Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 3.3.26

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody. You're
listening to the voice, come on digging now on it
only Steve Harley got a radio show man instead of
trying to be about the business. To y'all, I'm doing
all I can. But you know what's crazy in the

(00:23):
efforts that I make, I can do more. When my
father used to tell me something when I was growing up,
he says, son, when you've done your best, and you've
done all you can, sit still for a second and
just do a little bit more. Always remember that, he said,

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when you've done the best you can and you can
done all you can think of, he say, sit still
for a minute and do some more. And you know
what I've discovered in my life, always have a little more.
I ain't ever just out out out completely. I can't
take another step. There ain't another breath in me. The
ain't another thought I can produce. I'm never completely out, man.

(01:11):
Just take a rest for a minute, man, and then
just do a little bit more. And I can't tell
you how many times that's helped me get over the top.
You know, I was watching a documentary about people climbing
Mount Everest and how difficult climbing Mount Everest was and
how they have on the hill something called like a

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death zone or a killing zone where the majority of
people run out of oxygen and they have to turn back. Well,
what's crazy is it's right in view of the summit.
You can actually see the top of Mount Everest from there.
But it's that little bit that's left that's just most difficult. Now,

(01:55):
I forgot all the reasons why they said most people
don't make it from there, and more people have lost
their lives in that area. I don't know what it is,
but the people that make it to the top of
Mount Efforts, they all had to go through that same
zone of that same area, but they had a little

(02:16):
bit more that allowed them to get to the top.
You know, a lot of people have had accidents up
there trying that. So I'm not even really sure if
Mount Everest analogy is a good one. But let's just
break it down a little bit more. Let's just talk
about life. There's a poem I learned back when I

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host Pledging. It's called don't Quit. It goes like this,
if I make a mistake, I'm just trying to drum
it up. So here we go. It says when things
go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the roads you're
trudging seems all uphill, when your funds are low and
your debts are high, when you want to smile but

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you have to side, when cares are pressing you down.
Bit rest if you must, but don't quit. For life
is queer with his twisting turns, as every one of
us must sometimes learn. And many a fellow has turned
about when he might have won had he stuck it out.

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So don't give up. Though the pace seems slow, You
may succeed with another blow. Often the gold is nearer
than it seems to a faint and a faltering man.
And often the struggler has given up when he might
have captured the victor's cup, and he learns too late,

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when the night came down how close he was to
the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out. It's
your silver tin of your clouds of doubt, and you
never can tell how close you are. It may be
nil when it seems afar. So stick to the fight

(04:01):
when your hardest hits, when things seem worse that you
mustn't quit. I remember it because I had a special
method of helping you remember stuff back then, but I
remembered it, and that poem right there has kept me.
You know, we often talk about scripture and everything, and
then I don't see how I could live without it.

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But every now and then, man, somebody has a writing.
God puts a writing on somebody's heart that delivers a message, man,
that can help people. I use every motivational tool that
I possibly can to climb this letter of success or
try to be the best father and the best husband
I can be. I've done a lot of changing over
the years, and so have you. But change is necessary

(04:44):
in order to grow. If you don't make changes, folks,
you can't grow. I was a young man on my set.
I kept looking at him in a sharp little young
dude just on my set, and he had these dreads
and I mean they would They was super long, man,
They were well below the middle of his back. I

(05:04):
mean it was just long. And he kept talking to me,
and he kept talking to me and talking to me.
So young man kept talking to me, and I said, hey, man,
you know, you do you a huge self a favor
in the business you're in. If you got a haircut,
you would do yourself a huge favor. I said, your
image is everything. Man, I said, you keep stopping me
in the hallway to try to tell me what you're doing,
what you are, but all I see is your hair.

(05:27):
Now I keep trying to figure out what you're doing
with all that hair. Man, Now you can feel how
you want to feel. But I'm like an employer. I
employed people. So when I'm walking through the hallway and
I try to think of you traveling with me and
you sitting in a meeting with me, I try to
imagine you and your suits sitting there talking business with me,
and so, just like other employers are, I'm just having

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a real story with you. So I said, man, you
ought to consider cutting your hair, he said. Man, mister hobb,
I've been growing his hair side as a little boy.
I said, you now he said, twenty eight. I said, well,
how long you want to hang on to what you
was when you was a little boy? You know, if
you started growing your hair when you're a teenager. I
mean you twenty eight now. And I said, so, let

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me help you understand something. Let me let me ask
you something. What does it do for you? He said, Man,
it's just who I am. It's I said, So you your hair.
He said, no, no, but it's a part of me.
I say, that part of you that you're hanging on to,
What does it do for you? I just like it? Well, dog,

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I like ice cream, but I feed that. But if
I hang on ice cream and eat ice cream every
single day, my body gonna reflect that. What is it
that you hanging on to that you don't want to
let go of? That's prohibiting you from being what all
you can be? See, it's hard to be what all
you can be if you want to keep being all
you was? Don't that make sense to you? So I

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can't tell you how many times I've had to change.
Change is necessary to grow. You can't be all you
can be if you want to keep hanging on to
all you was. That don't make no sense. How do
you go forward? If you keep going backwards? You can't

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stay here and go there? Do you understand that if
you want to go over there, you must remove yourself
from right here? Oh? I got right here is comfortable,
I got right here is safe. But over there's where
the shade is. Over There's where the fruit is. Over

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there is where the opportunity is over there is where
the mountain of goal is, so, why you stuck on here?
You got to leave here to go over there. You
can't be all you can be if you want to
stay stuck on who you was. Change is growth is necessary' all.
Let's go here listening to the steed How every morning

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