Stop Giving Away Your Best Hours

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I share why coaches, mentors, and teachers can speed up your journey, but they can’t do the inner work for you. I talk about getting from A to B, finding people who already sit where you want to be, and using their guidance to avoid unnecessary pain, wasted time, and expensive lessons. I also break down the difference between scheduled time and non-time, why giving away your best hours can cost you, and how small daily commitments create lasting success. True growth starts within, but the right people and systems make the path easier.

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0:00.0	I'm 71 years old.
0:01.8	I've been a musician since I was 16th,
0:04.5	and I've had a fair amount of success,
0:06.9	but I want to bring more music to more people.
0:12.0	I want to be maybe a leader of some groups and things,
0:15.0	and I've gone to say I've been a side metal in my life.
0:17.9	I played on the movie Poppers recently.
0:20.2	You've seen my name on that.
0:22.1	Movie Sideways. That was fun on. Right on. So I'm also part of metal. That's how I know you.
0:28.8	And I just want to, I don't even know what to say. I want to be able to brainstorm and figure out
0:36.3	how to take the rest of my life and do the best
0:39.5	I can't commit.
0:40.6	I love it.
0:41.4	So how many here have a bigger idea in their life rather than taking home a paycheck?
0:50.3	So that keys us off on what we should be asking ourselves every day for the sake of what?
0:57.8	Beyond the 12 hours of non-negotiables, which makes our lives easy,
1:02.1	knowing that 90% of our success in the trajectory of the divine direction that we want to be in,
1:06.9	we'll be taken care of if we are consistent and persistent in giving time to our sleep,
1:12.1	our health, our family, our finance, our faith, the study of time and study of relativity,
1:16.4	the meaning of that time, meaning for the sake of what am I here? And now I have 12 extra hours
1:22.6	a day to add more time to those things or take the circumstances of the day and prioritize accordingly to what's
1:28.7	important to me according to what my divine direction, which is only relative to the meaning of my
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