March 6, 2025 • 8 mins
Steve Harvey wants you to know that you can't ever give up on your dream. You will have to sacrifice, you need to take some shots, but it all starts with the dream.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on your Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody,
y'all listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey, Uh huh got a radio show. Yeah, man,
what a blessing it is. I can't even explain my
whole life. My whole life is a blessing. It really is,
(00:21):
in spite of all the things that's happened. Contraa to
having the appearances of a blessing. As I look back
on my life today, it all happened for a reason.
It all came together, it tied together, and you know
it's important. Man. I think a lot of people that
asked me about my success and how I got here
and how do I attribute in what was the steps?
(00:42):
I want to tell you what it is. Now. Listen
to me before I get started. Please understand that everything
that I tell you is faith based. Everything that I
tell you is faith based. You can double check it.
You can go behind me. Whatever your faith is. If
you go back into the writings and your faith, it's
in there. It's in there. Now. I'm not telling you
anything new. I'm not giving you a new angle. I
may give you a different way of saying it. You know,
(01:04):
maybe hearing it back to yourself, but in essence, man,
I really do know that I'm not going to say
anything that you may not have heard, but I phrased
it in a different kind of way. And so this
series this week, I want to talk to you about
how to make it kind of a motivational series. And
the first part, the most important component of it in
accomplishing what you want in your life is you have
(01:27):
to identify the dream. This is the critical step. A
lot of people spend their life squandering and wandering around
because they never identify the dream. You have to identify
the dream. You have to identify what it is that
you want, what it is that you hope for. You
have to have a goal in mind. You have to
(01:50):
have a destination. You know, when you go outside and
put the key in your car. You never go and
put your key in the car and just get in
in and just drive, you know, unless you're trying to
clear your head. But if you talk about going somewhere,
you got to have a destination. You got to have
somewhere you want to go, or else you're just running around,
you burning gas. Where you're going now? I don't know?
(02:10):
Left here right? Here, go here, go there. You know
you must identify the dream. The dream is the single
most important part of the component to making the success
out yourself. God can't bless what you don't have. You
can't get what you never give. Identify the dream. What
is it that burns inside you so it keeps you
awake at night? What is it, man that makes you
(02:32):
smile when you think about it? What is it, man
that you can't seem to quite shape? Okay, so you
go to college, right, you make a decision, which I
disagree with you asking eighteen to a twenty one year
old to make a decision or what he wants to
do and what he wants to be with the rest
of his life. That's tough because guess what, this young
person doesn't really know himself or herself yet. So you're
(02:53):
asking them to identify what it is at an early age.
What consequentially happens is that people get older and they
wind up doing something else, and you get a degree
and you find out what your passion is with something else. See,
identifying that dream as early as you can is important. Now,
whether you're younger, whether you're whatever, your whatever, your identity
of the dream is that's first. Now, what you have
(03:17):
to do then is if I were you. Here is
the part that people never seem to weld together with
that dream that I want to be an astronaut, I
want to be a doctor, I want to be a
club on, I want to be a a DJ, I
want to be a ball player, I want to be
a writer, I want to be a whatever it is,
it doesn't matter. Somebody is that already, and somebody had
(03:39):
it as a dream, So it's no dream too big. Okay,
Once you identify the dream, here's the thing. The best
way for that to happen is that dream should be
tied directly to your God given gift or talent. See
that's the part that people miss. You see Halle Berry
on TV and you want you want to have on
one of the dresses on the carpet, and you want
(04:00):
to stand there and get the award and you want
to have the same people had to do your hair
to do Halle and who do Beyonce? All that's good,
All that's good man, But do you have the talent
or the gift to accomplish that? See, don't get outside
your scope. I wanted to play in the NBA when
I was eight years old. But something happened along the way.
I didn't have skill set. I discovered that when I
(04:22):
ran as fast as I could, the basketball was never
with me. Man, that's an important part of all. You know.
I could jump, but I normally didn't have a basketball.
So now see that that passion and that dream of
being in the NBA was not tied to my gift.
My gift was when I was sitting there watching them
(04:43):
play basketball. I was the little dude leaning against the
fence that had a comment about everything everybody did. That
was it. I was the commentator, the color commentator, and
lord I was funny. It was one of the few
times I didn't stutter when I was leaning against the fish,
talking trash. But if you took me to school, you
(05:05):
took me to church, you took me in front of somebody,
you sent me to the store, Man, that stuttering just
came over the top of me. I couldn't do it.
Remember the first time I told somebody my dream is
to be on TV, man, they laughed at me so
hard that they laughed me out the gym because I
had a stuttering problem. So that caused me never to
tell it again. The best way to accomplish your dream
(05:25):
is you got to tie it to your gift, to
the talent that God has given you. You can't overlook that.
