Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 10.29.25

Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - Every L is Not Just a Loss it Could be a Lesson - 10.29.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, listen. In closing today, I want to remind you
all of something. I was talking with a buddy of
mine and he asked me, he said, he Harve, let
me ask you something, man, how many als you thank
you thene took in your life. When we talk als,
we mean losses. And I said, well, I really can't

(00:24):
count them. I done took so many l's. He said,
was it worth it, because you know we're talking about success.
I said, yeah, man, it was worth it. He said,
you mean to tell me you would do it all again,
just the way you did it. I said, well, it
would be painful, I said, but I realized that I

(00:46):
needed everything that happened to me to happen to me
just the way it was. I said, because what really
helped me, man, was those als. He said, what do
you mean? I said, because failure is a wonderful teacher.
You you won't learn anything better than when you fail.

(01:09):
Failure is a wonderful teacher. And if you start understanding that,
you can get better and better at it. Because them als,
I took all those losses. People looked at losses. I
looked at them as lessons. See, a loss is really
a lesson and if you start understanding that, it will

(01:30):
help you cope with the losses better. Now. I didn't
always know this. I didn't always know that my als
was lessons. But somewhere around my late thirties, I started
understanding them als a lot better, and I started realizing
that the als was a part of part of the process,

(01:54):
that them losses was a part of the stepping stones
you needed to get to work where you were going.
My father used to say something to me, and I
just didn't get it. He say, the best lesson is
a bout lesson. He say that to me all the time. Boy,
the best lesson is a bout lesson. So one day

(02:16):
he was riding from working. I said, Dad, when you
say that, what do you mean? He said, the best
lesson you'll ever get in life is the one you
have to buy, the one you pay for. That's a
bout lesson. And boy, boy, boy boy, was my daddy.
Right Lord, her Mercy, Lord her mercy. Have I not
learned that lesson? Well, so, y'all, if you would remember

(02:40):
that all these als you taking, quit looking at him
as losses, some of them. You know, it's it's some
losses out here, you know, When you lose a loved one.
That's a hard al man, that's a hard l to take,
But there's some lessons in that. How many times have

(03:06):
I heard the words of wisdom that my mother and
father have said to me over the years? Have I
heard in their absence? How many times has I heard
my mother's voice as I was coming into a meeting
or coming out of a meeting? How many times has
I heard my mother's voice man when I was in

(03:28):
the car, man really really concerned about a meeting I
was going into, or a meeting I was coming out of.
How many times have I heard her say, if you're
gonna pray about it, don't worry about it now. If
you're gonna worry about it, then don't pray about it.
How many times have I heard her say that? How

(03:51):
many times have I heard my mother say? God didn't
bring you this far to leave you. Do you know
how many times that has helped me walking in and
out of meetings? Do you know that I have stuck
my shoulders back and picked my chin up and got
my head up hell high walking in meeting because I
knew God didn't bring me this far to leave me.

(04:14):
That I knew that if God was for me, that
God was in that meeting before I got there. And
you know what I've really learned to do of late.
I just learned this over the last year. I stopped
worrying about who was in the meetings. I stopped you
know what I used to do. I used to have
my assistant pull up bios on everybody that was in

(04:35):
the meeting. You know that's just smart to do anyway, right,
But I used to go over to bios so I
could learn stuff about the people in the meetings and
then get in there and never use the information or
never bring it up. Didn't talk at half the people
that I learned all this information on. And then I
finally figured out something. If God is for me and

(04:56):
truly God, my relationship with God is to prosper. When
I go in these meetings, I don't no longer care
who in the meeting, because if God goes in there
before me, has spoken my name in rooms I know
nothing about. When I get in the meeting, you know
what I do now, I don't care who in there.
I look for God because if God is before me,

(05:19):
then I just go in to meet now and I
look for God and whoever God is operating through that day,
they will reveal theyself to me. Because I'm looking for
the God in the room. So the haters that's in there,
then they sayers. The pencil pushes the people that's in
there to design to tell the people why they shouldn't
do the deal. They have nothing to do with me.

(05:42):
I'm in there looking for the God in the room. Man.
It took me a long time to get there, but
it took me less time to learn that all the
als I was taking wasn't really losses. They was lessons.
As soon as you get that in your head, man,
the better off you will be. Every l in your
life ain't a loss, It could be a lesson. Look

(06:04):
for it, because that's the blessing. Y'all have a great
day today. Hey, look, do yourself a favor. Talk to
God today. He would absolutely love to hear from you.
And it don't matter if you ain't talked to him
in a while. Trust me, talk to God. You're gonna
feel better about it. Y'all have a goodies.