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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I sure will. Good morning, everybody. Y'all listening to The Voice.
Come on, dig me now. One and only Steve Harvey.
Got a radio show. I need everybody today, everybody that's listening,
I need you to catch fire today. I want you
to catch fire today. You want to phrase it another way?
(00:28):
I want you to catch on fire today, but I
need you to catch fire today. I need today to
be the day that you stop complaining and you do something.
Do you know why a lot of people can't move
forward in their life? Because they complain about their past.
They always complain about something that explains the reason why
(00:51):
they are.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let me help you with this right here.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop, stop.
(01:15):
All that stuff that you're complaining about, everything that you
keep allowing to resonate with you as a reason to
justify and explain you not being successful. Can I share
something with you about all of that? Guess what it is.
You didn't got past all of it. You didn't had
(01:36):
the baby. You got arrested. They didn't kill you. You
didn't finish school, but you're still standing. You met that man.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
He gone.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
He involved with two other women right now. Got three
other kids. Guess what?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You still here and the baby's here.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You got over all the injustices that were done to you.
You got something happened to you when you was a kid.
You're an adult now. Somebody did something to you when
you was a little boy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Guess what? You a man now.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Some things happen to you that you haven't found closure on.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
The person that you're looking for closure from has moved on.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Can I tell you that everything that has happened to you,
do you know you've gotten past it? So why are
you steady complaining about what has happened to you that
has caused you to be in this position and But
do you understand that it's prohibiting you from moving forward?
Stop complaining today. Catch fire. Let your past be your past.
(02:33):
I've told this to you a hundred times on this radio,
but I'm going to say it again. Bishop Jakes told
me something, man, that helped me so greatly. You can't
drive your car if you're going to keep looking in
the rearview mirror. That's why the windshield is huge. The
windshield is huge. The rearview mirror is this tiny thing
(02:56):
that sits up there. Now, all this for is so
you can see stuff that's coming.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Up on you.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
All the rearview mirror for is so you can assure yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh, listen to this. The rearview mirror is there to
assure you that you've cleared something. See, that's what the
rearview mirror is for.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So when you pass a car and you want to
switch lanes, you can glance up there and it says, okay,
you're clear now. You passed it. You can switch lanes.
That's all the rearview mirror is for. It ain't for
you to stare at and dictate your life. What you
tripping for, man? Catch fire today. Today, man, quit complaining
about everything that happened to you.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Life is 10%.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What happens to you is 90% what you do about
what happens to you.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
What are you going to do about it? So what?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I got all this. Look, man, your story ain't no
deeper than nobody else's. I can tell you I was
homeless for three years. It's people been homeless for 30 years.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
How long I'm a ride that out?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, you know, I can't do nothing right now. I
fell on hard times and I lost my place to stay.
Where are you staying now? See, the majority of people
are staying somewhere right now.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I was out there.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I didn't have nowhere to go. I'm in a shelter now.
You was under the bridge a week ago. You're in
a shelter now. Why are you still crying about the bridge?
You're in a shelter now. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You know how you find your purpose. You get in.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Touch with who created you. Because when God made you,
he had a purpose in mind. Now, we've ignored it
and we haven't tapped into it, but we all had
a purpose.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And it's sometimes it take people longer to discover the purpose.
Colonel Sanders was frying chicken with a recipe that he
was telling people was.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The best chicken in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Ain't nobody believe him till he turned 70. Why you
think the dude that's on the Kentucky Fried Chicken signs
is old?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That dude ain't 20 up there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He old.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
He old. But you know what?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He had been frying that chicken for 40-some years. They
just found out about it when he was 70. But
he didn't give up his purpose in life. This dude
was just frying chicken. See, people keep looking for their
gifts in all kinds of places. When it's right there
in you, you ain't got to go to school to
(05:32):
find your gift. You're born with the gift that God
got for you. You'll go to school to tack it
on to something else. But your gift was already given
to you. You were born with that. You don't have
to go to college to know your gift. Your college
allows you to enhance it and to find something to
attach it to. And hopefully you get a degree that
attaches your gift to a vehicle where.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It can work.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The problem with college is we go to college and
we attach it to what we like or what we
might be passionate about, and we ignore the gift we have.
