February 27, 2020 • 6 mins
Today Uncle Steve gives us a very very important lesson about loyalty. He gives us what is actual and factual.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Steve, here we are our last break of
the day. It's the last break of the day, Yes
it is. And what are you doing? It's been a
good day though, a good day. Oh you weren't. No,
we're so used to it now. Okay, we're so used
(00:22):
to it now. Don't spoil us and then try to
take it away. Well, Jay started, and then he forgot
her idea. It's the last break of the day. Yeah, no, Jake,
that's not it. Jay. Let it to move us. But
it's been a good Thursday, good Thursday. Yeah, look forward
(00:42):
to Friday and here weekend. Uh, let me do this,
you know. Um, I try to say things that are
encouraging to people in my clothes remarks to give you
some uplift. Oh, but what I want to tell you
about is in your climb to success and in your
(01:06):
desire to become happy. And whatever success he is to you,
it doesn't matter to me. Everybody has to define it
for themselves, just like everybody defines happiness for themselves. But
if you're trying to build something, if you're trying to
get yourself together, if you're trying to go places, I
(01:30):
want to just put a couple of things in your head.
You've got to be conscious of the people that you
surround yourself with. You know, you've all heard the old
saying birds of a feather flock together. Association brings on participation.
This is just the bottom line truth. Somebody told me
(01:53):
one time, they said, Steve, name your five closest friends.
So I named them. Then he said, describe them as people.
And I described him and he said, thank you. He said,
now I know what I need to know about you.
I said, what do you mean by that? He said,
(02:14):
If you name your five closest friends and then you
describe your five closest friends, you have just given me
an overall description of you. Because you pick you actually
get to choose your friends, and you choose your friends
for qualities that you like about them. You become friends
(02:35):
with people because you have so many things in common.
You don't have friends where you have nothing in common.
You wouldn't pick them as your friend, would you. No,
you wouldn't. And so what happens is in that experiment
he gave me. I said, wow. So I started really
taking inventory and started thinking about the people that were
(02:55):
around me, and I discovered something, man, that was some
people around me that really weren't good for me. See,
somebody sent me this one time. He said, a dead
battery can't jump a dead battery. You gotta get away
from people who can't charge your spirit when you need
a jump. Oh, a dead battery can't jump a dead battery.
(03:21):
Get away from people who can't charge your spirit when
you need a jump. How many times, man, have you
needed some uplift? How many times have you needed a
word of encouragement and the person you turned to had
nothing for you but more of the same. You need
some new people. You can't build an empire when you
(03:46):
surround yourself with bulldozers waiting to tear you down. Surround
yourself with people who will give you bricks and mortar
and build a foundation and for success. You got to
really get conscious of the people that surround you, because
I'm telling y'all, man, they play a role in your life.
(04:08):
As long as they are around you and you're welcoming
them in, they've play a role in your life. And
you may not even have paid it any attention, But
a little bit by little bit, they either take a
piece or they add a piece. So you've got to
pay attention who's around you, because you can't build an
empire when you surround yourself with bulldozers, bulldozers waiting to
(04:29):
tear you down. Surround yourself with people who give you
bricks and mortar and build a foundation for success. Check it.
Just run a check, y'all. Just do this. Just just
run inventory. Take a close look at the people you're
associating yourself with. And sometimes, man, you just stay friends
(04:51):
with people just a little bit too long, just a
little bit too long, because some people have stopped being
your friend a long time ago. But you're such a
committed person, you're such a loyal person that you stay
loyal to them long after they stopped being loyal to you.
(05:11):
Somebody used to work for me taught me a valuable lesson,
and I never forgot it, he said, og loyalty has
an expiration date. I was telling this to my wife
one time at Marjorie. She didn't like that, saying, Steve,
I don't like when you say that, And we were
talking and talking to it, and so there's a few
(05:33):
years went by. The other day I was talking with Marjorie.
She said, you know, it's Steve, I finally understand what
you're saying. You're not saying that your loyalty has an
expiration date. What you've been trying to tell me. It's
people that I'm trying to stay loyal to have oftentimes
(05:54):
stopped being loyal to me. But because I'm a kind person,
I've tried to stay loyal to them when they're loyal
for me expired a long time ago. I said, that's
all I'm saying. I'm not talking to everybody. I'm telling
you as a warning, be conscious of the fact that
loyalty has an expiration date, and it usually ain't you,
(06:20):
it's usually somebody else. Take an inventory, make sure all
the people who once were loyal are still loyal. Make
sure that everybody in your life that's a battery can
charge you up when your spirit needs to jump. And
make sure that the people around you that you're trying
to build an empire around are not actually bulldozers trying
(06:42):
to tear you down. Those are my closing remarks. Y'all,
have a great day. I'm out of here. Have a
great weekend.
