# Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 8.18.26

An episode of [Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1405629617), 18 Aug 2026, 8:03.

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## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Come on, uhhah, I sure will.
[0:05] Speaker 2: Good morning everybody you're listening to the voice, Come on,
[0:08] Speaker 2: dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a
[0:11] Speaker 2: radio show. Well, I got to tell you something, everybody,
[0:17] Speaker 2: and this is great news for everybody that I'm going
[0:22] Speaker 2: to share something with your principal of becoming successful at
[0:27] Speaker 2: whatever level you choose. It can be successful in the relationship,
[0:33] Speaker 2: successful in the family. Successes may be considered to you
[0:37] Speaker 2: becoming a homeowner. It could be being debt free. Your
[0:43] Speaker 2: ideal success could be sixty thousand a year, fifty thousand
[0:47] Speaker 2: a year, one hundred thousand dollars a year. Doesn't matter
[0:51] Speaker 2: if you're considering it, if you're wanting it, if you
[0:55] Speaker 2: have a desire to become successful, I want to share
[0:59] Speaker 2: with you the very beginning of that. If no one's
[1:03] Speaker 2: ever done it, I'm gonna say the beginning of it today.
[1:06] Speaker 1: See Scripture makes it very clear for us that.
[1:13] Speaker 2: You don't The only thing you need to become successful
[1:17] Speaker 2: is already inside of you.
[1:19] Speaker 1: It's not an external need. God wouldn't do that to you.
[1:25] Speaker 2: He puts the core basis of everything you need inside
[1:30] Speaker 2: of you.
[1:31] Speaker 1: So if you discover it, if you tend.
[1:34] Speaker 2: To it, nurture it, fertilize it, and water it. It grows,
[1:40] Speaker 2: it branches out. Then it reaches out externally and it
[1:44] Speaker 2: starts grabbing things outside of there to make it even bigger, stronger, better,
[1:48] Speaker 2: last longer.
[1:50] Speaker 1: But in the very beginning, you don't need anything. It's
[1:54] Speaker 1: all within you.
[1:56] Speaker 2: And if you cultivate your relationship with God comes out,
[2:00] Speaker 2: it flourishes. Now, let me tell you that thing that
[2:05] Speaker 2: I'm talking about is a God given gift that He
[2:07] Speaker 2: has given to all of us. We all possess it.
[2:12] Speaker 2: It is all within us. Everybody has a gift. Had
[2:17] Speaker 2: somebody told me what I know now back then, I
[2:20] Speaker 2: would have saved myself tons of mistakes.
[2:22] Speaker 1: I just didn't know the principles. I had to learn
[2:23] Speaker 1: them all. Well.
[2:25] Speaker 2: One of the principles are becoming successful is your mindset.
[2:29] Speaker 2: You got to get your mind right now. This mindset
[2:36] Speaker 2: is simply a decision that you can make. I can't
[2:39] Speaker 2: get it for you. I can tell you what to do,
[2:43] Speaker 2: but you got to make the decision. You that's listening
[2:46] Speaker 2: have to decide. You know what, I'm gonna go on
[2:48] Speaker 2: and get at it. I'm gonna stop wrinting I'm gonna
[2:50] Speaker 2: become a homeowner. You know what, I'm gonna do it.
[2:52] Speaker 2: I'm gonna stop living check to check, i'ma'mama. I'm gonna
[2:56] Speaker 2: put a budget together. I'm gonna stop stepping out on
[3:01] Speaker 2: my family. I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna get it together.
[3:04] Speaker 2: I'm gonna stop using when you make these decisions. That's
[3:09] Speaker 2: correcting your mindset. Now, the closer connection you have with God,
[3:14] Speaker 2: the more help you get sustaining the mindset. How many
[3:17] Speaker 2: times have you started to do something and you stopped?
[3:20] Speaker 2: How many resolutions have you made at the New Year
[3:23] Speaker 2: and stopped by February? Over with by me?
[3:26] Speaker 1: And January done in March? Because if you don't have
[3:31] Speaker 1: a clear.
[3:32] Speaker 2: Connection with your creator to help you carry out, the
[3:36] Speaker 2: other force out there, that evil force is designed to
[3:39] Speaker 2: get you not to reach your goals, get you not
[3:43] Speaker 2: to come to resolution with whatever the resolutions are you made,
[3:46] Speaker 2: so he can so you can consider yourself not worthy
[3:49] Speaker 2: or failure or unable to do something. But the more
[3:53] Speaker 2: things you are able to accomplish, the greater your confidence
[3:56] Speaker 2: goals grows. So we got to get your mindset together.
