STEVE HARVEY: Life Lesson 1 – Value People's Support

“The road to this final show has been an amazing journey, doing stand-up comedy for the past twenty-seven years, and I can’t thank fans en...

“The road to this final show has been an amazing journey, doing stand-up comedy for the past twenty-seven years, and I can’t thank fans enough after reflecting on all those years on stage….. Thank you for supporting me, thank you for loving me. Thank you all for making my dreams come true. You can’t be famous without people”. 

Steve Harvey is one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time. He patched a very successful a twenty-seven year active career in stand-up comedy, which he official retired from on August 2, 2012. In that final stand-up act, performed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, United States of America; he gave a tearful and heart-touching farewell message to his global audience. In this Steve Harvey Series, we will be reflecting on the seven critical life lessons learnt from that heart-warming message. Make sure you go through the entire series to understand and learn from one of the global icons of our time. We will be quoting key statements from his final message, and expound on them. 

Life Lesson Number 1 from Steve Harvey is that you need to Value People's Support. Many times public figures and celebrities take the ordinary people’s support for granted. They reach levels where they no longer respond to people’s messages, ignore calls, miss critical appointments, cancel shows willy nilly, ignore people’s cries or, in situations where they try to respond, they literally spit venom without any remorse. These are common practices in many celebrities’ lives. 

However, in this heartily farewell speech, Steve Harvey clearly shows to us that there is no celebrity who can be famous without people. Even if you wake up with a 20 million global audience; all those people have taken a critical decision in their lives to love and support you in your career. They need to be honoured and respected for that critical support. After all you are not entitled to be loved by them. Given a choice, they can still opt not to support you and instead support someone else.

Here is great wisdom from Steve Harvey: regardless of your current status in life and society, you are only famous as far as people have supported you. If you have not appreciated them, start to do so now. They are the kings who fuel your superstardom. Though they need you for their enjoyment of your gift and service; but you badly need them for your star to continue shining.