May 1, 2025 • 8 mins
Today Uncle Steve shares just how important determination and effort has been on his road to success and how we must also willing to give up some things to be able to chase the dreams we want.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Come on, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning everybody you are listening to the voice, Come on,
dig me down one and only Steve Harvey got a
radio show. Man o, man o, man, I just I
have to tell you this. How good is the God
I serve? How amazing is he? That's that's all I
(00:31):
you know. And you know what, really, man, when I
try to explain how I feel about what he does
for me, really, the words that I come up with
that they just they they inadequate. Man, They don't they
don't cut it. They really don't. You know, I could
say amazing. At one time, I even just got that.
I tried something real ignorant. One time, I just said,
(00:52):
you know, God is just super captual, fragilistic as be
all adocious.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I just tried that. See how that felt. That's that's
all to change? He is me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I just try to because see how that felt. But
then I ain't feel right saying that's the fact that
he's amazing and awesome and he's an awesome god. You
hear people say that is it's bigger than that too, man.
So you know, as hard as I try, no matter
what I do every day, I'm gonna come up short.
With trying to explain to you exactly how he works
(01:21):
and how he is for me. So I just thank
him that every day, every chance I get here, it
is it is your determination and your effort. Listen to
me carefully. It is your determination and your effort. I
(01:41):
think that the average person, and I'm not knocking you,
I just want you to hear me out. I think
what stops the average person from becoming successful is that
we don't realize the effort that it takes. And that's
just truth. I found that to be so true in
my life and my talking to people and meeting people,
(02:03):
and people are asking me questions about it and me
trying to figure out the way myself. I don't think
that you really can comprehend the effort that it takes
to become successful. This is the thing that you have
to wrap your mind around very quickly if you want
to be successful on any level in any area. The
(02:26):
dream is the beginning. Good Lord, let me tell you something.
The determination and effort is massive. You cannot be overly
concerned with sleep. If you are a person who is
always concerned about sleep, gets success out your mind. Ain't
fin to have a partner is not finna happen. You
(02:49):
cannot be that concerned about sleep. Now listen to me.
You have to get your rest. But this was my philosophy.
I'm just you with what how I did it. My
philosophy was I stopped being concerned about sleep. I got
my rest, but I got just enough to get back
(03:14):
to it, and I got back on the grind to
hop in the hustle. I got just enough rest so
I could go and put forth some more effort.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
But listen to me.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
You cannot sleep a third of your life away and
expect to become successful. If you're not already successful. If
you are asleep for eight hours, that is a third
of your day. You cannot be asleep a third of
your life and expect to get successful. Now, after you
get successful, you know, you learn as you go to
(03:48):
work smarter, not harder. So as you get successful, you
may have eight hours available to you. But on the
way up there, I don't see how you can do it,
I promise you.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Now if somebody come for it, I did it out
he probably lying. But okay, tell your story, because everybody
I know that's successful that I've sat down, I had
real talks with they wasn't concerned with sleeping. You cannot
be concerned with sleeping. If you want to be successful.
(04:20):
How can this.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Happen for you? Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The effort that it requires is massive. It's an all
out of salt on your dream. Now you got to
make an assault. It requires an all out of salt
on it. And you can't be sleeping fight at the
same time. You can't fight when you sleep. Man, I
wish I could get y'all understand this right here. Understand
that the effort that is required to be successful will
(04:47):
take everything you have, and when you think you've given
your all, it's gonna require some more.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The quality of your chield is amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
See listen, what is sitting around having a bill every
day for what?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What? What? They're sitting around smoking weed for every day?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Pa?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Come on, man, for real.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But if you took that beer, drinking weeds, smoking chill
time and applied it to progressing yourself towards your dream.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
When you do carve out.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
A vacation, guess where you be able to go. Guess
what part of the world you can go. See guess
how you can cheer out now instead of you just
driving every year, your family to the family union, sit
at the same picnic table. Everybody pull they money in
two and ten families don't never pool they money in.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
They down there eating like y'all eating.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You got attitude cause cause the day or day side
don't have a chip in or not.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They down there eating the extra potatoes at it and
making place.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You're not huguing about this every year for real, man,
they ain't got the T shirt money. You know, they
got to say a T shirt on. They ain't put
in that, really, man, so so so so.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So you want that to every year?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Or do you want this year, I'm taking my family
to New Orleans, or I'm taking my family see the
Grand Canyon. I'm taking my family down to the beach
this year, and me and my family gonna go sight see.
We're gonna go ride a couple of river on Chicago.
Me and my family gonna go skiing this year. Me
and me and my family going out to La Man
we go. We're gonna go out there for a weekend.
(06:23):
You know, you know it can happen like that. But
if you ain't working, listen to me. Average effort gets
average results. That's that's all it is.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
To it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
See, ordinary effort gets ordinary results. But if you put
forth an extra effort, See, the only difference between extraordinary
and ordinary is one word.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's extra.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
If you do extra, you can take ordinary right on
over to extraordinary. Do you understand you have to have
a mass of assault on your dreams? Quit sitting up
in here, man, trying to chill all the time. I'm sorry, man,
I wish I could tell you another way, but it
ain't one. Here's what I did. I wasn't concerned about
how much sleep I got. I just had to get
(07:18):
my rest. And once I got enough rest to get
up and get the task done, I got up. Somebody
sent me a tweet the other day, a partner of mine.
