July 21, 2022 • 8 mins
Success requires effort. What is the difference between trying and getting it done? Let Steve tell you!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh huh, I shall will a good morning everybody. You
are listening to the voice, come on dig me now.
One and all is Steve Harvey got a radio show. Okay,
Today is simple. I got it together. I didn't have to.
I gave a little thought this morning. I actually got
up in um went to the gym. I make time
(00:24):
for that too. Man. That's but that that's that's, that's
that's kind of what I want to speak with everybody
about today because I want to remind you and if
you haven't heard it, I'm gonna share it with you.
I want to tell you. I want to just talk
to you about effort today. Just about effort. You know,
(00:46):
it's it's it's it's a word that people use to
describe sometimes trying. But what I found out about trying
is trying is just a noble way of saying you
didn't get it done. I tried when and then everybody go, well,
he tried, that was the best. Well that's that's not
(01:09):
exactly true though, that that's that's not exactly true. You
are and I want to talk to you about that
because I don't want you to be one of the
people who just tried. See trying I mean, I gotta
tell you to attempt something. You're gonna have to first try,
(01:30):
but I want you to change your mind set from
trying to getting it done. See, that's a that's a
big difference. When you say I'm gonna get it done
and when somebody says to me, I'm gonna try. Those
are two different people I'm talking to. I'm really more
apt to listen to the person that says to me,
I'm gonna get it done because trying to me, I
(01:53):
know what that means. Man. And oftentimes when you've tried,
have you ever noticed that you've not gotten it done.
It's because when you go in with the mindset of trying,
I'm gonna try, what try does is it allows you
to fail. Trying allows you to fail because if all
you're gonna do is try, anybody can try. It's the
(02:16):
person that has the mindset that I'm gonna get it
done is the person who changes the complexion of things,
who changes the outcome of thing, who gets a different results.
I'm gonna get it done. It's very different than I'm
gonna try. You know, look, man, I know this sounds
a little harsh, but you gotta stop feeding yourself, these
(02:39):
little old wise sayings that ain't it was a valiant tribe.
Hey man, you talk to anybody that took second place
in the super Bowl and see how they feel about
their valiant try. The only way to gain God's real
blessings is you have to try something. Stevie backpedalin. Now
(03:05):
listen to me close. You have to put forth an
effort to allow God to put his finger on something
to bless on your behalf. You must start to attempt,
now insane getting it done, And I'm gonna try. That's
(03:27):
a different of two different faiths to me that I'm
just talking about me. Now, you may be different, so
I can't. I can't say this about you, but I
can't say this about me. If I say I'm gonna
get it done, I have a lot of faith in it.
I am going to get it done because I just
(03:49):
don't see failure as an option. A lot of times now,
if somebody says to me, like the Olympic team invited
me out to curl one day, which is thirty stones
on the ice. If you're not familiar with it's very simple.
And so I said, man, I'd like to give that
a try. I went in full well knowing I may
(04:14):
not come away from this little curling lesson as a
person who could make the Olympic team. I just wanted
to try it because I thought it looked cool, and
I always wanted to get it done well. I failed twice.
I threw a stone completely into the other lane. I
lost that little ice shoe, it shot out under me.
(04:36):
But you know what, I kept trying though. I kept
trying until I got four of them stones in that
circle right where I aimed. But now had I give
it up? After I failed, After I threw that stone
in the other lane, after I shot my shoe down
all the way to the bottom side, the little ice
(04:56):
shoe they give you, I never did it. But because
I was trying. Something got me together a little bit
because of my effort, and it caused me not to
fall the next time, not to throw it into other lane,
not to shoot my shoot to the back of the wall.
All of a sudden, my trying became something. Now had
(05:17):
I stayed out there and it wasn't so cold, and
I went back week after week after week after week,
I promise you I could get it done. I could
at least know how to compete in a game of curling.
Might not be the best. I might not win the championship,
but I could have got it done to the point
(05:38):
where I could have competed in the game of curling.
So sometimes if you're scared to say I'm gonna get
it done, just go out there and get started. You know,
learn from every attempt that you make. See, don't quit
writing yourself off as a failure every time something don't
go right. When I failed on that ice, I could
have said, Man, I can't curl, but hold up, man,
(06:00):
I'm watching for other women out here, curl, for other
dudes out here, caroling little kids out here, curling old
love Pardner, you know, man, So I learned when I
threw that stone on the other ice, when I when
I fail, when when my shoe shot off, I learned
from every attempt a little bit more about it. And
then I said to myself at one point time, man,
(06:23):
I'm gonna get this stone in that circle. I'm gonna
get this stone in this circle. And guess what, I
got it done. Now what you're saying to me, Steve,
I'm saying to you that you gotta get started, that
you gotta put forth an effort. Give God something to
bless Oh God, bless me, Oh God, bless me. Bless you? What?
