April 18, 2024 • 7 mins
Today in Closing Remarks, Steve gives us something from Les Brown about an ancient Chinese bamboo tree.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Steve, here we are last break of the day.
I know you have some closing remarks for us.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, this is something I'm gonna paraphrase this. This is
something I heard Les Brown say a while back and
it really really stuck with me and resonated. So I'm paraphrasing.
This is from Les Brown, one of the great motivational speakers.
I saw him do something one time and it kind
(00:29):
of stuck with me. There. It's a story about an
ancient Chinese bamboo tree. And this ancient tree, the process
for growing this tree is really incredible. You have to
plant it in the ground and you have to water
it and fertilize it every day for five years. You
(00:52):
cannot miss a day. Once you plant this seed in
the ground, it's covered and you gotta water it and
fertilize it every day for five years.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
If you miss a day, it dies. Five years of.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Watering, nurturing, fertilizing, and in five years nothing happens, And
if you miss a day, it dies. So you're working
towards something that you visibly cannot see, because after you
put in all this work and all this fertilizing, that
(01:30):
nobody sees in the fifth year, the plant the bamboo treat,
this ancient bamboo treat finally breaks through the ground. And
the incredible thing about this fifth year is that in
nine weeks, nine weeks after it breaks through the ground,
(01:52):
it grows to be nine feet tall. All of them
five years is like the effort you put into your life,
you put into your dreams, you put into your goals.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
These are the five years that nobody sees. See. All
people see is that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Fifth year of watering, fertilizing, hoping something will happen, planting
and working on something that. Don't nobody see After the
fifth year, in nine weeks, everybody see the nine foot growth,
and they gonna look at this man, he came out
of nowhere. He just man, Look he came from nowhere.
(02:32):
They don't see the five years. You can't tell him
about the five years. They ain't even gonna get it.
All they see is to blow up. Oh look at him. Now,
he came out of nowhere. Man, he lucky he got
that break he in nine weeks. Look at that bamboo.
Look at what he did in nine weeks. Look at
(02:52):
look at this what happened to him this year? Look
Look at what happened to him just over the summer.
Look at this, dude, Well, they didn't see the five
years of planting, fertilizing, watering.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Unable to miss a single day.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
All you had was that blood, sweating tears you put
into something and it didn't even sprout through the ground.
You didn't even know it. And that's how people look
at you. Sometimes they just look at the hearing. Now
they see y'all blowed up. They don't want to give
you no credit for what you did to get that.
(03:32):
They don't want to talk to you about the process.
Matter of fact, they don't even want to hear the process.
Here come to hate. Ah, he blow up all of
a sudden. Now he thinks he all this. Have no
idea what you did, have no idea what you did.
And if a lot of y'all out there are like
that bamboo, ancient bamboo Chinese plant, some of y'all just
(03:53):
been out there man at it for so long, and
don't nobody see you sweating and tail and fertilizing and work,
working and striving and trying to get it right.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Don't nobody see it?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Man?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But you got to keep on.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Because, like I always say, you don't ever know when
God gonna flip the script. You don't never know when
he gonna hit the switch. You don't ever know when
to blow up gonna come. But if you've been putting
into work, though, if you've been faithfully and do diligently
doing the things you were supposed to do, if you
kept pressing when everybody else was resting, if you kept
(04:31):
putting out when when everybody was turning in, if you
kept showing up when nobody else was there, if you
just stay the course, if you keep the faith, if
you put the work in your bamboo tree, coming all,
it's gonna be all of a sudden, God gonna blow
(04:53):
you up. Man, in ways you never thought You're gonna
be in places and do things and and see things
that people didn't think was doable or seeable.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But that's the God we serve.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
If you do what you're supposed to do, God gonna
always do what he say he gonna do. And victory
is given to the race. You've heard this before. The
race isn't given to the swift, but to those that
endure to the end. You got to keep fighting, y'all.
You gotta keep watering and nurturing that plant. And I
know don't nobody see it right now, and I know
(05:28):
you don't even see it. But if you just do
what you do, God will do exceedingly and abundantly over
all you can think are ask And in nine weeks
that bamboo, that ancient bamboo tree grows nine feet tall
in just nine weeks.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So now the.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Question is how long did it take for the bamboo
tree to become the bamboo tree? Is it nine weeks? No,
it's five years and nine weeks. He is all that
you've been through. It's all that you had to endure.
It's all the untold stories about you. It's all the
(06:09):
challenges that you've overcome. Now while lem people been dogging you,
look at him, he ain't nothing. Look at him. He
always struggling. And every time I look a him, he
needs something. And then all of a sudden, when you
blow up. Now they tell my boy, he got lucky.
Now you didn't. Now you didn't. You got some favor
showed on you because you did the due diligence. He
(06:29):
did your duty. State of course, y'all, don't ever give up.
The bamboo tree is coming. Those are my clothing remarks.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Today. Hope you got something from it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I want to thank brother Less Brown for teaching me
that and uh something I never forgot man, But thank
you brother.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Hey, talk to God. He loved to hear from you today.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
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Speaker 3 (07:10):
You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show
All right, Steve, here we are last break of the day.
