October 2, 2024 • 10 mins
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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 don't
give them a million bus bus things. Yeah, listen to.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I don't joy, Yeah, joy.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You know you know you love you. You gotta turn.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
To turn the mouth turn you probably got to turn
mouth turn out the word of the money.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Come come on, you'll think.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You're listening
to the voice, Come on, dig me now, one and
only Steve Harvey. I got a radio show. Real grateful
for that. You know, it's funny. I remember when I
first started out in the radio. A lot of my
peers laughed at me. Some of it was being mean spirited,
(02:21):
some of it was just you know, mocking me. I'm
used to stuff like that. But I had a special
guest on my show, Joe Oldstein, and you know something, man,
he said something that was I can't remember the scripture.
I don't know exactly how it were like we were
having a long conversation, but the gist of it was,
don't be upset with where you are now, and don't
(02:43):
be upset with the small things in your life. Be
grateful for the small things and the small position that
you have right now because you don't know where that's going.
You don't know what that's gonna be one day. You
don't know what that's gonna lead to. And that was
very warming to hear him say that. But it also
reminded me of when I started in radio, how small
it was. It reminded me of when I started in
(03:06):
stand up making twenty five dollars a show. It reminds
me of not having a home at a period in
my life and what God has allowed me to live
in now. So don't be distraught over your position now,
and don't be ungrateful or unappreciative for the things you
have now because you don't know what that's gonna grow into.
(03:28):
And that's really the gist of that I got from
what he was saying. I just wanted to share that
with you, that where you are now is so temporary
because now, like I've said before, now is a fleeting moment.
Right after you finish saying now, that moment that you
claimed as now, that's gone. So the where you are
now is a very fleeting process. Now, you can change
(03:51):
where you are now, and you can change how you
feel about where you're at now, and you can change
about where you're going by simply changing your mind. It
is no difference. I'm telling you, folks, the thing that
I've learned about successful people is not so much of
what they do. It's not what they have. The biggest
(04:13):
thing I've learned about successful people is how they think.
That's the thing that's different. It's how they think. And
I'm telling you that you can change the way you
think on any subject and start becoming successful towards that.
Starting now, you have to understand that. Man, the biggest
(04:35):
difference I've noticed between successful people and non successful people
is how they think. I was reading what is God
said that he was taught all wrong about money. He
said that his father was very negative about money. He
all throughout his life he heard his father say, you know,
people who got money have walked on somebody to get it,
(04:58):
or cheated somebody to get it. People who have money,
money is the root of all evil. Money is money
is this And people who got money, you know, don't
deserve it. They've done something wrong to get it, y'all.
To y'all, So, he said, he grew up the whole
time thinking that having money was something was wrong with that.
He discovered that it wasn't look you can choose to
(05:20):
be successful anywhere you want to. I've chosen several ways
to be successful. I want to be a very, very
successful father. I think that's one of the things that's
paramount in my life that I really am working hard
right now to become a successful father. Not a successful
father in terms of money, but a successful father in
(05:41):
terms of offering the amount of love and guidance and
leadership and the example that my children need to look at.
And that's what I'm really really working hard at now.
I want to be successful as a father, but also
I want to be successful as a husband.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I want Marjorie to always notice she can count on me,
to not have to wonder about me or look for me.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I want her to feel secure in the fact that
I really have gotten it right, that I really am
focused on being a good husband to her because it
means so much to me, you know. So I'm working
hard on a lot of levels. I'm working hard and
trying very strong to be a successful motivator of people.
(06:25):
I want to be a share of information to people
that will uplift others and give others the same things
that I've learned through the trials and tribulations of my life,
but at the same time share that information and use
the power of this microphone to uplift people, you know,
not to destroy. My show is not about Ooh, guess
what so and so said? Guess what so and so did.
(06:47):
I don't like mean spirited things about people, you know.
I joke with people who calling this that's another thing.
But I don't like destroying people with the power of
the microphone. So I'm working very hard on being successful
in a lot of areas of my life. So I
do care about being financially successful too. Because my father,
one of the gifts he gave me was very simple gift.
(07:07):
He told me a long time ago. He said, son,
the best thing you can do for poor people is
not be one of them. And that stuck with me.
