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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on you, ah, I sure will. Good morning everybody
you are listening to the voice, Come on dig me now.
One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man.
If y'all only knew, I think I'll tell it to
you this morning. Man started off real crazy. But it's
(00:22):
just those little mishaps where we as people who are
striving to be successful, that makes all the difference in
the world. When you have those little minor things that
come up, you can't let the minor things stop you.
You've got to keep pressing forward. Now. Could I have
played the role of where is my car? Where is
(00:45):
my car? Oh? Where is my car? Instead of hustling
and grab a cab? So what am i? Am I
above a cab ride now? Or do I have to
look at the bigger picture and say, okay, I could
act like a little spoil brat some type of star
and go I don't ride in cabs or where's my car?
(01:05):
And then go to blaming people for not having a car.
Or do I make the adjustments because it ain't like
I ain't been in a cab before? Now, slow down?
Ain't like I ain't never been in a in a
beat up car before? Slow down, ain't ever like I
ain't never had a car and rode a bus before.
Slow down, ain't like I ain't never been homeless before,
And they have nowhere to go. Slow down. So in
(01:28):
those moments right there, always remember where you come from,
but even more importantly, always remember where you trying to go,
because it's important for me that I get here as
many mornings as I possibly can. It's important because that's
the goal. And so many people allow a minor things
to stop them on their road to success. And I'm
(01:48):
giving you this example today not to say, hey, look
at me, but to say to you, hey, listen to me.
There are going to be a lot of things that's
gonna happen along your way to being successful. And if
you allow the small things to stop you, there's no
way you'll make it. You've got to always press forward
and stop looking at the situation for what it is,
and look, sometimes you have to take your eye off
(02:09):
right now and put your eye in the future. You know,
God has blessed me in so many ways. I mean,
what can I say? You know, I ask God for
this syndicated show. He gives me a syndicated show. N
I act like I don't want to come to it.
Hold on, man, slow down. Did not you ask for this?
Do I not realize that there are certain people, man,
who look forward to this message in the morning. I've
(02:31):
heard it from people, so from the hundreds that I've
heard it for, that could represent thousands for all I know.
So if I think somebody's counting on me, I got
to try to get there and give something. So today
I didn't have any time at all to think about
what I might say. I just walk right in and
the jingle was playing, and so I decided to just
(02:52):
tell you about my day and maybe you can relate
it to something you going through along the way, Because
no matter who you are, you're going to have some
moment man, where things are going to happen. And like
I always tell my kids, and I just had this
conversation with my little girl, it ain't that things ain't
gonna happen. It's how you handle what happens that matters.
But it don't matter. It's how you handle what happens
(03:15):
that's the determining factor on where you get in life
and how soon you get there and how long you
stay there. That will always be a mishap. Something that's
gonna throw you off. There will always be something man
that could deter you. That will be something somewhere man
that will make you doubt it. Now that you know
(03:37):
that's gonna happen, then let's talk about how you handle
what happens, because it's going to happen. So now, what
do you do as a person when these moments come
about in your life? How do you handle? Oh? Woe
is me? Oh, I guess it wasn't meant to be. Well.
If the Lord wanted me to have this, I'd have that.
(03:57):
How many damn many times you hear people say that,
You know it really irks me. Man, Stop using God
as your excuse. God ain't no excuse. God is a reason.
He's a reason why the good happens. He's a reason.
He's not an excuse. God don't have no excuses, and
(04:18):
none of his scriptures or writings not that I he
just don't make excuses. I would have done this. But
you know there's a scripture that says the poor will
all shall always be amongst us. Why that's got to
be you. Yeah, he said the poor will always be
amongst us, Because you know everybody ain't gonna follow the
principles of success. But he also said he came to
(04:39):
give you life and give it to you more abundantly.
He said that too, But oh no, you don't want
to hear that because your life kind of trip it
out a little bit. So now what you do with it?
Now you twist it and you go to that one
little scripture that say, well, the poor shall always be
amongst us. Well, that's put in there because that suggests
in case, see that's a just in case y'all don't
(05:02):
want to follow the scriptures. That's just in case you
don't understand that faith without works is dead. That's just
in case you have not because you ask not. It's
just in case you don't believe and shall not doubt.
