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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time. Y'all
don't know y'all at all at all, So.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Given them.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Back a million bus buss boozy Yeah listening to to
(00:38):
I don't joy?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, joy. You know you gotta turn.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I got to turn the mouth turn You probably got
to turn the mouth turn out, turn the water of
the mony up.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Look me.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Come come on, you'll think, uh huh, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Good morning everybody. You're listening to the voice, Come on
dig me now. One and only Steve Harley got a
radio show. I have something and it so describes how
I was living. It so captures the feelings that I
had about beginning on the pathway of my dreams. It
(02:25):
so describes how I felt when I was about to
attempt something. And I have some striking news for you.
It describes often how I feel still today to a degree.
So let me tell you what that is. Here's an
analogy that I've heard a couple of different ways, but
(02:48):
I've kind of, you know, fixed it around to where
I can drink it better, and I think it fits
my personality to describe it to people best this way.
I've talked often about the Earth and see of doing
something with your life, of getting started today, of stopping
the procrastination and putting it off, and waiting on all
(03:10):
your ducks to line up in a row, and waiting
until the stars align themselves. If you're waiting on such
a thing, you're never gonna get started. I don't know
too many people who can say that all the ducks
just lined up in the row. Things happen. Even when
you get them lined up. One of the ducks get
out of line, or somebody knock over the domino. Something happens.
(03:32):
But here's the point I'm getting at.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
God has so many blessings available to you. You who's listening.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
God has so many blessings available to you from where
you are right now. I don't care what you've gotten
yourself into or what you've done. God has so many
blessings that he can send your way.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But you have to do something.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
See a lot of people just sit around and go man,
I don't and something always happening to you. You're always
getting a break, You're always doing this. You always man,
no nothing come my way.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Listen to me. If nothing ever comes your way. You
know why that is? It's because you're not doing anything.
I promise you you're not. Here's a deal.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
God has all these blessings he wants to send you,
but you got to give him something to work with. Now,
come on, God will bless you. God can touch people's
hearts on your behalf. He can move situations around for you.
He can align the stars. He can set the ducks
up in the row. But align the stars and move
(04:46):
people around, and touch people's hearts and set the ducks
up in the row. For what have you put forth
any effort? Have you made a single step in any
direction to do the right thing or go the right way?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
That give him something to put his finger on.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Come on, man, God can only bless you according to
your faith. If you have a little bit of faith,
give him that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Let him work with that. You know, man, I didn't
always start with these speeches you hear in the morning.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Now. I ain't always had these. I grew to these.
I stumbled my way to these. I messed up my
way to these. Here, I got it wrong so many
times to be able to sound like I got some sense,
I've said it often. Failure is a wonderful teacher. Do
you know how many times I have had to have
failed to have what I have in my head today.
(05:39):
I'm telling you, man, it's a process. People get mad
at the process. You got to do something to give
God something to work with. He'll bless you. But what
you want me to bless If you ain't putting forth
any effort, you can get blessed from wherever you are
in your life, wherever your starting point is, wherever you
find yourself wound up, you can get it back from there.
(06:01):
I've done it, man, by the grace of God, I've
done it. I got over man. I learned some things
along the way. Because here's a deal. As long as
God keeps waking you up in the morning, he ain't
through with you yet. When he's done, you're done. But
if God still has a plan for you you wake
up in the morning, he still got some more work
for you to do. You wake up in the morning.
(06:22):
So if you keep waking up, man, it's something that
God wants from you, would love to have from you,
and he can work with you, man, if you just
walk towards him a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I know it's hard for the average person to start
because the fear of the unknown is incredible. What if
I fail what if I don't get picked. You know,
one of the hardest things I ever did was walking
in to quit my job. Oh man, let me tell
you about that day when I decided that I was
gonna be a full time comedian after winning an amateur
(06:55):
night one time, quitting your job following you dream, going
for it despite all the nay says, it's like stepping
off a cliff. It's like actually just walking off the
edge of a cliff, hoping, hoping. Now not really knowing,
(07:15):
but hoping. Hoping is the bad basis of faith. I
stepped off that cliff hoping that my parachute would open
and allow me to drift down. See. I've never scott
dived before, but I would imagine part of the thrill.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And I don't know this because I'm not going to
sCOD dive to find out.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I think part of the thrill for people is the
danger part of throwing yourself out a plane and how
it feels to be free falling, but the whole time
they're free falling, having this exhilarating, over the top moment.
