
tied to your success, and if your success, oftentimes as
(00:32):
it is, it is tied to your happiness, the two
kind of go hand in hand almost, But now you
have to be using your definition of success and not
somebody else's. If you're using someone else's definition of success,
you're never going to be happy, whether they've aimed too
(00:53):
high for you or they've aimed too low for you.
If you're using somebody else's aim going to be happy
because those two are, I'm sorry, tied together. I'm happy
if i'm successful. If I'm not successful, I'm not going
to be happy because I'm going to feel like there's
(01:17):
something else I could be doing for my family, as
something else I could be doing for my future. It's
something else I could be doing to make it work.
And so my success is tied to my happiness, and
my happiness is tied to my success. Now do I
take times off from all of it and just sit
around and be grateful and happy for where I am?
(01:38):
Of course, all the time. Gratitude is a huge part
of what the principles of success. That's oftentimes to overlooked. Yeah,
I often sit around and just smell the roses, just
take a breath of fresh air and go mad. I'm
awful grateful for where I am. God, not meaning that
I don't want more, but I oftentimes stop and thank
(01:59):
Him for right where I am, because where we are
is pretty good compared to where we were. But now,
with all that said, let me share something with you.
If you want to be happy and successful, you are
going to have to put out a massive effort.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Period.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Stop thinking it's going to happen any other way. You
have got to put out a massive effort. You gotta
get at it, you gotta grind, you gotta want it.
It's got to burn a little bit on the inside
of you. It's got to make you uncomfortable not being
where you want to be. You got to have a
(02:42):
I'm gonna get it attitude in order for it to
get God. Period. You gotta have a I'm gonna get
it attitude in order for it to get God. Period.
That's the deal. No substitutions, no alternatives. This ain't sugar.
You can't use splendor in dead. This ain't sugar. This
(03:03):
is life. You have to go get it now. All
no alternatives. Well, you can pick some alternatives, but you're
not gonna be happy and successful. You got to get
a little bit of dog in you. I'm sorry. Everybody
got to have some dog in you. You gotta have
some bite back, you gotta have some fight. You're gonna
have to have a little bit of kick, and sometime
(03:25):
the kick has to come from yourself. You can't to
quit looking for other people to always give you that
little kick in the rear in to get you started,
that little jump started in the morning, to encourage you.
What if they need encouraging What if they ain't get
they jump start for the day and you waiting on
they call and their encouraging word. Man, let me tell
you something. These are people that you're waiting on to
help you. People fail all the time. Every person needs
(03:49):
the Lord God Almighty. So that might be one of
the mornings where they need him, and they don't have
nothing for you. Take your faith out of man, put
your faith in God and get at it. You and
God can make it. That'd be great if you had
a friend along the way, of course it would be.
But sometimes you're in a pattern where you got to
learn that it ain't nobody but you and him. Sometimes
(04:11):
sometimes you just need to know it ain't nobody but
you and God. That really ain't a bad place to be.
It really ain't. I've got some of my best results
out of my life when I just asked God for
the help, when I didn't call nobody else to see
what they thought about it. When I've went to God,
(04:32):
just God, I've gotten my best results. I'm just gonna
be honest with you. But you got to get at it, though.
Quit expecting God to just bless you with something and
you ain't giving him nothing to put his finger on
the touch you make one step, he'll make two. You
got to be a producer out here. You got to
go out of here and get out something. Quit asking
(04:54):
God for a job and you ain't putting no applications in.
Stop wasting his time and yours too. It's like the
story the man said you know, I've been praying. I've
been praying to God to hit the lottery. I just
been praying to the Lord to hit the lottery. One day,
the man just kept hearing him say that. He said, well,
do you play the lottery? He said, no, What kind
(05:14):
of prayers that you praying to God to hit the
lottery but you're not playing the lottery? What that don't
make no sense. If you want God to touch your life,
give him something to touch, an effort, put in a request,
be sincere. But I've decided that I'm gonna attempt so
(05:35):
many things that's within my gift and in my realm
that I'm gonna ask God to bless me with his grace.
He got something to bless. He just keeps on making
stuff happen for me. He just keeps on opening doors
for me. He just keeps on putting the right people
in front of me. Oh and it may look like
the deal ain't gonna happen, as oftentimes many of them do.
(05:58):
But at the end of the day, it always work out.
But man, you got to get at it, y'all. You
got to get off your butts and get at it.
Ain't nobody finna walk no checks up to you and
hand them to you. You got to get out here
and get at it. Dreams ain't nothing but dreams. Until
you put some work behind them, they become goals. You
(06:18):
gotta put some work behind these dreams. That's my clothes remarks. Hey,
listen to me, y'all, talk to God today. He would
absolutely love to hear from you. And it don't matter
if it's been a while. I think I'm gonna do
to just that too. All right, y'all have a.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Go for all Steve Harvey contests. No purchase necessary, void
we're prohibited. Participants must be legal US residents at least
eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules,
(06:54):
visit Steve Harvey FM dot com. You're listening Steve Harvey
Morning Show
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