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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you, huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. You
know this week, I just been on it, So today
is no different. I'm telling you, I've just reinvigorated myself.
I'm more determined to share the principles of success. I'm
more determined to help and guide and teach as many
(00:31):
people as I can the things that I've learned. And
I mean, man, I've been through it. I have really
been through it. I kid you not.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I used to say, Okay, God, you know, why is
all this happening to me? But as I've gotten older,
I understand that was the ingredients. I needed the ingredients
to be this cake. I needed all those ingredients stirred up.
I need all of that different flavors, the stuff that
I didn't think tastes so good. All that stuff had
(00:59):
to come into the bowl in order for me to
get to where I am today. As much as I
did not like the taste of the ingredients.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Little did I know God was making this cake, not me.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But what he did was and you've heard the old
saying God could turn lemons into lemonade.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well that's what he was doing now.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
At the time, it all had a little funky lemonade
lemony flavor to it, with some other stuff in it too.
I didn't care for it. But little did I know
that I needed everything that happened to me, that happened
to me in the exact order that it happened, and
the exact array of things that happened for me to
(01:42):
have the knowledge I have today, the experience, the attitude,
so I could turn around and share that information. Okay,
got that out the way. This is what I want
to give to you today. I want you to understand
something that discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. Discipline
(02:05):
determines your destiny, not your desire. You've heard me say
this how many times on the show. Okay, here we
go again, Steve, I got it. Faith with our works
is dead. So let me tell you something. To be
a hard worker, you got to be disciplined. That's one
of the hardest lessons I'm trying to get through to
my sons. You're gonna throw yourself down a cliff if
(02:30):
you're not a young man or a man that possesses
discipline because they got something for undisciplined people.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
They got some.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Street laws for undisciplined people, and they got some federal
laws and state laws for undisciplined people. So that's why
them signs is outside on the freeway, we're gonna let
you go fast, But seventy is the limit.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Seventy fast enough.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Really, if you're disciplined enough of a person to leave
your house at the time you're supposed to leave your house,
seventy miles per hour is absolutely enough. But if you're
an undisciplined person, if you don't have the wherewithal to
leave your house on time, to get ready to go
where you wanna go, see the desires where you wanna go,
(03:15):
the discipline is how you get there. You understand, you
can wanna go to see your family in California all
you want, but the flight leaves at one eighteen.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You leave your house at twelve thirty.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
They told you you must check in one hour before
your flight. Now, if you ain't got the discipline to
get to the airport to check in one hour before
your flight, leaving your house forty five minutes before the
flight departs, what you think gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Your desire to go see.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Your family in La is going to be thwarted because
you lack the discipline to prepare yourself and get yourself
ready to do the things that you have to do
to make your desire come true. I'm telling you, discipline
determines your destiny, not your desire.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You can write down a list of.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Stuff you wanna do all day, but if you don't
produce and show the discipline necessary to get there, what
you think gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Huh? Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I wanna be rich, Okay, I wanna make four hundred
thousand a year. Okay, I wanna be the best player
that they is. Okay, but you don't want practice. See
the cat that's disciplined enough to show up at practice,
that's shooting jumpers when everybody gone home, that's the guy
that's gonna be the best. The guy that's never late
(04:40):
for practice, the guy to study the playbook, that's the
guy that's gonna make it. Not the guy that's talking crack,
got stalking that smack. I'm gonna make the Pro Bowl,
I'm gonna make the All Star Team, I'm gonna be
All American. That's just what you're saying. But discipline determines
your destiny, not your desire. So now let's talk about
(05:00):
this discipline. What is that, really, Steve. That's your work ethic,
that's your hunger, that's your wheel. Discipline is how hard
you're willing to demonstrate the attributes and the traits to
be what you want to be.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Did you hear me?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It is your willingness to conduct yourself in a manner
that is above and beyond what they say is necessary.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Now, this is a good example right here. Now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You can wanna be in the NFL all you want,
but they got this thing called the NFL Combines where
they bring in some of the top players at every
position to come in and they gonna run a forty
yard dash, They're gonna do a standing broad jump, They're
gonna do a standing vertical leap. They gonna do drills,
(05:54):
running drills, cutting drills. They can determine if a linebacker
got stiff hips by making him backpedal, point him in
one direction, and throw the football in another direction. How
does he turn his body? Now you can say you
can tell everybody at your college you want to play
pro football. You can tell everybody at your high school.
