The Resilient Mind - Trust the Process: Leveraging Vision and Imagination for Success - Steve Harvey

Episode Date: August 12, 2024

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Welcome to the Resilient Mind podcast. In this episode, you will be listening to, Trust the Process, with Steve Harvey. Get access to the Resilient Mind Journal by clicking the link in the show notes. Enjoy. I'm going to give you two things that I want you to do. If you do these two things, it will transform your life. I'm a motivational speaker when I'm not doing this. but the reason I do really well as a motivational speaker

because I know what I'm talking about. You know, are you looking at somebody been at the bottom before? So I'm not like some rich dude whose mama-neum had some money and gave me some money, and I'm telling y'all how to get over. No, I'm going to tell you how to get over because I've been under.

I'm going to tell you how to get up because I've been down. I'm going to tell you how to finish because I got off to a bad start. Now I'm about to tell you two things. Now listen to me. What I'm about to tell you, this is for spiritual people only. If you're not a spiritual person, this ain't for you.

If you don't believe in God, this ain't going to do nothing for you. But I ain't know you was coming, so I have no other version. This is only people who have a faith. You ain't got to be no like born again Christian or nothing like that. You got to know that God is God. If you understand that, I can help you from here. I'm going to give you two things that can change your life. It's two scriptures that change my entire life.

It's very simple. The cold thing about what I'm going to tell you is anybody can do it. This is what I'm going to tell you. See, I'm not going to talk to you about no education because I ain't got one. I flunked out of school. I had a severe stuttering problem. I couldn't talk outside my house. I ain't do well in school ever.

I ended up flunking out of school. I'm on my third marriage. I lost everything I've owned twice. I've been homeless and lived in the car for three years. I'm fend to tell you what I know. This ain't no fancy rich boy answer, no theories, no number. You ain't got to buy no program to do this. You ain't got to go sign up.

I'm telling you right now, what I'm fend to tell you if you applied right now can change your existence. Because everybody I know want to be happy. Everybody I know want to be successful. If you don't want them two things, there's something wrong with you anyway. So now here, there is a scripture that I'm going to give you. It's a very small scripture. It's very short.

I don't even know where it is in the Bible. Somebody probably know it if I say it, but I'm going to give it to you. This scripture changed my life. You have not because you ask not. You have any idea how major. those words are for you. You have not because you ask not. It's such a simple scripture,

but it's in your Bible. It ain't just in rich people's Bible. It's in the same copy you got. You have not because you ask not. This is the truest statement you'll hear me say today. Because it's true. Most people don't have the life of their dreams because you don't ask God for the life of your dreams.

You've been trying to figure it out and handle it yourself. Well, how that's working out for you? You know how hard that is to do, man? Because I did it. I did it for 30-some years. I tried to figure it out myself. Man, the simple scripture says you have not because you ask not. If you up your ask, he automatically.

automatically ups his guild. You're his child. God created you. He made you. You ain't just here by no accident. You ain't here because of your mom and daddy. Where you mom and daddy come from? Somebody, somebody started this whole thing. God created you. He gave you these little simple things you can do. You have not because you ask not. Second reason people don't have what they want and be through it. They don't have it written down. This is a little. a very, very important piece to success. It's a principle of success. Every wealthy person knows this. I don't know nobody wealthy don't have a vision board. I don't know nobody wealthy don't have their stuff written on a piece of paper. I don't know nobody. I know a lot of people doing good.

We have discussed it at great lengths. They've showed me some of their vision boards that why I had to go back and change mind. I went, whoa, whoa, whoa. But you got to have a vision board that's got to be written down. You know why? Because that's a scripture too. Habecca two and two. I know where this one there. Habekka two and two. Go home and read that one. It says write the vision and make it playing so that he who reads it will run to it. And even though it tarry, that mean take a long time. wait for it for surely it will come at an appointed time man I'm telling you real now what I'm telling you works this ain't no magic trick if you up your ask and you write everything you want from God on a piece of paper now here's the exercise I want you to do this going to trip you out write everything you want from God on a piece of paper

be as detailed as you can write it down the object for you is to you is to do this is to trip you out the object for you to write down 300 things. Because I know 300 things that you could use. It's going to be hard for you. When you get to number 75, you're going to get stuck. Because your mind is in condition to think way

out there. So you're going to try to stay in your little list. But I want to just open up your imagination. If you're going to have anything you want it, put it on piece of paper. Anything. Where you want your next house to be? Do you want a summer hole? Where you want to travel to? How much you want in the bank? How much would you

like to have to retire? What you want to leave for your grandkids? How much would you like to give all your siblings? Would you like to one day walk in and there and just give all your family a check? Put everything you want on a piece of paper. Do not stop until you have 300 things. It's going to take you a while. I'm telling you, when you get to 75, your brain going to lock up. But keep writing it down. But every morning, read your list. I don't want you watching TV at night. I want you to read your list, unless it's family feud. Other than that. No, but seriously, take five minutes and read your list every night, every morning.

