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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. I got a radio show.
Real grateful for that. You know, it's funny. I remember
when I first started out in radio, A lot of
my peers laughed at me. Some of it was being
(00:22):
mean spirited, some of it was just you know, marcking me.
I'm used to stuff like that. But I had as
a special guest on my show, Joe Oldstein, and you
know something, man, he said something that was I can't
remember the scripture. I don't know exactly how it were
like we were having a long conversation, but the gist
of it was, don't be upset with where you are now,
(00:44):
and don't be upset with the small things in your life.
Be grateful for the small things and the small position
that you have right now, because you don't know where
that's going. You don't know what that's gonna be one day,
you don't know what that's gonna lead to. And that
was very warming to hear him say that. But it
also reminded me of when I started in radio, how
small it was. It reminded me of when I started
(01:07):
in stand up making twenty five dollars a show. It
reminds me of not having a home at a period
in my life and what God has allowed me to
live in now. So don't be distraught over your position now,
and don't be ungrateful or unappreciative for the things you
(01:27):
have now because you don't know what that's gonna grow into.
And that's really the gist of that I got from
what he was saying. I just wanted to share that
with you, that where you are now is so temporary
because now, like I've said before, now is a fleeting moment.
Right after you finish saying now, that moment that you
claimed as now, that's gone. So the where you are
(01:49):
now is a very fleeting process. Now. You can change
where you are now, and you can change how you
feel about where you're at now, and you can change
about where you going by simply changing your mind. It
is no difference. I'm telling you, folks. The thing that
I've learned about successful people is not so much of
(02:11):
what they do. It's not what they have. The biggest
thing I've learned about successful people is how they think.
That's the thing that's different it's how they think. And
I'm telling you that you can change the way you
think on any subject and start becoming successful towards that
(02:32):
starting now, you have to understand that. Man, the biggest
difference I've noticed between successful people and non successful people
is how they think. I was reading what it's God
said that he was taught all wrong about money. He
said that his father was very negative about money. He
(02:54):
all throughout his life he heard his father say, you know,
people who got money have walked on somebody to get it,
or cheated somebody to get it. People who have money,
money is the root of all evil. Money is money
is this And people who got money, you know, don't
deserve it. They've done something wrong to get it. Yah
to y'all. So he said, he grew up the whole
(03:14):
time thinking that having money was something was wrong with that.
He discovered that it wasn't. Look. You can choose to
be successful anywhere you want to. I've chosen several ways
to be successful. I want to be a very very
successful father. I think that's one of the things that's
paramount in my life. That I really am working hard
(03:34):
right now to become a successful father, not a successful father.
In terms of money, but a successful father in terms
of offering the amount of love and guidance and leadership
and the example that my children need to look at.
And that's what I'm really really working hard at now.
I want to be successful as a father, but also
(03:57):
I want to be successful as a husband. Marjorie to
always know that she can count on me, to not
have to wonder about me or look for me. You know.
I want her to feel secure in the fact that
I really have gotten it right, that I really am
focused on being a good husband to her, because it
means so much to me, you know. So I'm working
(04:20):
hard on a lot of levels. I'm working hard and
trying very strong to be a successful motivator of people.
I want to be a share of information to people
that will uplift others and give others the same things
that I've learned through the trials and tribulations of my life.
But at the same time share that information and use
(04:41):
the power of this microphone to uplift people, you know,
not to destroy. My show is not about Ooh, guess
what so and so said? Guess what so and so did.
I don't like mean spirited things about people. You know
I joke with people who calling this that's another thing.
But I don't like destroying people with the power of
the microphone. So I'm working very hard on being successful
a lot of areas of my life now. Also, I
(05:02):
do care about being financially successful too, because my father.
One of the gifts he gave me was very simple gift.
He told me a long time ago. He said, son,
the best thing you can do for poor people is
not be one of them. And that stuck with me.
And this was a hard working man who was a
coal miner who worked construction his entire life. My father
(05:25):
didn't have an easy life man. My father didn't sit
behind a microphone. My father didn't come to work and
people cheered for him. My father wasn't famous. My father
was just a go get it dude. That he instilled
that in me. And I've taken that and applied it
to my craft and I thank God for him for that.
