0:00 See, if you wake up every day and you say you're not a morning person, you're doing a serious disservice to yourself because your attitude determines your altitude. A lot of your mornings start off bad because you've taken claim that you're not a morning person. Why would you not be a morning person when the whole goal is to wake up every morning? That's your goal is to wake up every morning. You got to be a morning person. Here's what happened. I was uh I was selling Amway. I got into Amway. Amway taught me a lot about positive attitudes. First self-help books I read. And uh this guy was a sponsor of mine. He lived in Rochester, New York. His name was John Walker. And I was laid off, man. Got laid off from Ford Motor Company. I'm 22 years old and
0:46 I I'm sleeping and he would call every morning and I'd pick up the phone. Hello, Steve. How you doing? John Walker, man. How's it doing? Having a great day today, man. Great to be alive. What are you doing? I said, man, I'm sleep. He just hang up. Next morning. Hello. 5:30, 6:00. Hello, Steve. John Walker, man. How you doing? Hope you have a great day, man. Love talking to you. You okay? Yeah. John click. He hang up. Next morning, six o'clock. Hello, Steve. John Walker, man. I said, "What the is wrong with this dude?" I
1:32 said, "Man, what the Just calling on you, man. Making sure you have a great day, man. I love you, man." Click. He hung up. Every day for three weeks in a row, he did the same thing. You know how I answered the phone? Every day, the same day, I answered the phone the exact same way. Hello. Finally, after about three weeks, the phone rang. He said, I said, "Hello." He said, "Steve, why do you answer your phone like that?" I said, "What, man? I'm sleep." He said, "No, man. You got to be in the life changing business. People have got to look at you like a light. Something should be in you
2:18 that shows other people that there's hope." He said, 'You don't know this about yourself, but you're going to be that person one day, and you got to start preparing for what you want to be. You I said, ' Man, I'm not a morning person.' He said, 'Yes, you are. He said, cuz you're going to wake up every day for a long time. He said, man, don't ever do that, man. At least let God know you glad you alive if you don't let nobody else. And he hung the phone up. Man, do you know I could I couldn't even go back to sleep. So the next morning about 4:30, I done got up. I'm sitting on the edge of my bed. You better not call this phone right here. Hello, Stephen. Hey, John. This is
3:03 Steve Harvey, man. I'm up. I'm having a great day, man. He said, "That's what I'm talking about." Hung up. The next morning, he called right back. Five o'clock. Hello. Is this John Walker? It sure is. This is Steve Harvey, man. Boom. And I've been that way ever since. Little did I know that in the year 1995, somebody would offer me $2 million to do a morning show in Chicago. I started waking up one city, 1075 WGCI in Chicago. Next thing I knew, I had a radio show, number one show in Los Angeles, 90 92.3, The Beat. I started doing that show. Then in 2005, I got the biggest syndicated adult
3:49 contemporary morning show on planet Earth, the Steve Harvey Morning Show. I'm in 112 cities. I wake up 9 million people who listen to my morning show in 112 cities. That man prepared me. He said, "You don't know it, but you going to be a light one day, and people going to look to you for that light. at 22 years old completely changed my life. And ever since then, I've been a morning person. You dig? I wake up every morning the same way. I can't wait to wake. Me and my wife get up. Me and Margie wake up every morning at the latest 6. We're sleeping late till 600. Usually it's 5 5:30. We have coffee because nobody's
4:35 up. And me and my wife sit in front of fireplaces. We sip coffee. We go out by the pool. We drink coffee cuz we just have we set our day up cuz we know about 7:30 8:00 all hell f to break loose and when the rest of the world wake up we already up having a good time. Yes, Steve Harvey's a morning person. Two things, my dream and my faith. Faith is the belief in things that you cannot see. You can never lose faith. That's the key. You have to believe in something that you can't see. You have to believe when you can't when you don't see no way how. You have to buckle down and keep believing. God is always coming. Here's the deal. The moment you ask God for something, he
5:20 boxes it up and he ships it to you. Here's the problem with the package. He never gives you the date that it's going to arrive. It's going to come. He just don't tell you when. If he told you when, it would destroy the relationship that's required to have an abundant life, which is faith. If God told you you were going to be rich in August of 2021, do you know how crazy you would talk to people from now until then? Cuz you know on August 21, I'm going to be rich. But he don't tell you when the package is going to arrive. So here's the deal. He wants you to stay in faith to receive the package cuz he only delivers to
6:07 Faith Street. If you step off over here to I don't see how boulevard, he don't ship there. If you get over here to I don't see how circle, he does not ship there. He only sends the boxes to Faith Street. So when he sends it and you moved off Faith Street, the package got to go back. It's just like UPS or the post office. If they send you a box and you ain't home, they take it back. That's how it works, man. Let me tell y'all something. Being successful is not a magic trick. You just have to learn the principles of success. I ain't got no degree. I got nothing like that to tell you about. I didn't finish school. I flunked out of school. I'm on my third marriage. Lost everything I've owned twice. Been
