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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you. Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody.
You are listening to the voice, Oh, come on now,
digny if you will. One and only, Steve Harvey got
a radio show, you know, one of the things about
being successful. And I was sharing this just the other
(00:21):
day with a young man and he asked me. He said, hey, man,
I just don't see how you get up that early
in the morning. I just don't see how, man, it
would kill me to get up this early in the morning. Well,
I sat there and I'm listening to it because it's
just a thousand times I've heard it, you know, and
(00:42):
my life is, you know, not too different from a
lot of people's lives. There's a lot of people out
there that rise early. And I just sit there, man,
because I mean, first of all, I'm grateful to be
able to have a job. I'm so grateful to be
able to do one and several that I happened to
enjoy doing. And I mean, you know, it's work and
it's difficult at times, but I mean, you know I
(01:04):
wanted this. You know you got it. You know, you
can't ask God for nothing, any give it to you,
then be mad that you got it. Don't make no sense.
You know. The problem with asking God for stuff is
a lot of times we ask it for stuff we
don't really know what all it encompasses, what all it
really is. And I ask for this. Now along the way,
I've gotten far more than I asked for. I want
(01:24):
you to do. Understand that, and you know that's His
grace at work in my life. But I get up
early and I go to work because I do understand
something that it is not walking up to you. Nobody
walks up to people normally and just hand them checks
all the time, and enough checks to sustain your life,
(01:44):
and not only sustain it, but to have a life
that where you could enjoy and do some of the
things you want to do. I don't know the person
that walks out hands out that money just to be
doing it. And then with a lifestyle though where you
can you know, give your kids a cariser, you know,
take your family on vacation, you know, a year, once
a year. I don't know nobody passing out to kind
(02:05):
of money. So I get up early in the morning.
I get at it. I was taught to get up
early in the morning by my father because my father
says ain't nothing gonna come to you while you lay
in there. And you know what, it's just true, man,
it's just a little common sense. Little old people smart man.
They've been around a long time. You don't get you know,
some old foods out there, but you know you don't
(02:27):
have to deal with them. But old people are pretty smart, man.
They've learned a lot along the way. And waking up
early and getting out it is one of them things.
And I ask everybody man to think about this scenario
of your life. If a day has twenty four hours
in it, and let's just say you choose to sleep
eight of those hours because they tell you you need
(02:48):
eight hours sleep, so you sleep eight hours. That's a
third of your life asleep. Already, just a third of
your life is spent asleep if you gonna do eight
hours a day. Now, let's say you have a job
that you work eight hours, and it is not the
job of your dreams. It's not your dream career, your
dream profession. It's just the one you took, like all
(03:10):
of us, to get it started. And then, like all
of us, some of us end up having to state
that because we've created these bills, because we checked and checked.
So we can't leave it because we'll lose what we've
worked for. So let's just say you got a job
that you go to work to for eight hours. That's
another third of your life. That's two thirds of your life.
Feel how you want to feel about your two thirds? Well,
(03:33):
I like sleep. Okay, cool, there's a scripture about that too.
But now you spent two thirds of your life one
on a job you don't care for if you're not
happy that it, or one that just pays the bills
and it's not your dream job or career. Another third
of your life is sleep. Oh now, let's hold on.
Let's talk about the one hour of preparation that it
may take to get to the job. That's seventeen hours.
(03:53):
Let's say your drive time, let's say getting to your
job for the average person is anywhere between thirty to
an hour. That's an average of what it takes to
average person. Now some people are there hustling way harder
than that. But let's just say your average is an
hour getting to work. You add another hour to that
going to work. You've now spent eighteen hours out of
(04:16):
the twenty four doing something that's either nonproductive, you're not
happy with, you're not pleased about. It is not your
dream job, it's not your dream profession. And rest of
the time you sleep eighteen hours. Now you got to
come from the job, so let's just say it's another
hour to get back home. That's nineteen hours. Nineteen hours
out of a twenty four hour day. You now have
(04:36):
five hours left in your day. Oh you watch TV
two hours a day. Okay, excuse me. Let's put now
you put two hours of TV on that you've just
spent twenty one. You now have three hours in the
day to do something super productive for the development of
yourself and the future of your family, and your future
(04:57):
as a person and what you can provide for your family.
Uh Oh, I need to chill. I need to smoke one.
