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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How Gratitude Saved Me from Myself

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I share the story of my rise to extraordinary financial success, the devastating fall that came with losing over $100 million, and how I rebuilt my life with greater purpose. I reflect on how the relentless pursuit of wealth led me away from what truly matters and how hitting rock bottom forced me to realign my priorities. Gratitude became the foundation of my recovery, alongside intentional daily practices and learning to embrace both giving and receiving. By shifting my mindset from scarcity to abundance, I found a new path to fulfillment and a deeper understanding of success.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So the first lesson I'm going to give you is one that I hope you take with you because I get a $1,200 reminder every month about this lesson.

0:09.8

You see, I live in California and I have a storage unit full of notes, bankers, boxes of notes from undergrad law school, business school, Tony Robbins, Wayne Dyer, Bob Proctor, you name it,

0:23.0

I have notes from it because I was one of those people that wrote down everything. I just kept

0:29.2

writing and writing, oh, this is interesting, this is interesting. And I found that there's two types of

0:33.7

people, those people like me that want to end up with a whole bunch of bankers boxes of notes that they never can get to or learn from, or there's the other people that don't

0:42.3

write down anything, and then we have problems remembering, reminding, and recollecting with

0:46.1

our source why that was important to us. So the first lesson I love to teach as a daily practice

0:52.4

is to only write down or capture things that resonate with you.

0:57.2

I know you have been learning about intuition. Intuition has no time. Intellect works within the

1:02.9

construct of time. Inspiration actually has no time. But intuition tells you one of two things.

1:10.5

I really agree with that for some reason.

1:13.7

If it resonates with you, write it down.

1:16.9

But recently I also found some great value,

1:19.9

maybe because of the politics in America,

1:22.2

that if something resonates with me

1:24.9

because I seriously disagree with it,

1:29.1

I also write that down.

1:36.8

In fact, I pay more attention and give intention to the things that seem to be intuitively disagreeable to me because I know I'm part and parcel of everything.

1:40.0

So if something has an extreme feeling to it, I want to capture it and know that within the context of infinite time, this information, this information is going to be important to me.

1:53.0

Not today.

1:54.4

Right?

1:54.6

A lot of people, if you ever play craps, I love those people.

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