You know how many people that graduated from college ain't
doing nothing they went to college for?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Come on, man. You know why?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Because you discover in life your gift. You discover what
you was born to do. You know what my major
was in college? It was advertising. I can't be at
no desk drawing no picture for nobody. But now guess what?
I can wake up every day and guess what? I
can tell you I advertise. I've been advertising my career.
Come see me live. Come see me live at Madison
(06:32):
Square Garden. Come see me live at Phillips Arena. Come
see me live at Joker's Comedy Club. Come see me
live at Percy's. Come see me live at Ellis's Tavern.
Come see me live. Come.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I've been advertising the whole time.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But I had a different purpose in mind because I
went and I talked to God. And this is how
you do it. You go talk to God and say, hey, God, look, OK,
this is the deal. I've been struggling here. I'm over 40.
I still haven't found my purpose in life. OK, but
so I can quit wasting any more time. Would you
help direct me and guide me to my purpose? I
(07:08):
know you created me to do something. I just haven't
found what it is. And the reason I haven't found
what it is, because I've been doing things my way.
I ain't been checking with you, conferring with you on anything.
I ain't locked in or tried to settle it up
with you. I've been just doing my thing. Well, my
thing has gotten me as far as it can get me.
How about you take over and do your thing? Now,
(07:30):
can you direct me in my path? I'm an open book.
Treat me like a piece of clay. I'm telling you, man,
if you go to God, he'll give it to you.
But see, you have not because you ask not. How
many times have you asked God for it? This ain't
no magic trick, y'all. This is the deal. You got
(07:51):
to catch fire today. Catch fire today. I am.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm excited about today. I've got a lot to do.
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Come on.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
I sure will. Good morning, everybody. Y'all listening to The Voice.
Come on, dig me now. One and only Steve Harvey.
Got a radio show. I need everybody today, everybody that's listening,
I need you to catch fire today. I want you
to catch fire today. You want to phrase it another way?
(00:28):
I want you to catch on fire today, but I
need you to catch fire today. I need today to
be the day that you stop complaining and you do something.
Do you know why a lot of people can't move
forward in their life? Because they complain about their past.
They always complain about something that explains the reason why
(00:51):
they are.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let me help you with this right here.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
(01:15):
All that stuff that you're complaining about, everything that you
keep allowing to resonate with you as a reason to
justify and explain you not being successful. Can I share
something with you about all of that? Guess what it is.
You didn't got past all of it. You didn't had
(01:36):
the baby. You got arrested. They didn't kill you. You
didn't finish school, but you're still standing. You met that man.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
He gone.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
He involved with two other women right now. Got three
other kids. Guess what?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You still here and the baby's here.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You got over all the injustices that were done to you.
You got something happened to you when you was a kid.
You're an adult now. Somebody did something to you when
you was a little boy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Guess what? You a man now.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Some things happen to you that you haven't found closure on.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
The person that you're looking for closure from has moved on.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Can I tell you that everything that has happened to you,
do you know you've gotten past it? So why are
you steady complaining about what has happened to you that
has caused you to be in this position and But
do you understand that it's prohibiting you from moving forward?
Stop complaining today. Catch fire. Let your past be your past.
(02:33):
I've told this to you a hundred times on this radio,
but I'm going to say it again. Bishop Jakes told
me something, man, that helped me so greatly. You can't
drive your car if you're going to keep looking in
the rearview mirror. That's why the windshield is huge. The
windshield is huge. The rearview mirror is this tiny thing
(02:56):
that sits up there. Now, all this for is so
you can see stuff that's coming.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Up on you.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
All the rearview mirror for is so you can assure yourself.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh, listen to this. The rearview mirror is there to
assure you that you've cleared something. See, that's what the
rearview mirror is for.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So when you pass a car and you want to
switch lanes, you can glance up there and it says, okay,
you're clear now. You passed it. You can switch lanes.