6:53 homeless, lived in a car. I am telling you, your education ain't got nothing to do with it. Education ain't in the Bible. Emmery is not in the Bible. It ain't in there. Harvard ain't in the Bible. Look, find it. It show me education in the Bible. No, man. It's your dreams and visions. A man without a dream or vision shall perish. That's what the Bible is built on. It's what God puts in your imagination for you to have. Everything God wants you to have, he puts it in your imagination. Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is everything. It's to preview the life's coming attractions." Everything you imagine is God showing you a preview of a coming attraction he has for you. And
7:39 he puts it in your imagination so you can see what he got for you. So if you've been imagining that you're going to be rich one day, it's because God wants you to be rich. Now, when you gonna ask him for it and are you gonna wait for it to happen or are you gonna lose faith? Here what Christians mess up at. Well, I guess it wasn't the Lord's will. Who are you? How you know what God's will is? It all happens at an appointed time. But you have to stay in faith for the appointed time to happen for you. I've been wanting to be on TV since I was 10 years old. You know how old I was before I got on TV? 38. 38. 28 years after I wrote it on the paper. I won't be on TV. It took me 28 years to get on TV. But it happened at an appointed time. I just never gave up
8:25 the faith. I kept going cuz I ain't know how to quit. Cuz I know if I quit, it cannot happen. But if you stay with it, like this dude's story right here, if you stay with it, you have no idea what can happen for you. But you got to stay with it, man. You can't quit cuz get hard. This dude had lost his legs. He's still He's still funky with it. You can't quit cuz some You got your legs. What you tripping for? Your punk. I mean, well, sorry about that. You You can't quit, man. You got to stay with it. It's somebody having it way harder than you and they didn't give up. That's inspiration. This dude is inspiration, man. I look at a cat like this. I want like I bruised my
9:11 heel between on the between shows. I mean, I messed it up before. I really bruised it hard. It's so hurting right now. What I'm tripping for a dude come tell me, "Hey, man. You want to go home? Go home. I got a bruised heel. What? I'm going to go. I got a bruised heel." You're tripping, man. Get yourself together. God for you. I'm telling you, God got a plan for you that's so out of sight, it would trip you out. All you got to do is ask him for it and wait on it and be willing to work. Faith without works is dead. That's all you got to do. You don't need no education. I flunked out of school. Look at me. Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates don't have a degree between the two of
9:57 them. But they didn't have they got more degrees working for them than a thermometer. You know how many people I got working for me that got degrees? Everybody I hire got a degree cuz I know I ain't that smart. But I got money for you. You smart. Here go. How much you want? Dude told me I want $150,000 a year. Here you go, man. This paid me $150,000 a year. Bro, you got what I don't have. I'm You going to take that 150 and help me get this billion? I got 154 billion. How God give me this and he won't give it to you? I ain't a better Christian than you. Look at me. I've been up here cussing. I made mistakes. That's the type of Christian I am. You a better Christian than me. You
10:44 should You should have something to show for it. But God don't ask you for for your perfection. He asks you for your consistency. There's none perfect, no not one. So since ain't nobody perfect, who going to heaven? Cuz he got a heaven for us. So who going? I figure I'm going. People are funny though, man. The way they try to do business. Hollywood is a ugly business, man. It's not it's not anything like any other job. They do what they want to do and they create they make up a reason and a lot of it is can just know guy just don't like you. But the one thing about me man, I've always been resilient. I've never been afraid to reinvent myself. And here's
11:30 here's the key for everybody. When someone closes a door in your face, all you have to remember is when God allows them to close the door in your face, all God want you to do is walk up the hall. It's some moss. You just got to walk up the hall. cuz I can promise you he got a better door that he want you to go through than the one that got shut in your face. That's a fact. That's a fact. But what happened to people is they stand there beating on the door. Open it back up. We're going to do a rightin campaign. Why are you leaving me? I got to have my job. What about my benefits? Hey, stop. The door
12:17 is closed for a reason. Cuz God just want you to walk up the hall cuz he got another door. It's bigger. And when you open and get behind it, you ain't going to believe what's back there. But you'll never get to it if you stand in front of that door crying. Please open it back up. Help me. My families stop. Go up the hall, man. These people that close doors in your face, they ain't the only door. They ain't the only door. God is the creator of all doors, man. I'mma just go see what else he got for me. I don't even worry about that. [Music] [Applause] [Music]