All right, Steve, here we are our last break of
the day. It's the last break of the day, Yes
it is. And what are you doing? It's been a
good day though, a good day. Oh you weren't. No,
we're so used to it now. Okay, we're so used
(00:22):
to it now. Don't spoil us and then try to
take it away. Well, Jay started, and then he forgot
her idea. It's the last break of the day. Yeah, no, Jake,
that's not it. Jay. Let it to move us. But
it's been a good Thursday, good Thursday. Yeah, look forward
(00:42):
to Friday and here weekend. Uh, let me do this,
you know. Um, I try to say things that are
encouraging to people in my clothes remarks to give you
some uplift. Oh, but what I want to tell you
about is in your climb to success and in your
(01:06):
desire to become happy. And whatever success he is to you,
it doesn't matter to me. Everybody has to define it
for themselves, just like everybody defines happiness for themselves. But
if you're trying to build something, if you're trying to
get yourself together, if you're trying to go places, I
(01:30):
want to just put a couple of things in your head.
You've got to be conscious of the people that you
surround yourself with. You know, you've all heard the old
saying birds of a feather flock together. Association brings on participation.
This is just the bottom line truth. Somebody told me
(01:53):
one time, they said, Steve, name your five closest friends.
So I named them. Then he said, describe them as people.
And I described him and he said, thank you. He said,
now I know what I need to know about you.
I said, what do you mean by that? He said,
(02:14):
If you name your five closest friends and then you
describe your five closest friends, you have just given me
an overall description of you. Because you pick you actually
get to choose your friends, and you choose your friends
for qualities that you like about them. You become friends
(02:35):
with people because you have so many things in common.
You don't have friends where you have nothing in common.
You wouldn't pick them as your friend, would you. No,
you wouldn't. And so what happens is in that experiment
he gave me. I said, wow. So I started really
taking inventory and started thinking about the people that were
(02:55):
around me, and I discovered something, man, that was some
people around me that really weren't good for me. See,
somebody sent me this one time. He said, a dead
battery can't jump a dead battery. You gotta get away
from people who can't charge your spirit when you need
a jump. Oh, a dead battery can't jump a dead battery.
(03:21):
Get away from people who can't charge your spirit when
you need a jump. How many times, man, have you
needed some uplift? How many times have you needed a
word of encouragement and the person you turned to had
nothing for you but more of the same. You need
some new people. You can't build an empire when you
(03:46):
surround yourself with bulldozers waiting to tear you down. Surround
yourself with people who will give you bricks and mortar
and build a foundation and for success. You got to
really get conscious of the people that surround you, because
I'm telling y'all, man, they play a role in your life.
(04:08):
As long as they are around you and you're welcoming
them in, they've play a role in your life. And
you may not even have paid it any attention, But
a little bit by little bit, they either take a
piece or they add a piece. So you've got to
pay attention who's around you, because you can't build an
empire when you surround yourself with bulldozers, bulldozers waiting to
(04:29):
tear you down. Surround yourself with people who give you
bricks and mortar and build a foundation for success. Check it.
Just run a check, y'all. Just do this. Just just
run inventory. Take a close look at the people you're
associating yourself with. And sometimes, man, you just stay friends
(04:51):
with people just a little bit too long, just a
little bit too long, because some people have stopped being
your friend a long time ago. But you're such a
committed person, you're such a loyal person that you stay
loyal to them long after they stopped being loyal to you.
(05:11):
Somebody used to work for me taught me a valuable lesson,
and I never forgot it, he said, og loyalty has
an expiration date. I was telling this to my wife
one time at Marjorie. She didn't like that, saying, Steve,
I don't like when you say that, And we were
talking and talking to it, and so there's a few
(05:33):
years went by. The other day I was talking with Marjorie.
She said, you know, it's Steve, I finally understand what
you're saying. You're not saying that your loyalty has an
expiration date. What you've been trying to tell me. It's
people that I'm trying to stay loyal to have oftentimes
(05:54):
stopped being loyal to me. But because I'm a kind person,
I've tried to stay loyal to them when they're loyal
for me expired a long time ago. I said, that's
all I'm saying. I'm not talking to everybody. I'm telling
you as a warning, be conscious of the fact that
loyalty has an expiration date, and it usually ain't you,
(06:20):
it's usually somebody else. Take an inventory, make sure all
the people who once were loyal are still loyal. Make
sure that everybody in your life that's a battery can
charge you up when your spirit needs to jump. And
make sure that the people around you that you're trying
to build an empire around are not actually bulldozers trying
(06:42):
to tear you down. Those are my closing remarks. Y'all,
have a great day. I'm out of here. Have a
great weekend.
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