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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are our lads to break
of the day. And Carlo, before we get out of here,
you had a question for Steve, right, yeah, how do
you show up for yourself every day? How do you
do it? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I might as well use that as my closing remarks
because that's gonna take some explaining.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
How do you show up every day for yourself?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
You know? It kind of leads me to something I
was sharing with the young guy the other day. I
was on vacation and I was talking with him. Greatness
is a practice. Discipline is a practice. I'm saying that
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to say that those two things which I aspire to.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I aspire to.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Greatness in whatever I'm attempting to do. I do aspire
to that. I do aspire to be disciplined. And discipline
for me is doing what you have to do even
when you don't want to. And those two things right
there are probably the core behind how it is I
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show up every day. But you can train yourself to
be this way. You can train yourself to show up
every day because it's a practice. It becomes habit for me,
you know, people, I was watching The Last Dance by
Michael Jordan about Michael Jordan and the Bulls and all
this heit and so many people were critical of him.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I don't like the way he acted. He was a bully, he.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Was a tyrant. Well, you ain't never trying to be
great at nothing. And see, I could relate to the
whole thing because I've aspired to become really really good
at things before. And if you've ever done that, you're
going to rub regular people the wrong way. And when
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I say regular people, I'm talking about people who have
put theirselfs in a position in life where they're comfortable
and they don't like being forced to be uncomfortable. So
when you come in with all these new shenanigans and
we're gonna buckle down and we're gonna hustle up, you
gonna get pushed back from people who want to remain comfortable.
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And you cannot grow that way. You just cannot grow
staying comfortable. Everything I've ever wanted in my life was
on the other side of uncomfortable, and you got to
go through the uncomfortable to get there. But like I
was telling you, greatness and discipline is a practice. It's
very hard to find a person that's good at just
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one thing and he ain't trying to be good at
everything else, because it's hard to turn it off once
you learn it, once you learned the benefits of discipline,
once you learned the benefits.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Of practicing to be great, hard to turn it off.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's hard to turn it off because you know the
benefits of it. And so I show up every day.
But I've trained myself to be this way, and you
are if you're not that. First of all, let's take
a couple of things out the way. I trained myself
to be a morning person because that was a point
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early in my life.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
What I did. Now, a guy named John Walker out
of Rochester, New York took that out of me.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And I didn't know at the time that I would
we would all be morning drive people for over twenty
five years. I never knew that, And thank God he
took that out of me. And thank God that God
put John Walker in my life in my past, because
God knew I was gonna be on morning drive for
over twenty five years. So I became a morning person.
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When you hear a person and say I'm not a
morning person, watch out, be very careful because morning is
the gold. Ain't it your goal to wake up tomorrow morning.
So why would you put that on yourself by saying
I'm not a morning person. You're gonna mess around and
make your wish come true one day. You ain't gonna
be here one morning, Tada. I would never put that
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on me. I'm not a morning person.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You hear people all they tell I just don't like
I just don't like heat. Okay, but what about when
it's hot outside. I'm appreciative of God of every single
day I get.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I don't care if it's raining.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I fish in the rain, you know what, Because I
love fishing so much, and it rains a lot of
times in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I bought a rain suit so I could fish while.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
It was raining. See well that rain. I don't like
to sound to rain. It's gonna rain, It's what you mean.
I don't like heat. It's finn to be hot. It's
called summer. I don't like it cold outside. It's winter.
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It's finna be cold every day in a row. Get
yourself some jackets, some sweaters and scarfs, some gloves, some hats,
and get out there and get on with your day.
And I'm that way because I've practiced being that way,
I'm so grateful for every he gives me that I
don't care what the day got in it.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I've even grown to be comfortable with my problems.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
When I get a challenge, put it in front of me,
I know it's God trying to show me something, so
I deal with it. It's like Junior asked me every day,
how do you just deal with stuff you've never dealt
with before? Well, I get up and I go through it,
and then I put that over in the experienced pile
because now if that ever happens again, I've now done
it and now I know how to get through it.
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So see everything that happens to you as a benefit.
Stop looking at your life is oh woe is me?
No man, Oh glory is me. The fact that you
made it through every rough day you've ever had in
your life, don't you see that it was God bringing
you through, teaching you stuff. Man, Come on, start practicing greatness,
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start practicing discipline. You can train yourself to be that.
It's up to you. The Bible says a man is
as he thinkth get the thinking different, and you'll get
to be in different.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Those are my clothes. Yes, you didn't like.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
That one, well, try it again and then have a
great come.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
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