See God never created a person without giving them a
talent or a gift. You have something that you do,
and the way to identify that is very simple. It
is the thing that you do the absolute best with
the least amount of effort. What is that that you
do that's better than you do anything else with the
least amount of effort. You do this, it's almost You
(05:47):
can draw without you can write, you can sing. You
know how to pull stuff apart and put it back together.
You know how to connect the dots and cross t's,
and you know how to organize things and put people together.
You know how to network. You know how to shoot
videos better than anybody. You know how to calm people
down when they when it's a conflict that your school
(06:09):
is something, they come to you. All your friends come
to you. They problem. There's a gift and the talent.
You have to identify what that is. Now, if you
take that gift and talent that you are born with
and you marry it into your dream, you put those
two in the dream that's the number one thing. And
here's a deal. You can never give up on the dream.
(06:29):
I don't care how old you are. There's a scripture
that says a man without a dream or vision shall perish.
Think about this. If you've given up on your dream,
don't it feel like you're going nowhere? You have a
wake up in the morning and just go, Man, this
can't be all to it. It's got to be more
(06:51):
to it than this. That's that seed, that dream, that talent,
that gift that's in you, that needs watering and nurturing
and fertilize it to come out and grow. But you
got to identify. Man, Come on, and you can't give
up on your dream because now you got just the
job that's helping you pay these bills, and now you
locked into the system where paying the bills is so
(07:11):
critical and living expenses on top of you that you
got to keep going to this job. So now you
give up on your dreams, That ain't how this thing work. Man.
You can't ever give up on the dream. It's gonna
be a sacrifice to do that. To follow your dream,
You're gonna have to let something go. That's the scary part.
That's the part where people don't want to let go
of the peanut to get the fruit, so you hang
(07:33):
on to your peanut. Now, the fruit out there, it's melons, grapes, bananas, pineapples,
it's out fruit is out there, but you're so busy
hanging on to this peanut, that job that has got
you locked in, and you can't go out there and
enjoy the fruits of your life. You have to make
a decision. A decision is based on your dream and
your gift. If you tie those two together, why not
(07:53):
take a shot at it. I mean, what you're waiting on.
Everything I tell you is faith based, so remember that too.
Now you got to take your faith the lung. But
it starts with the dream. You're listening to the Steve
Harvey Morning Show.
Come on your Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody,
y'all listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve Harvey, Uh huh got a radio show. Yeah, man,
what a blessing it is. I can't even explain my
whole life. My whole life is a blessing. It really is,
(00:21):
in spite of all the things that's happened. Contraa to
having the appearances of a blessing. As I look back
on my life today, it all happened for a reason.
It all came together, it tied together, and you know
it's important. Man. I think a lot of people that
asked me about my success and how I got here
and how do I attribute in what was the steps?
(00:42):
I want to tell you what it is. Now. Listen
to me before I get started. Please understand that everything
that I tell you is faith based. Everything that I
tell you is faith based. You can double check it.
You can go behind me. Whatever your faith is. If
you go back into the writings and your faith, it's
in there. It's in there. Now. I'm not telling you
anything new. I'm not giving you a new angle. I
may give you a different way of saying it. You know,
(01:04):
maybe hearing it back to yourself, but in essence, man,
I really do know that I'm not going to say
anything that you may not have heard, but I phrased
it in a different kind of way. And so this
series this week, I want to talk to you about
how to make it kind of a motivational series. And
the first part, the most important component of it in
accomplishing what you want in your life is you have
(01:27):
to identify the dream. This is the critical step. A
lot of people spend their life squandering and wandering around
because they never identify the dream. You have to identify
the dream. You have to identify what it is that
you want, what it is that you hope for. You
have to have a goal in mind. You have to
(01:50):
have a destination. You know, when you go outside and
put the key in your car. You never go and
put your key in the car and just get in
in and just drive, you know, unless you're trying to
clear your head. But if you talk about going somewhere,
you got to have a destination. You got to have
somewhere you want to go, or else you're just running around,
you burning gas. Where you're going now? I don't know?
(02:10):
Left here right? Here, go here, go there. You know
you must identify the dream. The dream is the single
most important part of the component to making the success
out yourself. God can't bless what you don't have. You
can't get what you never give. Identify the dream. What
is it that burns inside you so it keeps you
awake at night? What is it, man that makes you
(02:32):
smile when you think about it? What is it, man
that you can't seem to quite shape? Okay, so you
go to college, right, you make a decision, which I
disagree with you asking eighteen to a twenty one year
old to make a decision or what he wants to
do and what he wants to be with the rest
of his life. That's tough because guess what, this young
person doesn't really know himself or herself yet. So you're
(02:53):
asking them to identify what it is at an early age.
