Non-Negotiables That Build Success

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I share the most valuable lesson I keep learning: life is simple, but only if you know how to use your 24 hours. Everything beyond that is uncertain. The key is learning to prioritize what truly matters—what you want, who can help you, who you can help, and how to get it done. I talk about how faith shortens the distance between struggle and resolution, how to engineer wealth through intention, and why non-negotiables like sleep, health, and family time form the foundation of lasting success. Once you master your 24 hours, uncertainty becomes opportunity.

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0:00.0	I have one lesson that I keep on learning.
0:02.5	You see, life to me is about lesson.
0:04.3	Life's really simple.
0:05.4	God gives you a body.
0:06.8	Without a body, you have no problems, struggles, traumas, no pain.
0:11.0	But with the body, we get all of that.
0:12.7	It's just a lapse of time before we find the solutions that exist in that problems
0:18.9	in those pains in the struggle.
0:21.5	It's just a lapse of time until we find the resolution, the resolution to it.
0:26.8	And it's not just wisdom that's given by people like Gary Vee and Andrew and Eddie,
0:34.1	but it's faith that shortens that distance of resistance, that lapse of time
0:39.9	between the problem and the solution. I've had a lot of struggle in my life. Anybody here grow up
0:46.0	poor? Right on. I feel sorry for the rest of you. You know, I'm 19 years old, read Think and Grow
0:53.1	Rich and it had a major impact on my life.
0:55.8	But the impact that it had was a little different because one of the lessons that I didn't know I needed to learn was one of humility.
1:04.0	I've learned a lesson through my journey of trying to be rich about you're either humble or you're about to be.
1:13.2	And I continually learn that lesson.
1:15.9	I've been really good at making money.
1:18.4	Anybody here good at making money?
1:20.9	Who here is trouble keeping it?
1:23.1	You're looking at the king of problems of keeping it.
1:26.6	At 36 years old, I lost over $100 million
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