# Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 8.21.26

An episode of [Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1405629617), 21 Aug 2026, 8:03.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Come on. Uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody,
[0:06] Speaker 1: y'all listen to the voice. Come on, dig me now,
[0:09] Speaker 1: one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show. Man
[0:13] Speaker 1: o man o man grateful for it comes with a
[0:17] Speaker 1: huge amount of responsibility. I didn't really know I was
[0:20] Speaker 1: gonna have to be this responsible, you know. Can I
[0:24] Speaker 1: share something with y'all? I started out to Finally I
[0:27] Speaker 1: had gotten on track and was able to see a
[0:31] Speaker 1: way to even pursue my dream. It has been a long,
[0:37] Speaker 1: a long trip that I've been on, and I've gone
[0:39] Speaker 1: through so many phases of it. It is rewarding along
[0:44] Speaker 1: the way to accomplish your dreams. What I'm saying is this,
[0:48] Speaker 1: let me, let me put it together, because I got
[0:50] Speaker 1: so much running through my head right now. You know,
[0:53] Speaker 1: it's it's one thing to accomplish your dreams, but there's
[0:57] Speaker 1: joy in the process of achieving it. See, some people
[1:03] Speaker 1: are so caught up in the goal, the final goal,
[1:08] Speaker 1: that they find no joy, no enjoyment in the process.
[1:14] Speaker 1: If you have found what it is you want to
[1:18] Speaker 1: do and you strike out on that journey, please understand
[1:24] Speaker 1: you are far more blessed than the average person to
[1:28] Speaker 1: know what it is you really want to do, to
[1:31] Speaker 1: find your work in life, your purpose, to find out
[1:37] Speaker 1: what direction you want to go in is such a blessing.
[1:41] Speaker 1: The average person, if you sit down and talk to them,
[1:44] Speaker 1: oftentimes don't have their life on track. And it'd be
[1:48] Speaker 1: some people that you looking at you think, God it
[1:50] Speaker 1: going on because of their appearance, their swagger. Oh they
[1:55] Speaker 1: walk like it, they talk like it, they look like it.
[1:57] Speaker 1: But if you sit down and talk to the average
[1:59] Speaker 1: per the average person man does not know what their
[2:05] Speaker 1: purpose is, has not discovered what they want to do,
[2:09] Speaker 1: and have no idea how to get there. If you
[2:11] Speaker 1: are on the other side of that, if you understand
[2:15] Speaker 1: your purpose, if you have an idea of what you
[2:18] Speaker 1: want to be, and you are on your way there,
[2:21] Speaker 1: you are truly blessed. And in that blessing you must
[2:26] Speaker 1: recognize it as a blessing. You must recognize the fact
[2:31] Speaker 1: that you are on the right side and that there
[2:35] Speaker 1: should be a sense of accomplishment and a feeling of
[2:38] Speaker 1: pride in you that you are on track to accomplish
[2:41] Speaker 1: your goal. See what used to happen was sometimes I
[2:45] Speaker 1: used to keep my nose so on the grindstone that
[2:50] Speaker 1: I wouldn't even look up and realize. Man, hey man,
[2:54] Speaker 1: I know you're trying to get here, but Steve, hold on, Man,
[2:57] Speaker 1: can't you see what you've done so far? Can't you
[3:00] Speaker 1: find just some joy in the process. See, a lot
[3:04] Speaker 1: of us lose the joy of a blessings God has
[3:07] Speaker 1: given us because we looking at the end talking about
[3:09] Speaker 1: I ain't there yet, you on your way. I'm gonna
[3:13] Speaker 1: give you an example. I had a friend who told
[3:16] Speaker 1: me that they wanted to be a millionaire. And they
[3:20] Speaker 1: asked me some questions and I told them, so they
[3:23] Speaker 1: started the process. And I am telling you, this dude
[3:28] Speaker 1: works extremely hard. So about a year later we were talking.
[3:35] Speaker 1: He had found this business, he had set his goal,
[3:42] Speaker 1: and he was working towards it. Then about two years
[3:45] Speaker 1: later I ran up into him again. We were talking
[3:47] Speaker 1: about it and everything. He said, Man, really really appreciate
[3:50] Speaker 1: the advice. He said, Man, but this is all jacked up, man,
[3:54] Speaker 1: because I still ain't made that million I was talking about.
[3:58] Speaker 1: I said, well, hey, man, just just keep at it
[4:00] Speaker 1: is coming. He said, Man, keep at it. Man. You
[4:03] Speaker 1: know how long I've been doing this been two years now.
[4:07] Speaker 1: And I didn't say that to him, but I said
[4:09] Speaker 1: to myself. Yeah, two years he said, Man, I've been
[4:11] Speaker 1: grinding so long. Man, its just it ain't happening for me.
[4:15] Speaker 1: I said, wait a minute, man, holld on, hold on.
[4:18] Speaker 1: I said, about how much you making right now a year? Man?
[4:22] Speaker 1: About two hundred and fifty thousand. I quit breathing. I said, well,
[4:28] Speaker 1: my man, two years ago you didn't have a clue.
