Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 02.06.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on. Ah huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody
you're listening to the voice, Come on digny now, one
and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Okay, I
want to talk to you today about success. But I

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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. And 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

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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

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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.

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Hold on, if you want to be successful and you've
done your best, and best isn't good enough. What you
threw that's it. But Steve, it was my best. No no, no,
no no. It was the best you had at that time,
in that particular day. But tomorrow adds something to it.

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You've 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 triathlone
people man just staggering in the street and didn't want
nobody to help them because they knew they would disqualify
them from the race. You got more? Have you ever

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dipped into your reserve tank? That's what we're talking about now.
See all of us have a reserve tank, 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 in most
of mine. Let me see all of them. Yeah, all
of them have gas tank needles on them, and it

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lets me know when I get down towards eight, there's
a little lane that's red 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

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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 hard core riders,
they're gonna ride somewhere, they're gonna get themselves in a

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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 hard core rider,
every hard core 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'll give

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you 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 the 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

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is possible, then 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

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over and over 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 some interviews. Something. Man, that's going to
advance and move the brand forward. Because here's what's gonna happen.

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You are let's say you reach your goal. Let's say
your goal is to make now one hundred thousand dollars. Well,
I got news for you. Listen to the When you
make the one hundred thousand dollars, you can't go nowhere
and go on vacation and put your hand behind your
head and say I made one hundred thousand dollars. Guess
what you got to do. You got to find a

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way now to maintain that one hundred thousand to keep
it coming in. See, you can't just get there and
stop and rest and whoa. It is harder to maintain
your success than it is to get successful. See. Let's say,
let me show you this. Suppose it takes you five

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to eight years 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 math. It's only just
begun now because guess what. In order to keep the

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fifty coming in, you got to duplicate what you do
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,

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

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where you're gonna be through needing it. But they ain't
gonna become a point in your life where you're going through.
Won't be through, won't nothing unless you then just gave up.
And if you done gave up, who wants that? Come on, y'all,
This is going to take quite a bit of effort,
And if you think it'll come to you any other way,
you're sadly mistaken. Because of all the successful people I know,

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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 got to cut a lot of monkey
business out your life, all that hanging out, all that
late and all that club and all that drinking, all that.

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You got to 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.
God is pressed to passing out blessings all day long.

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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 mo man or man? How good is God? Huh?
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