What consequentially happens is that people get older and they
wind up doing something else, and you get a degree
and you find out what your passion is with something else. See,
identifying that dream as early as you can is important. Now,
whether you're younger, whether you're whatever, your whatever, your identity
of the dream is that's first. Now, what you have
(03:17):
to do then is if I were you. Here is
the part that people never seem to weld together with
that dream that I want to be an astronaut, I
want to be a doctor, I want to be a
club on, I want to be a a DJ, I
want to be a ball player, I want to be
a writer, I want to be a whatever it is,
it doesn't matter. Somebody is that already, and somebody had
(03:39):
it as a dream, So it's no dream too big. Okay,
Once you identify the dream, here's the thing. The best
way for that to happen is that dream should be
tied directly to your God given gift or talent. See
that's the part that people miss. You see Halle Berry
on TV and you want you want to have on
one of the dresses on the carpet, and you want
(04:00):
to stand there and get the award and you want
to have the same people had to do your hair
to do Halle and who do Beyonce? All that's good,
All that's good man, But do you have the talent
or the gift to accomplish that? See, don't get outside
your scope. I wanted to play in the NBA when
I was eight years old. But something happened along the way.
I didn't have skill set. I discovered that when I
(04:22):
ran as fast as I could, the basketball was never
with me. Man, that's an important part of all. You know.
I could jump, but I normally didn't have a basketball.
So now see that that passion and that dream of
being in the NBA was not tied to my gift.
My gift was when I was sitting there watching them
(04:43):
play basketball. I was the little dude leaning against the
fence that had a comment about everything everybody did. That
was it. I was the commentator, the color commentator, and
lord I was funny. It was one of the few
times I didn't stutter when I was leaning against the fish,
talking trash. But if you took me to school, you
(05:05):
took me to church, you took me in front of somebody,
you sent me to the store, Man, that stuttering just
came over the top of me. I couldn't do it.
Remember the first time I told somebody my dream is
to be on TV, man, they laughed at me so
hard that they laughed me out the gym because I
had a stuttering problem. So that caused me never to
tell it again. The best way to accomplish your dream
(05:25):
is you got to tie it to your gift, to
the talent that God has given you. You can't overlook that.
See God never created a person without giving them a
talent or a gift. You have something that you do,
and the way to identify that is very simple. It
is the thing that you do the absolute best with
the least amount of effort. What is that that you
do that's better than you do anything else with the
least amount of effort. You do this, it's almost You
(05:47):
can draw without you can write, you can sing. You
know how to pull stuff apart and put it back together.
You know how to connect the dots and cross t's,
and you know how to organize things and put people together.
You know how to network. You know how to shoot
videos better than anybody. You know how to calm people
down when they when it's a conflict that your school
(06:09):
is something, they come to you. All your friends come
to you. They problem. There's a gift and the talent.
You have to identify what that is. Now, if you
take that gift and talent that you are born with
and you marry it into your dream, you put those
two in the dream that's the number one thing. And
here's a deal. You can never give up on the dream.
(06:29):
I don't care how old you are. There's a scripture
that says a man without a dream or vision shall perish.
Think about this. If you've given up on your dream,
don't it feel like you're going nowhere? You have a
wake up in the morning and just go, Man, this
can't be all to it. It's got to be more
(06:51):
to it than this. That's that seed, that dream, that talent,
that gift that's in you, that needs watering and nurturing
and fertilize it to come out and grow. But you
got to identify. Man, Come on, and you can't give
up on your dream because now you got just the
job that's helping you pay these bills, and now you
locked into the system where paying the bills is so
(07:11):
critical and living expenses on top of you that you
got to keep going to this job. So now you
give up on your dreams, That ain't how this thing work. Man.
You can't ever give up on the dream. It's gonna
be a sacrifice to do that. To follow your dream,
You're gonna have to let something go. That's the scary part.
That's the part where people don't want to let go
of the peanut to get the fruit, so you hang
(07:33):
on to your peanut. Now, the fruit out there, it's melons, grapes, bananas, pineapples,
it's out fruit is out there, but you're so busy
hanging on to this peanut, that job that has got
you locked in, and you can't go out there and
enjoy the fruits of your life. You have to make
a decision. A decision is based on your dream and
your gift. If you tie those two together, why not
(07:53):
take a shot at it. I mean, what you're waiting on.
Everything I tell you is faith based, so remember that too.
Now you got to take your faith the lung. But
it starts with the dream. You're listening to the Steve
Harvey Morning Show.
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