He got all that in there. But in case you
don't want to do that, there is a scripture that
tells you what will happen if you don't do it,
(05:23):
And here it is the poor shall always be amongst us.
But then you get that when they say, well, that's
I guess that's the Lord's will. Lord's will, really, really,
really really that's amazing. I just don't believe that about him.
I don't believe that God created your life to be
a life of misery. I think that we make decisions
(05:46):
along the way that cause us to have lives of misery.
But I really really just don't believe that God created
you for that. I've heard Nelson Mandela speak, and you
know you gotta go while all those years in prison, Man,
what was it about? When you hear him speak, you
(06:07):
understand what it was about. He said, he always knew
he would be free one day. Now, what he said
he never knew was he said, he never knew that
he would be the president of that country. Oh my goodness,
what a long way around. But he could have set
there and got involved in prison activities that wasn't up
(06:30):
to Paw and things like that. And they said whenever
young inmates used to come in. He was telling the
story one time of how young inmates used to come
into the prison. They all sit around and talk to
him about what they were doing and how many kids
they had in their lives, and it helped them keep
track of it outside a little bit, and it kept
a sense of time for them, and it reminded me
(06:51):
to talk about what they left behind, and it kept
them going because something was greater on the other side.
Had he allowed that to him, had he allowed the imprisonment,
which is a pretty major deal. Oh, by the way,
then guess what he would have never been the Nelson
Mandela that we know today, a martyr, a leader, a
(07:11):
great force. People want to go around him. Even people
that imprisoned him could not understand his staunch strength, his faith,
his unwavering commitment. They couldn't understand it. So things are
going to happen in your life, but it's how you
handle what happens doesn't matter. So keep pushing, y'all. Don't
let the little things get in the way, Okay, And
(07:32):
if you just sometimes you just don't know. I got
in a cab thinking I wasn't gonna make it, but
at least let's go see, let's try. I made it. Now.
Guess what that gives me? Another piece of information that
I have and all I had to see it again today?
Guess what I said today? Man, sometime when it looked
like you ain't gonna make it, just go ahead on anywhere. Now.
(07:52):
I could still be back there at the hotel talking
about where my car, but I got up in here
and made it. So now what y'all gonna do with it?
Let's go listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Come on you, ah, I sure will. Good morning everybody
you are listening to the voice, Come on dig me now.
One and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man.
If y'all only knew, I think I'll tell it to
you this morning. Man started off real crazy. But it's
(00:22):
just those little mishaps where we as people who are
striving to be successful, that makes all the difference in
the world. When you have those little minor things that
come up, you can't let the minor things stop you.
You've got to keep pressing forward. Now. Could I have
played the role of where is my car? Where is
(00:45):
my car? Oh? Where is my car? Instead of hustling
and grab a cab? So what am i? Am I
above a cab ride now? Or do I have to
look at the bigger picture and say, okay, I could
act like a little spoil brat some type of star
and go I don't ride in cabs or where's my car?
(01:05):
And then go to blaming people for not having a car.
Or do I make the adjustments because it ain't like
I ain't been in a cab before? Now, slow down?
Ain't like I ain't never been in a in a
beat up car before? Slow down, ain't ever like I
ain't never had a car and rode a bus before.
Slow down, ain't like I ain't never been homeless before,
And they have nowhere to go. Slow down. So in
(01:28):
those moments right there, always remember where you come from,
but even more importantly, always remember where you trying to go,
because it's important for me that I get here as
many mornings as I possibly can. It's important because that's
the goal. And so many people allow a minor things
to stop them on their road to success. And I'm
(01:48):
giving you this example today not to say, hey, look
at me, but to say to you, hey, listen to me.
There are going to be a lot of things that's
gonna happen along your way to being successful. And if
you allow the small things to stop you, there's no
way you'll make it. You've got to always press forward
and stop looking at the situation for what it is,
and look, sometimes you have to take your eye off
(02:09):
right now and put your eye in the future. You know,
God has blessed me in so many ways. I mean,
what can I say? You know, I ask God for
this syndicated show. He gives me a syndicated show. N
I act like I don't want to come to it.
Hold on, man, slow down. Did not you ask for this?
Do I not realize that there are certain people, man,
who look forward to this message in the morning. I've
(02:31):
heard it from people, so from the hundreds that I've
heard it for, that could represent thousands for all I know.
