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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Can I use anxiety to motivate myself | #AskDavidMeltzer 13

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Fear and anxiety will motivate you, but it will drain you. It will get you started, but in reality it is slowing you down. Use the focus that fear and anxiety give you, and transition it into inspiration. Imagine that you are running a race, using fear and anxiety is just like adding weights to a backpack. I may be slower than you, but if I am inspired, it is only a matter a time before I am laps ahead of you. Take the backpack off and run the race inspired. Motivation is temporary, inspirations lasts forever. If you want me to answer your question on the podcast, tweet me @davidmeltzer, or email me a video at [email protected] of you asking me a question and I will answer it for a future episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Why is it like sometimes like I don't know for at least me personally when I have the anxiety of like certain things and

0:05.8

I fear of the future I work harder and I'll get more result and I'll be like because I'm like running

0:11.7

I'm on a rap race and I'm because you don't think there's enough

0:16.1

So it is motivating if you don't think there's enough if you live in the universe of scarcity then anxiety is gonna

0:21.6

Motivate you the difficult thing about it is it's draining you at the same time see the difference between me and most people's

0:27.1

I'm twice as old as most people that are watching me, but I have more energy and inspiration. They have it. I'm happier than they are

0:32.2

And I'll tell you why because I'm not motivated by anxiety anymore

0:36.4

Right every in fact every time I feel some sort of anxious feeling or anger or frustration

0:41.8

Right also proud of myself today. I'm you know very efficient whatever. I'm in my mobile office

0:46.8

I got young guys driving me from New York

0:49.0

He doesn't know what he's doing. He's totally scared doesn't ask where he's going

0:52.6

Right and all of a sudden I told him make sure that he doesn't miss the exit

0:56.3

Right

0:56.8

I made a good point and boom you go past the 110 and I got the chief operating officer of AEG

1:02.4

Who's been waiting to meet me and get right that's a serious meeting to miss

1:07.5

And at first right he goes in my way. I'm frustrated

1:11.4

Right my voice is raised and in that little minute and I'm also on a coaching call by the way

1:17.6

But in that minute I wasted more energy than the whole morning from when I woke up at 4 o'clock

1:23.4

And I ran three miles this morning worked out stretch made breakfast for my son did all everything to get to

1:29.7

You know, I believe the time was like 1050 so from 4 a.m. to 1050

1:35.2

All that energy that I used I

1:37.6

Actually was accelerating and growing energy for the day and just that one minute that I went off center

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