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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, you know my closing remarks today.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Junior and I were talking early this morning and he
was asking me how I handle the different seasons in
life and how I cope with when you're having a
good season something going wrong. I just want to remind
people that the seasons in your life are just like
the seasons.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
In the weather.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You don't have a full say so on what goes
on in a particular season. You know, like spring is
given a certain day where it's the official start of spring.
But you can have an official start of spring and
then have a frost day afterwards. You can have an
official start of summer and run up in the thunderstorms
(00:47):
during the summer, which defies all of your seasonal expectations.
You can have a warm day in the winter. I
was in the first time I went to Chicago, but
when we were talking about on the TV show Up There,
I went to Chicago in January and my wife and
I went and she said, I love it here. It
(01:09):
was January. It was fifty some degrees in January. She went,
I love it here. We ain't seen that since because
because Chicago went right on back to being winter. Ain't
no fifty up there. And so what I was saying
to Junior was just like the seasons in wather, so
(01:33):
go the seasons of your life. You know, you're hear
preachers all the time saying this is your season, but
don't get confused, meaning that there won't be no challenges
or situations within your season. Don't be confused in that,
because this thing called life continues for us all. You
may be on a good run right now, but in
(01:53):
that good run, you're gonna have to face some challenges
because that is just the way life goes.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Look.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I fully expect great things to happen in my life.
But when the challenges and setbacks and hardships and trials
come my way, I know that's a part of it.
I deal with it and I get right on back
to my faith. I get right on back to it.
And what I mean by that is I stay in faith.
I have become a person now, man where God has
(02:23):
really really been working with me, and he's dealing with
me on a certain thing right now, especially when it
came to forgiveness. I had to forgive somebody recently that
I really, really man had some ill, ill feelings towards
I mean, some real, real ill feelings and I had
to forgive that person, and so I did. It was challenging,
(02:47):
but after I did it, it was really really better
for me. So look like, you know, like you'll be
on your way, like to setting a goal, You'll be
on your way to achieving a goal, and you'll be
working on your goal and everything will be going good.
Then all of a sudden, something go wrong on the
route to the goal. But let me ask you something,
don't it always Have you ever set out to accomplish
(03:11):
something and it went just the way you want it?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I haven't. I haven't.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I've never signed a deal and I got everything I
asked for. I haven't signed that deal. The old guy
taught me something one time. He says, Steve, you know
what a good deal is to sign when everybody who
signs it hurts a little bit. I said, what do
you mean by that? He say, you don't get as
much as you want it out the deal, and they
(03:37):
pay you more than they want it to out the deal.
He said, that's a good deal. Sign it, And that
right there has made all the sense in the world
to me. Now, look, you hear about these extravagant football contracts,
and you know, oh, what's his name? The quarterback for
Kansas City, Patrick Mahone gets a half a billion dollars
(04:00):
and you sit there and you go, but you all
gotta you gotta pay attention. Now, that ain't just a
clean half billion. They take taxes out of NFL players checks.
That's why you don't never hear of NFL players and
NBA players in tax trouble because they get take taxes
taken out off the top. And then Patrick got a manager,
(04:21):
Patrick got an agency, Patrick got legal fees. All that
come out. So in that one hundred percent of your money,
I'm telling you right now, almost seventy percent is gone.
People don't understand that. It's almost seventy percent. That's gone.
Forty percent to the government, six or seven percent whatever
(04:42):
your state tax is, ten percent to your agent, because
that agent that cut that contract, he.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Gonna get ten, fifteen whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You got some management, you got some agency that's getting
you all these commercials.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
They get a cut. Come on, man, you got publicists.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I have never signed a deal where I got everything
I wanted, But I've signed a lot of deals that
has allowed me to have a wonderful life. My theory
has always been some money is better than no money.
I had a young comedian tell me one time, man,
my fee is fifteen hundred a night. I said, okay,
that's cool, and then somebody offered him thirteen. I ain't
(05:18):
do it. I said why. He said, because my fee
is fifteen hundred. I say, but that's they cap at
they club is thirteen hundred. Well find two hundred more.
He didn't work that week. Now you can go tell
your jokes and get better and make thirteen hundred, or
you can hold on to that little ignorant mess you
got and get zero. It's so many things in life now.
(05:42):
I know I'm talking about seasons right now, but I'm
telling you that along the way in your season of prosperity,
things are still going to happen, even in your down
season where it's winter all over your life. I mean
it's blizzards and thunder storms and freezing temperatures. If you
(06:03):
wake up in the morning, that's a blessing. If you're
still healthy, that's a blessing. So see, even in your
darkest times, God is still right there. So deal with
your seasons as they come a may and understand it's
a thing called life and God will get you through
(06:24):
it as long as you keep in present. That's my
closing remarks today. Y'all have a great day today. Hey, listen,
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.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Cool alright. For all Steve Harvey contests, no purchase necessary,
void were prohibited.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old,
unless otherwise stated.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey FM dot com.
