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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you. Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning
everybody you're listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. You
know this week, I've just been on it, So today
is no different. I'm telling you, I've just reinvigorated myself.
(00:22):
I'm more determined to share the principles of success. I'm
more determined to help and guide and teach as many
people as I can the things that I've learned. And
I mean, man, I've been through it. I have really
been through it. I kid you not. You know. I
used to say, Okay, God, you know, why is all
this happening to me? But as I've gotten older, I
(00:45):
understand that was the ingredients. I needed the ingredients to
be this cake. I needed all those ingredients stirred up.
I need all of that different flavors, the stuff that
I didn't think tastes so good. All that stuff had
to come into the bowl in order for me to
get to where I am today. As much as I
(01:05):
did not like the taste of the ingredients, little did
I know God was making this cake, not me. But
what he did was and you've heard the old saying,
God could turn lemons into lemonade. Well, that's what he
was doing now. At the time, it all had a
little funky lemonade lemony flavor to it, with some other
(01:29):
stuff in it too. I didn't care for it. But
little did I know that I needed everything that happened
to me, that happened to me, in the exact order
that it happened, and the exact array of things that
happened for me to have the knowledge I have today,
the experience, the attitude, so I could turn around and
(01:50):
share that information. Okay, got that out the way. This
is what I want to give to you today. I
want you to understand something that discipline determines your destiny,
not your desire. Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire.
(02:10):
You've heard me say this how many times on the show. Okay,
here we go against Eeve. I got it. Faith without
works is dead. But let me tell you something. To
be a hard worker, you got to be disciplined. That's
one of the hardest lessons I'm trying to get through
to my sons. You're gonna throw yourself down a cliff
if you're not a young man or a man that
(02:32):
possesses discipline because they got something for undisciplined people. They
got some street laws for undisciplined people, and they got
some federal laws and state laws for undisciplined people. So
that's why them signs is outside on the freeway, we're
gonna let you go fast, But seventy is the limit.
Seventy fast enough. Really, if you're disciplined enough of a
(02:56):
person to leave your house at the time you're supposed
to leave your house, seventy miles per hour is absolutely enough.
But if you're an undisciplined person, if you don't have
the wherewithal to leave your house on time, to get
ready to go where you wanna go, see the desires
where you wanna go, the discipline is how you get there.
(03:18):
You understand, you can wanna go to see your family
in California all you want, but the flight leaves at
one eighteen. You leave your house at twelve thirty. They
told you you must check in one hour before your flight. Now,
if you ain't got the discipline to get to the
airport to check in one hour before your flight, leaving
(03:41):
your house forty five minutes before the flight departs, what
you think gonna happen? Your desire to go see your
family in La is going to be thwarted because you
lack the discipline to prepare yourself and get yourself ready
to do the things that you have to do to
make your desires come true. I'm telling you, discipline determines
(04:04):
your destiny, not your desire. You can write down a
list of stuff you wanna do all day, but if
you don't produce and show the discipline necessary to get there,
what you think gonna happen? Huh? Okay. I wanna be rich, Okay,
I wanna make four hundred thousand a year. Okay, I
(04:25):
wanna be the best player that they is. Okay, but
you don't want practice. See the cat that's disciplined enough
to show up at practice, that's shooting jumpers when everybody
gone home, that's the guy that's gonna be the best.
The guy that's never late for practice, the guy that
study the playbook, that's the guy that's gonna make it.
Not the guy that's talking crack, got stalking that smack.
(04:48):
I'm gonna make the Pro Bowl, I'm gonna make the
All Star Team, I'm gonna be All American. That's just
what you're saying. But discipline determines your destiny, not your desire.
So now let's talk about this discipline. What is that, really, Steve.
That's your work ethic, that's your hunger, that's your will.
(05:09):
Discipline is how hard you're willing to demonstrate the attributes
and the traits to be what you want to be.