Uh Oh, I needed some time at Happy. I'll seem
like all I do is dry to work and go
to work. I'm gonna go out with the fellas drink one. Okay,
let's say you spend two hours at Happy. Ill nobody
(05:20):
go to a Happy Hours just for a hour. Let's
say you spend two hours at Happy, I'll all smokeing
all some video games. Let's throw that in there. Two
hours of smoking, chilling video games. That's twenty three hours
of your day gone. Don't you see how your day
slips away from you? So why would you get up early?
You get up early to get a jump. You get
(05:41):
up early to produce, to plan, to become productive. You
get up early in the morning to care about every
single minute of your day. You wake up early in
the morning because you have a plan, a mission, You
have something you want to accomplish. The earlier you get up,
the more time you have just for you to devote
to your plan. You map it out, you make them,
(06:03):
send some emails, whatever it is you need to do
to get your dream on the way. Then you go
get ready. Then you get in your car and go
to work. Then you go to your job, but on
your job, instead of sitting at your lunch break messing
around with a bunch of people laughing and talking about nothing,
playing dominoes, why don't you take that hour to do
some more research, to send out some more emails, to
(06:26):
put some feelings out there, to see what can get
you in the place that you want to be. Then
when you get off, instead of driving straight home, why
don't you go somewhere in a meeting you take in
a session with some people in a positive mental state,
group of people that get together network for business, not
drink at happy hour, I said, network for business. So
(06:46):
after you've done that eight that you don't really care
for on a job, you spend some more time pursuing,
looking into researching, working towards, sending out some more applications,
putting in some more time to build your new app
discussing some more networking ideas. Okay, that's your happy hour.
Then when you go home, instead of chilling, drinking one,
(07:07):
having a cold, one, smoking one, playing a video game,
why don't you take that two hours and devote that
to that business idea. You got to that family that
you talk about, You really want spend some time with
your children, put something into them. Do something. Man, with
all these precious hours that God gives all of us
in the course of a day, take advantage of every
(07:30):
minute of that. No human being has more than twenty
four hours a day, including myself. But if you care
about every single minute of that day, you'll be amazed
at how much you could get accomplished in a twenty
four hour day. But you can't get none of that
happening because you sleep and you chilling and you smoking. Okay,
(07:53):
what has that done for you, your family, or your future.
Care about every minute of your daystening to the Steve
Harvey Morning Show
Come on you. Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody.
You are listening to the voice, Oh, come on now,
digny if you will. One and only, Steve Harvey got
a radio show, you know, one of the things about
being successful. And I was sharing this just the other
(00:21):
day with a young man and he asked me. He said, hey, man,
I just don't see how you get up that early
in the morning. I just don't see how, man, it
would kill me to get up this early in the morning. Well,
I sat there and I'm listening to it because it's
just a thousand times I've heard it, you know, and
(00:42):
my life is, you know, not too different from a
lot of people's lives. There's a lot of people out
there that rise early. And I just sit there, man,
because I mean, first of all, I'm grateful to be
able to have a job. I'm so grateful to be
able to do one and several that I happened to
enjoy doing. And I mean, you know, it's work and
it's difficult at times, but I mean, you know I
(01:04):
wanted this. You know you got it. You know, you
can't ask God for nothing, any give it to you,
then be mad that you got it. Don't make no sense.
You know. The problem with asking God for stuff is
a lot of times we ask it for stuff we
don't really know what all it encompasses, what all it
really is. And I ask for this. Now along the way,
I've gotten far more than I asked for. I want
(01:24):
you to do. Understand that, and you know that's His
grace at work in my life. But I get up
early and I go to work because I do understand
something that it is not walking up to you. Nobody
walks up to people normally and just hand them checks
all the time, and enough checks to sustain your life,
(01:44):
and not only sustain it, but to have a life
that where you could enjoy and do some of the
things you want to do. I don't know the person
that walks out hands out that money just to be
doing it. And then with a lifestyle though where you
can you know, give your kids a cariser, you know,
take your family on vacation, you know, a year, once
a year. I don't know nobody passing out to kind
(02:05):
of money. So I get up early in the morning.
I get at it. I was taught to get up
early in the morning by my father because my father
says ain't nothing gonna come to you while you lay
in there. And you know what, it's just true, man,
it's just a little common sense. Little old people smart man.
They've been around a long time. You don't get you know,
some old foods out there, but you know you don't
(02:27):
have to deal with them. But old people are pretty smart, man.
They've learned a lot along the way. And waking up
early and getting out it is one of them things.
