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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Stop Calling it "Work"

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A productive person knows how to maximize two things: the activities they get paid for and the activities they don’t get paid for. This delineation is important to make when maximizing your productivity and accessibility, so you can prioritize the activities you get paid for, as well as those activities which you enjoy the most. Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the paper, we're born with no beliefs and so what happens is we learn

0:07.3

off the people by watching our parents and people around us but we also learn

0:11.0

words and then we learn these definitions right you got to go to work some

0:15.1

day and then be like oh I got to work but we never really think about how we

0:20.7

define work because we don't have a belief system that has limitations because

0:24.4

of what we watched right so if my grandfather worked six days a week twelve

0:28.5

I was a day selling tires out of the back of the truck so it could have enough

0:32.2

to build an auto part store and then he worked six days a week in the black

0:36.2

right work has an emotional meaning to me and I used to have that meaning and

0:42.2

then I started shifting and saying what why is it why don't have to be a

0:46.2

work why what if maybe I didn't understand my grandfather maybe that he

0:51.5

that's what he'd love to do maybe not but so what does work work is something I

0:56.3

don't want to do that they pay me for it that might be a definition for

1:01.1

work for me something I don't want to do that they pay me for what if I can

1:05.4

get paid for what I want to do and I focus my belief system that it was all

1:10.6

possible for everything and probable in my perspective that I'm gonna only be

1:14.7

paid for what I love to do if I don't want to do it I'll pay somebody to do it

1:18.2

for me why not I don't like to worry I'm gonna pay someone to worry right I

1:26.6

don't like to drive someone to pay someone to drive for me why not what do you

1:32.6

think you can and you can't either way you're right so I think it's really

1:36.3

important it's not work some of the things that you're describing it's super fun

1:41.6

right read and find work like like I and some of you probably heard right I

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