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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Pause, Reflect, Grow

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I shared how true success starts from within. It’s not just about making money or chasing milestones; it’s about building the mindset, habits, and consistency that create lasting growth. I talked about the difference between earning money and engineering wealth, the importance of getting 1% better every day, and why taking intentional pauses is often the key to clarity and progress. My goal is to help you align your actions with your values so you can build not only success, but a life filled with purpose and fulfillment. To join my next free Friday Training sessions, email me at david@dmeltzer.com

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0:00.0

My takeaway was taken away from Aspire.

0:03.0

And every once in a while, you hear the nugget that inspires you for trainings for deeper thought and deeper research.

0:11.1

And I've been reading a book called The Five Types of Wealth.

0:17.8

It's by Samuel Bloom.

0:20.1

And in the Five Types of of wealth, they talk about all

0:22.7

these different categories. And all of a sudden, Andrew Cordell, who's one of the founders of Aspire,

0:31.2

I'm sitting there with him on stage and he says, hey, you know, the difference, you earn money, but you engineer wealth.

0:44.1

And so many people get so busy working, they forget to make money, but you do earn money,

0:50.9

whether you're any age, but what is the idea of engineering wealth?

1:00.2

Because wealth takes, as anything else, a lot of architecture. It takes a lot of engineering.

1:08.8

Then it takes a lot to execute and to, you know, create all the things

1:14.6

around that engineered idea. And within the context of engineering wealth, we have to architect

1:24.5

it. We have to build it. We have to build it. We have to maintain it.

1:27.9

We have to grow it.

1:30.2

All the different aspects in engineering.

1:33.1

And I started thinking about wealth as a locomotive.

1:37.7

And being able to engineer this incredible long train of wealth, social wealth, health, health, of economic wealth,

1:51.0

of all these different things that will help to increase our capability,

1:59.9

align with our mission so that we make a lot of money so that we make a lot of money, so that

2:04.1

we earn a lot of money, that we help a lot of people, and have a lot of fun. So I'm

2:11.0

looking for those engineers out there and putting together the plans, the architecture, and the execution model, utilizing

2:20.0

values and practices in order to facilitate a greater amount of harmony wealth in your life.

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