You can tell them in Pee wee you wanna play
pro football, but they got tests for you though. It's
(06:17):
called the combines. Now you get out here and you
have a bad combine day, Ain't nobody trying to hear that.
Let me tell you how excuses don't work with people
when they just trying to get when they trying to win.
In the NFL, the fact that you had a bad
day at the combine and you don't run your best
forties and you keep telling them you could do better,
they don't want to hear that. Because see, what ain't
(06:38):
nobody gonna pay you for is to play on Sunday.
And that's one of your bad days. We paying you
to play on Sundays. But because you keep having these
bad days, because you ain't disciplined enough to put in
the work to make sure that your maximum can be
called upon at any time. Now you at to combine
with some slow times that go on your record. You
(07:01):
had to combine. You don't jump as high as you
did when you was at the gym class. Well, hold up, man,
this is show day now in the NFL. Sunday is
show day. What they can't run the risk of is
paying you your money and your bad day happen to be.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
On Sundays after We don't cut your check.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No, no, no, We looking for people who limit them
bad days, who got the discipline to work hard, to
make an effort for it. You understand what I'm saying
to your folks. Please understand this. Discipline determines your destiny,
not your desire.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
If you can want it all.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You want, but if you ain't working, if you ain't grinding,
if you ain't hurting, if you ain't sweating real bad,
if you always somewhere, got to chill, you got to
have a cold one, you got to smoke one, You
got to do all them things.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Can I tell you something you ain't gonna make it.
Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. You're listening Steve
Harvey Morning Show
Come on you, huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. You
know this week, I just been on it, So today
is no different. I'm telling you, I've just reinvigorated myself.
I'm more determined to share the principles of success. I'm
more determined to help and guide and teach as many
(00:31):
people as I can the things that I've learned. And
I mean, man, I've been through it. I have really
been through it. I kid you not.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I used to say, Okay, God, you know, why is
all this happening to me? But as I've gotten older,
I understand that was the ingredients. I needed the ingredients
to be this cake. I needed all those ingredients stirred up.
I need all of that different flavors, the stuff that
I didn't think tastes so good. All that stuff had
(00:59):
to come into the bowl in order for me to
get to where I am today. As much as I
did not like the taste of the ingredients.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Little did I know God was making this cake, not me.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But what he did was and you've heard the old
saying God could turn lemons into lemonade.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well that's what he was doing now.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
At the time, it all had a little funky lemonade
lemony flavor to it, with some other stuff in it too.
