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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Y'all don't know y'all at all at all, So.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Don't given them back a million bush yeah listening to

(00:39):
Joy Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Joy.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Show You to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Love, you gotta turn.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
I got to turn the mouth. Turn.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
You probably got to turn the mouth turn A wad
of the money UPO me.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Come come out? You think that?

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Uh huh, I sure will. A good morning everybody. You
are listening to the voice, Oh come on now, dig
me 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
day with a young man and he asked me. He said, hey, man,

(02:26):
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 down and I'm listening to it because it's
just a thousand times I've heard it, you know, And
my life is, you know, not too different from a
lot of people's lives. There's a lot of people out

(02:46):
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, and I'm so grateful to
be able to do one and several that I happened
to enjoy doing. I mean, you know it's work and
it's difficult at times, but I mean, you know I
wanted this. You know you got it. You know you
can't ask God for nothing any give it to you

(03:07):
then be mad that you got it. Don't make no sense.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
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 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

(03:33):
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, 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.

(03:53):
And then with a lifestyle though, where you can you know,
give your kids a Christmas, you know, take your fan.
I'm on vacation, you know, a year once a year.
I don't know nobody passing out to kind of money.
So I get up early in the morning and 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 now.

(04:16):
And you know what, It's just true, man, It's just
a little common sense. Look, old people smart, man, they've
been around long time. You don't get old. You know,
some old foods out there, but you know you don't
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

(04:39):
in it, and let's just say you choose to sleep
eight of those hours because they tell you you need
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

(05:01):
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
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

(05:22):
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,
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 there, or one that just pays the bills, and
it's not your dream job or career. Another third of

(05:43):
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. 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 out there hustling way harder than that.

(06:04):
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 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.

(06:26):
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 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

(06:51):
the development of yourself and the future of your family
and your future 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 seem like all I do is dry
to work and go to work. I'm gonna go out

(07:12):
with the fellas drink one. Okay, Let's say you spend
two hours at Happy Ill nobody go to a Happy
Hours yet for a hour. Let's say you spend two
hours at Happy I'll all smoke in all some video
games and let's strow. That is it 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?

(07:34):
So why would you get up early? You get up
early to get a jump. You get 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.

(07:55):
The earlier you get up, the more time you have
just for you to devote to your plan, and you
map it out, you make some send some emails, whatever
it is you need to do to get your dream
under 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,

(08:17):
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 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.

(08:39):
Network for business, not drink at happy hour. I said,
network for business. So 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 new working ideas. Okay,

(09:01):
that's your happy hour. Then when you go home, instead
of chilling drinking one, 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

(09:24):
gives all of us in the course of a day.
Take advantage of every 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

(09:45):
none of that happening because you sleep, and you chilling
and you smoking. Okay, what has that done for you,
your family or your future? Care about every minute of
your day. You're listening our every morning SHOWM
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