Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 07.02.24

Today in Closing Remarks, Steve talks about times limit and why it is important to just go for it.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we are, Steve, last break of the
day on this Tuesday, and you're gonna leave us with
some closing remarks. It was a pretty good day today,
wouldn't you.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Say, Yeah, a pretty good day. I got something for
you though. All right, let's go in the vein of
encouraging people. I want to inspire people to go for it. Okay, Steve,
what you're talking about, whatever it is, whatever it is
that you've been hesitating about, whatever it is that you've

(00:30):
been procrastinating about, whatever it is that you've been waiting
on the right time, whatever it is that you've kind
of been fearful of. I want you to go for it.

(00:51):
And I'm gonna tell you why, man, Because this thing
we have called life in the totals scheme of the
evolution of the world and all that it is, we
all have such a very short time here, and oftentimes
it seems like some of the good ones times absolutely

(01:12):
gets cut just way too short. But I want to
encourage you to go for it. Now. Is it gonna
take a deep breath to go for it? Yes it will.
Is it gonna take a bold spirit to go for it?
Yes it will. Is it gonna take some risks to
go for it. Probably is it going to require a

(01:35):
tough decision to make. I'm sure it is, but I'm
telling you that it will be well worth the decision
to go for it. I was at the mentoring camp
and I was showing that young kids my vision board
and some adults were there, and the kids were just

(01:59):
glued to what I was telling them about accomplishing your dreams.
But some adults, who had been whipped by life a
little bit, I would imagine as I had and everything,
they couldn't quite see what I was saying. So a
guy came up to me afterwards and he said, you know,

(02:19):
mister Harvey, not to discourage you in any way, but
that's a really really lofty financial goal you have of making.
Do you really think you need that much money? I said, no, no,
I don't. He said, well, why would you run the
risk of disappointing yourself by aiming at something that you

(02:42):
might not get to Because that number you got with
a three on it, I mean, he said, hey, man,
what happens if you only get one of those? I said,
if I got one of those instead of three of those,
do you think I could still live? Really, really wonderful life.
He said, mister ov, I think you living a wonderful

(03:04):
life now, I said, I am, sir. He said, but
why would you want to run the risk of falling
short of that goal and a three and you only
end up with one? What does that say about you?
It will say the same thing that my life says
about me right now. It says that I'm successful. He said,
But you failed at your goal. I said, no, No,

(03:30):
I did my absolute best. I landed where I landed.
I said, see, brother, the problem you're looking at. The
problem isn't aiming too high and miss it. See if
I don't get three billion and I end up with
just one billion, I said, my man, I can promise

(03:51):
you I won't be sitting with somewhere disappointed and shame
of myself. I say, your problem is not aiming too
high and missing. Your problem is if you aim too
low and you hit it. I say, See, what happens
to a lot of people is they go okay, and

(04:12):
they make their goal somewhere where they know they can
reach it. Let's say, and I'm not knocking anybody, Let's
just say your goal is twenty five thousand. I'm not
knocking this figure. I'm just using this number, yo, So
don't anybody please don't take it personally. And you shoot
for twenty five thousand, and the other person says, well,
mine is one hundred thousand, and you both strike out

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to make the goal. The person whose goal was twenty
five thousand, I mean that was one hundred thousand, he
misses it. He ends up with eighty five thousand. The
person whose goal, well was twenty five thousand, he hits

(04:55):
it and he gets twenty five thousand. You see the
situation we have now now. The one who did the
eighty five goals. Wow, man, if I could have tried
a little bit harder, if I'd have done this, I
could have corrected this. I could have done this, I
probably would have made it. Had I done that, I
probably would have got that. The person with the twenty

(05:18):
five thousand is in celebration mode. Oh man, look what
I did. I did it. I'm cool, I got it,
And there's nothing wrong with that. You should celebrate your victories.
But if that's all you ever want is at twenty five,
do you know what? Shortly you're gonna be out of
that twenty five and you have to get back again.
But this person who missed one hundred and ended at

(05:41):
eighty five, to me, he just seems to be a
little bit further up the road, so he may make
his goal next time two hundred and fifty. Let's suppose
he missed that, and don't give me two hundred. But
if you just keep setting low goals and you keep
hitting them, and all you want is low goals, so
you don't ever have to feel disappointed, you don't have

(06:03):
to have to admit defeat, You don't ever have to
feel fearful because everything you go into doesn't require deep
breath for a leap of faith or jump. I got
news for you. You're gonna live a real regular life. And
if that's what you want, it ain't nothing wrong with
it at all. But if you like so many people
that I know, if you want more, you're gonna have

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to do more. You're gonna have to give more, and
you're gonna certainly have to be more. Go for it.
Don't give up. Go for it, y'all. Have a great
week hed Y's sir.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
You don't know what the weekend is, but great words
for all.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
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