Imagination Is Everything | Steve Harvey | MORNING MOTIVATION
now I would iron stein had a quote he
said imagination is everything
it’s the preview to life’s coming
attractions this is important
information the biggest thing that
always troubled me was my imagination
because it was so big when I was a kid
you know I grew up poor but I was always
imagining stuff you know my mama once a
month would buy a Travel Magazine that
the grocery store my father used to be
so pissed off feel why we spending this
money we ain’t got we were poor
she said slick we got no money to take
this boy nowhere but if he can look in
these magazines maybe one day it’ll
cause him to want to travel I’ve been to
so many countries around the world cuz
of that magazine I just wanted to go see
stuff my mama had enough sense to plant
that seed it’s like a Christmas time we
should get him to call my daddy used to
take us to the suburbs so we could see
the lights now you know we just drove
around the lights and I could I was
amazed at the suburbs cuz I would see
these big houses with horseshoe
driveways when you drove in and came out
the other side so I told my daddy one
time he’s right I said daddy why don’t
we get one of them houses he said boy I
ain’t got no money for that but that’s
what I’m bringing you out here for she
said one day you’ll be able to get one
of them how
let me explain something to you because
of that right there
I’ve probably had in my lifetime now
about eleven homes I got phone now in
different states every house I own got
horseshoe driveway when I was living
they told me one time he was sitting up
watch the TV
my daddy living Obama said bill
he called my mom appealing said can you
believe that there’s no boy we had on TV
she said slick I can’t believe I used to
send my daddy five thousand dollars a
week you know when I first got on TV
I’ll be making $55 beeps awesome
but I got in the Kings of Comedy my
father was still living i showed my
daddy won’t tell how much money I made
he said boy take me four years make this
count
so I was able to give him something with
my life so before my mom and dad left
this world I could give him something
I bought him everything man houses cause
furniture I bought a merry thing I could
think try
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you know it’s crazy man I’m 62 years old
I still want to be proudly I’m still
hoping today and heaven watching me they
see me turn into something that’s all
ever it was in my imagination to take
care of them
you just got to bleed you just got to
believe man don’t ever give up faith is
the substance of things hoped for and
the evidence of things not seen
all faith is really the substance of it
is just what you hope for
that’s all faith is it’s just real hard
hoping you mean when you was little you
say I hope I get a bike for Christmas
and you went on there one year the bike
was under the tree you meant when you
said you hope you graduate and you mess
around and got a diploma
did you remember when you said you hope
you get a job and you mess around you
got a job huh at one point in time the
older you get just got to start clicking
in that faith is really the substance of
things hoped for that if you hope hard
enough one day you ought to get smart
and turn all that hoping into belief and
what is belief nothing but faith and
what is faith phases belief in things
that you cannot see see this what the
part you got to get the evidence of
things not seen
remember I told you that imagination is
everything it’s the preview to life’s
coming attraction now let me tell you
the problem with your imagination
problem with your imagination is you
tell it to the wrong people if you want
to kill a big dream tell it to a
small-minded person you wouldn’t you
shared it with your family and friends
you know what they did they shot it down
you know why they shot it down because
they couldn’t see it so your mom and dad
I’m your cousin em your friends they
don’t know so you gotta be careful when
you share your imagination with
small-minded people nobody else can see
your imagination but you
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