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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, uh uh, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everybody you are listening to the voice, Come on,
dig me now, one and all that. Steve Harvey got
a radio show particular me this morning. Steve Harvey got
a radio show filled with nothing but joy and hope
about it too. You know, it's a great thing to
be able to wake up in the morning with peace
(00:27):
in your heart and joy. Peace and joy is is immeasurable.
It has a value attached to it, and I have
no idea what it is. It's invaluable. It is worth
so much more than any amount of money you can make.
Peace and joy I have not always had that. I've
(00:48):
not always been a peaceful person or a person who
lived his life and enjoy spirit.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It took an arrival at this moment. Some people arrive
sooner than I wish I had arrived at this point sooner.
But I think it was necessary for me to learn
a few things too. That's the amazing thing I've learned
about life is that instead of reflecting on your past
(01:19):
incidences and calling them failures, instead of focusing on the
negative and calling them bad times, I look at them
now as experiences. I had to have those experiences that
were negative, that were good, positive, wrong, evil. I had
to have all those experiences to become to shape who
(01:45):
we are today. We all have to have them. If
you look back at all the negative experiences you've had,
all the things that you called failures, all the businesses
I started that went under, all of the jobs I
had that I was it from, all the shows that
were canceled, all of the times I thought I was
(02:06):
gonna get something happened in my way and turned out
I didn't get it at all. When you look at
all of it, all of it, hopefully along the way,
what you have done as a person is you've taken
those negatives and those failures and you've used them for
what they actually are. They are experiences, and they've now
(02:27):
created in you an experienced person, and you know that
is worth something. That's then it becomes a positive. But
what too many people do is they let the negative
things that have happened in their life, They allow the
failures that have happened in them lives never to manifest
(02:47):
themselves as experiences. And you sit up there and you
dwell on it, and you dwell on it until you
have this woe is me attitude. Stop looking at it
like that. Y'all, you go through things in order to
become the person that you are today. I tell you
who you sometimes have to sit down and talk to.
Sometimes you ought to sit down to an inmate that
(03:09):
really gets it, an inmate.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That says, man.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I've actually heard inmates say it to me and write
to me, and they've said things like, man, come into prison,
save my life. Now, those of you have never got
how can he say a thing like that? But some men, no, Man,
I was so far out there that if I'd have
stayed out there, I wouldn't even be here today. This
actually allowed me to stop, spend some time with myself
(03:35):
and learn some things about me. Now does that happen
for everybody like that and all? But here's a person
who has taking an experience that could be considered a
failure or negative and turning it into a positive and
using it to enrich their lives. You can do it
no matter what your set of circumstances is. I recommend
to everybody that you try changing your outlook in order
(03:57):
to change your outcome. Everything that has happens to you
that's negative or you consider failure their experiences. You've got
to go through these things in order to have the
knowledge that you have today. So I wish that I
had come to this arrival that I'm in now, this
place of peace and joy. But then guess what, I
will not know what I know. I cannot share some
(04:19):
of the things that I'm able to share if I
had not gone through some of them. And sometimes that's
the purpose of them. It's to teach you a lesson
because you know, God has a plan for you. He
really really does. And eventually he can use you no
matter how old you are, and he can use you
no matter how young you are. If you just say, Okay,
I'm ready to hear your plan. I've tried mine. Mine
(04:41):
ain't worked out. What's your plan for me? God, what
do you want me to do? That's why I say
every day Steve already got radio show, y'all. Couse, Man,
I ain't see it coming. I didn't see that coming.
I ain't see this book coming. I ain't I ain't
seen half of the amazing things that are happened to me.
I didn't plan them. I was sitting there, man, asking
(05:02):
God for some direction. And then I got smart enough
to stay watchful, be a hard worker. Now because faithful
our works is dead, and it came. And I'll remind
you of this. God has given all of you a gift.
