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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on your uh huh, I sure will A good
morning everybody. You are listening to the voice, Oh, come
on now, digny if you will. One and only, Steve
Harvey got a radio show, you know, one of the
things about being successful. And I was sharing this just
(00:21):
the other day with a young man and he asked me.
He said, hey, man, I just don't see how you
get up that early in the morning. I just don't
see how, man, it would kill me to get up
this early in the morning. Well, I sat down and
I'm listening to it because it's just a thousand times
I've heard it, you know, and my life is, you know,
(00:44):
not too different from a lot of people's lives. There's
a lot of people out there that rise early, and
I just sit there, man, because I mean, first of all,
I'm grateful to be able to have a job. I'm
so grateful to be able to do one and several
that I happened to enjoy doing. I mean, you know,
it's work, and it's difficult at times, but I mean,
you know I wanted this. You know you got it.
(01:06):
You know you can't ask God for nothing, any give
it to you, then be mad that you got it.
Don't make no sense. You know. The problem with asking
God for stuff is a lot of times we asking
for stuff, we don't really know what all it encompasses,
what all it really is. And I ask for this.
Now along the way, I've gotten far more than I
asked for. I want you to do. Understand that, and
(01:28):
you know that's His grace at work in my life.
But I get up early and I go to work
because I do understand something that it is not walking
up to you. Nobody walks up to people normally and
just hand them checks all the time, and enough checks
to sustain your life, and not only sustain it, but
to have a life that where you could enjoy and
(01:49):
do some of the things you want to do. I
don't know the person that walks out hands out that
money just to be doing it. And then with a
lifestyle though, where you can you know, give your kids Christmas,
you know, take your family on vacation, you know, a year,
once a year. I don't know nobody passing out to
kind of money. So I get up early in the morning.
I get at it. I was taught to get up
(02:10):
early in the morning by my father because my father says,
aint nothing gonna come to you while you lay in now.
And you know what, it's just true, man, it's just
a little common sense. Little old people smart man. They've
been around a long time. You don't get old. You
know some old foods out there, but you know you
don't have to deal with them. But old people are
pretty smart, man. They've learned a lot along the way.
(02:32):
And waking up early and getting out it is one
of them things. And I ask everybody man to think
about this scenario of your life. If a day has
twenty four hours in it, and let's just say you
choose to sleep eight of those hours because they tell
you you need eight hours sleep, so you sleep eight hours.
That's a third of your life asleep already, just a
(02:55):
third of your life is spent asleep if you gonna
do eight hours. Now, let's say you have a job
that you work eight hours, and it is not the
job of your dreams. It's not your dream career, your
dream profession. It's just the one you took, like all
of us, to get it started. And then, like all
of us, some of us end up having to state
that because we've created these bills, because we checked and check,
(03:18):
so we can't leave it because we'll lose what we've
worked for. So let's just say you got a job
that you go to work to for eight hours. That's
another third of your life. That's two thirds of your life.
Feel how you want to feel about your two thirds? Well,
I like sleep. Okay, cool, there's a scripture about that too.
But now you spent two thirds of your life one
on a job you don't care for if you're not
(03:40):
happy there, or one that just pays the bills and
it's not your dream job or career. Another third of
your life is sleep. Oh now, let's hold on. Let's
talk about the one hour of preparation that it may
take to get to the job. That's seventeen hours. Let's
say your drive time, let's say getting to your job
for the average person is anywhere between thirty to an hour.
(04:01):
That's an average of what it takes the average person. Now,
some people out there hustling way harder than that. But
let's just say your average is an hour getting to work.
You add another hour to that going to work. You've
now spent eighteen hours out of the twenty four doing
something that's either nonproductive, you're not happy with you're not
(04:23):
pleased about. It is not your dream job, it's not
your dream profession. And rest of the time you sleep
eighteen hours. Now you got to come from the job,
so let's just say it's another hour to get back home.
That's nineteen hours. Nineteen hours out of a twenty four
hour day. You now have five hours left in your day.
Oh you watch TV two hours a day. Okay, excuse me.
Let's put now you put two hours of TV on
(04:45):
that you've just spent twenty one. You now have three
hours in the day to do something super productive for
the development of yourself and the future of your family,
and your future as a person and what you can
for your family. Uh oh, I need to chill. I
(05:05):
need to smoke one. Uh Oh, I needed some time
at Happy I'll seem like all I do is dry
to work and go to work. I'm gonna go out
with the fellas drink one. Okay, let's say you spend
two hours at Happy. Ill nobody go to a Happy
Hours just for a hour. Let's say you spend two
hours at Happy, I'll all smokeing all some video games.
