I got in Amway when I was 21 years old. This, I'm gonna tell you this story. My distributor was this guy named, my sponsor was a guy named John Walker.
I lived in Cleveland, he lived in Rochester, New York. I got laid off from Ford Motor Company. I wasn't working, so I didn't have no reason to get up in the morning.
Every single morning, at 5.30 on the dot, my phone would ring. I'd pick up the phone, hello. Steve, this is John Walker. How you doing, man? It's gonna be a great day.
How you feeling? Yeah, John, I'm asleep, man. Hey, man, it's gonna be a great day.
And he'd hang up. The next day, at 5.30 in the morning, brrrring, hello. Steve, this is John Walker. How you doing, man?
It's gonna be a great day. How you doing today? John, I'm asleep, man.
Hey, man, just wanna tell you it's gonna be a great day. Click. Next morning, brrrring. Hello? Now, I'm mad now.
You know, this been going on a couple weeks, and I kinda know who it is. He didn't change a damn thing. Steve, it's John Walker. How you doing, man? It's gonna be a great day today.
Man, I was so mad, man. I heard your. Phoned up. 37 days in a row he called me the exact same way cause he was teaching me something. I didn't know it and every single day I picked the phone up.
Yeah, Steve, John Walker, man. It's, man. Yeah, John, yeah, it's gonna be a great day, click. And then one day, the 38th day, he told me how many days it was, he kept record. He picked up the phone, he said, I said, hello?
He said, hey Steve, it's John Walker. I said, yeah man. He said, man, can I ask you something?
I said, yeah John. He said, why do you answer the phone like that in the morning? I said, what are you talking about?
He said, every time I call you, I've called you 37 days in a row, and you keep answering the phone like something's wrong. I said, hey man, I got laid off. I'm getting unemployment. You know, I ain't got to get up early, man. I said, what's up?
He said, I'm really disappointed in you, man. He said, man, when you gonna change your attitude? I said, ain't nothing wrong with my attitude.
He said, yeah it is. He said, when you wake up in the morning, man, you got a bad attitude, which pretty much explains why you been having a lot of bad days. He said, man, I hate that about you, man, because you're such a cool dude.
You got so much potential. He said, man, I'm sorry to bother you. And he hung the phone up.
Man, let me tell you something. That cut me so deep, man. Because you know, I don't like nobody thinking I'm something, but I'm acting like I ain't.
That, you don't even understand what they did to me. So the next morning, I thought about this all day. I said, man, this dude, he been playing me for 37 days.
Been calling me. Next morning, I'm damn near sitting up in the bed. When this ring, this ring right here.
Hello? Hey Steve, it's John Walker. I said, hey John, what's happening man? What's going on with you baby?
I said, it's Steve Harvey man. He said, Steve, how's it going? I said, man, I'm having a great day man. I'm having a great day John, man. You won't believe it man.
I got some great stuff gonna be happening. He said, man, you my man. Click, and he hung up.
And I wanted him to ask me what had happened, but he never did. Then one day he called me, he said, hey man, you're gonna be sheer greatness because you've learned how to wake up. 21 years later, 22, I got a gig in Chicago on the radio.
You know what I was? The morning drive guy. You know what I've been doing since 1991?
Every single morning, I'm in 112 cities, I talk to nine and a half million people every week. I have the number one adult contemporary radio show in the world. in the world, I wake people up every morning.
And I wake people up with the right attitude cause my attitude change. So God turned me into the morning man. It's the Steve Harvey morning show.
Cut it on and watch how I do your every morning.