One year from today, wait one year from today, and take a pen out and go down on your list and check off anything that has happened for you that's on that list. Listen to me. If you do that in faith, if you read your list with the expectation that God is going to do some great things for you, at the end of one year, you will be stunned, absolutely stunned at how much stuff comes off that list. I promise you, at least 30 things will be off that list. At minimum, 10% of your list that come true.

You know how I know? Because I did it. When I open up my phone, I wish I had it. My phone is my vision board. My phone ain't got pitching no damn dog on it, no sunset, none of that. All of my computers have my vision. vision board on it. Every iPad, tablet I got, laptop. When I pull it, I have my vision board on it. Because that's the signal I'm sending to God that I believe this is what you're going to do for me.

You be, I take stuff, I got to get a new vision board now because there's a lot of stuff off that vision board that I put on there a year ago or two years ago that then came true. I'm telling you, y'all, this how this work. You have not caused your ass not and write the vision and make it plain. You do them two things. Start. Starting today, write your list, read it every morning, every night. One year, check it off, you'll be stunned. I dare you to try that. Watch and see what God do. I just listen to God a lot, tell you the truth.

God, I have a dream of God to tell me something. I wake up and go do it. And because, see, let me tell me what hurts a lot of people. When you have an idea, when something comes into your imagination, that's not just your imagination. God places everything he has for you in your imagination. Albert Einstein said, imagination is everything. It's the preview to life's coming attractions.

So when you have something in your imagination, it ain't hocus pocus. It's actually a preview of a coming attraction that God has for you. He places everything he has for you in your imagination. So if you've been dreaming of your own business, it's because that's what he got for you. If you've been dreaming of a summer home, it's because that's what he got for you.

If you keep dreaming of a brand new car instead of a used car, it's because that's what he got for you. He places everything he has for you in your imagination. Imagination is everything, is to preview to life's coming attractions. Everything in your imagination is God showing you in your imagination, in your mind

something he has for you. You just got to you can't tell it to everybody. Because they ain't going to see. You know why you can't tell it to everybody? Because if you want to kill a big dream, tell it to a small-minded person.

God has shown you some amazing stuff in your life that you thought was brilliant. Then you took it to your friends, friends and your family, and you shared it with them and they shot it down. You know why? shot it down because they couldn't see it. You know why they couldn't see it?

Because God didn't show it to them. He showed it to you. Your imagination is real, man. So when I imagine stuff, I act on it. Because he must want me to have it or else he wouldn't have showed it to me. And then quit worrying about

how to get it done. The how-to is none of your business. God in the blessing business, man. You got to go with it. When you had these things in your imagination, Wake up and get into action. Stop. Oh, well, I need to figure out.

No, the Bible don't say figure nothing out. The Bible say, ask, believe, receive. Ain't no stuff in the middle. Now, you got to be willing to work, but he don't require you to figure it out. Let me tell you something before you go. Whenever people come see me live, I try to say something meaningful to people.

I'm in the laugh business. That's my gift. That's what God gave me at birth. Your gift is a thing that you, you do the absolute best with the least amount of effort. I want to tell you something that can help enrich your life. It's a sheer sign from God that he ain't through with you because he wakes you up in the morning. When he's done, you won't wake up no more.

But as long as you're waking up, that means he has something for you that he hasn't been able to give to you for whatever the reason. I'm going to help you get to that reason a little bit quicker. I want to tell you something that I learned that changed my life. Imagination is everything. It's the preview to life's coming attractions. If you think about that, that's a really, really true statement. Because everything you see in this world came from somebody's imagination.

Everything. Somebody was talking on the phone one day, on that wall phone, connected to the cord, and tried to walk, and it didn't go no further. And he wanted to just go outside and get something out of the car. He said, somebody said, you know what? I wish I could take this phone outside. Everybody in here got a cell phone. It was in somebody's imagination. Somebody imagined that.