That's all the rearview mirror is for. It ain't for
you to stare at and dictate your life. What you
tripping for, man? Catch fire today. Today, man, quit complaining
about everything that happened to you.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Life is 10%.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
What happens to you is 90% what you do about
what happens to you.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
What are you going to do about it? So what?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I got all this. Look, man, your story ain't no
deeper than nobody else's. I can tell you I was
homeless for three years. It's people been homeless for 30 years.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
How long I'm a ride that out?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, you know, I can't do nothing right now. I
fell on hard times and I lost my place to stay.
Where are you staying now? See, the majority of people
are staying somewhere right now.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I was out there.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I didn't have nowhere to go. I'm in a shelter now.
You was under the bridge a week ago. You're in
a shelter now. Why are you still crying about the bridge?
You're in a shelter now. Man.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You know how you find your purpose. You get in.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Touch with who created you. Because when God made you,
he had a purpose in mind. Now, we've ignored it
and we haven't tapped into it, but we all had
a purpose.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
And it's sometimes it take people longer to discover the purpose.
Colonel Sanders was frying chicken with a recipe that he
was telling people was.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
The best chicken in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Ain't nobody believe him till he turned 70. Why you
think the dude that's on the Kentucky Fried Chicken signs
is old?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
That dude ain't 20 up there.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He old.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
He old. But you know what?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He had been frying that chicken for 40-some years. They
just found out about it when he was 70. But
he didn't give up his purpose in life. This dude
was just frying chicken. See, people keep looking for their
gifts in all kinds of places. When it's right there
in you, you ain't got to go to school to
(05:32):
find your gift. You're born with the gift that God
got for you. You'll go to school to tack it
on to something else. But your gift was already given
to you. You were born with that. You don't have
to go to college to know your gift. Your college
allows you to enhance it and to find something to
attach it to. And hopefully you get a degree that
attaches your gift to a vehicle where.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
It can work.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
The problem with college is we go to college and
we attach it to what we like or what we
might be passionate about, and we ignore the gift we have.
You know how many people that graduated from college ain't
doing nothing they went to college for?
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Come on, man. You know why?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Because you discover in life your gift. You discover what
you was born to do. You know what my major
was in college? It was advertising. I can't be at
no desk drawing no picture for nobody. But now guess what?
I can wake up every day and guess what? I
can tell you I advertise. I've been advertising my career.
Come see me live. Come see me live at Madison
(06:32):
Square Garden. Come see me live at Phillips Arena. Come
see me live at Joker's Comedy Club. Come see me
live at Percy's. Come see me live at Ellis's Tavern.
Come see me live. Come.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I've been advertising the whole time.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
But I had a different purpose in mind because I
went and I talked to God. And this is how
you do it. You go talk to God and say, hey, God, look, OK,
this is the deal. I've been struggling here. I'm over 40.
I still haven't found my purpose in life. OK, but
so I can quit wasting any more time. Would you
help direct me and guide me to my purpose? I
(07:08):
know you created me to do something. I just haven't
found what it is. And the reason I haven't found
what it is, because I've been doing things my way.
I ain't been checking with you, conferring with you on anything.
I ain't locked in or tried to settle it up
with you. I've been just doing my thing. Well, my
thing has gotten me as far as it can get me.
How about you take over and do your thing? Now,
(07:30):
can you direct me in my path? I'm an open book.
Treat me like a piece of clay. I'm telling you, man,
if you go to God, he'll give it to you.
But see, you have not because you ask not. How
many times have you asked God for it? This ain't
no magic trick, y'all. This is the deal. You got
(07:51):
to catch fire today. Catch fire today. I am.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm excited about today. I've got a lot to do.
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