Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 11.17.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on your bab uh huh, I sure will A
good morning everybody. You are listening to the voice, Oh
come on now, dig me if you will. One and only,
Steve Harvey got a radio show, you know, one of
the things about being successful. And I was sharing this

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just the other day with a young man and he
asked me. He said, hey, man, I just don't see
how you get up that early in the morning. I
just don't see how, man, it would kill me to
get up this early in the morning. Well, I sat
down and I'm listening to it because it's just a
thousand times I've heard it, you know, and my life is,

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you know, not too different from a lot of people's lives.
There's a lot of people out there that rise early.
And I just sit there, man, because I mean, first
of all, I'm grateful to be able to have a job.
I'm so grateful to be able to do one and
several that I happened to enjoy doing. I mean, you know,
it's work, and it's difficult at times, but I mean,

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you know I wanted this. You know you got it.
You know, you can't ask God for nothing any give
it to you and be mad that you got it
don't make no sense. You know. The problem with asking
God for stuff is a lot of times we ask
it for stuff we don't really know what all it encompasses,
what all it really is. And I ask for this.
Now along the way, I've gotten far more than I
asked for. I want you to do. Understand that, and

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you know that's His grace at work in my life.
But I get up early and I go to work
because I do understand something that it is not walking
up to you. Nobody walks up to people normally and
just hand them checks all the time, and enough checks
to sustain your life, and not only sustain it, but
to have a life that where you could enjoy and

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do some of the things you want to do. I
don't know the person that walks out hands out that
money just to be doing it. And then with a
lifestyle though where you can you know, give your key
is a Christmas you know, take your family on vacation,
you know, a year, once a year. I don't know
nobody passing out to kind of money. So I get
up early in the morning. I get at it. I
was taught to get up early in the morning by

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my father because my father says, ain't nothing gonna come
to you while you lay in there, And you know what,
it's just true, man, it's just a little common sense. Look,
old people smart, man, they've been around a long time.
You don't get old. You know some old foods out there,
but you know you don't have to deal with them.
But old people are pretty smart, man. They've learned a
lot along the way. And waking up early and getting

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out it is one of them things. And I ask
everybody man to think about this scenario of your life.
If a day has twenty four hours in it, and
let's just say you choose to sleep eight of those
hours because they tell you you need eight hours sleep,
so you sleep eight hours. That's a third of your
life asleep. Already, just a third of your life is

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spent a sleep if you're gonna do eight hours today. Now,
let's say you have a job that you work eight hours,
and it is not the job of your dreams. It's
not your dream career, your dream profession. It's just the
one you took, like all of us, to get it started.
And then, like all of us, some of us end
up having to state at because we've created these bills,

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because we checked and check, so we can't leave it
because we'll lose what we've worked for. So let's just
say you got a job that you go to work
to for eight hours. That's another third of your life.
That's two thirds of your life. Feel how you want
to feel about your two thirds? Well, I like sleep. Okay, cool,
there's a scripture about that too. But now you spent
two thirds of your life one on a job you

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don't care for if you're not happy that it, or
one that just pays the bills and it's not your
dream job or career. Another third of your life is sleep.
Oh now, let's hold on. Let's talk about the one
hour of preparation that it may take to get to
the job. That's seventeen hours. Let's say your drive time,
let's say getting to your job for the average person
is anywhere between thirty to an hour. That's an average

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of what it takes to average person. Now, some people
out there hustling way harder than that. But let's just
say your average is an hour getting to work. You
add another hour to that going to work. You've now
spent eighteen hours out of the twenty four doing something
that's either nonproductive, you're not happy with, you're not pleased about.

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It is not your dream job, it's not your dream profession.
And rest of the time you sleep eighteen hours. Now
you got to come from the job, so let's just
say it's another hour to get back home. That's nineteen hours.
Nineteen hours out of a twenty four hour day. You
now have five hours left in your day. Oh, you
watch TV two hours a day. Okay, excuse me. Let's
put now you put two hours of TV on that

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you've just spent twenty one. You now have three hours
in the day to do something super productive for the
development of yourself and the future of your family, and
your future as a person and what you can for
your family. Uh oh, I need to chill. I need

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to smoke one. Uh Oh, I needed some time at Happy.
I'll seem like all I do is dry to work
and go to work. I'm gonna go out with the
fellas drink one. Okay, let's say you spend two hours
at Happy. I don't know nobody go to a Happy Hours
yet for a hour. Let's say you spend two hours
at Happy, I'll all smoke in all some video games.

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Let's throw that in there two hours of smoking, chilling
video games. That's twenty three hours of your day gone.
Don't you see how your day slips away from you?
So why would you get up early? You get up
early to get a jump. You get up early to produce,
to plan, to become productive. You get up early in

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the morning to care about every single minute of your day.
You wake up early in the morning because you have
a plan, a mission, You have something you want to accomplish.
The earlier you get up, the more time you have
just for you to devote to your plan. You map
it out, you make them, send some emails, whatever it
is you need to do to get your dream under way.

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Then you go get ready. Then you get in your
car and go to work. Then you go to your job.
But on your job, instead of sitting at your lunch
break messing around with a bunch of people laughing and
talking about nothing, playing dominoes, why don't you take that
hour to do some more research, to send out some
more emails, to put some feelings out there, to see
what can get you in the place that you want

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to be. Then when you get off, instead of driving
straight home, why don't you go somewhere in a meeting,
you take in a session with some people in a
positive mental state, group of people that get together. Network
for business, not drink at happy hour. I set network
for business. So after you've done that eight that you
don't really care for on a job, you spend some
more time pursuing, looking into researching, working towards, sending out

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some more applications, putting in some more time to build
your new app, discussing some more networking ideas. Okay, that's
your happy hour. Then when you go home, instead of chilling,
drinking one, having a cold, one, smoking one, playing a
video game, why don't you take that two hours and
devote that to that business idea. You got to that

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family that you talk about, you really want spend some
time with your children, put something into them, Do something. Man,
with all these precious hours that God gives all of
us in the course of a day, take advantage of
every minute of that. No human being has more than
twenty four hours a day, including myself. But if you

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care about every single minute of that day, you'll be
amazed at how much you could get accomplished in a
twenty four hour day. But you can't get none of
that happening because you sleep, and you chilling and you smoking. Okay,
what has that done for you, your family, or your future?
Care about every minute of your day listening to The

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Steve Harvey Morning Show