Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 07.10.24

Today in Closing Remarks, Steve warns us against seeking other people's approval.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, here we are our last break of the day. Wow,
it's been a good day, a fun day, and Steve, yeah,
you can take it away.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here it is. You know, I was thinking and something
that's helped me in my lifetime, and it was a
difficult lesson to learn for me, but I finally got
it together years ago. But it took me some time.
I must admit I spent all of my twenties and
thirties not understanding this, and even a little bit now,

(00:35):
just mostly twenties and thirties. So I'm gonna share it
with you, and I want you to understand that I'm saying.
I'm saying all this in love. You can't share everything
with everybody. You know. That really seems so simple, But

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I can't tell you how many times you in it
damage yourself, your opportunity, and your journey by not understanding
this real simple rule. You cannot You cannot share everything
with everybody. You can't share your visions with everybody because

(01:20):
they don't really care. Then everybody's not genuinely interested in
your career, goals, your visions, your hopes for tomorrow. A
lot of people you share stuff with don't even understand
the thing that you're telling is in your imagination. They

(01:41):
don't even get it. And I understand they don't get
what's in your imagination because it's something they could never
ever possibly imagine. And basically, the number one reason you
can't share everything with everybody is just real simple. Most
people don't care, you know. They just sit up and

(02:02):
listen to you and look just as concerned as soon
as you walk away. Don't give you the idea, the
thought you had another moment of consideration. They don't care.
But do you understand something they don't have to. It's
perfectly okay that they don't see your vision share your

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vision that it's okay that they're not genuinely interested. It's
okay that they don't understand what's coming out of your imagination.
It's perfectly fine that they don't care, because there is
really no one else more critical to your journey or
your success than God. Nobody. There is no one living

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that's more critical to your journey or your success than God. Period. Now,
if you're blessed and you got to supportive spouse jackpot,
that's bonus. Or you found someone in your life that
you'll rideing die, that's bonus. Or you got one of
your friends that's with you through thick and thin and

(03:06):
it's hard to find them, but they exist. Then that's
a bonus. The rest of the people really listen to me,
they don't matter. They don't matter because they don't matter.
It doesn't matter what they think, say, feel, or give

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you back because it's irrelevant, non important, significant to your
journey or your success. You've got to get this through
your head because I spent too much time sharing everything
with everybody, thinking I was sharing it in hopes that
they might have a piece of information from me. The

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majority of people I shared it with didn't have nothing
from me. I wasted time sitting up there, and then
I'll tell you something else that happened. You can tell
your big dreams to small minded people if you want to.
And now you've given one of the devil's imps the
information that he needs to provide obstruction. That's a sad thing, man,

(04:13):
But I want you all to be aware because sometimes
we seek the wrong people's approval and you end up
wasting time. Why does it matter to you what they
think of you when they don't even care about you?
What does it matter what they think of you? And

(04:34):
they don't even know you. Do you know some people
post stuff on social media and be just as happy
with they pitch and they little caption and you put
it online and you're just saying, man, I'm having a
great day off. Man, I just want to show y'all
something that God has blessed me to share with you all.
And if you mess around and read your comments, here

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comes somebody on your comment page that then took your
perfectly well intentioned caption and your picture that you meant
no harm to anybody posted, and here they come with
a bunch of negativity, And now all of a sudden,
your day is off course because somebody says something about

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you that don't even know you. People's opinion of you
is none of your business, nor should you make it yours.
That negative comment that they put on your timeline in
your comment section. If you had never read that, do

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you know you would have went right on about your
Mary day? Do you know that that blessing you posted
would have still been your blessing? Do you know the
intent that you posted it with all goodwill to share
something with somebody to put a positive being on they day?
It would have still been there. But oh no, no,
no no. You allowed somebody to matter who don't even matter.

(06:08):
Stop telling everybody everything because everybody don't care. Get that
through your head. I don't care how fine you are.
Somebody don't like you. Wow, and it's okay. And those
closing walks are dedicated to the girl who turned me

(06:29):
down after Jewili call, y'all have a great day.

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