Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 05.13.25

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on. Uh huh, I sure will.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everybody, y'all listen to the voice.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Come on, dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey
got a radio show. Man o man o man. Grateful
for it. Come through a huge amount of responsibility. I
didn't really know I was gonna have to be this responsible,
you know. Can I share something with y'all? I started
out to Finally I had gotten on track and was

(00:30):
able to see a way to even pursue my dream.
It has been a long, a long trip that I've
been on, and I've gone through so many phases of it.
It is rewarding along the way to accomplish your dreams.
What I'm saying is this, let me, let me put
it together, because I got so much running through my

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head right now. You know, it's it's one thing to
accomplish your dreams, but there's joy in the process of
achieving it. See, some people are so caught up in
the goal, the final goal, that they find no joy,
no enjoyment in the process. If you have found what

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it is you want to do and you strike out
on that journey, please understand you are far more blessed
than the average person to know what it is you
really want to do, to find your work in life,
your purpose, to find out what direction you want to

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go in is such a blessing. The average person, if
you sit down and talk to them, oftentimes don't have
their life on track. And it'd be some people that
you looking at you think, God it going on because
of their appearance, their swagger. Oh they walk like it,
they talk like it, they look like it. But if
you sit down and talk to the average person, the

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average person man does not know what their purpose is,
has not discovered what they want to do, and have
no idea how to get there. If you are on
the other side of that, if you understand your purpose,
if you have an idea of what you want to be,
and you are.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
On your way there, you are truly blessed.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
And in that blessing you must recognize it as a blessing.
You must recognize the fact that you are on the
right side and that there should be a sense of
accomplishment and a feeling of pride in you that you
are on track to accomplish your goal. See what used

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to happen was sometimes I used to keep my nose
so on the grindstone.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
That I wouldn't even look up and realize.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Man, hey, man, I know you're trying to get here,
but Steve, hold on, Man, can't you see what you've
done so far? Can't you find just some joy in
the process. See, a lot of us lose the joy
of the blessings God has given us because we looking
at the end talking about I ain't there yet, you
on your way. I'm gonna give you an example. I

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had a friend who told me that they wanted to
be a millionaire. And they asked me some questions and
I told them, so they started the process. And I
am telling you, this dude works extremely hard. So about
a year later we were talking. He had found this business,

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he had set his goal, and he was working towards it.
Then about two years later I ran up into him again.
We were talking about it and everything. He said, Man,
I really really appreciate the advice. He said, Man, but
this is all jacked up, man, because I still ain't
made that million I was talking about. I said, well, hey, man,

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just keep at it's coming. He said, Man, keep at it.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Man.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
You know how long I've been doing this been two
years now. And I didn't say that to him, but
I said to myself. Yeah, two years, he said, Man,
I've been grinding so long, man, it just it ain't
happening for me. I said, wait a minute, man, holld on,
hold on. I said, about how much you making right
now a year?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Man? About two hundred and fifty thousand.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I quit breathing. I said, whoa, my man. Two years
ago you didn't have a clue. Two years later, you
making a quarter of a million dollars. I said, man,
do you understand how blessed you are? I said, man,
your family was about to get put out two years
ago you done bought a house.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, man, but this ain't the house. I really won't. Oh, oh, partner,
whoa I got that? I got that? The house? You
really won't make Mike call fied eight million. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
But man, y'all got a house, you making a payment,
you drive it. You ain't out no more? I said,
old man, you got to stop. I said, you got
to stop. I said, man, because right now, man, you
you coming across. That's real ungrateful to me. And so
he said, man, why are you tripping like that?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Man?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Man, you act like don't nobody want to have nothing
but you? I said, whoa man, where are you going
with this conversation? I said, Oh, I didn't come to you.
I just came to you and asked you how you doing.
And I'm trying to point out to you that the
journey that you started on, that you are on your way,
and you are in the process of accomplishing your goals.
And can you not feel some joy and some pleasure

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in your accomplishment. Quit tripping on the fact that you
ain't made a million yet.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
You on your way. You done went.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
From he thought this dude was making fifteen thousand dollars
a year. You making quarter of a million dollars in
two years. Man, Come on, man, can't you see can't
you see?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
So? He said? Eventually, Ah, man, I kind of see
what you saying.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
But that ain't about nothing to me because I ran
up into him a year and have later. How you doing, man, man,
I sure wish I'd appreciated my life when I had
it like that?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
I said, what you mean, had it like that? Man?

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Just fell on some hard times. Man, right back where
I was, And then we talked. I said, hey, man,
don't worry about it. I said, Once you know how
to accomplish something, I said, you just reapply the same
principles and start on over again. Man, you know how
hard it is to be to start over. Okay, my man,
Hold up, pardoner, you've been do yourself like this again.
First you wasn't grateful for what you had. Now you're

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looking at the fact that you might have to start over,
and you know how hard it is to start over.
Maybe God said, Okay, you ain't happy with this. Okay,
didn't handle it your way. You obviously ain't happy with
the way I'm bringing it into your life. You want
to handle it your way, Go ahead and hand it
because he will let you have it your way. Can
I tell you that he will let you do it

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exactly the way you want to it, because he gives
us all the power choice. So then maybe he said, Okay,
I don't appreciate the way I'm doing it. You don't
like the favor I'm showing you. You think it's taken
too long. I'm gonna let you do it your way.
I'm not gonna turn my back on you. I'm just
gonna let you do it your way. Just just say.
Maybe he said that, and now he right back where
it was. So what I tried to get the young

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cat to understand was man. Appreciate your life for what
it is, because, like like Jenny's got that song that
he got out off this album. Still, I still believe
it could have been worse. And now that it is worse,
what's on your mind now, folks? If you are on
that side of life where you have figured out what

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you want to do, you know how you're gonna get that,
and you know your purpose. You're accomplishing what the majority
of people never ever do. So be grateful for your process.
Don't tumble yourself, don't throw yourself off the cliff. It's
gonna be all right. Success takes a measure of time.
It is not easy. If success were easy, everybody would

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be successful.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
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