Latest / Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show / Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 01.13.25
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- 0:00Speaker 1: My closing remarks. You know, I just came back from
- 0:05Speaker 1: celebrating my father in law's ninetieth birthday, and I was
- 0:10Speaker 1: sitting at the table next to him, and I said, Man,
- 0:14Speaker 1: what a blessing to live ninety years? Man, ninety years
- 0:20Speaker 1: and he still got a measure of health. You know,
- 0:21Speaker 1: he has a little dementia, but he's you know, he
- 0:24Speaker 1: ain't never forgot me. He still know his daughter and
- 0:28Speaker 1: his wife and his kids. So you know, it's just
- 0:30Speaker 1: got little issues, but man still laughing. Stuff like that.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Really a blessing. But you know what, I was sitting
- 0:37Speaker 1: up there and I was coming home, and I thought about,
- 0:40Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna do this year. I've always
- 0:44Speaker 1: done it, but I'm gonna be really conscious of it.
- 0:46Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure because but my driver and security
- 0:51Speaker 1: guard that was in Memphis, he says, Steve, you said
- 0:55Speaker 1: something on the radio a long time ago in one
- 0:58Speaker 1: of your closing remarks that's stuck with me. He said,
- 1:01Speaker 1: make sure you wake up every day and fill your
- 1:04Speaker 1: day with effort. He said, man, do you know man,
- 1:08Speaker 1: that I made that my mantra and it changed my life.
- 1:12Speaker 1: He said, I wake up every day and fill my
- 1:15Speaker 1: life with my day and my life with effort, and
- 1:19Speaker 1: I want to encourage people to do that. Man, to
- 1:23Speaker 1: make sure that you're not in the words of my daddy,
- 1:27Speaker 1: burning Daylight, wake up and make every day count because
- 1:33Speaker 1: when you put forth an effort every day towards your aspirations,
- 1:38Speaker 1: your goals, your dreams, towards your family's happiness or success whatever.
- 1:43Speaker 1: When you it's like making a deposit. It's like planting seeds.
- 1:49Speaker 1: It's putting stuff in the ground that's gonna come up later.
- 1:52Speaker 1: It's putting stuff in the bank that you can withdraw
- 1:55Speaker 1: on later. Make an effort every day to do something
- 2:01Speaker 1: positive and put in as strong an effort as you can,
- 2:05Speaker 1: so at the end of the day you fall asleep
- 2:09Speaker 1: exhausted from the effort you put in in your day.
- 2:14Speaker 1: See you know, man, God's gift to us is he
- 2:17Speaker 1: gives us our gifts and our talents. Our gift back
- 2:21Speaker 1: to God is the use of those gifts and talents.
- 2:24Speaker 1: That's how you say thank you for something that you
- 2:27Speaker 1: don't even deserve. All of you have a gift from God.
- 2:31Speaker 1: And you have this gift you didn't even ask for it.
- 2:34Speaker 1: You just have the ability to do something extremely well
- 2:38Speaker 1: all of you do. Now. Your use of that gift
- 2:41Speaker 1: is saying thank you to God. It's returning the favor.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Put forth an effort in your life. Man, to do
- 2:48Speaker 1: something today and maximize your effort. Stop letting days go by,
- 2:53Speaker 1: well you ain't done nothing. You send them but just
- 2:56Speaker 1: waiting no nightfall to come, and I guess I go
- 2:59Speaker 1: and go to bed. No man, wake up with purpose
- 3:03Speaker 1: the night before, work out a plan. Say hey, I'm
- 3:07Speaker 1: accomplished these ten things. Tomorrow. Everybody should have ten things
- 3:13Speaker 1: that they trying to accomplish. Okay, let's try five, but
- 3:19Speaker 1: make a list of things you're trying to accomplish. I
- 3:22Speaker 1: can't think of a day that I don't have ten
- 3:24Speaker 1: things I need to get done. I cannot think of
- 3:28Speaker 1: a day. Listen y'all, the night before, make a to
- 3:33Speaker 1: do list and make that your purpose. Because what's gonna
- 3:36Speaker 1: happen tomorrow is you know what's gonna happen tomorrow, life,
- 3:42Speaker 1: Something is gonna come up that's gonna try to distract
- 3:45Speaker 1: you from that paper. And do you know, sometimes it
- 3:49Speaker 1: ain't just life, but sometimes the devil just busy. Man.
- 3:53Speaker 1: The devil got imps that worked for him. Twenty four
- 3:56Speaker 1: to seven, And it just seemed like every time you
- 3:58Speaker 1: get your mind made up to do so something, here
- 4:00Speaker 1: comes some hater or something come up to try to
- 4:03Speaker 1: distract you and throw you off course. That's because the
- 4:06Speaker 1: devil has one mission. The devil's mission is to stop
- 4:11Speaker 1: you from being what God meant you to be. The
- 4:16Speaker 1: devil's job is to rob you of your destiny, to
- 4:19Speaker 1: throw you off course, to keep you from being what
- 4:23Speaker 1: God created you to be. And you got to be
- 4:26Speaker 1: conscious of these imps out here. That's working, man. It's
- 4:29Speaker 1: people online who are trolling. Who are god one mission
- 4:33Speaker 1: is to go through the internet and make negative comments.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Do you know, man, that it's people who wake up
- 4:40Speaker 1: to do that. I'm a trolled, I'm a hater. Do
- 4:43Speaker 1: you know that you have haters in your family that
- 4:47Speaker 1: ain't happy where they are? So now anytime they see
- 4:51Speaker 1: you trying to do something, they gonna show you why
- 4:53Speaker 1: you should know you can't. And let me tell y'all something, man,
- 4:56Speaker 1: disassociate yourself with people who keep reminding you of your pains. Asked,
- 5:01Speaker 1: get rid of them people because they stuck back there
- 5:04Speaker 1: and they want you to stay back there. See, it's
- 5:06Speaker 1: an amazing. Something crazy happens. Man, when you try to
- 5:09Speaker 1: do better, be better, or want more or try to overcome.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Guess what, it's some people that ain't happy for that.
- 5:17Speaker 1: So now here you got people in your life always
- 5:20Speaker 1: reminding you of what you did, what you used to do,
- 5:23Speaker 1: how you did them. Hey, look I done said, I'm
- 5:26Speaker 1: sorry to you. I can't do no more if you
- 5:30Speaker 1: don't want to accept my apology. Man, God bless you.
- 5:33Speaker 1: I'll pray for you. But what you're not gonna do
- 5:35Speaker 1: is hold me to that. You can't make me keep
- 5:38Speaker 1: paying for my past mistakes when clearly God has forgiven
- 5:42Speaker 1: me and allowed me to move on. Stop allowing people
- 5:45Speaker 1: to hold you to your past when God has forgiven
- 5:48Speaker 1: you and you have the right to move on. Now,
- 5:51Speaker 1: I wish I have some lo time. I'll continue to say,
- 5:54Speaker 1: remind me tomorrow. My clothes remarkable. Took part two of
- 5:58Speaker 1: this one. Y'all have a great day for all.
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