And this was a hard working man who was a
coal miner who worked construction his entire life. My father
didn't have an easy life man. My father didn't sit
behind a microphone. My father didn't come to work and
(07:29):
people cheered for him. My father wasn't famous. My father
was just a go get it dude that He instilled
that in me, and I've taken that and applied it
to my craft and I thank God for him for that.
But I do try to be financially successful so that
I can do some things with it to help some
other people. Now, am I opposed to having nice things?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Do I apologize for having nice things?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And why should I I work? You know, I'm not
on the radio asking give me money, you know, so
I can go buy a car. I'm working. So I
don't feel how you want to feel. And other people
do feel that way about it. But if success in
terms of finance is what you're lacking, you can go
about the business of doing that. I'm writing a book,
(08:16):
and that whole book is about teaching people how to
become successful. And man, I'm breaking it down in a
way where everybody can get it, man, because I want
the college student to get it, you know, I want
the working mom to get it, the single mom to
get it. The hard working father that has been trying
to hold his family together can get it. The father
(08:37):
that ain't ever got it together and feel that because
of that reason, he can't be the father he needs
to be. I'm writing something, man to put it into
words to let you know that God is a forgiving God,
and that God is a merciful God, and that God
can get you out of any situation you find yourself in.
You just can't beat yourself up every time you make
(08:58):
a mistake. I make my misass all the time. Man,
I just got to remind myself to get up. I
ask God for forgiveness, I call on his mercy and
his grace, and I get up and I go again.
But it's coming, man. And if finance success is what
you want, you got to change your mind. You got
to start thinking about how to produce it. The first
(09:19):
thing you do is you got to ask. You got
to ask to have a life and have a life
more abundantly. That's a scripture that He comes to you
to give you life and to give you life more abundantly.
That's a scripture that ain't a joke, that ain't a theory.
That's a fact, and the fact that if you don't
have a life of abundance, you can get that by asking.
(09:41):
Then it starts by believing. And how too, don't even
worry about that. He takes care of that himself. He'll
send the stuff your way. But you got to be
willing to put some effort in this thing now, and
you can do it. Okay. I know I was a
little around the place today, but that's what it was.
So you know, let's go get it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You're listening
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Show
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 don't
give them a million bus bus things. Yeah, listen to.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
I don't joy, Yeah, joy.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
You know you know you love you. You gotta turn.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
To turn the mouth turn you probably got to turn
mouth turn out the word of the money.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Come come on, you'll think.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You're listening
to the voice, Come on, dig me now, one and
only Steve Harvey. I got a radio show. Real grateful
for that. You know, it's funny. I remember when I
first started out in the radio. A lot of my
peers laughed at me. Some of it was being mean spirited,
(02:21):
some of it was just you know, mocking me. I'm
used to stuff like that. But I had a special
guest on my show, Joe Oldstein, and you know something, man,
he said something that was I can't remember the scripture.
I don't know exactly how it were like we were
having a long conversation, but the gist of it was,
don't be upset with where you are now, and don't
(02:43):
be upset with the small things in your life. Be
grateful for the small things and the small position that
you have right now because you don't know where that's going.
You don't know what that's gonna be one day. You
don't know what that's gonna lead to. And that was
very warming to hear him say that. But it also
reminded me of when I started in radio, how small
it was. It reminded me of when I started in
(03:06):
stand up making twenty five dollars a show. It reminds
me of not having a home at a period in
my life and what God has allowed me to live
in now. So don't be distraught over your position now,
and don't be ungrateful or unappreciative for the things you
have now because you don't know what that's gonna grow into.
(03:28):
And that's really the gist of that I got from
what he was saying. I just wanted to share that
with you, that where you are now is so temporary
because now, like I've said before, now is a fleeting moment.
Right after you finish saying now, that moment that you
claimed as now, that's gone. So the where you are
now is a very fleeting process. Now, you can change
(03:51):
where you are now, and you can change how you
feel about where you're at now, and you can change
about where you're going by simply changing your mind. It
is no difference. I'm telling you, folks, the thing that
I've learned about successful people is not so much of
what they do. It's not what they have. The biggest
(04:13):
thing I've learned about successful people is how they think.
That's the thing that's different. It's how they think. And
I'm telling you that you can change the way you
think on any subject and start becoming successful towards that.