He said, to see if I can pull it up
while I'm talking to you. But he just sent me
a little sign, just what, nothing, just a little something
to say, Hey man, I ran across this, I thought
(07:41):
about you, and I sent it to you. It said
no alarm clock needed, my passion wakes me. It's in
block print. He said, no alarm clock needed, my passion
wakes me. That's what you got to You're listening to
(08:01):
the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Come on, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good morning everybody you are listening to the voice, Come on,
dig me down one and only Steve Harvey got a
radio show. Man o, man o, man, I just I
have to tell you this. How good is the God
I serve? How amazing is he? That's that's all I
(00:31):
you know. And you know what, really, man, when I
try to explain how I feel about what he does
for me, really, the words that I come up with
that they just they they inadequate. Man, They don't they
don't cut it. They really don't. You know, I could
say amazing. At one time, I even just got that.
I tried something real ignorant. One time, I just said,
(00:52):
you know, God is just super captual, fragilistic as be
all adocious.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I just tried that. See how that felt. That's that's
all to change? He is me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I just try to because see how that felt. But
then I ain't feel right saying that's the fact that
he's amazing and awesome and he's an awesome god. You
hear people say that is it's bigger than that too, man.
So you know, as hard as I try, no matter
what I do every day, I'm gonna come up short.
With trying to explain to you exactly how he works
(01:21):
and how he is for me. So I just thank
him that every day, every chance I get here, it
is it is your determination and your effort. Listen to
me carefully. It is your determination and your effort. I
(01:41):
think that the average person, and I'm not knocking you,
I just want you to hear me out. I think
what stops the average person from becoming successful is that
we don't realize the effort that it takes. And that's
just truth. I found that to be so true in
my life and my talking to people and meeting people,
(02:03):
and people are asking me questions about it and me
trying to figure out the way myself. I don't think
that you really can comprehend the effort that it takes
to become successful. This is the thing that you have
to wrap your mind around very quickly if you want
to be successful on any level in any area. The
(02:26):
dream is the beginning. Good Lord, let me tell you something.
The determination and effort is massive. You cannot be overly
concerned with sleep. If you are a person who is
always concerned about sleep, gets success out your mind. Ain't
fin to have a partner is not finna happen. You
(02:49):
cannot be that concerned about sleep. Now listen to me.
You have to get your rest. But this was my philosophy.
I'm just you with what how I did it. My
philosophy was I stopped being concerned about sleep. I got
my rest, but I got just enough to get back
(03:14):
to it, and I got back on the grind to
hop in the hustle. I got just enough rest so
I could go and put forth some more effort.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
But listen to me.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
You cannot sleep a third of your life away and
expect to become successful. If you're not already successful. If
you are asleep for eight hours, that is a third
of your day. You cannot be asleep a third of
your life and expect to get successful. Now, after you
get successful, you know, you learn as you go to
(03:48):
work smarter, not harder. So as you get successful, you
may have eight hours available to you. But on the
way up there, I don't see how you can do it,
I promise you.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Now if somebody come for it, I did it out
he probably lying. But okay, tell your story, because everybody
I know that's successful that I've sat down, I had
real talks with they wasn't concerned with sleeping. You cannot
be concerned with sleeping. If you want to be successful.
(04:20):
How can this.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Happen for you? Listen to me.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
The effort that it requires is massive. It's an all
out of salt on your dream. Now you got to
make an assault. It requires an all out of salt
on it. And you can't be sleeping fight at the
same time. You can't fight when you sleep. Man, I
wish I could get y'all understand this right here. Understand
that the effort that is required to be successful will
(04:47):
take everything you have, and when you think you've given
your all, it's gonna require some more.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
The quality of your chield is amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
See listen, what is sitting around having a bill every
day for what?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
What? What? They're sitting around smoking weed for every day?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Pa?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Come on, man, for real.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
But if you took that beer, drinking weeds, smoking chill
time and applied it to progressing yourself towards your dream.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
When you do carve out.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
A vacation, guess where you be able to go. Guess
what part of the world you can go. See guess
how you can cheer out now instead of you just
driving every year, your family to the family union, sit
at the same picnic table. Everybody pull they money in
two and ten families don't never pool they money in.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
They down there eating like y'all eating.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
You got attitude cause cause the day or day side
don't have a chip in or not.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They down there eating the extra potatoes at it and
making place.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You're not huguing about this every year for real, man,
they ain't got the T shirt money. You know, they
got to say a T shirt on. They ain't put
in that, really, man, so so so so.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
So you want that to every year?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Or do you want this year, I'm taking my family
to New Orleans, or I'm taking my family see the
Grand Canyon. I'm taking my family down to the beach
this year, and me and my family gonna go sight see.
We're gonna go ride a couple of river on Chicago.
Me and my family gonna go skiing this year. Me
and me and my family going out to La Man
we go. We're gonna go out there for a weekend.
(06:23):
You know, you know it can happen like that. But
if you ain't working, listen to me. Average effort gets
average results. That's that's all it is.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
To it.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
See, ordinary effort gets ordinary results. But if you put
forth an extra effort, See, the only difference between extraordinary
and ordinary is one word.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's extra.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
If you do extra, you can take ordinary right on
over to extraordinary. Do you understand you have to have
a mass of assault on your dreams? Quit sitting up
in here, man, trying to chill all the time. I'm sorry, man,
I wish I could tell you another way, but it
ain't one. Here's what I did. I wasn't concerned about
how much sleep I got. I just had to get
(07:18):
my rest. And once I got enough rest to get
up and get the task done, I got up. Somebody
sent me a tweet the other day, a partner of mine.
He said, to see if I can pull it up
while I'm talking to you. But he just sent me
a little sign, just what, nothing, just a little something
to say, Hey man, I ran across this, I thought
(07:41):
about you, and I sent it to you. It said
no alarm clock needed, my passion wakes me. It's in
block print. He said, no alarm clock needed, my passion
wakes me. That's what you got to You're listening to
(08:01):
the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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