Did you hear me? It is your willingness to conduct
yourself in a manner that is above and beyond what
they say is necessary. Now, this is a good example
(05:31):
right here. Now. You can want to be in the
NFL all you want, but they got this thing called
the NFL Combines where they bring in some of the
top players at every position to come in and they
gonna run a forty yard dash, They're gonna do a
standing broad jump, They're gonna do a standing vertical leap.
(05:53):
They gonna do drills, running drills, cutting drills. They can
determine if a line back of God stiff hips by
making him backpedal, point him in one direction and throw
the football in another direction. How does he turn his body?
Now you can say you can tell everybody at your
college you want to play pro football. You can tell
everybody at your high school you can tell them in
(06:13):
Peewee you wanna play pro football, but they got tests
for you though. It's called the combines. Now you get
out here and you have a bad combine day, Ain't
nobody trying to hear that. Let me tell you how
excuses don't work with people when they just trying to
get when they trying to win. In the NFL, the
fact that you had a bad day at the combine
and you don't run your best forties and you keep
(06:35):
telling them you could do better, they don't want to
hear that. Because see, what ain't nobody gonna pay you
for is to play on Sunday. And that's one of
your bad days. We paying you to play on Sundays.
But because you keep having these bad days, because you
ain't disciplined enough to put in the work to make
sure that your maximum can be called upon at any time.
(06:57):
Now you at to combine with some slow times that
go on your record. You had to combine. You don't
jump as high as you did when you was at
the gym class. Well, hold up, man, this is show
day now in the NFL. Sunday is show day. What
they can't run the risk of is paying you your money,
and your bad day happen to be on Sundays after
(07:17):
we done cut your check. No, no, no, We looking
for people who limit them bad days, who got the
discipline to work hard, to make an effort for it.
You understand what I'm saying to your folks. Please understand this.
Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. If you can
want it all you want, but if you ain't working,
(07:38):
if you ain't grinding, if you ain't hurting, if you
ain't sweating real bad, if you always somewhere, got to chill,
you got to have a cold one, you got to
smoke one, You got to do all them things. Can
I tell you something you ain't gonna make it. Discipline
determines your destiny, not your desire. To the Steve Harvey
(08:01):
Morning Show
Come on you. Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning
everybody you're listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. You
know this week, I've just been on it, So today
is no different. I'm telling you, I've just reinvigorated myself.
(00:22):
I'm more determined to share the principles of success. I'm
more determined to help and guide and teach as many
people as I can the things that I've learned. And
I mean, man, I've been through it. I have really
been through it. I kid you not. You know. I
used to say, Okay, God, you know, why is all
this happening to me? But as I've gotten older, I
(00:45):
understand that was the ingredients. I needed the ingredients to
be this cake. I needed all those ingredients stirred up.
I need all of that different flavors, the stuff that
I didn't think tastes so good. All that stuff had
to come into the bowl in order for me to
get to where I am today. As much as I
(01:05):
did not like the taste of the ingredients, little did
I know God was making this cake, not me. But
what he did was and you've heard the old saying,
God could turn lemons into lemonade. Well, that's what he
was doing now. At the time, it all had a
little funky lemonade lemony flavor to it, with some other
(01:29):
stuff in it too. I didn't care for it. But
little did I know that I needed everything that happened
to me, that happened to me, in the exact order
that it happened, and the exact array of things that
happened for me to have the knowledge I have today,
the experience, the attitude, so I could turn around and
(01:50):
share that information. Okay, got that out the way. This
is what I want to give to you today. I
want you to understand something that discipline determines your destiny,
not your desire. Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire.
(02:10):
You've heard me say this how many times on the show. Okay,
here we go against Eeve. I got it. Faith without
works is dead. But let me tell you something. To
be a hard worker, you got to be disciplined. That's
one of the hardest lessons I'm trying to get through
to my sons. You're gonna throw yourself down a cliff
if you're not a young man or a man that
(02:32):
possesses discipline because they got something for undisciplined people. They
got some street laws for undisciplined people, and they got
some federal laws and state laws for undisciplined people. So
that's why them signs is outside on the freeway, we're
gonna let you go fast, But seventy is the limit.
