Success Requires Effort

Your best ain't good enough. Have you tapped into your reserve tank? Keep moving and do a bit more.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I shall will a good morning everybody. You're
listening to the voice, come on, dig me now? Want
it only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Okay, I
want to talk to you today about success. But I

(00:22):
want to talk to you about it like I usually
do in terms of a principle of it, but I
want to share something with you about it now. I
was talking to my daughter about it. I've talked about
my son in law about it, talked about it with
all my children, and I'm really starting to express it
to them now because I'm talking to a wide range

(00:45):
of people constantly. But I want to share something with you.
If you have any aspiration of being successful, I want
you to realize, starting right now, the effort that is
going to require. And that's why I think it stops
a lot of people. I think a lot of people
are never told or don't understand the sheer effort that's

(01:09):
that it takes to become successful at anything in any
area of your life. If you think that doing your
best is enough, that I got news for you. It's not. Well, Steve.
What if you've done your best, though, and your best
ain't good enough? Well, let me ask you that same question.

(01:31):
Hold on, if you want to be successful and you've
done your best, and best isn't good enough? What you
through that's it. But Steve, it was my best. No no, no, no.
It was the best you had at that time, in
that particular day. But tomorrow add something to it. You've

(01:52):
never done everything. There is no you can't go no more,
you can't add no more. I've seen marathon runners end
up crawling across the line. I've seen triath line people
man just staggering in the street and didn't want nobody
to help them because they knew that would disqualify them
from the race. You got more? Have you ever dipped

(02:16):
into your reserve tank? That's what we're talking about now. See,
all of us have a reserve tank, you know. I
you know, on my ranch, I like to ride four wheelers.
I have all terrain vehicles and all of them have
a gas tank on it and a gas tank and
most of mine, let me see all of them. Yeah,
all of them have gas tank needles on them, and

(02:38):
it lets me know when I get down towards eat,
there's a little lane that's read that lets me know. Okay, Steve,
you're in the danger zone. Now you're riding into the
lowest part of your tank. But if I keep riding
and I forget to get some gas in there, guess
what when it runs out of gas. All of my

(02:58):
all terrain vehicles, all of them, Honda Polaris, all of them.
Those are the makers. There's a button on the gas
tank itself that I can click and it says reserve.
That means they know that for the hardcore riders, they're
gonna ride somewhere and they're gonna get themselves in a

(03:20):
situation and they're gonna run out of everything, They're gonna
run out of road, they're gonna run out of gas.
They've prepared because they know for the hardcore rider, every
hardcore rider needs a reserve tank. And so there's a
button that you can click on the gas tank that
clicks it into a reserve and it will give you

(03:40):
about fifty miles or twenty miles worth of gas in that. Now,
guess what in that reserve that may be all you
need to get you to where you're going or get
you back to safety so you can refuel. Don't tell
me you've done your best. When your best, don't cut it.
What you're gonna do. See when best is possible, then

(04:05):
good enough ain't enough. See that's good enough. But if
the best is possible, why would you not shoot for that?
And you you are all capable of making it. But
you've got to change your mindset and realize the effort
that has to be put forth in becoming successful. You've
got to do it relentlessly, over and over and over

(04:27):
and over and every day. I try to do something
to progress my life for the better. I try to
do something every day. I wake up every day with
the plan. Some phone calls, some meetings, some some some interviews. Something. Man,
that's going to advance and move the brand forward. Because
here's what's gonna happen. You are Let's say you reach

(04:49):
your goal. Let's say your goal is to make one
hundred thousand dollars. Well, I got news for you. Listen
to this. When you make the one hundred thousand dollars,
you can't go noway and go on vacation and put
your hand behind your head and say I made a
hundred thousand dollars. Guess what you got to do. You
got to find a way now to maintain that one

(05:11):
hundred thousand, to keep it coming in, So you can't
just get there and stop and rest and whoa, it
is harder to maintain your success that it is to
get successful. See, let's say, let me let me show
you this. Supposed it takes you five to eight years

(05:32):
to find a way to make fifty thousand dollars. Let's
say it takes you five to eight years to find
a way to make an extra fifty thousand dollars, and
you finally, through work and effort, you get to the
fifty thousand dollars. More. That's that's it's only just begun
now because guess what. In order to keep the fifty

(05:54):
coming in, you got to duplicate what you did to
get there. And then, oh, here's what you're going to
have the audacity being a human being. You're gonna want
another fifty because you're a human being, because you gotta
have something else to shoot for. Now you're gonna want
another fifty. Well, now that guess what you gotta do. Now,

(06:15):
Now you gotta do what you did before, plus you
gotta come up with something else. Then after that, you're
gonna have the audacity. Because you're humans, You're gonna want
another fifty. Says how this works, and see that. That's
that that's the importance of your relationship with God, because
you're gonna constantly need it, and I ain't have a

(06:36):
point where you're gonna be through needing it. But there
ain't gonna become a point in your life where you're
gonna through. Won't through, be through, won't nothing unless you
don't just gave up. And if you don't gave up,
who wants that? Come on, y'all, this is going to
take quite a bit of effort, And if you think
it will come to you any other way, you're sadly mistaken.

(06:57):
Because of all the successful people I know, I know
that the effort they put out on a daily basis
is daunting, and I think that the average person just
doesn't understand the requirement of time and effort that it
takes to get that and willingness to put it out.
You gotta cut a lot of monkey business out your life,
all that hanging out, all that late and all that

(07:19):
club and all that drinking, all that. You gotta cut
a whole lot of monkey business out to be successful. Man,
if you're planning on being successful, get up early, stay
up late, work, try think, meet, greet smile, attract. It
takes a lot, let's go, but you can do it.

(07:40):
God is pressed to plassing out blessings all day long.
Why are you not in line for yours? I'm telling
you right now, I want everything God got for me
because what He's shown me so far. Who if he
got some O man on man? How good is God?
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