Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 11.10.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody you
are listening to the voice, Come on now, gig me
one of only Steve Harvey got what radio show man?
What you're doing with it? Trying to do the very
very best I can with it? I really am. You know,

(00:23):
I get tired sometimes on my journey. I'm not gonna
kid you. Trying to make something about yourself is a task.
If you want to attempt to do something, and and
and understand going in that that the if the thing

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you're trying to do is to improve yourself, to better
your position, to better your relationship, your family, anything, You're
trying to be a better you. You're trying to make
more money, You're trying to get it together, you trying
to change if any of those things are in your

(01:05):
hopes and dreams. Know this right here, you are about
to face some challenges. But you might as well go
ahead anyway and face those challenges, because if you don't,
you have a whole other set of challenges to face.
You know. It's an amazing thing, man, how people sit

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around and they watch other people strike out to become successful.
They sit in the stands watching these people play out
these games and they and they, and they criticize, they boo,
they laugh at their efforts and everything, and they talk
about the failse he missed that game when he shot
boy he suck man, he did this. He ain't worth that.

(01:50):
I hear people who sit in stands who criticize people
who are out there on the playing field. Now, when
you're on the playing field, you have a set of
challenges in front of you. You're going to be open
to criticism, You're going to be open to ridicule. You're

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going to be talked about when you don't know the
people who are talking about you. Now, here's the upside
to being the player on the field that's facing all
the challenges, to criticisms, the laughing, the joke, to being
talked about. He has something going for him. This person, boy, woman, child, girl,

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man has an opportunity to win. They have an opportunity
to win. And in the game of life, just because
you lose one of the games or you lose one
of the matches, it don't mean you've lost. You don't
get put out. You keep playing. And when you're playing,

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here's the upside. You have the opportunity to win. But
guess what, you're gonna win some of the matches. You're
gonna win some of the points. You're gonna make some
of the dunks. You're gonna hit some of them over
the wall. You're gonna hit some out the park. You're
gonna score some goals. You will if you're playing the game.
Here's the problem with the people who don't face criticism,

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who nobody boos or cheers for, who sits in the
stands and knows neither victory nor defeat. Those people, without
realizing it, are facing a set of challenges also. And
the challenges they're facing is how I'm gonna live with myself?

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What I'm gonna do? Now? What direction am I going in?
Where am I gonna live? Wonder what job will hire me?
Wonder if I can get paid for criticizing? Ah, woe

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is me? I can't find the purpose in my life.
And man, I'm just waking up in a state of confusion.
I don't know what to do. Now, let me ask
you something, which one of them set the challenges you'd
rather be faced with? Because if I'm on the flow playing,
if I'm on the field playing, if I'm out on

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the court playing, then guess what I got a chance
at winning. But guess what I'm doing every day while
I'm playing. I'm strategizing. I'm waking up with a purpose.
I'm waking up trying to come up with another angle.
I'm in pursuit of a goal every single day. Versus

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the people in the stands know neither victory nor defeat.
Get in the game, face the challenges. Better yourself, better
your wife, better your children, better your condition, better your
employment status, better your job, better your career. Take a shot.

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Come on, man, what you waiting on? Because the alternative
is to watch other people play the game? You know
what I just do? Sometimes sometimes I just I get
Forbes magazine or Money magazine, or sometimes I still grab
a copy of the rob Report. I just flip through
it just to see. I used to get this book

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called Unique Homes. Unique Homes is a magazine that just
has a lot of extravagant houses that's on sale across
the country, across the world. I used to flip through. Man,
let me just see, man, what the people that's playing
the game out there doing. Stop watching other people become
successful when you could very easily be you if you

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make the decision. But when you make the decision to
become successful, get ready for a series of challenges. I
think it's more difficult not to accept the challenge. I
think it's for me. This is just for me. It
may not be the case for you. For me, I
think it's far more difficult to wake up and just
see how life gonna go today, because man, it could

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just deal you any kind of hand today. You understand
I don't like, you know, spades. Let's talk a card
game for a temple, the game of spades. Really, man,
it ain't a whole lot you can do if you
don't get no spades. Really, it's a little couple of
little strategies you're gonna do. But you can have all

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this age, king, queen, diamond all you want. But man,
you ain't got no spades. They cutting them. You're in trouble.
Be it. With different game. You can create what's in
your hand. You got dealt a hand too, But you
can create a hand. You can call a trump. You
can make diamonds your spades. You can make hard to
clubs your spades. That's what I'm saying. You can do

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something with it. It's a different game, man. You can strategize.
I would rather have a say so in my life
than to wake up every day and just see how
it's going. I think it's more difficult to not accept
the challenge to be something than it is to accept
the challenge to be something. I think it's more difficult
to sit around and not be nothing. I think it's

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harder to watch everybody life going somewhere but mine. I
think it would be very difficult for me to sit
here and hear them talking about other people that never
mentioned my name. It would be difficult for me to
see everybody rise and getting promotions accept me. That would
be difficult for me. It may not be for you,
but for me it would be quite challenging. I would

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rather accept the challenge of making something out of my
life than to sit there and criticize those and then
watch and see how my life just may go. Okay,
just a thought. Today, you're listening to Eve Harvey Morning Show.