Seventy fast enough. Really, if you're disciplined enough of a
(02:56):
person to leave your house at the time you're supposed
to leave your house, seventy miles per hour is absolutely enough.
But if you're an undisciplined person, if you don't have
the wherewithal to leave your house on time, to get
ready to go where you wanna go, see the desires
where you wanna go, the discipline is how you get there.
(03:18):
You understand, you can wanna go to see your family
in California all you want, but the flight leaves at
one eighteen. You leave your house at twelve thirty. They
told you you must check in one hour before your flight. Now,
if you ain't got the discipline to get to the
airport to check in one hour before your flight, leaving
(03:41):
your house forty five minutes before the flight departs, what
you think gonna happen? Your desire to go see your
family in La is going to be thwarted because you
lack the discipline to prepare yourself and get yourself ready
to do the things that you have to do to
make your desires come true. I'm telling you, discipline determines
(04:04):
your destiny, not your desire. You can write down a
list of stuff you wanna do all day, but if
you don't produce and show the discipline necessary to get there,
what you think gonna happen? Huh? Okay. I wanna be rich, Okay,
I wanna make four hundred thousand a year. Okay, I
(04:25):
wanna be the best player that they is. Okay, but
you don't want practice. See the cat that's disciplined enough
to show up at practice, that's shooting jumpers when everybody
gone home, that's the guy that's gonna be the best.
The guy that's never late for practice, the guy that
study the playbook, that's the guy that's gonna make it.
Not the guy that's talking crack, got stalking that smack.
(04:48):
I'm gonna make the Pro Bowl, I'm gonna make the
All Star Team, I'm gonna be All American. That's just
what you're saying. But discipline determines your destiny, not your desire.
So now let's talk about this discipline. What is that, really, Steve.
That's your work ethic, that's your hunger, that's your will.
(05:09):
Discipline is how hard you're willing to demonstrate the attributes
and the traits to be what you want to be.
Did you hear me? It is your willingness to conduct
yourself in a manner that is above and beyond what
they say is necessary. Now, this is a good example
(05:31):
right here. Now. You can want to be in the
NFL all you want, but they got this thing called
the NFL Combines where they bring in some of the
top players at every position to come in and they
gonna run a forty yard dash, They're gonna do a
standing broad jump, They're gonna do a standing vertical leap.
(05:53):
They gonna do drills, running drills, cutting drills. They can
determine if a line back of God stiff hips by
making him backpedal, point him in one direction and throw
the football in another direction. How does he turn his body?
Now you can say you can tell everybody at your
college you want to play pro football. You can tell
everybody at your high school you can tell them in
(06:13):
Peewee you wanna play pro football, but they got tests
for you though. It's called the combines. Now you get
out here and you have a bad combine day, Ain't
nobody trying to hear that. Let me tell you how
excuses don't work with people when they just trying to
get when they trying to win. In the NFL, the
fact that you had a bad day at the combine
and you don't run your best forties and you keep
(06:35):
telling them you could do better, they don't want to
hear that. Because see, what ain't nobody gonna pay you
for is to play on Sunday. And that's one of
your bad days. We paying you to play on Sundays.
But because you keep having these bad days, because you
ain't disciplined enough to put in the work to make
sure that your maximum can be called upon at any time.
(06:57):
Now you at to combine with some slow times that
go on your record. You had to combine. You don't
jump as high as you did when you was at
the gym class. Well, hold up, man, this is show
day now in the NFL. Sunday is show day. What
they can't run the risk of is paying you your money,
and your bad day happen to be on Sundays after
(07:17):
we done cut your check. No, no, no, We looking
for people who limit them bad days, who got the
discipline to work hard, to make an effort for it.
You understand what I'm saying to your folks. Please understand this.
Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. If you can
want it all you want, but if you ain't working,
(07:38):
if you ain't grinding, if you ain't hurting, if you
ain't sweating real bad, if you always somewhere, got to chill,
you got to have a cold one, you got to
smoke one, You got to do all them things. Can
I tell you something you ain't gonna make it. Discipline
determines your destiny, not your desire. To the Steve Harvey
(08:01):
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