I didn't care for it. But little did I know
that I needed everything that happened to me, that happened
to me in the exact order that it happened, and
the exact array of things that happened for me to
(01:42):
have the knowledge I have today, the experience, the attitude,
so I could turn around and share that information. Okay,
got that out the way. This is what I want
to give to you today. I want you to understand
something that discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. Discipline
(02:05):
determines your destiny, not your desire. You've heard me say
this how many times on the show. Okay, here we
go again, Steve, I got it. Faith with our works
is dead. So let me tell you something. To be
a hard worker, you got to be disciplined. That's one
of the hardest lessons I'm trying to get through to
my sons. You're gonna throw yourself down a cliff if
(02:30):
you're not a young man or a man that possesses
discipline because they got something for undisciplined people.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
They got some.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Street laws for undisciplined people, and they got some federal
laws and state laws for undisciplined people. So that's why
them signs is outside on the freeway, we're gonna let
you go fast, But seventy is the limit.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Seventy fast enough.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Really, if you're disciplined enough of a person to leave
your house at the time you're supposed to leave your house,
seventy miles per hour is absolutely enough. But if you're
an undisciplined person, if you don't have the wherewithal to
leave your house on time, to get ready to go
where you wanna go, see the desires where you wanna go,
(03:15):
the discipline is how you get there. You understand, you
can wanna go to see your family in California all
you want, but the flight leaves at one eighteen.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You leave your house at twelve thirty.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
They told you you must check in one hour before
your flight. Now, if you ain't got the discipline to
get to the airport to check in one hour before
your flight, leaving your house forty five minutes before the
flight departs, what you think gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Your desire to go see.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Your family in La is going to be thwarted because
you lack the discipline to prepare yourself and get yourself
ready to do the things that you have to do
to make your desire come true. I'm telling you, discipline
determines your destiny, not your desire.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You can write down a list of.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Stuff you wanna do all day, but if you don't
produce and show the discipline necessary to get there, what
you think gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Huh? Okay.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I wanna be rich, Okay, I wanna make four hundred
thousand a year. Okay, I wanna be the best player
that they is. Okay, but you don't want practice. See
the cat that's disciplined enough to show up at practice,
that's shooting jumpers when everybody gone home, that's the guy
that's gonna be the best. The guy that's never late
(04:40):
for practice, the guy to study the playbook, that's the
guy that's gonna make it. Not the guy that's talking crack,
got stalking that smack. I'm gonna make the Pro Bowl,
I'm gonna make the All Star Team, I'm gonna be
All American. That's just what you're saying. But discipline determines
your destiny, not your desire. So now let's talk about
(05:00):
this discipline. What is that, really, Steve. That's your work ethic,
that's your hunger, that's your wheel. Discipline is how hard
you're willing to demonstrate the attributes and the traits to
be what you want to be.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Did you hear me?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
It is your willingness to conduct yourself in a manner
that is above and beyond what they say is necessary.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Now, this is a good example right here. Now.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You can wanna be in the NFL all you want,
but they got this thing called the NFL Combines where
they bring in some of the top players at every
position to come in and they gonna run a forty
yard dash, They're gonna do a standing broad jump, They're
gonna do a standing vertical leap. They gonna do drills,
(05:54):
running drills, cutting drills. They can determine if a linebacker
got stiff hips by making him backpedal, point him in
one direction, and throw the football in another direction. How
does he turn his body? Now you can say you
can tell everybody at your college you want to play
pro football. You can tell everybody at your high school.
You can tell them in Pee wee you wanna play
pro football, but they got tests for you though. It's
(06:17):
called the combines. Now you get out here and you
have a bad combine day, Ain't nobody trying to hear that.
Let me tell you how excuses don't work with people
when they just trying to get when they trying to win.
In the NFL, the fact that you had a bad
day at the combine and you don't run your best
forties and you keep telling them you could do better,
they don't want to hear that. Because see, what ain't
(06:38):
nobody gonna pay you for is to play on Sunday.
And that's one of your bad days. We paying you
to play on Sundays. But because you keep having these
bad days, because you ain't disciplined enough to put in
the work to make sure that your maximum can be
called upon at any time. Now you at to combine
with some slow times that go on your record. You
(07:01):
had to combine. You don't jump as high as you
did when you was at the gym class. Well, hold up, man,
this is show day now in the NFL. Sunday is
show day. What they can't run the risk of is
paying you your money and your bad day happen to be.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
On Sundays after We don't cut your check.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
No, no, no, We looking for people who limit them
bad days, who got the discipline to work hard, to
make an effort for it. You understand what I'm saying
to your folks. Please understand this. Discipline determines your destiny,
not your desire.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
If you can want it all.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You want, but if you ain't working, if you ain't grinding,
if you ain't hurting, if you ain't sweating real bad,
if you always somewhere, got to chill, you got to
have a cold one, you got to smoke one, You
got to do all them things.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Can I tell you something you ain't gonna make it.
Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. You're listening Steve
Harvey Morning Show
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