Face Your Challenges

To the person facing the challenges, they have an opportunity to win. The good thing is, you will score. Don't be the person sitting on the stands not facing the adversity.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I sure will A good morning everybody. You're
listening to the voice, come on now, dig me want
and only Steve Harvey got what radio show man? What
you're doing with it? Trying to do the very very
best I can with it? I really am. You know,

(00:21):
I get tired sometimes on my journey. I'm not gonna
kid you. UM, trying to make something about yourself is
a task. Um. If you want to attempt to do
something and and and understand going in that that. If
the thing you're trying to do is to improve yourself,

(00:44):
to better your position, to better your relationship, your family, anything,
You're trying to be a better you. You're trying to
make more money, you're trying to get it together, you're
trying to change if any of those things are in
your hopes and dreams. Know this right here, you are

(01:08):
about to face some challenges. But you might as well
go ahead anyway and face those challenges because if you don't,
you have a whole other set of challenges to face.
You know. It's a it's a It's an amazing thing, man,
How people sit around and they watch other people strike

(01:28):
out to become successful. They sit in the stands watching
these people play out these games, and they and they,
and they criticize, They boo, they laugh at their efforts
and everything, and they talk about the fairies. He missed
that game when it shot. Boy, he sucked. Man, he
did this. He ain't worth that. I hear people who

(01:50):
sit and stands who criticize people who are out there
on the playing field. Now, when you're on the playing field,
you have a set of challenges in front of you.
You're going to be open to criticism, You're going to
be open to ridicule. You're going to be talked about

(02:10):
when you don't know the people who are talking about you. Now,
here's the upside to being the player on the field
that's facing all the challenges, to criticisms, the laughing, the joke,
to being talked about. He has something going for him.

(02:33):
This person, boy, woman, child, girl, man has an opportunity
to win. They have an opportunity to win. And then
the game of life. Just because you lose one of
the games or you lose one of the matches, it

(02:53):
don't mean you've lost. You don't get put out. You
keep playing, and when you play, saying here's the upside,
you have the opportunity to win. And but guess what,
You're gonna win some of the matches. You're gonna win
some of the points. You're gonna make some of the dunks.
You're gonna hit some of them over the wall. You're
gonna hit some of them out the park. You're gonna

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score some goals. You will if you're playing the game.
Here's the problem with the people who don't face the criticism,
who nobody boos or cheers for, who sits in the
stands and knows neither victory nor defeat. Those people, without

(03:37):
realizing it, are facing a set of challenges also. And
the challenges they're facing is how I'm gonna live with myself?
What I'm gonna do? Now? What direction am I going in?
Where am I gonna live? Wonder what job will hire me?

(04:04):
Wonder if I can get paid for criticizing all? Woe
is me? I can't find the purpose in my life.
And man, I'm just waking up in a state of confusion.
I don't know what to do. Now, let me ask
you something which one of them said, of challenges you

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rather be faced with, Because if I'm on the flow playing,
if I'm on the field playing if I'm out on
the court playing, then guess what I got a chance
at winning? But guess what I'm doing every day while
I'm playing. I'm strategizing. I'm waking up with a purpose.
I'm waking up trying to come up with another angle.

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I'm in pursuit of a goal every single day. Versus
the people in the stands who know neither victory nor defeat.
Get in the game, face the challenges. Better yourself, better

(05:08):
your wife, better your children, better your condition, better your
employment status, better your job, better your career. Take a shot.
Come on, man, what you're waiting on? Because the alternative
is to watch other people play the game? You know
what I just do? Sometimes sometimes I just I get
Forbes magazine or Money magazine, or sometimes I still grab

(05:31):
a copy of rob Report. I just flipped through it
just to see. I used to get these this book
called Unique Homes. Unique Homes is a magazine that just
has a lot of extravagant houses that's on sale across
the country, across the world. I used to flip through. Man,
let me just see, man, what the people that's playing

(05:52):
the game out there doing. Stop watching other people become
successful when you could very easily be you if you
may the decision. But when you make the decision to
become successful, get ready for a series of challenges. I
think it's more difficult not to accept the challenge. I
think it's for me. This is just for me. It

(06:14):
may not be the case for you. For me, I
think it's far more difficult to wake up and just
see how life gonna go today, because man, it could
just deal you any kind of hand today. You understand
I don't like you know spades. Let's let's talk a
card game, folks, the game of spades. Really, man, it
ain't a whole lot you can do if you don't

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get no spades. Really, it's a little couple of little
strategies you're gonna do. But you can have all this age, king, queen,
diamond all you want. But man, you ain't got no spades.
They're cutting them. You're in trouble. Be it whist different game.
You can create what's in your hand. You got dealt
a hand too, But you can create a hand. You

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can call a trump. You can make diamonds your space.
You can make hard to clubs your spades. That's what
I'm saying, That's what it is you can do something
with it. It's a different game, man. You can strategize.
I would rather have a say so in my life
than to wake up every day and just see how
it's going. I think it's more difficult to not accept
the challenge to be something than it is to accept

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the challenge to be something. I think it's more difficult
to sit around and not be nothing. I think it's
harder to watch everybody's life going somewhere but mine. I
think it would be very difficult for me to sit
here and hear them talking about other people and never
mention my name. I would be difficult for me to
see everybody rise and getting promotions accept me. That would

(07:39):
be difficult for me. It may not be for you,
but for me it would be quite challenging. I would
rather accept the challenge of making something out of my
life than to sit there and criticize those and then
watch and see how my life just may go. Okay,
just a thought today.