You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show
Hey, you know my closing remarks today.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Junior and I were talking early this morning and he
was asking me how I handle the different seasons in
life and how I cope with when you're having a
good season something going wrong. I just want to remind
people that the seasons in your life are just like
the seasons.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
In the weather.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You don't have a full say so on what goes
on in a particular season. You know, like spring is
given a certain day where it's the official start of spring.
But you can have an official start of spring and
then have a frost day afterwards. You can have an
official start of summer and run up in the thunderstorms
(00:47):
during the summer, which defies all of your seasonal expectations.
You can have a warm day in the winter. I
was in the first time I went to Chicago, but
when we were talking about on the TV show Up There,
I went to Chicago in January and my wife and
I went and she said, I love it here. It
(01:09):
was January. It was fifty some degrees in January. She went,
I love it here. We ain't seen that since because
because Chicago went right on back to being winter. Ain't
no fifty up there. And so what I was saying
to Junior was just like the seasons in wather, so
(01:33):
go the seasons of your life. You know, you're hear
preachers all the time saying this is your season, but
don't get confused, meaning that there won't be no challenges
or situations within your season. Don't be confused in that,
because this thing called life continues for us all. You
may be on a good run right now, but in
(01:53):
that good run, you're gonna have to face some challenges
because that is just the way life goes.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Look.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I fully expect great things to happen in my life.
But when the challenges and setbacks and hardships and trials
come my way, I know that's a part of it.
I deal with it and I get right on back
to my faith. I get right on back to it.
And what I mean by that is I stay in faith.
I have become a person now, man where God has
(02:23):
really really been working with me, and he's dealing with
me on a certain thing right now, especially when it
came to forgiveness. I had to forgive somebody recently that
I really, really man had some ill, ill feelings towards
I mean, some real, real ill feelings and I had
to forgive that person, and so I did. It was challenging,
(02:47):
but after I did it, it was really really better
for me. So look like, you know, like you'll be
on your way, like to setting a goal, You'll be
on your way to achieving a goal, and you'll be
working on your goal and everything will be going good.
Then all of a sudden, something go wrong on the
route to the goal. But let me ask you something,
don't it always Have you ever set out to accomplish
(03:11):
something and it went just the way you want it?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I haven't. I haven't.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I've never signed a deal and I got everything I
asked for. I haven't signed that deal. The old guy
taught me something one time. He says, Steve, you know
what a good deal is to sign when everybody who
signs it hurts a little bit. I said, what do
you mean by that? He say, you don't get as
much as you want it out the deal, and they
(03:37):
pay you more than they want it to out the deal.
He said, that's a good deal. Sign it, And that
right there has made all the sense in the world
to me. Now, look, you hear about these extravagant football contracts,
and you know, oh, what's his name? The quarterback for
Kansas City, Patrick Mahone gets a half a billion dollars
(04:00):
and you sit there and you go, but you all
gotta you gotta pay attention. Now, that ain't just a
clean half billion. They take taxes out of NFL players checks.
That's why you don't never hear of NFL players and
NBA players in tax trouble because they get take taxes
taken out off the top. And then Patrick got a manager,
(04:21):
Patrick got an agency, Patrick got legal fees. All that
come out. So in that one hundred percent of your money,
I'm telling you right now, almost seventy percent is gone.
People don't understand that. It's almost seventy percent. That's gone.
Forty percent to the government, six or seven percent whatever
(04:42):
your state tax is, ten percent to your agent, because
that agent that cut that contract, he.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Gonna get ten, fifteen whatever that is.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You got some management, you got some agency that's getting
you all these commercials.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
They get a cut. Come on, man, you got publicists.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I have never signed a deal where I got everything
I wanted, But I've signed a lot of deals that
has allowed me to have a wonderful life. My theory
has always been some money is better than no money.
I had a young comedian tell me one time, man,
my fee is fifteen hundred a night. I said, okay,
that's cool, and then somebody offered him thirteen. I ain't
(05:18):
do it. I said why. He said, because my fee
is fifteen hundred. I say, but that's they cap at
they club is thirteen hundred. Well find two hundred more.
He didn't work that week. Now you can go tell
your jokes and get better and make thirteen hundred, or
you can hold on to that little ignorant mess you
got and get zero. It's so many things in life now.
(05:42):
I know I'm talking about seasons right now, but I'm
telling you that along the way in your season of prosperity,
things are still going to happen, even in your down
season where it's winter all over your life. I mean
it's blizzards and thunder storms and freezing temperatures. If you
(06:03):
wake up in the morning, that's a blessing. If you're
still healthy, that's a blessing. So see, even in your
darkest times, God is still right there. So deal with
your seasons as they come a may and understand it's
a thing called life and God will get you through
(06:24):
it as long as you keep in present. That's my
closing remarks today. Y'all have a great day today. Hey, listen,
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.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Cool alright. For all Steve Harvey contests, no purchase necessary,
void were prohibited.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old,
unless otherwise stated.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey FM dot com.
You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show
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