Always Play Your Cards Right

Everyone will get these cards, however, it really boils down to how you play them. The best poker players don't always have the best hands. They make the best plays. Think about that!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I sure will come on and everybody, y'all
listen to the voice. Come on, dig me now, one
and only Steve Harvey. Uh got a radio show. Yep, yep.
Sometimes saw all I can say yelp, man, how far
I've come is really unbelievable. But you know I finally

(00:23):
figured it out. Man. God allowed me to have the
life I've had so that I can become experienced at
so many different things. And then this experience when I'm
talking and sharing with people, I will be able to
relate to a lot of different circumstances. Not exact, but

(00:45):
just the circumstances. You know. You know, if a person
comes to men, they say, man, I've been down and out. Okay,
well I know what that is. Man, I didn't I
didn't have any direction. Okay, got that been there man
at one point in time, Man, I just help pile
a mistake on top of mistakes. Okay. So you know,

(01:07):
I think what I'm trying to say to everybody is
when you're going through life and life is dealing the
cards that it deals, I want you to understand that
life deals everybody these cards, the disappointment card, the setback card,
the failure card, the mishap card, the unexpected misery card.

(01:32):
Everybody gonna get, the grief card, everybody gonna get, the
rash of bad decision card, everybody gonna get them. Understand
that going in that everybody is gonna get these cards.
It's how you play them, though, you know, from time

(01:54):
to time, one more time, it's how you play them,
you know. From time to time. When I'm watching TV,
I love to watch the World Series of Poker. I
like watching poker tournaments on TV because it's it's really weird,
what's happened to a sport? To a poker they're actually
trying to call it a sport, you know, And as

(02:16):
the everyday guy that doesn't have to be athletically inclined
to anything, who has a shot of winning a title
if they play their cards right. The best poker players
in the world don't have the best hands. They just
make the best plays. I've seen guys win a hand

(02:38):
with nine two in their hand as nothing and win
the hand because they knew the bluff, they knew the odds,
they calculated risks, they made the stakes higher than the
other person was willing to pay. They gave off the
illusion that they had something with an actuality. They had nothing.

(03:00):
So what I what I enjoy about poker and watching
it is that these people, these people here, played the
hand they dealt and it ain't always a good hand.
But it ain't whether your hand is good. And it
ain't whether you're gonna get dealt bad cards or not.
Because you're gonna get dealt some bad cards. Everybody ain't
finna get two bullets in their hand. You ain't gonna

(03:22):
get two aces when you get dealt. Uh. You know,
when you play a draw poker, some of your cards
gonna be nothing. But you got to turn that nothing
into something. So when you get dealt these cards in life,
it ain't the fact that you're getting keep getting them dealt.
I was talking with a young person yesterday and we
were talking and we keep having the same conversation over

(03:43):
and over and over, and they could not understand why
they were not moving forward. But I said, you don't understand.
Every time we talk we have the exact same conversation.
It is simply because you keep getting your cards and
you playing them the same way. See, until you make
a conscientious different, the conscious decision to do something different,

(04:06):
the results will continue to be the same. See here's
the way this works. When you're dealt to disappointments in life,
it's how you handle the disappointments that determine the outcome
and who you are. Because everybody gonna be disappointment, Everybody
gonna lose a love one, everybody gonna make a bad decision,

(04:29):
everybody gonna end wake up one morning they have done
something they regretted. Everybody gonna get caught at the wrong time.
Every everybody gonna make a mistake. It ain't just you.
That is how you play your cards when they get
dealt to you. That determine who you are. Na how
do I play my cards better? First of all, it's
a mindset. Quit looking at everything as just the end

(04:52):
when it happens to you. Oh lord, woe is me? Nah,
everybody got your circumstances somewhere. It ain't old woe is me.
It's hold on, man, Okay, let me play this out
to see how God then connected this to something else. See.
As soon as a person have a setback, what's the
first thing A lot of people do. They go straight negative.

(05:13):
I can't see him to get a break. I can't
see them move forward hold on, man, do you realize
this could be connected to something? See, you got to understand, man,
that this thing is all connected. That you're not having
these mishaps and these spills and accidents and falls for
no reason. It's so you can become experienced at them.
So when he takes you to the next level, when

(05:34):
it happens again, you have no how and how to
handle it. If you keep throwing yourself off the cliff
every time something happened, You're just gonna be a cliff diver. Man.
Stop tripping yourself out. I was talking to this young person.
I kept saying, and you know what they try to
tell me. I'm trying to stay positive. But the people
around here they're just killing that. Oh. I see. So

(05:57):
when you learn something and you know something, you don't
take ownership of it. You allow other people to come
into what you know and believe and shake it loose
from you. I don't care who you are. You're not
doing me like that. Here's a deal. I have a
gift that was given to me from God. That is
the gift of comedy. That's what I've done. I've made

(06:18):
the bulk of my living on that skill set right there.
That are comedians who are supposedly friends of mine, who
I've worked with, who get around in huddles with one
another and they say, man, Steve really ain't funny. I
don't see what they'd be laughing at. He ain't funny
to me. He wasn't the funniest king to me. Excuse me,

(06:38):
you're irrelevant in this conversation because it regardless as to
how you feel about me. That are people think that
I'm knocked down kill over funny. But more importantly, I
own the gift that God gave to me. I take
ownership of his blessing because you don't think it so
you ain't taking that from me. Stop letting people steal

(06:58):
your joy. Stop letting people take what you're supposed to know. Look,
I'm a I'm a I'm a I'm a kind person
at heart. Man, You ain't nothing now, you said if
here going, Man, I guess I ain't what you're tripping for.
You are a kind person, own that take ownership of it.
Stop letting things God has given you be taken away

(07:22):
from others. The devil is a cold player, and he
got cold players working for him, just shaking, just taking
stuff from you. You know I'm a hard worker. I
really am intelligent. You stupid man. I thought I was
a hard worker. Man. They came in here and said
I was stupid. Man, I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
What excuse me? You're a very bright person. Hey, y'all

(07:44):
take ownership. When God gives you something, blesses you would
have gift a talent, a skill set, a mindset. Own it.
Don't let people come in here and take it from you. Man, Okay,
I probably shouldn't have with that