Starting now, you have to understand that. Man, the biggest
(04:35):
difference I've noticed between successful people and non successful people
is how they think. I was reading what is God
said that he was taught all wrong about money. He
said that his father was very negative about money. He
all throughout his life he heard his father say, you know,
people who got money have walked on somebody to get it,
(04:58):
or cheated somebody to get it. People who have money,
money is the root of all evil. Money is money
is this And people who got money, you know, don't
deserve it. They've done something wrong to get it, y'all.
To y'all, So, he said, he grew up the whole
time thinking that having money was something was wrong with that.
He discovered that it wasn't look you can choose to
(05:20):
be successful anywhere you want to. I've chosen several ways
to be successful. I want to be a very, very
successful father. I think that's one of the things that's
paramount in my life that I really am working hard
right now to become a successful father. Not a successful
father in terms of money, but a successful father in
(05:41):
terms of offering the amount of love and guidance and
leadership and the example that my children need to look at.
And that's what I'm really really working hard at now.
I want to be successful as a father, but also
I want to be successful as a husband.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I want Marjorie to always notice she can count on me,
to not have to wonder about me or look for me.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I want her to feel secure in the fact that
I really have gotten it right, that I really am
focused on being a good husband to her because it
means so much to me, you know. So I'm working
hard on a lot of levels. I'm working hard and
trying very strong to be a successful motivator of people.
(06:25):
I want to be a share of information to people
that will uplift others and give others the same things
that I've learned through the trials and tribulations of my life,
but at the same time share that information and use
the power of this microphone to uplift people, you know,
not to destroy. My show is not about Ooh, guess
what so and so said? Guess what so and so did.
(06:47):
I don't like mean spirited things about people, you know.
I joke with people who calling this that's another thing.
But I don't like destroying people with the power of
the microphone. So I'm working very hard on being successful
in a lot of areas of my life. So I
do care about being financially successful too. Because my father,
one of the gifts he gave me was very simple gift.
(07:07):
He told me a long time ago. He said, son,
the best thing you can do for poor people is
not be one of them. And that stuck with me.
And this was a hard working man who was a
coal miner who worked construction his entire life. My father
didn't have an easy life man. My father didn't sit
behind a microphone. My father didn't come to work and
(07:29):
people cheered for him. My father wasn't famous. My father
was just a go get it dude that He instilled
that in me, and I've taken that and applied it
to my craft and I thank God for him for that.
But I do try to be financially successful so that
I can do some things with it to help some
other people. Now, am I opposed to having nice things?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Do I apologize for having nice things?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And why should I I work? You know, I'm not
on the radio asking give me money, you know, so
I can go buy a car. I'm working. So I
don't feel how you want to feel. And other people
do feel that way about it. But if success in
terms of finance is what you're lacking, you can go
about the business of doing that. I'm writing a book,
(08:16):
and that whole book is about teaching people how to
become successful. And man, I'm breaking it down in a
way where everybody can get it, man, because I want
the college student to get it, you know, I want
the working mom to get it, the single mom to
get it. The hard working father that has been trying
to hold his family together can get it. The father
(08:37):
that ain't ever got it together and feel that because
of that reason, he can't be the father he needs
to be. I'm writing something, man to put it into
words to let you know that God is a forgiving God,
and that God is a merciful God, and that God
can get you out of any situation you find yourself in.
You just can't beat yourself up every time you make
(08:58):
a mistake. I make my misass all the time. Man,
I just got to remind myself to get up. I
ask God for forgiveness, I call on his mercy and
his grace, and I get up and I go again.
But it's coming, man. And if finance success is what
you want, you got to change your mind. You got
to start thinking about how to produce it. The first
(09:19):
thing you do is you got to ask. You got
to ask to have a life and have a life
more abundantly. That's a scripture that He comes to you
to give you life and to give you life more abundantly.
That's a scripture that ain't a joke, that ain't a theory.
That's a fact, and the fact that if you don't
have a life of abundance, you can get that by asking.
(09:41):
Then it starts by believing. And how too, don't even
worry about that. He takes care of that himself. He'll
send the stuff your way. But you got to be
willing to put some effort in this thing now, and
you can do it. Okay. I know I was a
little around the place today, but that's what it was.
So you know, let's go get it.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You're listening
Speaker 4 (10:00):
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