Every last one of you listening has a gift. God
has never created a soul that He did not provide
a gift to. God gives everyone a gift, and a
(05:25):
gift is not just singing, rapping entertainment. The richer gifts
are much more than that. Teachers are gifted people who
really have the gift of sharing information. That's a gift,
you know, and in that you can become great. You know,
a lot of people think that successful and greatness is
(05:48):
the same thing. Cornell West said it at my daughter's graduation.
He was a spokesperson. He said something so pointed. He said,
don't ever confuse success with greatness. The two have nothing
to do with each other. See, people determine success about
money and fame and all this here, but greatness. Greatness
ain't got nothing to do with your money. It ain't
(06:09):
got nothing to do with your fame. It's how you
conduct your life. It's how meaningful and significant you become
in your community, at your church, on your job, to
the Cubs Scout unit that you run to the little
girl's lives, that you change that that little center in
the hood where you just one place of hope to
so many people and they come back. And I used
(06:31):
the example of Lou Dazzler who passed away in LA
who had the Boys and Girls Challenges Club out in
LA And he wasn't a rich man at all, and
if you walk by him, you wouldn't even know who
he was. But if you look at all the people
who have gone on to become politicians, who have gone
on to become CEOs, who have gone on to become athletes,
that have passed through this man's small building in the
(06:53):
hood in LA, he was great. Trust me, man. Prayer
changes things said all the time. But when you see
people become successful or great that somebody praying somewhere may
not even be them. Maybe it's they. Mama. You know,
I think of Tiger Woods and all the greatness he's accomplished.
You know, they always talk about his father and all this.
(07:14):
Here somebody somewhere praying for Tiger Woods. I got cash
money riding on that Tiger Woods. Mama is a praying
woman or something. My mother was. She prayed me into
this place because she used to call me all the
time praying for you, boy, and prayer changes things. It
really does. Try it today. It can change you. It
(07:34):
has changed millions of people. Open up yourself to the
greatness that's in you, because God is giving you a
gift matter fact that you ain't using it. Who fought
you think that is? I'm just telling you you got
one and if you start praying about it, it'll manifest
itself and you can become one or two things, successful
or great or both. You can make the decision. Today.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Come on, uh uh, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everybody you are listening to the voice, Come on,
dig me now, one and all that. Steve Harvey got
a radio show particular me this morning. Steve Harvey got
a radio show filled with nothing but joy and hope
about it too. You know, it's a great thing to
be able to wake up in the morning with peace
(00:27):
in your heart and joy. Peace and joy is is immeasurable.
It has a value attached to it, and I have
no idea what it is. It's invaluable. It is worth
so much more than any amount of money you can make.
Peace and joy I have not always had that. I've
(00:48):
not always been a peaceful person or a person who
lived his life and enjoy spirit.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It took an arrival at this moment. Some people arrive
sooner than I wish I had arrived at this point sooner.
But I think it was necessary for me to learn
a few things too. That's the amazing thing I've learned
about life is that instead of reflecting on your past
(01:19):
incidences and calling them failures, instead of focusing on the
negative and calling them bad times, I look at them
now as experiences. I had to have those experiences that
were negative, that were good, positive, wrong, evil. I had
to have all those experiences to become to shape who
(01:45):
we are today. We all have to have them. If
you look back at all the negative experiences you've had,
all the things that you called failures, all the businesses
I started that went under, all of the jobs I
had that I was it from, all the shows that
were canceled, all of the times I thought I was
(02:06):
gonna get something happened in my way and turned out
I didn't get it at all. When you look at
all of it, all of it, hopefully along the way,
what you have done as a person is you've taken
those negatives and those failures and you've used them for
what they actually are. They are experiences, and they've now
(02:27):
created in you an experienced person, and you know that
is worth something. That's then it becomes a positive. But
what too many people do is they let the negative
things that have happened in their life, They allow the
failures that have happened in them lives never to manifest
(02:47):
themselves as experiences. And you sit up there and you
dwell on it, and you dwell on it until you
have this woe is me attitude. Stop looking at it
like that. Y'all, you go through things in order to
become the person that you are today. I tell you
who you sometimes have to sit down and talk to.
