Stop Letting Other People Determine Your Life

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

While voting for what you want, you’ll get a lot of advice along the way. One of the best ways to handle this advice, especially from loved ones, is to treat others' advice like a handful of sand. We should be grateful for people who give advice and take time to think about it, be appreciative. And if you don't like their advice or it isn’t aligned with your values, let it run through your fingers like a grain of sand. But when someone gives you that pearl of wisdom, be sure to hang on to it. 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	If I would have listened to her, which I didn't thank goodness, I would have probably resented her the rest of my life.
0:08.2	This is the paper.
0:10.4	Most people pay attention and give attention to what they don't want, what's missing, or what other people want for them.
0:17.0	What's missing, what they don't want, and what other people want for them, and then they resent the people that wanted it for them, even if they love them.
0:26.0	I remember when I came out of law school, I got a job as an oil and gas litigator, $150,000 a year.
0:33.5	And I also, because I wanted to be rich, I always kept my options open, so I got in 1992 a job offer to sell the internet, a legal research online.
0:42.5	And I went to my mom, who obviously was my advisor, the one who cared most about me, my only trusted person in my life that was always there for me.
0:51.5	And I said, Mom, what job should I take? Without blinking, she said, you got to be a lawyer.
0:58.0	This internet thing, it's a fad, it's not going to work, you're going to make a huge mistake.
1:04.5	Just because somebody loves you doesn't mean they give you good advice.
1:08.0	If I would have listened to her, which I didn't thank goodness, I would have probably resented her the rest of my life.
1:14.5	Instead, I was a millionaire nine months at a law school.
1:17.0	We sold the company for $3.4 billion in 1995, when there wasn't many billion dollar companies.
1:23.5	And my career took a complete accelerated trajectory that changed my life.
1:29.5	But yet the person who loved me the most would have inhibited that or stopped that completely.
1:36.5	You have to focus in on what you want, who can help you, and who you can help by finding the people that are in this situation,
1:42.5	that you want to be in and figure out how to get it done by paying attention to and giving attention to the coincidences that you want.
1:49.5	Not what they want, not what's missing and what you don't want.
1:52.5	I don't care about my mom, I'm full about my life instead of good.
1:55.5	My boyfriend, I just don't care anymore because I'm literally in count debt because this choice makes me a family.
2:02.5	I literally started finding my own frequency and here's the handful of sand analogy.
2:08.5	All those people that love you and they do man, they care a lot about you and you've got to draw from that inspiration.
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