And I ask everybody man to think about this scenario
of your life. If a day has twenty four hours
in it, and let's just say you choose to sleep
eight of those hours because they tell you you need
(02:48):
eight hours sleep, so you sleep eight hours. That's a
third of your life asleep. Already, just a third of
your life is spent asleep if you gonna do eight
hours a day. Now, let's say you have a job
that you work eight hours, and it is not the
job of your dreams. It's not your dream career, your
dream profession. It's just the one you took, like all
(03:10):
of us, to get it started. And then, like all
of us, some of us end up having to state
that because we've created these bills, because we checked and checked.
So we can't leave it because we'll lose what we've
worked for. So let's just say you got a job
that you go to work to for eight hours. That's
another third of your life. That's two thirds of your life.
Feel how you want to feel about your two thirds? Well,
(03:33):
I like sleep. Okay, cool, there's a scripture about that too.
But now you spent two thirds of your life one
on a job you don't care for if you're not
happy that it, or one that just pays the bills
and it's not your dream job or career. Another third
of your life is sleep. Oh now, let's hold on.
Let's talk about the one hour of preparation that it
may take to get to the job. That's seventeen hours.
(03:53):
Let's say your drive time, let's say getting to your
job for the average person is anywhere between thirty to
an hour. That's an average of what it takes to
average person. Now some people are there hustling way harder
than that. But let's just say your average is an
hour getting to work. You add another hour to that
going to work. You've now spent eighteen hours out of
(04:16):
the twenty four doing something that's either nonproductive, you're not
happy with, you're not pleased about. It is not your
dream job, it's not your dream profession. And rest of
the time you sleep eighteen hours. Now you got to
come from the job, so let's just say it's another
hour to get back home. That's nineteen hours. Nineteen hours
out of a twenty four hour day. You now have
(04:36):
five hours left in your day. Oh you watch TV
two hours a day. Okay, excuse me. Let's put now
you put two hours of TV on that you've just
spent twenty one. You now have three hours in the
day to do something super productive for the development of
yourself and the future of your family, and your future
(04:57):
as a person and what you can provide for your family.
Uh Oh, I need to chill. I need to smoke one.
Uh Oh, I needed some time at Happy. I'll seem
like all I do is dry to work and go
to work. I'm gonna go out with the fellas drink one. Okay,
let's say you spend two hours at Happy. Ill nobody
(05:20):
go to a Happy Hours just for a hour. Let's
say you spend two hours at Happy, I'll all smokeing
all some video games. Let's throw that in there. Two
hours of smoking, chilling video games. That's twenty three hours
of your day gone. Don't you see how your day
slips away from you? So why would you get up early?
You get up early to get a jump. You get
(05:41):
up early to produce, to plan, to become productive. You
get up early in the morning to care about every
single minute of your day. You wake up early in
the morning because you have a plan, a mission, You
have something you want to accomplish. The earlier you get up,
the more time you have just for you to devote
to your plan. You map it out, you make them,
(06:03):
send some emails, whatever it is you need to do
to get your dream on the way. Then you go
get ready. Then you get in your car and go
to work. Then you go to your job, but on
your job, instead of sitting at your lunch break messing
around with a bunch of people laughing and talking about nothing,
playing dominoes, why don't you take that hour to do
some more research, to send out some more emails, to
(06:26):
put some feelings out there, to see what can get
you in the place that you want to be. Then
when you get off, instead of driving straight home, why
don't you go somewhere in a meeting you take in
a session with some people in a positive mental state,
group of people that get together network for business, not
drink at happy hour, I said, network for business. So
(06:46):
after you've done that eight that you don't really care
for on a job, you spend some more time pursuing,
looking into researching, working towards, sending out some more applications,
putting in some more time to build your new app
discussing some more networking ideas. Okay, that's your happy hour.
Then when you go home, instead of chilling, drinking one,
(07:07):
having a cold, one, smoking one, playing a video game,
why don't you take that two hours and devote that
to that business idea. You got to that family that
you talk about, You really want spend some time with
your children, put something into them. Do something. Man, with
all these precious hours that God gives all of us
in the course of a day, take advantage of every
(07:30):
minute of that. No human being has more than twenty
four hours a day, including myself. But if you care
about every single minute of that day, you'll be amazed
at how much you could get accomplished in a twenty
four hour day. But you can't get none of that
happening because you sleep and you chilling and you smoking. Okay,
(07:53):
what has that done for you, your family, or your future.
Care about every minute of your daystening to the Steve
Harvey Morning Show
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