How to Forgive Yourself | Road to Revenue #69

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Everyone falls and makes mistakes. It’s inevitable. But pain, whether it’s mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual, is just an indicator telling you that you have a lesson to learn. Lessons will keep coming until you learn them, so it’s much easier to practice forgiving yourself and getting excited about learning these lessons. I started realizing that I truly had to forgive myself for all the mistakes that I had made in order to accelerate and grow. There have been numerous occasions in the past where I blamed other people for my failures or setbacks, not taking personal accountability for what I had attracted into my life. I noticed that holding on to that anger or resentment affects who I am, what I call my quantum energy, and this impairs my ability to pursue my potential. A few years back, I had a neighbor who I'd bought a condo conversion from. The deal went sour, and we ended up blaming each other for that failure. We ended up in a lawsuit and he made up all these lies about me. I was so upset by the situation; it took me nine years to verbally forgive him. I actually had dreams about pulling out his fingernails and putting Tabasco on there, I couldn’t let it go. Although I had financially recovered, the pain and resentment were still there because I let it fester. I knew that the only way I would be able to raise my energy and overall peace would be to forgive him. Not because he deserved forgiveness, but because I deserved it. I closed my eyes and I pictured the guy that I hated, and I started thinking about all the good things about him. I thought about how he was a really good dad and gave back to the community. Instead of looking at the negative, I found the light in him. Slowly but surely, this mindset strategy shifted my energy and dissipated the negative feelings. There was actually a feeling of tenseness, of anxiety, of hatred, of attack every time I thought of the guy, and it finally dissipated to the point where I went up to him at a tailgate and thanked him for what had happened. He was freaked out because he hadn't processed the negative feelings for me. He flinched, and I just grabbed his hand and said, "I just need to thank you, because you helped me learn the greatest lesson of my life that has truly shifted my perspective, and I wanted to thank you." And I walked away. It wasn't that I was just thinking, saying, doing, believing that this gratitude was the right solution to this emotional problem, I actually felt grateful. Tweet me @davidmeltzer your favorite takeaway from today's episode and come ask me questions live every Friday at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST. Text me at (949) 298-2905 or email me at [email protected] to join! Click here to follow the Road to Revenue playlist on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, we're back to another episode of the Road to Revenue series.
0:04.0	Today's episode will bring you peace and happiness. We're going to go over how to forgive
0:10.0	yourself so that you can forgive others. Bring peace happiness and even certainty with me
0:17.5	on the Road to Revenue and Happiness. Tweet me at David Meltzer, your favorite takeaway from
0:22.8	today's episode and check the show notes to see how you can text me or email me at any time.
0:30.0	This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.
0:31.8	Good afternoon, everyone. We have Friday training. It's my favorite training. It's the Friday
0:36.5	forgiveness training. How to forgive yourself and others. And we have to realize that we cannot
0:43.2	forgive others without forgiving ourselves because we can't give what we don't have.
0:48.6	Now, forgiveness is so powerful and I used to tell people, forgive misgives us peace,
0:53.6	forgiveness is the tool that clears the interference between us and the interference
0:59.2	between our potential, our limitlessness, our infinity of who we already are.
1:03.7	To remind, we collect and remember that we are worthy. We are wealthy. We are healthy.
1:09.6	Most importantly, we are happy. And without forgiveness, we will just continue to construct
1:16.1	and create all types of interference, ego-based consciousness that will not be cleared away.
1:22.1	Only way to peace is through forgiveness. And in order to forgive, we have to forgive ourselves
1:28.3	between our own six inches of our mind so we can give it away just like we give away everything
1:33.8	else with appreciation. We give forgiveness away with appreciation, meaning when we appreciate
1:39.8	something, we add value to us. We add ourselves to us, the sincerity, the vibration and frequency
1:46.0	of who we are into the forgiveness as we give it away. So many people will tell you,
1:52.2	you know, they don't deserve my forgiveness. You're right. Nobody forgives, so deserves your
1:57.2	forgiveness. But you do. The reason you forgive other people and you give your forgiveness to other
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