So if I think somebody's counting on me, I got
to try to get there and give something. So today
I didn't have any time at all to think about
what I might say. I just walk right in and
the jingle was playing, and so I decided to just
(02:52):
tell you about my day and maybe you can relate
it to something you going through along the way, Because
no matter who you are, you're going to have some
moment man, where things are going to happen. And like
I always tell my kids, and I just had this
conversation with my little girl, it ain't that things ain't
gonna happen. It's how you handle what happens that matters.
But it don't matter. It's how you handle what happens
(03:15):
that's the determining factor on where you get in life
and how soon you get there and how long you
stay there. That will always be a mishap. Something that's
gonna throw you off. There will always be something man
that could deter you. That will be something somewhere man
that will make you doubt it. Now that you know
(03:37):
that's gonna happen, then let's talk about how you handle
what happens, because it's going to happen. So now, what
do you do as a person when these moments come
about in your life? How do you handle? Oh? Woe
is me? Oh, I guess it wasn't meant to be. Well.
If the Lord wanted me to have this, I'd have that.
(03:57):
How many damn many times you hear people say that,
You know it really irks me. Man, Stop using God
as your excuse. God ain't no excuse. God is a reason.
He's a reason why the good happens. He's a reason.
He's not an excuse. God don't have no excuses, and
(04:18):
none of his scriptures or writings not that I he
just don't make excuses. I would have done this. But
you know there's a scripture that says the poor will
all shall always be amongst us. Why that's got to
be you. Yeah, he said the poor will always be
amongst us, Because you know everybody ain't gonna follow the
principles of success. But he also said he came to
(04:39):
give you life and give it to you more abundantly.
He said that too, But oh no, you don't want
to hear that because your life kind of trip it
out a little bit. So now what you do with it?
Now you twist it and you go to that one
little scripture that say, well, the poor shall always be
amongst us. Well, that's put in there because that suggests
in case, see that's a just in case y'all don't
(05:02):
want to follow the scriptures. That's just in case you
don't understand that faith without works is dead. That's just
in case you have not because you ask not. It's
just in case you don't believe and shall not doubt.
He got all that in there. But in case you
don't want to do that, there is a scripture that
tells you what will happen if you don't do it,
(05:23):
And here it is the poor shall always be amongst us.
But then you get that when they say, well, that's
I guess that's the Lord's will. Lord's will, really, really,
really really that's amazing. I just don't believe that about him.
I don't believe that God created your life to be
a life of misery. I think that we make decisions
(05:46):
along the way that cause us to have lives of misery.
But I really really just don't believe that God created
you for that. I've heard Nelson Mandela speak, and you
know you gotta go while all those years in prison, Man,
what was it about? When you hear him speak, you
(06:07):
understand what it was about. He said, he always knew
he would be free one day. Now, what he said
he never knew was he said, he never knew that
he would be the president of that country. Oh my goodness,
what a long way around. But he could have set
there and got involved in prison activities that wasn't up
(06:30):
to Paw and things like that. And they said whenever
young inmates used to come in. He was telling the
story one time of how young inmates used to come
into the prison. They all sit around and talk to
him about what they were doing and how many kids
they had in their lives, and it helped them keep
track of it outside a little bit, and it kept
a sense of time for them, and it reminded me
(06:51):
to talk about what they left behind, and it kept
them going because something was greater on the other side.
Had he allowed that to him, had he allowed the imprisonment,
which is a pretty major deal. Oh, by the way,
then guess what he would have never been the Nelson
Mandela that we know today, a martyr, a leader, a
(07:11):
great force. People want to go around him. Even people
that imprisoned him could not understand his staunch strength, his faith,
his unwavering commitment. They couldn't understand it. So things are
going to happen in your life, but it's how you
handle what happens doesn't matter. So keep pushing, y'all. Don't
let the little things get in the way, Okay, And
(07:32):
if you just sometimes you just don't know. I got
in a cab thinking I wasn't gonna make it, but
at least let's go see, let's try. I made it. Now.
Guess what that gives me? Another piece of information that
I have and all I had to see it again today?
Guess what I said today? Man, sometime when it looked
like you ain't gonna make it, just go ahead on anywhere. Now.
(07:52):
I could still be back there at the hotel talking
about where my car, but I got up in here
and made it. So now what y'all gonna do with it?
Let's go listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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