(05:26):
Let's throw that in there. Two hours of smoking, chilling
video games that's twenty three hours of your day gone.
Don't you see how your day slips away from you?
So why would you get up early? You get up
early to get a jump. You get up early to produce,
to plan, to become productive. You get up early in
(05:47):
the morning to care about every single minute of your day.
You wake up early in the morning because you have
a plan, a mission, You have something you want to accomplish.
The earlier you get up, the more time you have
just for you to devote to your plan. You map
it out, you make them, send some emails, whatever it
is you need to do to get your dream under way.
(06:08):
Then you go get ready, Then you get in your
car and go to work. Then you go to your job,
but on your job, instead of sitting at your lunch
break messing around with a bunch of people laughing and
talking about nothing, playing dominoes, why don't you take that
hour to do some more research, to send out some
more emails, to put some feelings out there, to see
what can get you in the place that you want
(06:30):
to be. Then when you get off, instead of driving
straight home, why don't you go somewhere in a meeting,
You take in a session with some people in a
positive mental state, group of people that get together network
for business, not drink at happy hour. I set network
for business. So after you've done that eight that you
don't really care for on a job, you spend some
more time pursuing, looking into researching, working towards, sending out
(06:55):
some more applications, putting in some more time to build
your new app discussing some more networking ideas. Okay, that's
your happy hour. Then when you go home, instead of chilling,
drinking one, having a cold, one, smoking one, playing a
video game, why don't you take that two hours and
devote that to that business idea. You got to that
(07:17):
family that you talk about, You really want spend some
time with your children, put something into them. Do something. Man,
when all these precious hours that God gives all of
us in the course of a day, take advantage of
every minute of that. No human being has more than
twenty four hours a day, including myself. But if you
(07:37):
care about every single minute of that day, you'll be
amazed at how much you could get accomplished in a
twenty four hour day. But you can't get none of
that happening because you sleep, and you chilling and you
smoking okay? What has that done for you, your family,
or your future. Care about every minute of your day.
(07:59):
Link name to the Steve Harvey Morning Show
Come on your uh huh, I sure will A good
morning everybody. You are listening to the voice, Oh, come
on now, digny if you will. One and only, Steve
Harvey got a radio show, you know, one of the
things about being successful. And I was sharing this just
(00:21):
the other day with a young man and he asked me.
He said, hey, man, I just don't see how you
get up that early in the morning. I just don't
see how, man, it would kill me to get up
this early in the morning. Well, I sat down and
I'm listening to it because it's just a thousand times
I've heard it, you know, and my life is, you know,
(00:44):
not too different from a lot of people's lives. There's
a lot of people out there that rise early, and
I just sit there, man, because I mean, first of all,
I'm grateful to be able to have a job. I'm
so grateful to be able to do one and several
that I happened to enjoy doing. I mean, you know,
it's work, and it's difficult at times, but I mean,
you know I wanted this. You know you got it.
(01:06):
You know you can't ask God for nothing, any give
it to you, then be mad that you got it.
Don't make no sense. You know. The problem with asking
God for stuff is a lot of times we asking
for stuff, we don't really know what all it encompasses,
what all it really is. And I ask for this.
Now along the way, I've gotten far more than I
asked for. I want you to do. Understand that, and
(01:28):
you know that's His grace at work in my life.
But I get up early and I go to work
because I do understand something that it is not walking
up to you. Nobody walks up to people normally and
just hand them checks all the time, and enough checks
to sustain your life, and not only sustain it, but
to have a life that where you could enjoy and
(01:49):
do some of the things you want to do. I
don't know the person that walks out hands out that
money just to be doing it. And then with a
lifestyle though, where you can you know, give your kids Christmas,
you know, take your family on vacation, you know, a year,
once a year. I don't know nobody passing out to
kind of money. So I get up early in the morning.
I get at it. I was taught to get up
(02:10):
early in the morning by my father because my father says,
aint nothing gonna come to you while you lay in now.
And you know what, it's just true, man, it's just
a little common sense. Little old people smart man. They've
been around a long time. You don't get old. You
know some old foods out there, but you know you
don't have to deal with them. But old people are
pretty smart, man. They've learned a lot along the way.