(06:45):
Bless you? Where? Bless you? How? Stop basing your results
on what you're thinking. You gotta think higher. You get
God in your life, man, He allows you to think higher, bigger,
better more. I'm sitting up in debt. I came up
with a plan to get out of debt in five years.
I came up with this plan, right, I was sitting
(07:05):
up and I was tripping on it. Now, I said,
wait a minute, man, hold up, this is what I
came up with. I said, God created heaven and earth,
all of it, the mountains, the sky, the valleys, the oceans, trees,
the birds, all of this. Man, mount Everest, the Gobi Desert,
(07:29):
the Indian Ocean, all of it. Made all of it
in six days, and then he rested on the seventh.
So why am I taking to God the five year plan?
If he can create heaven and earth in six days,
why am I walking in there talking about helped me
(07:50):
in five years? How is it gonna take God five
years to getting me out of debt? And he made
heaven and earth in six days? Dude, the math hill man,
I ain't that big. You ain't that big. You ain't
in that much trouble. I ain't in that much trouble. See,
God got a way of showing you some things, man,
(08:11):
but it's gonna take some faith, and faith gonna take
some effort on your part. Man, get out and do something. Man,
you God will bless you a little bit and give
you a little bit more courage. And then all them
attempts you making is gonna and all this so I'll try.
You know what that turn into. I'm gonna get it done.
And at the end of the day, that's what you
have to do, because trying to pay your rent and
(08:33):
not paying your rent, it's two different things. You can
try to play or pay your rent, or you can
get it done. Now, how long you think you're gonna
stay in that house trying. You got to go with
the mindset of getting it done. And if you can
put some stuff out there and give God a chance
to put his finger on it and bless it for
you the most stuff he can do for you. Quit
looking around what everybody else gotten. Gonna get some of
(08:54):
it for yourself, Okay, all right,
Uh huh, I shall will a good morning everybody. You
are listening to the voice, come on dig me now.
One and all is Steve Harvey got a radio show. Okay,
Today is simple. I got it together. I didn't have to.
I gave a little thought this morning. I actually got
up in um went to the gym. I make time
(00:24):
for that too. Man. That's but that that's that's, that's
that's kind of what I want to speak with everybody
about today because I want to remind you and if
you haven't heard it, I'm gonna share it with you.
I want to tell you. I want to just talk
to you about effort today. Just about effort. You know,
(00:46):
it's it's it's it's a word that people use to
describe sometimes trying. But what I found out about trying
is trying is just a noble way of saying you
didn't get it done. I tried when and then everybody go, well,
he tried, that was the best. Well that's that's not
(01:09):
exactly true though, that that's that's not exactly true. You
are and I want to talk to you about that
because I don't want you to be one of the
people who just tried. See trying I mean, I gotta
tell you to attempt something. You're gonna have to first try,
(01:30):
but I want you to change your mind set from
trying to getting it done. See, that's a that's a
big difference. When you say I'm gonna get it done
and when somebody says to me, I'm gonna try. Those
are two different people I'm talking to. I'm really more
apt to listen to the person that says to me,
I'm gonna get it done because trying to me, I
(01:53):
know what that means. Man. And oftentimes when you've tried,
have you ever noticed that you've not gotten it done.
It's because when you go in with the mindset of trying,
I'm gonna try, what try does is it allows you
to fail. Trying allows you to fail because if all
you're gonna do is try, anybody can try. It's the
(02:16):
person that has the mindset that I'm gonna get it
done is the person who changes the complexion of things,
who changes the outcome of thing, who gets a different results.
I'm gonna get it done. It's very different than I'm
gonna try. You know, look, man, I know this sounds
a little harsh, but you gotta stop feeding yourself, these
(02:39):
little old wise sayings that ain't it was a valiant tribe.