[4:00] Speaker 2: Your mindset is a decision that you have to make.
[4:02] Speaker 2: When you make the decision, you can begin in the process.
[4:06] Speaker 2: Your mindset is also a will of yours, a will
[4:10] Speaker 2: along with the decision, A will, a willingness to do right,
[4:16] Speaker 2: a willingness to change, a willingness to be better. Is
[4:22] Speaker 2: going to then cause you to have to make a
[4:25] Speaker 2: decision to make a change of direction. Don't go where
[4:29] Speaker 2: everybody else going. You got to go your way now.
[4:32] Speaker 2: You can't follow the crowd. You got to take a
[4:34] Speaker 2: less travel path. You cannot do this without changing your direction.
[4:40] Speaker 2: You can't keep hanging with the people you've been hanging
[4:42] Speaker 2: with if you want to be different because they not.
[4:46] Speaker 2: Then you have to develop an obligation to yourself. You've
[4:51] Speaker 2: got to say, you know what for me and my family,
[4:55] Speaker 2: or if you don't have a family, for me, I
[4:57] Speaker 2: owe it to myself. I have an obligation to myself
[5:00] Speaker 2: to be the best meed that I can possibly be,
[5:04] Speaker 2: to be the best self that I can possibly be,
[5:08] Speaker 2: to be the best father, the best man, the best husband,
[5:12] Speaker 2: the best wife, the best mother, the best daughter, the
[5:16] Speaker 2: best son, the best student, the best employee, the best owner.
[5:20] Speaker 2: You have an obligation to yourself to give yourself a
[5:24] Speaker 2: shot at the best.
[5:26] Speaker 1: Life you can. That's an obligation.
[5:29] Speaker 2: You owe that to yourself. Why would you not live
[5:32] Speaker 2: the best life that you possibly could? You have an
[5:34] Speaker 2: obligation to yourself. Why would you cheat yourself like that?
[5:39] Speaker 2: Why would you take yourself and never allow yourself to
[5:43] Speaker 2: see the goodness that's already in you, to have the
[5:46] Speaker 2: abundance that's been promised to you, to go and explore all.
[5:52] Speaker 1: The riches out there that's available to you.
[5:57] Speaker 2: But one of the worst ways that you can rob
[6:01] Speaker 2: yourself of the joy of your obligation is to keep
[6:04] Speaker 2: comparing yourself to somebody else. Because guess what, Man, that
[6:07] Speaker 2: ain't your life. You ain't jay Z and Beyonce, You're
[6:13] Speaker 2: not Oprah Instead, Man, that's not who you are. Quit
[6:17] Speaker 2: looking around at everybody else. That comparison of everybody else
[6:21] Speaker 2: will keep you broken, It'll keep you unhappy. You won't
[6:24] Speaker 2: even be able to be grateful for what you have
[6:27] Speaker 2: because you steady talking about what you don't have.
[6:29] Speaker 1: That's not the way, man.
[6:31] Speaker 2: You have an obligation to yourself to be the best
[6:34] Speaker 2: you you can be, not the best them. You're not them.
[6:38] Speaker 2: Stop trying to be them. Be the best you it's cool.
[6:42] Speaker 2: You got a nice little house. That's cool. You know
[6:45] Speaker 2: how many big houses is empty and feel with hate
[6:48] Speaker 2: and resentment. I'd rather have a smaller house fill with
[6:52] Speaker 2: joy in it than to go to a big house. Man.
[6:55] Speaker 2: Prince got a line in the song that says, I
[6:58] Speaker 2: realized in its best disguised or pretty house don't make
[7:03] Speaker 2: a home.
[7:05] Speaker 1: Man. Don't you know I know how true that is?
[7:09] Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to tell you now.
[7:13] Speaker 2: Another part of the mindset is taking dead aim at
[7:18] Speaker 2: your life's goals and ambitions. What are they? What are
[7:22] Speaker 2: your goals and your visions? What do you see for yourself?
[7:26] Speaker 2: What do you dream about? If you knew you couldn't
[7:29] Speaker 2: fail at whatever it is you were attempting, what would
[7:31] Speaker 2: you go attempt See?
[7:32] Speaker 1: That's what we need to be after. It's a mindset, y'all.
[7:37] Speaker 2: It's a decision, it's a will, it's a change of direction.
[7:41] Speaker 2: It's an obligation to yourself. It's taking dead aim at
[7:45] Speaker 2: your life's visions and goals. Come on, man, you got
[7:48] Speaker 2: to get your mind wrapped around this thing. You owe
[7:51] Speaker 2: it to yourself to live the best life you can be.
[7:54] Speaker 2: Come on, man, talk to God. God, got something for you.
[7:57] Speaker 2: You just got to check in with him.
[7:59] Speaker 1: Listening to Eve Harvey Morning Show

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