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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How to Avoid Burnout and Stay Inspired

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Inspiration goes two ways, but first know that you are accountable for your own inspiration. When you are inspired, you are empowered to invest more (not sacrifice more) to get what you want, if you truly want it. Take accountability for yourself. Find what you love to do and align it with what must be done. Then, work to surround yourself with the right people. When I say, “the right people,” I mean the parts of the people you are most attracted to the parts of others that bring you confidence, make you feel happy, or empower you to be your best self.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Most people are motivated by fear. Whether they admit it or not, they get things done because they're afraid they're going to admit a deadline.

0:06.0

They're afraid of something. They're motivated by fear. They're motivated by anger and frustration.

0:10.0

These are all fear-based conscious behaviors.

0:15.0

But here's what's confusing about fear. Fear does not motivate you. It's the biggest soul sucker on earth.

0:19.0

It'll take all of your literally passion away.

0:22.4

It is not inspiration.

0:25.0

It's a depreciator.

0:26.4

Fear is a depreciator.

0:28.1

But what it does do that confuses us is it hyperfocuses us.

0:32.6

Fear focuses us.

0:33.7

I use the example all the time.

0:35.3

If you don't think fear focus, watch the old lady,

0:38.0

right, the grandmother that gets so afraid picks up the car to save a child. How could that be

0:44.1

possible? Fear is not motivating her. It's creating hyper focus that's creating an incredible

0:49.8

force of energy. That's all it is. It creates things incredible. So why not figure out how do I

0:55.8

substitute fear, a depreciator, with inspiration to keep myself consistent? Every single day.

1:03.2

Working with the cellular memory that I have that then feeds the brain. So there's 10,000 new

1:08.2

data points a day, 10,000 new thoughts you get a day, you better

1:11.5

control what you're feeding yourself. Control what you think say and do. Tell yourself,

1:17.0

I have faith in this. I'm going to program myself so that the neural pathways, the 40,000

1:21.6

of the same thoughts I have every day in my subconscious, are telling me you can do it. I'm

1:26.8

grateful, I'm forgiving, I'm accountable. I can do this. There's more than enough of everything for everyone. There's not a scarce universe. I'm going to elevate others to elevate myself. That's what's going to be created. All of these things exist in your subconscious, that's what's going to activate and deactivate your personality traits, characteristics, obsessions, and addiction, your DNA, which will then shoot out a signal, a stronger signal,

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