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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, Uh huh, I sure will come on to
everybody y'all listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now.
One and old is Steve Harvey. Uh huh? Got a
radio show? Yeah, man, what a blessing it is. I
can't even explain my whole life. My whole life is
a blessing. It really is, in spite of all the
(00:20):
things that's happened, contraa to having the appearances of a blessing.
As I look back on my life today, it all
happened for a reason. It all came together, it tied together,
and you know it's important. Man. I think a lot
of people that asked me about my success and how
I got here and how do I attribute in what
was the steps? I want to tell you what it is. Now.
(00:42):
Listen to me before I get started. Please understand that
everything that I tell you is faith based. Everything that
I tell you is faith based. You can double check it.
You can go behind me. Whatever your faith is. If
you go back into the writings and your faith, it's
in there. It's in there. Now. I'm not telling you
anything new. I'm not giving you a new angle may
give you a different way of is saying it. You know,
(01:02):
maybe hearing it back to yourself. But in essence, man,
I really do know that I'm not going to say
anything that you may not have heard, but I phrased
it in a different kind of way. And so this
series this week, I want to talk to you about
how to make it kind of a motivational series. And
the first part, the most important component of it in
accomplishing what you want in your life is you have
(01:25):
to identify the dream. This is the critical step. A
lot of people spend their life squandering and wandering around
because they never identify the dream. You have to identify
the dream. You have to identify what it is that
you want, what it is that you hope for. You
have to have a goal in mind. You have to
(01:48):
have a destination, you know. And when you go outside
and put the key in your car, you never go
and put your key in the car and just get
it in and just drive, you know, unless you're trying
to clear your head or something. But if you talk
about going somewhere, you got to have a destination. You
gotta have somewhere you want to go, or else you're
just running around, you burning gas where you're going Now,
I don't know, left here, right here, go here, go there.
(02:10):
You know you must identify the dream. The dream is
the single most important part of the component to making
the success out yourself. God can't bless what you don't have.
You can't get what you never give. Identify the dream.
What is it that burns inside you so it keeps
you awake at night? What is it, man that makes
you smile when you think about it? What is it,
(02:32):
man that you can't seem to quite shape? Okay, so
you go to college, right, you make a decision, which
I disagree with you asking eighteen to a twenty one
year old to make a decision or what he wants
to do and what he wants to be with the
rest of his life. That's tough because guess what, this
young person doesn't really know himself or herself yet. So
you're asking them to identify what it is at an
(02:53):
early age. What consequentially happens is that people get older
and they wind up doing something else. So you get
a degree and you find out what your passion is
with something else. See, identifying that dream as early as
you can is important. Now, whether you're young, or whether
you're or whatever, your whatever, your identity of the dream
is that's first. Now, what you have to do then
(03:15):
is if I were you. Here is the part that
people never seem to weld together with that dream, that
I want to be an astronaut, I want to be
a doctor, I want to be a club on, I
want to be a a DJ, I want to be
a ball player, I want to be a writer, I
want to be a whatever it is, it doesn't matter.
Somebody is that already, and somebody had it as a dream,
(03:37):
So it's no dream too big. Okay, Once you identify
the dream, here's the thing. The best way for that
to happen is that dream should be tied directly to
your God given gift or talent. See that's the part
that people miss. You see Halle Berry on TV, and
you want to have on one of the dresses on
the red carpet, and you want to stand there and
(03:59):
get the award, and you want to have the same
people had to do your hair to do Halle and
who do Beyonce? He all that's good, All that's good, man,
But do you have the talent or the gift to
accomplish that? See, don't get outside your scope. I wanted
to play in the NBA when I was eight years old.
But something happened along the way. I didn't have skill set.
(04:19):
I discovered that when I ran as fast as I could,
the basketball was never with me. Man, that's an important
part of all. You know. I could jump, but I
normally didn't have a basketball. So now see that that
passion and that dream of being in the NBA was
not tied to my gift. My gift was when I
was sitting there watching them play basketball. I was the
(04:42):
little dude leaning against the fence that had a comment
about everything everybody did. That was it. I was the commentator,
the color commentator, and lord I was funny. It was
one of the few times I didn't stutter when I
was leaning. I gets the fish talking trash. But if
you took me to school, you took me to church,
(05:03):
you took me in front of somebody, you sent me
to the store. Man, that stuttering just came over the
top of me. I couldn't do it. I remember the
first time I told somebody my dream is to be
on TV. Man, they laughed at me so hard that
they laughed me out the gym because I had a
stuttering problem. So that caused me never to tell it again.