Somebody imagined everything. Somebody got tired of walking. Somebody got tired of driving cars. Somebody said, we're going to fly. You're not fitting to fly. Everybody in here to have been on a plane. See, your imagination is the evidence of things not seen. You know why they call it, the evidence of things.

is not seen, your imagination, you're the only one can see it. You're the only one can see it. See, so all this stuff you've been imagining was not some hocus pocus. When you imagine stuff, it's actually God showing you a preview of a coming attraction he has for you. That's what your imagination is. Why do you keep imagining yourself with a second home? because God wants you to have a second home.

Why do you keep imagining yourself in a supervisory capacity on another job? Because God really want you to have that. Why you keep dreaming of opening a business one day? That's because that's what God really got for you. And he put it in your imagination. The problem with your imagination, though, is you tell it to the wrong people.

If you want to kill a big dream, tell it to a small-minded person. You can't, oh man. Think about this in your life. How many times have you had this really incredible idea? And you took it your family and your friends. You shared it with them and they shot it down. You know why they shot it down?

Because they couldn't see it. Because God didn't put it in their imagination. He put it in yours. It was your evidence of things not seen. See, all this stuff you've been imagining, you ought to start working on it. because that's what God really got for you. Your real life is in your imagination.

I'm here to tell you that. You think I'm here by accident? I'm here because he put this in my imagination when I was 10. When I was 10, he showed me I was going to be on TV. That's all I ever wanted. The assignment when I was in the sixth grade was, everybody write their name on a piece of paper and write what you want to be. You know what I wrote on my paper?

I won't be on TV. Now, the problem I had, though, was I used to suffer with a serious stuttering problem. I couldn't talk outside my house. I studied for years. I flunked out of school. I'm on my third

marriage. I lost everything I've owned twice. I've been homeless and lived in a car for three years. But at 10, though, I wrote on a piece of paper I want to be on TV. So the teacher went around the room and read everybody's paper. Had you stand up

when she called your name. And the only aside was your name and what you wanna be. Doctor, lawyer, dentist, basketball player, football player. I wrote I won't be on TV. She saved me for last. She said, little Stevie come to the front. Now I'm thinking, I'm going to the front

because I got the best answer. Because ain't nobody had put that on their paper. She called me to the front, I'm thinking I'm gonna be offended to give me a gold star, but I was wrong about that. She called me to the front to humiliate me. First of all, you know I can't talk. I suffered with stuttering stammer so bad, man.

I couldn't talk at all. And that lady lit in on me. Why did you write this on your paper? Now, I'm standing there. I can't talk. Who in this school ever been on TV? Who in your family ever been on TV? Who in this neighborhood ever been on TV?

I'm crushing, man. I'm standing there down. She said, look at you standing there. You can't even talk. How are they going to put somebody like you on TV? So every Christmas, I send her a flash screen TV. Because I don't want her to miss me. I do not want her to miss not an air episode of me.

Because I wanted her to see what God had done for me. The fact that you couldn't see it. It wasn't for you to see. He put it in my imagination. But after three years of homelessness, losing everything I ever own twice, suffering through flunking out of school, go home and cut your TV on.

That little boy with the stuttering problem, he's all over that TV. You can't cut your TV on, you can't cut your TV on that day of the week, and you don't see that little boy. That little boy with the stuttering problem is all over that TV, because God put it in my imagination.

All I did was hang on to that thought. I just kept hoping I just kept hoping that what I had wrote on the paper would come true a lot of times it wasn't about no faith I didn't believe it sometime

when you're homeless and living in the car how you see yourself as a TV stop but I just kept hanging on there because my mama's Sunday school teacher I kept hearing her say God God didn't bring you this far to leave you God didn't bring you

this far to leave you why do you think he keeps waking you up because he got more for you. He got way more for you. He got plans for you. But he needs your faith. He just needs you to call on. He needs you to dust off your imagination and just go for it. You got to try. Quit waking up thinking you ain't got no say-so in your life. You have a choice in this matter. You can't stop what happened to you, but you can doggone show do something about what happened to you. Life is 10% of what happened to you. It's 90% what you do about it. Somebody in your family going to die. Somebody in here

going to get fired. Somebody here going get an eviction notice. Somebody going to get laid off. Somebody company going to close. That's life. Somebody you love going to break up with you. That's life. But what you're going to do by it, though, since it's going to happen anyway.

Trust me, go home and ask God to open up your imagination and then pursue it with everything in you and watch what he do for you. Appreciate y'all. Thank you for tuning in. Continue strengthening your mind by listening to our other episodes.