Hey man, you talk to anybody that took second place
in the super Bowl and see how they feel about
their valiant try. The only way to gain God's real
blessings is you have to try something. Stevie backpedalin. Now
(03:05):
listen to me close. You have to put forth an
effort to allow God to put his finger on something
to bless on your behalf. You must start to attempt,
now insane getting it done, And I'm gonna try. That's
(03:27):
a different of two different faiths to me that I'm
just talking about me. Now, you may be different, so
I can't. I can't say this about you, but I
can't say this about me. If I say I'm gonna
get it done, I have a lot of faith in it.
I am going to get it done because I just
(03:49):
don't see failure as an option. A lot of times now,
if somebody says to me, like the Olympic team invited
me out to curl one day, which is thirty stones
on the ice. If you're not familiar with it's very simple.
And so I said, man, I'd like to give that
a try. I went in full well knowing I may
(04:14):
not come away from this little curling lesson as a
person who could make the Olympic team. I just wanted
to try it because I thought it looked cool, and
I always wanted to get it done well. I failed twice.
I threw a stone completely into the other lane. I
lost that little ice shoe, it shot out under me.
(04:36):
But you know what, I kept trying though. I kept
trying until I got four of them stones in that
circle right where I aimed. But now had I give
it up? After I failed, After I threw that stone
in the other lane, after I shot my shoe down
all the way to the bottom side, the little ice
(04:56):
shoe they give you, I never did it. But because
I was trying. Something got me together a little bit
because of my effort, and it caused me not to
fall the next time, not to throw it into other lane,
not to shoot my shoot to the back of the wall.
All of a sudden, my trying became something. Now had
(05:17):
I stayed out there and it wasn't so cold, and
I went back week after week after week after week,
I promise you I could get it done. I could
at least know how to compete in a game of curling.
Might not be the best. I might not win the championship,
but I could have got it done to the point
(05:38):
where I could have competed in the game of curling.
So sometimes if you're scared to say I'm gonna get
it done, just go out there and get started. You know,
learn from every attempt that you make. See, don't quit
writing yourself off as a failure every time something don't
go right. When I failed on that ice, I could
have said, Man, I can't curl, but hold up, man,
(06:00):
I'm watching for other women out here, curl, for other
dudes out here, caroling little kids out here, curling old
love Pardner, you know, man, So I learned when I
threw that stone on the other ice, when I when
I fail, when when my shoe shot off, I learned
from every attempt a little bit more about it. And
then I said to myself at one point time, man,
(06:23):
I'm gonna get this stone in that circle. I'm gonna
get this stone in this circle. And guess what, I
got it done. Now what you're saying to me, Steve,
I'm saying to you that you gotta get started, that
you gotta put forth an effort. Give God something to
bless Oh God, bless me, Oh God, bless me. Bless you? What?
(06:45):
Bless you? Where? Bless you? How? Stop basing your results
on what you're thinking. You gotta think higher. You get
God in your life, man, He allows you to think higher, bigger,
better more. I'm sitting up in debt. I came up
with a plan to get out of debt in five years.
I came up with this plan, right, I was sitting
(07:05):
up and I was tripping on it. Now, I said,
wait a minute, man, hold up, this is what I
came up with. I said, God created heaven and earth,
all of it, the mountains, the sky, the valleys, the oceans, trees,
the birds, all of this. Man, mount Everest, the Gobi Desert,
(07:29):
the Indian Ocean, all of it. Made all of it
in six days, and then he rested on the seventh.
So why am I taking to God the five year plan?
If he can create heaven and earth in six days,
why am I walking in there talking about helped me
(07:50):
in five years? How is it gonna take God five
years to getting me out of debt? And he made
heaven and earth in six days? Dude, the math hill man,
I ain't that big. You ain't that big. You ain't
in that much trouble. I ain't in that much trouble. See,
God got a way of showing you some things, man,
(08:11):
but it's gonna take some faith, and faith gonna take
some effort on your part. Man, get out and do something. Man,
you God will bless you a little bit and give
you a little bit more courage. And then all them
attempts you making is gonna and all this so I'll try.
You know what that turn into. I'm gonna get it done.
And at the end of the day, that's what you
have to do, because trying to pay your rent and
(08:33):
not paying your rent, it's two different things. You can
try to play or pay your rent, or you can
get it done. Now, how long you think you're gonna
stay in that house trying. You got to go with
the mindset of getting it done. And if you can
put some stuff out there and give God a chance
to put his finger on it and bless it for
you the most stuff he can do for you. Quit
looking around what everybody else gotten. Gonna get some of
(08:54):
it for yourself, Okay, all right,
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