June 1, 2023 • 7 mins
Getting up early is just a big part of making it work. PERIOD!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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 just the other
day with a young man and he asked me. He said, hey, man,
(00:25):
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 there and I'm listening to it because it's
just a thousand times I've heard it, you know, and
my life is, you know, not too different from a
lot of people's lives. There's a lot of people out
(00:45):
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 happen to
enjoy doing. I mean, you know, it's work, and it's
difficult at times, but I mean, you know I wanted this.
You know you got it. You know you can't ask
God for none any give it to you and be
(01:07):
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 you know that's His grace
at work in my life. But I get up early
(01:29):
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 do some of the things
you want to do. I don't know the person that
(01:50):
walks out hands out that money just to be doing it.
And then with a lifestyle though, where you can you know,
give your kids 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 my father because my father says, ain't none gonna
(02:13):
come to you while you lay in there, and you
know what, it's just true, man, it's just a little
common sense. Little old people smart man. They've been around
a long time. You don't get 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 at it is one of them things.
And I ask everybody man to think about this scenario
(02:35):
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 spent asleep if you gonna do eight
(02:57):
hours a day. 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
that because we've created these bills, because we check the
check so we can't leave it because we'll lose what
(03:19):
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 don't care
for if you're not happy that, or one that just
(03:39):
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 of what it
(04:00):
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. It's not
(04:21):
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 you've
(04:43):
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 provide for
your family. Uh. Oh, I need to chill. I need
to smoke one. Oh, I needed some time at Happy Hour.
(05:07):
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 Ill. Nobody go to a Happy Hours just for
a hour. Let's say you spend two hours at happy
I'll all smokeing all some video games. Let's throw that
in there. Two hours of smoking, chilling video games. And
(05:27):
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 the morning
to care about every single minute of your day. You
(05:48):
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 it out. You
make some send some emails, whatever it is you need
to do to get your dream underway. Then you go
get ready, Then you get in your car and go
(06:10):
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 to be. Then
when you get off, instead of driving straight home, why
(06:31):
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 some more applications,
(06:55):
putting it in some more time to build your new
app discussing some more networking out is 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
family that you talk about. You really want spend some
(07:17):
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
care about every single minute of that day, you'll be
(07:39):
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,
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 just the other
day with a young man and he asked me. He said, hey, man,
(00:25):
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 there and I'm listening to it because it's
just a thousand times I've heard it, you know, and
my life is, you know, not too different from a
lot of people's lives. There's a lot of people out
(00:45):
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 happen to
enjoy doing. I mean, you know, it's work, and it's
difficult at times, but I mean, you know I wanted this.
You know you got it. You know you can't ask
God for none any give it to you and be
(01:07):
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 you know that's His grace
at work in my life. But I get up early
(01:29):
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 do some of the things
you want to do. I don't know the person that
(01:50):
walks out hands out that money just to be doing it.
And then with a lifestyle though, where you can you know,
give your kids 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 my father because my father says, ain't none gonna
(02:13):
come to you while you lay in there, and you
know what, it's just true, man, it's just a little
common sense. Little old people smart man. They've been around
a long time. You don't get 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 at it is one of them things.
And I ask everybody man to think about this scenario
(02:35):
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 spent asleep if you gonna do eight
(02:57):
hours a day. 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
that because we've created these bills, because we check the
check so we can't leave it because we'll lose what
(03:19):
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 don't care
for if you're not happy that, or one that just
(03:39):
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 of what it
(04:00):
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. It's not
(04:21):
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 you've
(04:43):
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 provide for
your family. Uh. Oh, I need to chill. I need
to smoke one. Oh, I needed some time at Happy Hour.
(05:07):
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 Ill. Nobody go to a Happy Hours just for
a hour. Let's say you spend two hours at happy
I'll all smokeing all some video games. Let's throw that
in there. Two hours of smoking, chilling video games. And
(05:27):
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 the morning
to care about every single minute of your day. You
(05:48):
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 it out. You
make some send some emails, whatever it is you need
to do to get your dream underway. Then you go
get ready, Then you get in your car and go
(06:10):
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 to be. Then
when you get off, instead of driving straight home, why
(06:31):
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 some more applications,
(06:55):
putting it in some more time to build your new
app discussing some more networking out is 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
family that you talk about. You really want spend some
(07:17):
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
care about every single minute of that day, you'll be
(07:39):
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,
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