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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, guys, here we are, our last break of
the day. Steve, now it's time for you to drop
some knowledge with our closing remarks. What you got for
us today?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, today I want to remind everybody of something that
gets overlooked from time to time. But if you want
to be successful and you want to be happy, if
your happiness is sometimes, as it often is, tied to
your success, and if your success is Oftentimes, as it is,
(00:33):
it's tied to your happiness. The two kind of go
hand in hand almost. But now you have to be
using your definition of success and not somebody else's. If
you're using someone else's definition of success, you're never going
to be happy. Whether they've aimed too high for you
(00:54):
or they've aimed too low for you. If you're using
somebody else's aim, you're never going to be happy. because
those two are, I'm sorry, tied together. I'm happy if
I'm successful. If I'm not successful, I'm not going to
be happy because I'm going to feel like there's something
(01:16):
else I could be doing for my family as something
else I could be doing for my future is something
else I could be doing to make it work. And
so My success is tied to my happiness and my
happiness is tied to my success. Now, do I take
times off from all of it and just sit around
and be grateful and happy for where I am? Of course,
(01:38):
all the time. Gratitude is a huge part of what
the principles of success that's oftentimes too overlooked. Yeah, I
often sit around and just smell the roses, just take
a breath of fresh air and go mad. I'm awful
grateful for where I am, God. Not meaning that I
don't want more, but I oftentimes stop and thank him
for right where I am. Because where we are is
(02:01):
pretty good compared to where we were. But now with
all that said, let me share something with you. If
you want to be happy and successful, you are going
to have to put out a massive effort, period. Stop
thinking it's going to happen any other way. You have
got to put out a massive effort. You got to
(02:25):
get at it. You got to grind. You got to
want it. It's got to burn a little bit on
the inside of you. It's got to make you uncomfortable
not being where you want to be. You got to
have an I'm going to get it attitude in order
for it to get got. Period. You got to have
an I'm going to get it attitude in order for
(02:47):
it to get got. Period. That's the deal. No substitutions.
No alternatives. This ain't sugar. You can't use Splendor instead.
This ain't sugar. This is life. You have to go
get it. There are no alternatives. Well, you can pick
some alternatives, but you're not going to be happy and successful.
(03:08):
You got to get a little bit of dog in you.
I'm sorry. Everybody got to have some dog in you.
You got to have some bite back. You got to
have some fight. You're going to have to have a
little bit of kick. And sometimes the kick has to
come from yourself. You kind of quit looking for other
people to always give you that little kick in the
rear end to get you started. That little jump start
(03:29):
in the morning to encourage you. What if they need encouraging?
What if they ain't get their jump start for the
day and you waiting on their call and their encouraging word? Man,
let me tell you something. These are people that you
waiting on to help you. People fail all the time.
Every person needs the Lord God Almighty. So that might
be one of the mornings where they need him and
they don't have nothing for you. Take your faith out
(03:51):
of man, put your faith in God and get at it.
You and God can make it. That'd be great if
you had a friend along the way. Of course it
would be. But sometimes you're in a pattern where you
got to learn that it ain't nobody but you and
him sometimes. Sometimes you just need to know it ain't
nobody but you and God. That really ain't a bad
(04:13):
place to be. It really ain't. I've got some of
my best results out of my life when I just
asked God for the help. When I didn't call nobody
else to see what they thought about it. When I've
went to God, just God, I've gotten my best results.
I'm just going to be honest with you. But you
got to get at it though. Quit expecting God to
(04:37):
just bless you with something and you ain't giving him
nothing to put his finger on to touch. You make
one step, he'll make two. You got to be a
producer out here. You got to go out of here
and get out something. Quit asking God for a job
and you ain't put no applications in. Stop wasting his
time and yours too. It's like the story of a
man said, you know, I've been praying. I've been praying
(04:59):
to God to hit the lottery. I just been praying
to the Lord to hit the lottery. One day the
man just kept hearing him say that. He said, well,
do you play the lottery? He said, no. What kind
of prayer is that? You're praying to God to hit
the lottery, but you're not playing the lottery.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That don't make no sense. If you want God to
touch your life, give him something to touch and effort.
Put in a request. Be sincere. But I've decided that
I'm going to attempt so many things that's within my
gift and in my realm that I'm going to ask
God to bless me with his grace. He got something
(05:38):
to bless me. He just keeps on making stuff happen
for me. He just keeps on opening doors for me.
He just keeps on putting the right people in front
of me. Oh, and it may look like the deal
ain't going to happen, as oftentimes many of them do.
But at the end of the day, it always works out.
But man, you got to get at it, y'all. You
got to get off your butts and get at it.
(05:59):
Ain't nobody finna walk no checks up to you and
hand them to you. You got to get out here
and get at it. Dreams ain't nothing but dreams. Until
you put some work behind them, they become gold. You
got to put some work behind these drinks. That's my quote.
Y'all have a good one today. Talk to God today.