(02:32):
And waking up early and getting out it is one
of them things. And I ask everybody man to think
about this scenario of your life. If a day has
twenty four hours in it, and let's just say you
choose to sleep eight of those hours because they tell
you you need eight hours sleep, so you sleep eight hours.
That's a third of your life asleep already, just a
(02:55):
third of your life is spent asleep if you gonna
do eight hours. Now, let's say you have a job
that you work eight hours, and it is not the
job of your dreams. It's not your dream career, your
dream profession. It's just the one you took, like all
of us, to get it started. And then, like all
of us, some of us end up having to state
that because we've created these bills, because we checked and check,
(03:18):
so we can't leave it because we'll lose what we've
worked for. So let's just say you got a job
that you go to work to for eight hours. That's
another third of your life. That's two thirds of your life.
Feel how you want to feel about your two thirds? Well,
I like sleep. Okay, cool, there's a scripture about that too.
But now you spent two thirds of your life one
on a job you don't care for if you're not
(03:40):
happy there, or one that just pays the bills and
it's not your dream job or career. Another third of
your life is sleep. Oh now, let's hold on. Let's
talk about the one hour of preparation that it may
take to get to the job. That's seventeen hours. Let's
say your drive time, let's say getting to your job
for the average person is anywhere between thirty to an hour.
(04:01):
That's an average of what it takes the average person. Now,
some people out there hustling way harder than that. But
let's just say your average is an hour getting to work.
You add another hour to that going to work. You've
now spent eighteen hours out of the twenty four doing
something that's either nonproductive, you're not happy with you're not
(04:23):
pleased about. It is not your dream job, it's not
your dream profession. And rest of the time you sleep
eighteen hours. Now you got to come from the job,
so let's just say it's another hour to get back home.
That's nineteen hours. Nineteen hours out of a twenty four
hour day. You now have five hours left in your day.
Oh you watch TV two hours a day. Okay, excuse me.
Let's put now you put two hours of TV on
(04:45):
that you've just spent twenty one. You now have three
hours in the day to do something super productive for
the development of yourself and the future of your family,
and your future as a person and what you can
for your family. Uh oh, I need to chill. I
(05:05):
need to smoke one. Uh Oh, I needed some time
at Happy I'll seem like all I do is dry
to work and go to work. I'm gonna go out
with the fellas drink one. Okay, let's say you spend
two hours at Happy. Ill nobody go to a Happy
Hours just for a hour. Let's say you spend two
hours at Happy, I'll all smokeing all some video games.
(05:26):
Let's throw that in there. Two hours of smoking, chilling
video games that's twenty three hours of your day gone.
Don't you see how your day slips away from you?
So why would you get up early? You get up
early to get a jump. You get up early to produce,
to plan, to become productive. You get up early in
(05:47):
the morning to care about every single minute of your day.
You wake up early in the morning because you have
a plan, a mission, You have something you want to accomplish.
The earlier you get up, the more time you have
just for you to devote to your plan. You map
it out, you make them, send some emails, whatever it
is you need to do to get your dream under way.
(06:08):
Then you go get ready, Then you get in your
car and go to work. Then you go to your job,
but on your job, instead of sitting at your lunch
break messing around with a bunch of people laughing and
talking about nothing, playing dominoes, why don't you take that
hour to do some more research, to send out some
more emails, to put some feelings out there, to see
what can get you in the place that you want
(06:30):
to be. Then when you get off, instead of driving
straight home, why don't you go somewhere in a meeting,
You take in a session with some people in a
positive mental state, group of people that get together network
for business, not drink at happy hour. I set network
for business. So after you've done that eight that you
don't really care for on a job, you spend some
more time pursuing, looking into researching, working towards, sending out
(06:55):
some more applications, putting in some more time to build
your new app discussing some more networking ideas. Okay, that's
your happy hour. Then when you go home, instead of chilling,
drinking one, having a cold, one, smoking one, playing a
video game, why don't you take that two hours and
devote that to that business idea. You got to that
(07:17):
family that you talk about, You really want spend some
time with your children, put something into them. Do something. Man,
when all these precious hours that God gives all of
us in the course of a day, take advantage of
every minute of that. No human being has more than
twenty four hours a day, including myself. But if you
(07:37):
care about every single minute of that day, you'll be
amazed at how much you could get accomplished in a
twenty four hour day. But you can't get none of
that happening because you sleep, and you chilling and you
smoking okay? What has that done for you, your family,
or your future. Care about every minute of your day.
(07:59):
Link name to the Steve Harvey Morning Show
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