I know you have some closing remarks for us.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Yeah, this is something I'm gonna paraphrase this. This is
something I heard Les Brown say a while back and
it really really stuck with me and resonated. So I'm paraphrasing.
This is from Les Brown, one of the great motivational speakers.
I saw him do something one time and it kind
(00:29):
of stuck with me. There. It's a story about an
ancient Chinese bamboo tree. And this ancient tree, the process
for growing this tree is really incredible. You have to
plant it in the ground and you have to water
it and fertilize it every day for five years. You
(00:52):
cannot miss a day. Once you plant this seed in
the ground, it's covered and you gotta water it and
fertilize it every day for five years.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
If you miss a day, it dies. Five years of.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Watering, nurturing, fertilizing, and in five years nothing happens, And
if you miss a day, it dies. So you're working
towards something that you visibly cannot see, because after you
put in all this work and all this fertilizing, that
(01:30):
nobody sees in the fifth year, the plant the bamboo treat,
this ancient bamboo treat finally breaks through the ground. And
the incredible thing about this fifth year is that in
nine weeks, nine weeks after it breaks through the ground,
(01:52):
it grows to be nine feet tall. All of them
five years is like the effort you put into your life,
you put into your dreams, you put into your goals.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
These are the five years that nobody sees. See. All
people see is that.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Fifth year of watering, fertilizing, hoping something will happen, planting
and working on something that. Don't nobody see After the
fifth year, in nine weeks, everybody see the nine foot growth,
and they gonna look at this man, he came out
of nowhere. He just man, Look he came from nowhere.
(02:32):
They don't see the five years. You can't tell him
about the five years. They ain't even gonna get it.
All they see is to blow up. Oh look at him. Now,
he came out of nowhere. Man, he lucky he got
that break he in nine weeks. Look at that bamboo.
Look at what he did in nine weeks. Look at
(02:52):
look at this what happened to him this year? Look
Look at what happened to him just over the summer.
Look at this, dude, Well, they didn't see the five
years of planting, fertilizing, watering.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Unable to miss a single day.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
All you had was that blood, sweating tears you put
into something and it didn't even sprout through the ground.
You didn't even know it. And that's how people look
at you. Sometimes they just look at the hearing. Now
they see y'all blowed up. They don't want to give
you no credit for what you did to get that.
(03:32):
They don't want to talk to you about the process.
Matter of fact, they don't even want to hear the process.
Here come to hate. Ah, he blow up all of
a sudden. Now he thinks he all this. Have no
idea what you did, have no idea what you did.
And if a lot of y'all out there are like
that bamboo, ancient bamboo Chinese plant, some of y'all just
(03:53):
been out there man at it for so long, and
don't nobody see you sweating and tail and fertilizing and work,
working and striving and trying to get it right.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Don't nobody see it?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Man?
Speaker 3 (04:05):
But you got to keep on.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Because, like I always say, you don't ever know when
God gonna flip the script. You don't never know when
he gonna hit the switch. You don't ever know when
to blow up gonna come. But if you've been putting
into work, though, if you've been faithfully and do diligently
doing the things you were supposed to do, if you
kept pressing when everybody else was resting, if you kept
(04:31):
putting out when when everybody was turning in, if you
kept showing up when nobody else was there, if you
just stay the course, if you keep the faith, if
you put the work in your bamboo tree, coming all,
it's gonna be all of a sudden, God gonna blow
(04:53):
you up. Man, in ways you never thought You're gonna
be in places and do things and and see things
that people didn't think was doable or seeable.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But that's the God we serve.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
If you do what you're supposed to do, God gonna
always do what he say he gonna do. And victory
is given to the race. You've heard this before. The
race isn't given to the swift, but to those that
endure to the end. You got to keep fighting, y'all.
You gotta keep watering and nurturing that plant. And I
know don't nobody see it right now, and I know
(05:28):
you don't even see it. But if you just do
what you do, God will do exceedingly and abundantly over
all you can think are ask And in nine weeks
that bamboo, that ancient bamboo tree grows nine feet tall
in just nine weeks.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So now the.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Question is how long did it take for the bamboo
tree to become the bamboo tree? Is it nine weeks? No,
it's five years and nine weeks. He is all that
you've been through. It's all that you had to endure.
It's all the untold stories about you. It's all the
(06:09):
challenges that you've overcome. Now while lem people been dogging you,
look at him, he ain't nothing. Look at him. He
always struggling. And every time I look a him, he
needs something. And then all of a sudden, when you
blow up. Now they tell my boy, he got lucky.
Now you didn't. Now you didn't. You got some favor
showed on you because you did the due diligence. He
(06:29):
did your duty. State of course, y'all, don't ever give up.
The bamboo tree is coming. Those are my clothing remarks.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Today. Hope you got something from it.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I want to thank brother Less Brown for teaching me
that and uh something I never forgot man, But thank
you brother.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Hey, talk to God. He loved to hear from you today.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
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unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit STEVEHARVEYFM dot com.
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