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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Don’t Let Perfection Get in the Way of Progress | Road to Revenue

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

For over 20 years, I've hosted a weekly Friday training in my office sharing tactical and pragmatic advice to empower others to pursue their potential. Each weekly training provides a new topic with a correlated training guide to provide you with pragmatic strategies to implement in your daily activity to achieve your goals. They take place live every Friday at 7 am PST/10 am EST via a webinar with LIVE Q&A submitted by attending guests. Click here to join next Friday: https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the flavor.

0:04.7

And my takeaway was he asked a young lot of minority said, who do you want to be?

0:11.1

Do you want to be the guy to sign the front of the check or the back of the check?

0:16.0

And that's just resonated with me because I think there's these simple choices in life

0:21.0

of exceeding our own self-image and believing we will exceed our own self-image and I believe

0:27.4

we won't.

0:28.4

You can't exceed your self-image.

0:31.8

And so we need to work on that self-image and one of the simple choices in life about

0:38.5

self-image is do you want to be the person signing the front of the check or the back?

0:43.6

And I think it's okay if you want to be someone that is okay signing the back of the check

0:48.8

every week when they receive it, living their life like a tube, food in, food out, week

0:52.7

by week.

0:53.9

But it's perfectly fine.

0:56.6

But I find a lot of entrepreneurs, they want to be the guy writing, signing the check

1:02.8

in the front, but they don't really have created a self-image of beyond being able to sign

1:09.8

a back of a check to deposit in their own account.

1:12.1

So very simple takeaway, big impact on your life and ask yourself, do you want to be

1:21.1

someone who's signing a front of a check because it takes a lot more consistent, persistent

1:25.8

behavior in order to sign the front of a check, not the back.

1:29.8

Anyway, Jake, let's tell me where you want to go.

1:33.0

We got takeaways everywhere and we'd love to share.

1:36.8

Who's up next?

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