The best way to accomplish your dream is you got
to tie it to your gift, to the talent that
(05:25):
God has given you. You can't overlook that. See God
never created a person without giving them a talent or
a gift. You have something that you do, and the
way to identify that is very simple. It is the
thing that you do the absolute best with the least
amount of effort. What is that that you do that's
better than you do anything else with the least amount
of effort. You do this it's almost You can draw
(05:46):
without you can write, you can sing. You know how
to pull stuff apart and put it back together. You
know how to connect the dots and cross t's, and
you know how to organize things and put people together.
You know how to network. You know how to shoot
videos better than anybody. You know how to calm people down.
When it's a conflict. That your school is something, they
(06:07):
come to you, all your friends come to you. They problem.
There's a gift and the talent. You have to identify
what that is. Now, if you take that gift and
talent that you are born with and you marry it
into your dream, you put those two in the dream.
That's the number one thing. And here's a deal. You
can never give up on the dream. I don't care
(06:30):
how old you are. There's a scripture that says a
man without a dream or a vision shall perish. Think
about this. If you've given up on your dream, don't
it feel like you're going nowhere? You have a wake
up in the morning and just go, Man, this can't
be all to it. It's got to be more to
it than this. That's that seed, that dream, that talent,
(06:53):
that gift that's in you, that needs watering and nurturing
and fertilize it to come out and grow. But you
got to identify. Man. Come on, and you can't give
up on your dream because now you got just the
job that's helping you pay these bills. And now you
locked into the system where paying the bills is so
critical and living expenses on top of you that you
got to keep going to this job. So now you
(07:13):
give up on your dreams. That ain't how this thing work. Man.
You can't ever give up on the dream. It's gonna
be a sacrifice to do that. To follow your dream,
You're gonna have to let something go that's the scary part.
That's the part where people don't want to let go
of the peanut to get the fruit. So you hang
on to your peanut. Now, the fruit out there, it's melons, grapes, bananas, pineapples,
(07:36):
it's out fruit is out there, But you're so busy
hanging on to this peanut, that job that has got
you locked in, and you can't go out there and
enjoy the fruits of your life. You have to make
a decision. But decision is based on your dream and
your gift. If you tie those two together, why not
take a shot at it. I mean, what you're waiting on.
Everything I tell you is faith based, so remember that too.
Now you got to take your faith along. But it
(07:58):
starts with the dream. You're listening to the Steve Harvey
Morning Show
Come on, Uh huh, I sure will come on to
everybody y'all listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now.
One and old is Steve Harvey. Uh huh? Got a
radio show? Yeah, man, what a blessing it is. I
can't even explain my whole life. My whole life is
a blessing. It really is, in spite of all the
(00:20):
things that's happened, contraa to having the appearances of a blessing.
As I look back on my life today, it all
happened for a reason. It all came together, it tied together,
and you know it's important. Man. I think a lot
of people that asked me about my success and how
I got here and how do I attribute in what
was the steps? I want to tell you what it is. Now.
(00:42):
Listen to me before I get started. Please understand that
everything that I tell you is faith based. Everything that
I tell you is faith based. You can double check it.
You can go behind me. Whatever your faith is. If
you go back into the writings and your faith, it's
in there. It's in there. Now. I'm not telling you
anything new. I'm not giving you a new angle may
give you a different way of is saying it. You know,
(01:02):
maybe hearing it back to yourself. But in essence, man,
I really do know that I'm not going to say
anything that you may not have heard, but I phrased
it in a different kind of way. And so this
series this week, I want to talk to you about
how to make it kind of a motivational series. And
the first part, the most important component of it in
accomplishing what you want in your life is you have
(01:25):
to identify the dream. This is the critical step. A
lot of people spend their life squandering and wandering around
because they never identify the dream. You have to identify
the dream. You have to identify what it is that
you want, what it is that you hope for. You
have to have a goal in mind. You have to
(01:48):
have a destination, you know. And when you go outside
and put the key in your car, you never go
and put your key in the car and just get
it in and just drive, you know, unless you're trying
to clear your head or something. But if you talk
about going somewhere, you got to have a destination. You
gotta have somewhere you want to go, or else you're
just running around, you burning gas where you're going Now,
I don't know, left here, right here, go here, go there.
(02:10):
You know you must identify the dream. The dream is
the single most important part of the component to making
the success out yourself. God can't bless what you don't have.
You can't get what you never give. Identify the dream.
