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You're listening to the voice, Come on, dig me now one it only Steve Harvey got a radio show. You know this week. I've just been on it, so today is no different. I'm telling you, I've just reinvigorated myself. I'm more determined to share the principles of success. I'm more determined to help and guide and teach as many people as I can the things that I've learned. And I mean, man, I've been through it. I have really been through it. I kid you not. You know. I used to say, okay, God, you know, why is all this happening to me? But as I've gotten older, I understand that was the ingredients. I needed the ingredients to be this cake. I needed all those ingredients stirred up. I need all of that different flavors, the stuff that I didn't think tastes so good. All that stuff had to come into the bowl in order for me to get where I am today. As much as I did not like the taste of the ingredients, little.
Did I know God was making this cake, not me.
But what he did was and you've heard the old saying God could turn lemons into lemonade, Well that's what he was doing now. At the time, it all had a little funky lemonade lemony flavor to it, with some other stuff in it too.
I didn't care for it.
But little did I know that I needed everything that happened to me, that happened to me in the exact order that it happened, and the exact array of things that happened for me to have the knowledge I have today, the experience, the attitude, so I could turn around and share that information. Okay, got that out the way. This is what I want to give to you today. I want you to understand something that discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. You've heard me say this how many times on the show. Okay, here we go against see, I got it. Faith with our works is dead. So let me tell you something. To be a hard worker, you got to be disciplined. That's one of the hardest lessons I'm trying to get through to my sons. You're gonna throw yourself down a cliff if you're not a young man or a man that possesses discipline. Because they got something for undisciplined people. They got some street laws for undisciplined people, and they got some federal laws and state laws for undisciplined people. So that's why them signs is outside on the freeway, We're gonna let you go fast.
But seventy is the limit. Seventy fast enough.
Really, if you're disciplined enough of a person to leave your house at the time you're supposed to leave your house, seventy miles per hour is absolutely enough. But if you're an undisciplined person, if you don't have the wherewithal to leave your house on time, to get ready to go where you wanna go, see the desires where you wanna go, the discipline is how you get there. You understand, you can wanna go to see your family in California all you want, but.
The flight leaves at one eighteen, You leave your house at twelve thirty.
They told you you must check in one hour before your flight. Now, if you ain't got the discipline to get to the airport to check in one hour before your flight, leaving your house forty five minutes before the flight departs, what you think gonna happen? Your desire to go see your family in la is going to be thwarted because you lack the discipline to prepare yourself and get yourself ready to do the things that you have to do to make your desires come true. I'm telling you, discipline determines your destiny, not your desire.
You can write down a list of stuff you wanna.
Do all day, but if you don't produce and show the discipline necessary to get there, what you think gonna happen?
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Okay? I wanna be rich. Okay, I wanna make four hundred thousand a year. Okay, I wanna be the best player that they is.
Okay, but you don't want practice.
See the cat that's disciplined enough to show up at practice the shooting jumpers when everybody gone home, that's the guy that's gonna be the best the guy that's never late for practice, the guy that studied the playbook. That's the guy that's gonna make it, not the guy that's talking crack, got stalking that smack. I'm gonna make the Pro Bowl, I'm gonna make the All Star Team, I'm gonna be All American.
That's just what you're saying.
But discipline determines your destiny, not your desire.
So now let's talk about this discipline.
Is that really steed, that's your work ethic, that's your hunger, that's your will. Discipline is how hard you're willing to demonstrate the attributes and the traits to be what you want to be.
Did you hear me?
Is your willingness to conduct yourself in a manner that is above and beyond what they say is necessary.
Now, this is a good example right here. Now.
You can wanna be in the NFL all you want, but they got this thing called the NFL Combines where they bring in some of the top players at every position to come in and they gonna run a forty yard dash, They're gonna do a standing broad jump, they're gonna do a standing vertical leap, they gonna do drills, running drills, cutting drills. They can determine if a linebacker got stiff hips by making in backpedal, appoint him in one direction and throw the football in another direction.
How does he turn his body?
Now you can say you can tell everybody at your college you want to play pro football. You can tell everybody at your high school. You can tell them in pee wee you wanna play pro football. But they got tests for you though. It's called the combines. Now you get out here and you have a bad combine day, ain't nobody trying to hear that. Let me tell you how excuses don't work with people when they just trying to get when they trying to win in the NFL.
The fact that you had a bad day.
At the combine and you don't run your best forties and you keep telling them you could do better, they don't want to hear that. Because see, what ain't nobody gonna pay you for is to play on Sunday. And that's one of your bad days. We paying you to play on Sundays. But because you keep having these bad days, because you ain't disciplined enough to put in the work to make sure that your maximum can be called upon at any time. Now you at to combine with some slow times that go on your record.
You at to come. You don't jump as high as you did when you was at the gym class.
Well, hold up, man, this is show day now in the NFL, Sunday is show day. What they can't run the risk of is paying you your money and your bad day happen to be on Sundays after we didn't cut your check. No, no, no, We looking for people who limit them bad days, who got the discipline to work hard, to make an effort for it. You understand what I'm saying to your folks, Please understand this. Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire. You can want it all you want. But if you ain't working, if you ain't grinding, if you ain't hurting, if you ain't sweating real bad, if you always somewhere got to chill, You got to have a cold one, you got to smoke one, You got to do all them things. Can I tell you something you ain't gonna make it. Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire.
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