You have got to believe in your heart of hearts,
you have got the hope with everything in you that
(08:01):
when you pull this cord, the shoot opens or else.
This ain't a good move at all. But you've packed
your shoot yourself. You've taken the lessons, so you go
ahead and you make the leap. Now, the only thing
about quitting your job and following your dream is you
ain't really been trained all that good for this. You
done packed your shoot, but you ain't never opened it before.
(08:23):
So I walked off this cliff, That's what it was like.
And you following your dreamers like you walking off a cliff.
Here's the part where people don't never make the jump.
They see somebody like myself who jumped off the cliff
and the past chute don't open right away, and I
hit a couple of rocks on the way down.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I got my back cut up pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
They see that three years living in a car, man
he got it life toe down jumping off that cliff.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I ain't jumping off that cliff.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But see, what you don't understand is you don't know it,
but eventually the shoot will open. I'm at the parachute
opening part of my life. Man were to shoot then open,
and I'm drifting and I'm able to guide my chute
over to Paris and glide. I've glided over the Africa
and seen what it looked like. It's a slow ride down.
(09:14):
When the Parasas chute finally opened and my back didn't
heel too and the cuts that I had on.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Me, I remember now. I know how to stay away
from the edge.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But the Paris chute then opened, and I'm enjoying my
life for the first time. I'm gliding, but I got
hit up against the rock. I can see more. I
get a chance to see more things. I get to
glide and see more parts of the world. I'm living
my dream. Your parachute is going to open, but I'll
tell you one thing for show. It'll never open if
(09:44):
you don't step off that cliff. You got to step
off that cliff. God get the pasachute open for you.
But you got to jump, baby. That's the hard part,
ain't it now? Question is the end of this story
right here today? When you jumping.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Today show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time. Y'all
don't know y'all at all at all, So.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Given them.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Back a million bus buss boozy Yeah listening to to
(00:38):
I don't joy?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, joy. You know you gotta turn.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I got to turn the mouth turn You probably got
to turn the mouth turn out, turn the water of
the mony up.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Look me.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Come come on, you'll think, uh huh, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Good morning everybody. You're listening to the voice, Come on
dig me now. One and only Steve Harley got a
radio show. I have something and it so describes how
I was living. It so captures the feelings that I
had about beginning on the pathway of my dreams. It
(02:25):
so describes how I felt when I was about to
attempt something. And I have some striking news for you.
It describes often how I feel still today to a degree.
So let me tell you what that is. Here's an
analogy that I've heard a couple of different ways, but
(02:48):
I've kind of, you know, fixed it around to where
I can drink it better, and I think it fits
my personality to describe it to people best this way.
I've talked often about the Earth and see of doing
something with your life, of getting started today, of stopping
the procrastination and putting it off, and waiting on all
(03:10):
your ducks to line up in a row, and waiting
until the stars align themselves. If you're waiting on such
a thing, you're never gonna get started. I don't know
too many people who can say that all the ducks
just lined up in the row. Things happen. Even when
you get them lined up. One of the ducks get
out of line, or somebody knock over the domino. Something happens.
(03:32):
But here's the point I'm getting at.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
God has so many blessings available to you. You who's listening.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
God has so many blessings available to you from where
you are right now. I don't care what you've gotten
yourself into or what you've done. God has so many
blessings that he can send your way.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But you have to do something.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
See a lot of people just sit around and go man,
I don't and something always happening to you. You're always
getting a break, You're always doing this. You always man,
no nothing come my way.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Listen to me. If nothing ever comes your way. You
know why that is? It's because you're not doing anything.
I promise you you're not. Here's a deal.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
God has all these blessings he wants to send you,
but you got to give him something to work with. Now,
come on, God will bless you. God can touch people's
hearts on your behalf. He can move situations around for you.