What is it that burns inside you so it keeps
you awake at night? What is it, man that makes
you smile when you think about it? What is it,
(02:32):
man that you can't seem to quite shape? Okay, so
you go to college, right, you make a decision, which
I disagree with you asking eighteen to a twenty one
year old to make a decision or what he wants
to do and what he wants to be with the
rest of his life. That's tough because guess what, this
young person doesn't really know himself or herself yet. So
you're asking them to identify what it is at an
(02:53):
early age. What consequentially happens is that people get older
and they wind up doing something else. So you get
a degree and you find out what your passion is
with something else. See, identifying that dream as early as
you can is important. Now, whether you're young, or whether
you're or whatever, your whatever, your identity of the dream
is that's first. Now, what you have to do then
(03:15):
is if I were you. Here is the part that
people never seem to weld together with that dream, that
I want to be an astronaut, I want to be
a doctor, I want to be a club on, I
want to be a a DJ, I want to be
a ball player, I want to be a writer, I
want to be a whatever it is, it doesn't matter.
Somebody is that already, and somebody had it as a dream,
(03:37):
So it's no dream too big. Okay, Once you identify
the dream, here's the thing. The best way for that
to happen is that dream should be tied directly to
your God given gift or talent. See that's the part
that people miss. You see Halle Berry on TV, and
you want to have on one of the dresses on
the red carpet, and you want to stand there and
(03:59):
get the award, and you want to have the same
people had to do your hair to do Halle and
who do Beyonce? He all that's good, All that's good, man,
But do you have the talent or the gift to
accomplish that? See, don't get outside your scope. I wanted
to play in the NBA when I was eight years old.
But something happened along the way. I didn't have skill set.
(04:19):
I discovered that when I ran as fast as I could,
the basketball was never with me. Man, that's an important
part of all. You know. I could jump, but I
normally didn't have a basketball. So now see that that
passion and that dream of being in the NBA was
not tied to my gift. My gift was when I
was sitting there watching them play basketball. I was the
(04:42):
little dude leaning against the fence that had a comment
about everything everybody did. That was it. I was the commentator,
the color commentator, and lord I was funny. It was
one of the few times I didn't stutter when I
was leaning. I gets the fish talking trash. But if
you took me to school, you took me to church,
(05:03):
you took me in front of somebody, you sent me
to the store. Man, that stuttering just came over the
top of me. I couldn't do it. I remember the
first time I told somebody my dream is to be
on TV. Man, they laughed at me so hard that
they laughed me out the gym because I had a
stuttering problem. So that caused me never to tell it again.
The best way to accomplish your dream is you got
to tie it to your gift, to the talent that
(05:25):
God has given you. You can't overlook that. See God
never created a person without giving them a talent or
a gift. You have something that you do, and the
way to identify that is very simple. It is the
thing that you do the absolute best with the least
amount of effort. What is that that you do that's
better than you do anything else with the least amount
of effort. You do this it's almost You can draw
(05:46):
without you can write, you can sing. You know how
to pull stuff apart and put it back together. You
know how to connect the dots and cross t's, and
you know how to organize things and put people together.
You know how to network. You know how to shoot
videos better than anybody. You know how to calm people down.
When it's a conflict. That your school is something, they
(06:07):
come to you, all your friends come to you. They problem.
There's a gift and the talent. You have to identify
what that is. Now, if you take that gift and
talent that you are born with and you marry it
into your dream, you put those two in the dream.
That's the number one thing. And here's a deal. You
can never give up on the dream. I don't care
(06:30):
how old you are. There's a scripture that says a
man without a dream or a vision shall perish. Think
about this. If you've given up on your dream, don't
it feel like you're going nowhere? You have a wake
up in the morning and just go, Man, this can't
be all to it. It's got to be more to
it than this. That's that seed, that dream, that talent,
(06:53):
that gift that's in you, that needs watering and nurturing
and fertilize it to come out and grow. But you
got to identify. Man. Come on, and you can't give
up on your dream because now you got just the
job that's helping you pay these bills. And now you
locked into the system where paying the bills is so
critical and living expenses on top of you that you
got to keep going to this job. So now you
(07:13):
give up on your dreams. That ain't how this thing work. Man.
You can't ever give up on the dream. It's gonna
be a sacrifice to do that. To follow your dream,
You're gonna have to let something go that's the scary part.
That's the part where people don't want to let go
of the peanut to get the fruit. So you hang
on to your peanut. Now, the fruit out there, it's melons, grapes, bananas, pineapples,
(07:36):
it's out fruit is out there, But you're so busy
hanging on to this peanut, that job that has got
you locked in, and you can't go out there and
enjoy the fruits of your life. You have to make
a decision. But decision is based on your dream and
your gift. If you tie those two together, why not
take a shot at it. I mean, what you're waiting on.
Everything I tell you is faith based, so remember that too.
Now you got to take your faith along. But it
(07:58):
starts with the dream. You're listening to the Steve Harvey
Morning Show
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