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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How Do I Make a Successful Career Pivot? | #AskDavidMeltzer 33

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

I always say the only person that likes change is a wet baby. They key to pivoting is to understand that any mistakes, lessons or pain that you are learning along the way is simply an indicator that you have a lesson to learn. Learn the lessons in the mistakes or setbacks, and have faith that everything will come in the right way at the perfect time. If you want me to answer your question on the podcast, tweet me @davidmeltzer, or email me a video of you asking me a question at david@dmeltzer.com and I will answer it for a future episode! Come ask me questions live every Friday at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST during my Free Training. Text me at (949) 298-2905 or email me david@dmeltzer.com

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0:00.0

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.

0:02.8

I hear you're the king of pivoting.

0:05.0

What do you believe the key is to making a successful career pivot?

0:09.0

Well, first of all, it's understanding that we have been raised on a culture of stability.

0:14.5

Somehow, our cold culture is dependent on stability when it should be dependent on change.

0:21.2

And so when we look and change and shift the paradigm to understand that there's always

0:26.3

change, but unfortunately, the only one that likes change is a wet baby, and we need

0:32.2

to like change.

0:33.6

So how do we do that?

0:34.8

The key to pivoting is truly the key to acceleration growth and learning, which is

0:39.4

to understand that mistakes, failures, and pain are simply turn signals.

0:44.8

Those are the turn signals you can call a pivoting for me.

0:47.7

When I see failures, mistakes, and pain in my life, I know there's an indication that

0:51.9

I have somewhere better to be.

0:54.2

It's an invitation to me.

0:56.2

And it's an invitation to a better place, a better situation, or to make myself better.

1:00.4

And all I have to do to do that is to learn a lesson.

1:04.5

Literally, I have to look and say, hmm, how can I expand and grow?

1:09.0

Oh, I can learn.

1:10.0

Oh, beautiful.

1:11.0

This is so in the bigger the mistake, the bigger the problem, and the bigger the indicator,

1:17.1

then the bigger the door or the invitation is, I'm now invited to the White House or

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