Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 8.28.26

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Last break of the day. We've had a great morning today. Yes,
we had fun today. Steve, it's time for you now
to take us home with your closing remarks. What you
got for us today, Steve? Once again, it's about sharing
the things that I've learned along the way. And one
of the things I think is very important that we
should talk about, we should talk about blame and excuses.

(00:26):
Blame and excuses. I'm telling you, man, they serve no purpose. Excuses,
first of all, are only good for the person that's
providing them. It does nothing for the person who receives it.
Have you ever had somebody tell you a reason why
they didn't do something and you were counting on them

(00:47):
to get it done? And they gave you an excuse
as to why. OK, here's somebody supposed to pick you
up in the carpool for work. Now, you done gave
your car to your spouse so they could go do
what they want to do. Now, you sitting there waiting
on the carpool to come pick you up. They don't
pick you up. Now, they late. Man, I had a
hard time getting up this morning, man. I'm glad. But

(01:08):
I'm here, though. Whoa, man. That's an excuse. What do
you mean you late? You had a hard time getting up.
I'm sitting up here waiting on you to pick me up,
and you come 45 minutes late. Now, I'm late for work.
See that excuse? That does okay for me. I was
sick this morning. I didn't feel up to it. That
excuse works wonderful for you. But the person receiving the

(01:31):
excuse gets nothing. You've got to remove excuses from your
vocabulary and your walk in life. See, I don't really
accept excuses from anybody in my camp. If you're an employee,
you work for me. I don't do excuses because I

(01:51):
don't give none. Today, for example, I'm not feeling real well.
You know, my sinus system kicked in. I had a
troublesome night last night. I'm not feeling well. But guess what?
I came to work on the radio today and I'll
do these two shows I got to do today because
I don't care about my excuses. People who are looking

(02:15):
for me to wake them up in the morning, give
them a laugh or give them a thought starter. They
not looking for my excuses. They just looking for the results.
The excuses don't do me no good. Now there's some
days all of us are not up to par. We're
not 100%, but I'm not, I don't care about the excuses.
I don't accept excuses because I don't give excuses. The

(02:36):
other thing I removed from my life is blame. And
once you blame another person, man, This is what happened
with blame. Blame and excuses. Listen to me. Finger pointing
does nothing. Because you've heard the old saying, every time
you point your finger at a person, you notice there's

(02:58):
three of them pointing back at you. Once you are
in the blame business and the excuse business, you forfeit
your chance for growth. I'll give you an example. If
you're always talking about it's somebody else's fault, And you
always have an excuse why something didn't get done or accomplished.

(03:19):
Guess what? Now you can't grow. You can't grow. You
can't fix it. Because the reason why it didn't happen
or the reason why you didn't accomplish it is because
you blame someone else and you have an excuse. Once
you start accepting blame and excuses, you forfeit your chance

(03:40):
for growth. You kill any chance for change. Sometimes all
you have to do as a person is search within
yourself and find out what it is about you that
you could change that could start producing a better result.
But if you always blaming somebody else and providing and
accepting excuses from yourself and other people, guess what you've done?

(04:03):
You've killed your chance for change. Sometimes you could be
doing a whole lot better in life if you would
just change. If you would search yourself and change something
about you, you would be doing so much better. If
you just search yourself, stop allowing excuses to be a
part of your makeup and stop allowing blame to be

(04:25):
a part of it. And you would discover a lot
of this is just you. It could be you. Another
thing that blame and excuse it does, it allows you
to fail favorably. You know, man, you can just get
all right with failing. You can fail favorably because it
ain't my fault. And I didn't do it because it

(04:46):
was cold outside. So, ta-da, you allow yourself to fail favorably.
That's an ugly spot to be in. But blaming excuses
allows you to fail favorably. Like it's okay to fail
because it ain't my fault. Because I have an excuse
and it's they fault. Blaming excuses, man, is a very,

(05:08):
very dangerous thing out there. Also, blaming excuses promotes a
climate of failure. It just permeates man throughout your life.
And next thing you know, you ain't accomplishing nothing. Because
if blaming blame and excuses are part of your makeup,
you now have promoted a climate for failure. It's OK.

(05:29):
It's OK, because I have a reason why. Why you
didn't finish school? Because it was too cold to go.
Why you didn't finish school? Because that test was too hard.
I didn't study them two pages. I thought they said
the first chapter. She questions us on the first three chapters.
I didn't hear that. That's the only reason I fail.

(05:50):
And you get all right with it. When you're no
longer the reason why something happens, you no longer have
control over what happens. Let me say that to you
one more time. When you're no longer the reason why
something happens, you ain't got to take responsibility. You're not

(06:16):
the reason. Stop allowing blame and excuses to enter into
your makeup. They serve nobody any good, especially you. Those
are my closing remarks. All right now. Have yourself a
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