But I do try to be financially successful so that
(05:47):
I can do some things with it to help some
other people. Now, am I opposed to having nice things? No?
Do I apologize for having nice things? No? And why
should I I work? You know, I'm not. I'm not
on the radio asking to give me money, you know,
so I can go buy a car. I'm working, so
I don't feel how you want to feel, and other
(06:08):
people do feel that way about it. But if success
in terms of finance is what you're lacking, you can
go about the business of doing that. I'm writing a book,
and that whole book is about teaching people how to
become successful. And man, I'm breaking it down in a
way where everybody can get it, man, because I want
the college student to get it, you know. I want
(06:30):
the working mom to get it, to single mom to
get it. The hard working father that has been trying
to hold his family together can get it. The father
that ain't ever got it together and feel that because
of that reason, he can't be the father he needs
to be. I'm writing something, man, to put it into words,
to let you know that God is a forgiving God,
(06:51):
and that God is a merciful God, and that God
can get you out of any situation you find yourself in.
You just can't beat yourself up time you make a mistake.
I make mistakes all the time, man, I just got
to remind myself to get up. I ask God for forgiveness.
I'll call on his mercy and his grace and I
get up and I go again. But it's coming, man.
(07:13):
And if finance success is what you want, you got
to change your mind. You got to start thinking about
how to produce it. The first thing you do is
you got to ask. You got to ask to have
a life and have a life more abundantly. That's a
scripture that he comes to you to give you life
and to give you life more abundantly. That's a scripture.
(07:35):
That ain't a joke, that ain't a theory. That's a fact,
and the fact that if you don't have a life
of abundance, you can get that by asking. Then it
starts by believing. And how too, don't even worry about that.
He takes care of that himself. He'll send the stuff
your way. But you got to be willing to put
some effort in this thing now, and you can do it. Okay.
I know I was a little around the place today,
(07:56):
but that's what it was. So you know, let's go
get it to the Steve Harvey 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. I got a radio show.
Real grateful for that. You know, it's funny. I remember
when I first started out in radio, A lot of
my peers laughed at me. Some of it was being
(00:22):
mean spirited, some of it was just you know, marcking me.
I'm used to stuff like that. But I had as
a special guest on my show, Joe Oldstein, and you
know something, man, he said something that was I can't
remember the scripture. I don't know exactly how it were
like we were having a long conversation, but the gist
of it was, don't be upset with where you are now,
(00:44):
and don't be upset with the small things in your life.
Be grateful for the small things and the small position
that you have right now, because you don't know where
that's going. You don't know what that's gonna be one day,
you don't know what that's gonna lead to. And that
was very warming to hear him say that. But it
also reminded me of when I started in radio, how
small it was. It reminded me of when I started
(01:07):
in stand up making twenty five dollars a show. It
reminds me of not having a home at a period
in my life and what God has allowed me to
live in now. So don't be distraught over your position now,
and don't be ungrateful or unappreciative for the things you
(01:27):
have now because you don't know what that's gonna grow into.
And that's really the gist of that I got from
what he was saying. I just wanted to share that
with you, that where you are now is so temporary
because now, like I've said before, now is a fleeting moment.
Right after you finish saying now, that moment that you
claimed as now, that's gone. So the where you are
(01:49):
now is a very fleeting process. Now. You can change
where you are now, and you can change how you
feel about where you're at now, and you can change
about where you going by simply changing your mind. It
is no difference. I'm telling you, folks. The thing that
I've learned about successful people is not so much of
(02:11):
what they do. It's not what they have. The biggest
thing I've learned about successful people is how they think.
That's the thing that's different it's how they think. And
I'm telling you that you can change the way you
think on any subject and start becoming successful towards that
(02:32):
starting now, you have to understand that. Man, the biggest
difference I've noticed between successful people and non successful people
is how they think. I was reading what it's God
said that he was taught all wrong about money. He
said that his father was very negative about money. He
(02:54):
all throughout his life he heard his father say, you know,
people who got money have walked on somebody to get it,
or cheated somebody to get it. People who have money,
money is the root of all evil. Money is money
is this And people who got money, you know, don't
deserve it. They've done something wrong to get it. Yah
to y'all. So he said, he grew up the whole
(03:14):
time thinking that having money was something was wrong with that.
