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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Overcoming Procrastination by Living With Purpose

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I discuss the power of prioritization in overcoming procrastination and feeling overwhelmed. By focusing on what's important each day and giving meaning to past experiences, I align my actions with my desired outcomes. Emphasizing gratitude, productivity, and accessibility, I explore how to make the most of the guaranteed 24 hours each day. I share my approach to living in a world of abundance and applying my "why" to achieve happiness, health, wealth, and worthiness. By identifying and managing reactions to fear, I strive to maintain good behavior and achieve exponential progress towards my goals.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the

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the Playbook where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities and

0:07.0

entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional

0:10.0

playbook to success.

0:12.0

Well I believe prioritization is the most important thing we can do because prioritization is the

0:16.5

antidote to the two things that get in your way.

0:19.0

One, procrastination, it's impossible to procrastinate if you're prioritizing what's important to you.

0:25.9

And two, it's impossible to feel overwhelmed if you know what to do now and know what to do next,

0:31.1

which means you're prioritizing.

0:33.0

I take that example that you made of time

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and put things into perspective.

0:37.7

So number one, every day when I wake up,

0:39.9

not only my grateful, but I tell myself,

0:42.2

I'm guaranteed 24 hours today.

0:45.1

Guaranteed it.

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And I'm guaranteed 24 hours a day every day of my life

0:50.0

except for the last day of my life.

0:51.7

I'm gonna be cheated a couple hours.

0:53.4

But my perspective is to wake up and say, I'm going to be productive, accessible, and

0:57.9

gracious with the 24 hours that I'm given today.

1:00.4

And my job is to feel grateful for the abundance that I have more than enough to do today.

1:06.0

I have a more of options, opportunities and touches a favor.

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