Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 07.31.24

Today in Closing Remarks, Big Dog gives us a lesson on environment and inventory.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Steve, We're ready for your closing remarks. Ah Ight, everybody,
my closing remarks today. This is what I've chosen to do.
I have variations of this when I'm talking as a
speaker and things like that, but I'm I'm gonna go
a different way with you today. There's a saying that

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if you're the smartest person in your group, then you
need a new group. I want you, I want you
all to just think about that for a minute. If
you're the smartest person in your group, you need a
new group. Now. I've been very, very guilty of this,

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not saying that I was smarter than everybody else, but
I had been exposed more than a certain group of
people I had employed and had hanging around me. I
had been exposed to more things. I naturally was making
more because they were mostly employees. I wanted more, and

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because of the fact that I had more and more
was required of me, I just had bigger dreams. I
outdreamed everybody in my group, and it just gotten to
a point. And I'm saying this because I want you
all to put everything into perspective. As I'm talking to you.
Just imagine at your place in your life that if

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you're the one that's constantly coming up with the ideas,
You're the one constantly coming up with the solution. You're
the one everybody turns to for guidance. You're the person
always picking up the tab. You're the person that's the
only one who's dreaming really big. You're the one that's
pulling the wagon, and you happen to be carrying everybody

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that's on it. Ain't none of your associates getting off
the wagon to help you pull it, push it, guide
it or nothing. They just own the wagon and you're
doing all the pull it. You need a new group.
You need a new group. Now. The problem with acquiring

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this new group is gonna be that, the fact is inevitable.
You have to get rid of the old group. And
it's hard. It's hard cutting people loose because for the
most part, you're just a nice person. Because you start
beating yourself up with stuff that has nothing to do
with you. Well, if I let them go, what they

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gonna do, Man, How his family gonna eat, how her
family gonna survive, How they gonna if I let them go, Man,
how they gonna feel about me? What will they say
about me? What will the other group members think about me.

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But you know something, man, that's not your job. And
I'm not trying to sound cold to callous, but it's
just not your job. They are responsible for themselves, but
through this meaningless emotion called guilt, they will make you
feel guilty about letting them go and making them stop

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riding up the heel and your wagon for free. And
they use guilt, which is the most meaningless emotion, and
they give it to you all the time. Y'all, do
yourself a favor. Stop doing that. Stop carrying people who
should be walking themselves. Stop pulling people up the heel
and your wagon when they need to get their own

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wagon to pull. Stop. Do yourself a favor, get yourself
a new group. They will be fine because let me
ask you a question. This is something my father used
to say to me all the time. What would you
do if you didn't know me? And I used to

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never understand when my father said it that until I
got older, but I hear him saying it to me
all the time. People come to you and ask you
for money because I know you got it because you're
doing better than them. Well, you work harder than them,
so quite naturally you should be doing better them Now
they come to you and lay this guilt. Man, you
done came up and all us over all of us,

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and left us back here. Man, we so proud of you.
Let me hold My father used to say, if you
didn't know me, what would you do? So I started
incorporating that in my life. If you didn't have my number,
who would you call? I cannot be everybody's emergency. If
you are everybody's emergency phone call, you need a new group.

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They gonna bring you down. Man, I'm telling you, they're
going to bring you down. And when you go down,
guess what they gonna get another emergent. You see number,
They not gonna be there for you. All these people
that use you as they emergency, do you have the
ability to use them as your emergency? I think now
it's time to look at getting a new group. Now.

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You can sever the ties with these people now, or
you can wait until a major event occurs. That's gonna
cause you have to break it off and it's gonna
be a lot more painful and a lot more costly,
you know. But Bishop Jake said one time, sometimes you
have to let people go so they can be freed up.

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To go be who they're supposed to be, because some
people just hanging a home cause it's comfortable, because you've
made it comfortable for people. And I'm talking to everybody
out there. This ain't for me or people who have employees.
This is for people who have people in their lives.
It's constantly pulling on you. Man. For twenty dollars here,

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forty dollars here over here, my light bill went off.
They cut this off. They calling me, I'm behind on
my TAXI my income tax check. Ain't hear yet? Man?
Oh man, oh man? How many times you get that?
Stop being everybody's emergency phone call? Because if they didn't
know you, what would they do? You know, my father

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used to say, when they don't know you, what would
they do? They need to get home and get to
doing it. You can't save everybody because they'll bring you down.
If you're the smartest person in your group, you need
a new group. Y'all have a great tale. Just necessary boid.
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