He can align the stars. He can set the ducks
up in the row. But align the stars and move
(04:46):
people around, and touch people's hearts and set the ducks
up in the row. For what have you put forth
any effort? Have you made a single step in any
direction to do the right thing or go the right way?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
That give him something to put his finger on.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Come on, man, God can only bless you according to
your faith. If you have a little bit of faith,
give him that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Let him work with that. You know, man, I didn't
always start with these speeches you hear in the morning.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Now. I ain't always had these. I grew to these.
I stumbled my way to these. I messed up my
way to these. Here, I got it wrong so many
times to be able to sound like I got some sense,
I've said it often. Failure is a wonderful teacher. Do
you know how many times I have had to have
failed to have what I have in my head today.
(05:39):
I'm telling you, man, it's a process. People get mad
at the process. You got to do something to give
God something to work with. He'll bless you. But what
you want me to bless If you ain't putting forth
any effort, you can get blessed from wherever you are
in your life, wherever your starting point is, wherever you
find yourself wound up, you can get it back from there.
(06:01):
I've done it, man, by the grace of God, I've
done it. I got over man. I learned some things
along the way. Because here's a deal. As long as
God keeps waking you up in the morning, he ain't
through with you yet. When he's done, you're done. But
if God still has a plan for you you wake
up in the morning, he still got some more work
for you to do. You wake up in the morning.
(06:22):
So if you keep waking up, man, it's something that
God wants from you, would love to have from you,
and he can work with you, man, if you just
walk towards him a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I know it's hard for the average person to start
because the fear of the unknown is incredible. What if
I fail what if I don't get picked. You know,
one of the hardest things I ever did was walking
in to quit my job. Oh man, let me tell
you about that day when I decided that I was
gonna be a full time comedian after winning an amateur
(06:55):
night one time, quitting your job following you dream, going
for it despite all the nay says, it's like stepping
off a cliff. It's like actually just walking off the
edge of a cliff, hoping, hoping. Now not really knowing,
(07:15):
but hoping. Hoping is the bad basis of faith. I
stepped off that cliff hoping that my parachute would open
and allow me to drift down. See. I've never scott
dived before, but I would imagine part of the thrill.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And I don't know this because I'm not going to
sCOD dive to find out.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I think part of the thrill for people is the
danger part of throwing yourself out a plane and how
it feels to be free falling, but the whole time
they're free falling, having this exhilarating, over the top moment.
You have got to believe in your heart of hearts,
you have got the hope with everything in you that
(08:01):
when you pull this cord, the shoot opens or else.
This ain't a good move at all. But you've packed
your shoot yourself. You've taken the lessons, so you go
ahead and you make the leap. Now, the only thing
about quitting your job and following your dream is you
ain't really been trained all that good for this. You
done packed your shoot, but you ain't never opened it before.
(08:23):
So I walked off this cliff, That's what it was like.
And you following your dreamers like you walking off a cliff.
Here's the part where people don't never make the jump.
They see somebody like myself who jumped off the cliff
and the past chute don't open right away, and I
hit a couple of rocks on the way down.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
I got my back cut up pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
They see that three years living in a car, man
he got it life toe down jumping off that cliff.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I ain't jumping off that cliff.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But see, what you don't understand is you don't know it,
but eventually the shoot will open. I'm at the parachute
opening part of my life. Man were to shoot then open,
and I'm drifting and I'm able to guide my chute
over to Paris and glide. I've glided over the Africa
and seen what it looked like. It's a slow ride down.
(09:14):
When the Parasas chute finally opened and my back didn't
heel too and the cuts that I had on.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Me, I remember now. I know how to stay away
from the edge.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But the Paris chute then opened, and I'm enjoying my
life for the first time. I'm gliding, but I got
hit up against the rock. I can see more. I
get a chance to see more things. I get to
glide and see more parts of the world. I'm living
my dream. Your parachute is going to open, but I'll
tell you one thing for show. It'll never open if
(09:44):
you don't step off that cliff. You got to step
off that cliff. God get the pasachute open for you.
But you got to jump, baby. That's the hard part,
ain't it now? Question is the end of this story
right here today? When you jumping.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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