He discovered that it wasn't. Look. You can choose to
be successful anywhere you want to. I've chosen several ways
to be successful. I want to be a very very
successful father. I think that's one of the things that's
paramount in my life. That I really am working hard
(03:34):
right now to become a successful father, not a successful father.
In terms of money, but a successful father in terms
of offering the amount of love and guidance and leadership
and the example that my children need to look at.
And that's what I'm really really working hard at now.
I want to be successful as a father, but also
(03:57):
I want to be successful as a husband. Marjorie to
always know that she can count on me, to not
have to wonder about me or look for me. You know.
I want her to feel secure in the fact that
I really have gotten it right, that I really am
focused on being a good husband to her, because it
means so much to me, you know. So I'm working
(04:20):
hard on a lot of levels. I'm working hard and
trying very strong to be a successful motivator of people.
I want to be a share of information to people
that will uplift others and give others the same things
that I've learned through the trials and tribulations of my life.
But at the same time share that information and use
(04:41):
the power of this microphone to uplift people, you know,
not to destroy. My show is not about Ooh, guess
what so and so said? Guess what so and so did.
I don't like mean spirited things about people. You know
I joke with people who calling this that's another thing.
But I don't like destroying people with the power of
the microphone. So I'm working very hard on being successful
a lot of areas of my life now. Also, I
(05:02):
do care about being financially successful too, because my father.
One of the gifts he gave me was very simple gift.
He told me a long time ago. He said, son,
the best thing you can do for poor people is
not be one of them. And that stuck with me.
And this was a hard working man who was a
coal miner who worked construction his entire life. My father
(05:25):
didn't have an easy life man. My father didn't sit
behind a microphone. My father didn't come to work and
people cheered for him. My father wasn't famous. My father
was just a go get it dude. That he instilled
that in me. And I've taken that and applied it
to my craft and I thank God for him for that.
But I do try to be financially successful so that
(05:47):
I can do some things with it to help some
other people. Now, am I opposed to having nice things? No?
Do I apologize for having nice things? No? And why
should I I work? You know, I'm not. I'm not
on the radio asking to give me money, you know,
so I can go buy a car. I'm working, so
I don't feel how you want to feel, and other
(06:08):
people do feel that way about it. But if success
in terms of finance is what you're lacking, you can
go about the business of doing that. I'm writing a book,
and that whole book is about teaching people how to
become successful. And man, I'm breaking it down in a
way where everybody can get it, man, because I want
the college student to get it, you know. I want
(06:30):
the working mom to get it, to single mom to
get it. The hard working father that has been trying
to hold his family together can get it. The father
that ain't ever got it together and feel that because
of that reason, he can't be the father he needs
to be. I'm writing something, man, to put it into words,
to let you know that God is a forgiving God,
(06:51):
and that God is a merciful God, and that God
can get you out of any situation you find yourself in.
You just can't beat yourself up time you make a mistake.
I make mistakes all the time, man, I just got
to remind myself to get up. I ask God for forgiveness.
I'll call on his mercy and his grace and I
get up and I go again. But it's coming, man.
(07:13):
And if finance success is what you want, you got
to change your mind. You got to start thinking about
how to produce it. The first thing you do is
you got to ask. You got to ask to have
a life and have a life more abundantly. That's a
scripture that he comes to you to give you life
and to give you life more abundantly. That's a scripture.
(07:35):
That ain't a joke, that ain't a theory. That's a fact,
and the fact that if you don't have a life
of abundance, you can get that by asking. Then it
starts by believing. And how too, don't even worry about that.
He takes care of that himself. He'll send the stuff
your way. But you got to be willing to put
some effort in this thing now, and you can do it. Okay.
I know I was a little around the place today,
(07:56):
but that's what it was. So you know, let's go
get it to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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