[4:34] Speaker 1: Two years later, you making a quarter of a million dollars.
[4:38] Speaker 1: I said, man, do you understand how blessed you are?
[4:42] Speaker 1: I said, ma'am, your family was about to get put
[4:45] Speaker 1: out two years ago you done bought a house. Yeah, man,
[4:49] Speaker 1: but this ain't the house. I really won't. Oh, oh, partner,
[4:53] Speaker 1: whoa I got that? I got that the house you
[4:56] Speaker 1: really won't make Mike call fired eight million. I don't know.
[4:59] Speaker 1: But man, y'all got a house, you making a payment,
[5:03] Speaker 1: you drive it. You ain't out no more? I said,
[5:05] Speaker 1: old man, you got to stop. I said, you got
[5:07] Speaker 1: to stop. I said, man, because right now, man, you
[5:09] Speaker 1: you coming across. That's real ungrateful to me. And so
[5:13] Speaker 1: he said, man, why are you tripping like that? Man? Man,
[5:15] Speaker 1: you act like don't nobody want to have nothing but you?
[5:18] Speaker 1: I said, whoa man, Where are you going with this conversation?
[5:20] Speaker 1: I said, Oh, I didn't come to you. I just
[5:22] Speaker 1: came to you and asked you how you doing. And
[5:24] Speaker 1: I'm trying to point out to you that the journey
[5:27] Speaker 1: that you started on, that you are on your way,
[5:30] Speaker 1: and you are in the process of accomplishing your goals.
[5:33] Speaker 1: And can you not feel some joy and some pleasure
[5:36] Speaker 1: in your accomplishment. Quit tripping on the fact that you
[5:39] Speaker 1: ain't made a million yet. You on your way. You
[5:42] Speaker 1: done went from he thog. This dude was making fifteen
[5:45] Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year. You making quarter of a million
[5:46] Speaker 1: dollars in two years. Man, Come on, man, can't you
[5:49] Speaker 1: see can't you see? So? He said? Eventually, Ah, man,
[5:54] Speaker 1: I kind of see what you saying. But that ain't
[5:55] Speaker 1: about nothing to me because I ran up into him
[5:59] Speaker 1: a year and a half have later. How you doing, man, man,
[6:04] Speaker 1: I shore wish I'd appreciated my life when I had
[6:07] Speaker 1: it like that? I said, what you mean, had it
[6:09] Speaker 1: like that? Man? Just fell on some hard times man,
[6:12] Speaker 1: right back where I was, And then we talked. I said, Hey, man,
[6:17] Speaker 1: don't worry about it. I said, once you know how
[6:18] Speaker 1: to accomplish something. I said, you just reapply the same
[6:21] Speaker 1: principles and start on over again. Man, you know how
[6:24] Speaker 1: hard it is or be to start over. Okay, my man,
[6:26] Speaker 1: Hold up, pardoner, you've been do yourself like this again.
[6:30] Speaker 1: First you wasn't grateful for what you had. Now you're
[6:32] Speaker 1: looking at the fact that you might have to start over,
[6:34] Speaker 1: and you know how hard it is to start over.
[6:37] Speaker 1: Maybe God said, Okay, you ain't happy with this. Okay,
[6:42] Speaker 1: didn't handle it your way? You obviously ain't happy with
[6:45] Speaker 1: the way I'm bringing it into your life. You want
[6:47] Speaker 1: to handle it your way. Go ahead and handle it
[6:49] Speaker 1: because he will let you have it your way. Can
[6:51] Speaker 1: I tell you that he will let you do it
[6:54] Speaker 1: exactly the way you want to it because he gives
[6:55] Speaker 1: us all the power choice. So then maybe he said, Okay,
[7:00] Speaker 1: I appreciate the way I'm doing it. You don't like
[7:02] Speaker 1: the favor I'm showing you. You think it's taken too long.
[7:04] Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you do it your way. I'm not
[7:06] Speaker 1: gonna turn my back on you. I'm just gonna let
[7:08] Speaker 1: you do it your way. Just just say. Maybe he
[7:11] Speaker 1: said that, and now he right back where he was.
[7:14] Speaker 1: So what I tried to get the young cat to
[7:16] Speaker 1: understand was man, appreciate your life for what it is,
[7:20] Speaker 1: because like life. Jennings got that song that he got
[7:23] Speaker 1: out off this album. Still, I still believe it could
[7:27] Speaker 1: have been worse, and now that it is worse. What's
[7:30] Speaker 1: on your mind now, folks? If you are on that
[7:34] Speaker 1: side of life where you have figured out what you
[7:36] Speaker 1: want to do, you know how you're gonna get that,
[7:38] Speaker 1: and you know your purpose. You're accomplishing what the majority
[7:41] Speaker 1: of people never ever do. So be grateful for your process.
[7:45] Speaker 1: Don't tumble yourself, don't throw yourself off the cliff. It's
[7:49] Speaker 1: gonna be all right. Success takes a measure of time.
[7:53] Speaker 1: It is not easy. If success were easy, everybody would
[7:57] Speaker 1: be successful. You're listening to Steve Harvey Morning Show.

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