He'd absolutely love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
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All right, guys, here we are, our last break of
the day. Steve, now it's time for you to drop
some knowledge with our closing remarks. What you got for
us today?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, today I want to remind everybody of something that
gets overlooked from time to time. But if you want
to be successful and you want to be happy, if
your happiness is sometimes, as it often is, tied to
your success, and if your success is Oftentimes, as it is,
(00:33):
it's tied to your happiness. The two kind of go
hand in hand almost. But now you have to be
using your definition of success and not somebody else's. If
you're using someone else's definition of success, you're never going
to be happy. Whether they've aimed too high for you
(00:54):
or they've aimed too low for you. If you're using
somebody else's aim, you're never going to be happy. because
those two are, I'm sorry, tied together. I'm happy if
I'm successful. If I'm not successful, I'm not going to
be happy because I'm going to feel like there's something
(01:16):
else I could be doing for my family as something
else I could be doing for my future is something
else I could be doing to make it work. And
so My success is tied to my happiness and my
happiness is tied to my success. Now, do I take
times off from all of it and just sit around
and be grateful and happy for where I am? Of course,
(01:38):
all the time. Gratitude is a huge part of what
the principles of success that's oftentimes too overlooked. Yeah, I
often sit around and just smell the roses, just take
a breath of fresh air and go mad. I'm awful
grateful for where I am, God. Not meaning that I
don't want more, but I oftentimes stop and thank him
for right where I am. Because where we are is
(02:01):
pretty good compared to where we were. But now with
all that said, let me share something with you. If
you want to be happy and successful, you are going
to have to put out a massive effort, period. Stop
thinking it's going to happen any other way. You have
got to put out a massive effort. You got to
(02:25):
get at it. You got to grind. You got to
want it. It's got to burn a little bit on
the inside of you. It's got to make you uncomfortable
not being where you want to be. You got to
have an I'm going to get it attitude in order
for it to get got. Period. You got to have
an I'm going to get it attitude in order for
(02:47):
it to get got. Period. That's the deal. No substitutions.
No alternatives. This ain't sugar. You can't use Splendor instead.
This ain't sugar. This is life. You have to go
get it. There are no alternatives. Well, you can pick
some alternatives, but you're not going to be happy and successful.
(03:08):
You got to get a little bit of dog in you.
I'm sorry. Everybody got to have some dog in you.
You got to have some bite back. You got to
have some fight. You're going to have to have a
little bit of kick. And sometimes the kick has to
come from yourself. You kind of quit looking for other
people to always give you that little kick in the
rear end to get you started. That little jump start
(03:29):
in the morning to encourage you. What if they need encouraging?
What if they ain't get their jump start for the
day and you waiting on their call and their encouraging word? Man,
let me tell you something. These are people that you
waiting on to help you. People fail all the time.
Every person needs the Lord God Almighty. So that might
be one of the mornings where they need him and
they don't have nothing for you. Take your faith out
(03:51):
of man, put your faith in God and get at it.
You and God can make it. That'd be great if
you had a friend along the way. Of course it
would be. But sometimes you're in a pattern where you
got to learn that it ain't nobody but you and
him sometimes. Sometimes you just need to know it ain't
nobody but you and God. That really ain't a bad
(04:13):
place to be. It really ain't. I've got some of
my best results out of my life when I just
asked God for the help. When I didn't call nobody
else to see what they thought about it. When I've
went to God, just God, I've gotten my best results.
I'm just going to be honest with you. But you
got to get at it though. Quit expecting God to
(04:37):
just bless you with something and you ain't giving him
nothing to put his finger on to touch. You make
one step, he'll make two. You got to be a
producer out here. You got to go out of here
and get out something. Quit asking God for a job
and you ain't put no applications in. Stop wasting his
time and yours too. It's like the story of a
man said, you know, I've been praying. I've been praying
(04:59):
to God to hit the lottery. I just been praying
to the Lord to hit the lottery. One day the
man just kept hearing him say that. He said, well,
do you play the lottery? He said, no. What kind
of prayer is that? You're praying to God to hit
the lottery, but you're not playing the lottery.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
That don't make no sense. If you want God to
touch your life, give him something to touch and effort.
Put in a request. Be sincere. But I've decided that
I'm going to attempt so many things that's within my
gift and in my realm that I'm going to ask
God to bless me with his grace. He got something
(05:38):
to bless me. He just keeps on making stuff happen
for me. He just keeps on opening doors for me.
He just keeps on putting the right people in front
of me. Oh, and it may look like the deal
ain't going to happen, as oftentimes many of them do.
But at the end of the day, it always works out.
But man, you got to get at it, y'all. You
got to get off your butts and get at it.
(05:59):
Ain't nobody finna walk no checks up to you and
hand them to you. You got to get out here
and get at it. Dreams ain't nothing but dreams. Until
you put some work behind them, they become gold. You
got to put some work behind these drinks. That's my quote.
Y'all have a good one today. Talk to God today.
He'd absolutely love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
For all Steve Harvey contests, no purchase necessary. Void where prohibited.
Participants must be legal U.S. residents at least 18 years
old unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit SteveHarveyFM.com.
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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