Brutally Honest Business Advice YOU Need to Know
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So what was your journey of detaching your emotional side to the business and how has that impacted your career your life your relationships? |
| 0:08.8 | My entire emotional attachment was the money. |
| 0:11.5 | Obviously money plays a big part of business. |
| 0:14.7 | I wanted to be rich to buy my mama house, |
| 0:16.8 | to buy my mama car. |
| 0:18.0 | And so if my bank account went up $100, |
| 0:21.5 | I would be excited. If it went down $100, I would be excited if it went down 100 I'd be disappointed even when I was worth |
| 0:25.9 | over $100 million. My relationship with money was identified with how much money I made. |
| 0:32.0 | So businesses that I had were the vehicles to making the money, |
| 0:35.8 | but the money itself is what I identified with. |
| 0:38.8 | So when the business went down, my money went down, |
| 0:41.9 | so I had two things to worry about on top of what you normally worry about |
| 0:46.5 | or you are anxious about in life. And so by losing everything, I learned to attach my emotions to my day by learning from the past and aligning |
| 0:56.1 | lessons with where I want to be in the future or better and changing my own |
| 1:00.6 | self-image notating that I know one thing about self-image, you will never |
| 1:05.6 | over-achieve your own self-image. And so if your self-image is attached, your |
| 1:10.4 | emotions are attached to something that you don't have control over like your business, like your bank account, you're in big trouble. |
| 1:18.5 | And what was that like turning period for you? |
| 1:21.0 | What triggered it and was the painful year two years of |
| 1:25.9 | having that realization which maybe people have at different times in their life and |
| 1:30.5 | then what did you do after having the realization was it therapy was |
| 1:33.8 | it discussing with people what was it well for me my basement hit two years |
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