Sometimes you ought to sit down to an inmate that
(03:09):
really gets it, an inmate.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That says, man.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I've actually heard inmates say it to me and write
to me, and they've said things like, man, come into prison,
save my life. Now, those of you have never got
how can he say a thing like that? But some men, no, Man,
I was so far out there that if I'd have
stayed out there, I wouldn't even be here today. This
actually allowed me to stop, spend some time with myself
(03:35):
and learn some things about me. Now does that happen
for everybody like that and all? But here's a person
who has taking an experience that could be considered a
failure or negative and turning it into a positive and
using it to enrich their lives. You can do it
no matter what your set of circumstances is. I recommend
to everybody that you try changing your outlook in order
(03:57):
to change your outcome. Everything that has happens to you
that's negative or you consider failure their experiences. You've got
to go through these things in order to have the
knowledge that you have today. So I wish that I
had come to this arrival that I'm in now, this
place of peace and joy. But then guess what, I
will not know what I know. I cannot share some
(04:19):
of the things that I'm able to share if I
had not gone through some of them. And sometimes that's
the purpose of them. It's to teach you a lesson
because you know, God has a plan for you. He
really really does. And eventually he can use you no
matter how old you are, and he can use you
no matter how young you are. If you just say, Okay,
I'm ready to hear your plan. I've tried mine. Mine
(04:41):
ain't worked out. What's your plan for me? God, what
do you want me to do? That's why I say
every day Steve already got radio show, y'all. Couse, Man,
I ain't see it coming. I didn't see that coming.
I ain't see this book coming. I ain't I ain't
seen half of the amazing things that are happened to me.
I didn't plan them. I was sitting there, man, asking
(05:02):
God for some direction. And then I got smart enough
to stay watchful, be a hard worker. Now because faithful
our works is dead, and it came. And I'll remind
you of this. God has given all of you a gift.
Every last one of you listening has a gift. God
has never created a soul that He did not provide
a gift to. God gives everyone a gift, and a
(05:25):
gift is not just singing, rapping entertainment. The richer gifts
are much more than that. Teachers are gifted people who
really have the gift of sharing information. That's a gift,
you know, and in that you can become great. You know,
a lot of people think that successful and greatness is
(05:48):
the same thing. Cornell West said it at my daughter's graduation.
He was a spokesperson. He said something so pointed. He said,
don't ever confuse success with greatness. The two have nothing
to do with each other. See, people determine success about
money and fame and all this here, but greatness. Greatness
ain't got nothing to do with your money. It ain't
(06:09):
got nothing to do with your fame. It's how you
conduct your life. It's how meaningful and significant you become
in your community, at your church, on your job, to
the Cubs Scout unit that you run to the little
girl's lives, that you change that that little center in
the hood where you just one place of hope to
so many people and they come back. And I used
(06:31):
the example of Lou Dazzler who passed away in LA
who had the Boys and Girls Challenges Club out in
LA And he wasn't a rich man at all, and
if you walk by him, you wouldn't even know who
he was. But if you look at all the people
who have gone on to become politicians, who have gone
on to become CEOs, who have gone on to become athletes,
that have passed through this man's small building in the
(06:53):
hood in LA, he was great. Trust me, man. Prayer
changes things said all the time. But when you see
people become successful or great that somebody praying somewhere may
not even be them. Maybe it's they. Mama. You know,
I think of Tiger Woods and all the greatness he's accomplished.
You know, they always talk about his father and all this.
(07:14):
Here somebody somewhere praying for Tiger Woods. I got cash
money riding on that Tiger Woods. Mama is a praying
woman or something. My mother was. She prayed me into
this place because she used to call me all the
time praying for you, boy, and prayer changes things. It
really does. Try it today. It can change you. It
(07:34):
has changed millions of people. Open up yourself to the
greatness that's in you, because God is giving you a
gift matter fact that you ain't using it. Who fought
you think that is? I'm just telling you you got
one and if you start praying about it, it'll manifest
itself and you can become one or two things, successful
or great or both. You can make the decision. Today.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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