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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Taking Control of Your Life

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is from a speech I gave to a mastermind group last week, and I am going to tell you about the superpower of gratitude and why Chris Gardner and Will Smith both got it wrong, there is no Pursuit of Happiness. Come ask me questions live every Friday at 6 am PST / 9 pm EST. Text me at (949) 298-2905 or email me at david@dmeltzer.com to join!

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0:00.0

Today's episode is from a speech I gave to a mastermind group last week. You're going to learn about the super power of gratitude and how Will Smith and Chris Gardner actually got it wrong. There's no pursuit of happiness. Sorry. Tweet me at David Meltzer, your favorite part from today's episode and check the show notes to see how you can contact me at any time.

0:22.2

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.

0:24.4

Really what I want to highlight for people and the thing that really connected,

0:28.3

that got me to connect with you, Dave, is the fact that you have a very clear understanding

0:33.5

of the balance between spirituality and living a life where it might be work, business,

0:40.0

job, whatever it is for you, and really understanding how to live a more balanced life.

0:45.9

And the understanding, which is particularly why I wanted you to come and do the,

0:50.9

be the expert of this final lesson, which is on freedom, the understanding of freedom,

0:56.8

because that's exactly why when I came up with my business name, I thought, being positive,

1:02.7

which is the original name, be positive mindset, but being positive definitely saved my life

1:07.6

at a particular point, saved me from going down that rabbit hole of thinking

1:11.9

my life was over and potentially wanting to take my life. But I thought the one thing that I'm

1:17.8

actually aiming for and the one thing that I know that I have a lot of is freedom. And that's

1:23.8

what most people are searching for, right? Yeah, for sure. Absolutely. Very good.

1:31.6

So, and by the way, I've got everyone to get their pens and paper ready. Every time I have you

1:36.3

on, I'm always, my mind is usually blown because I think, how does this man know so much? And it's so

1:41.7

very well organized. And I said, if anyone has got a question just to

1:45.7

keep it very brief, because we've got limited amount of time that we're going to be here

1:49.1

with Dave, or that Dave's going to be here with us. So what I'd love you to share, Dave, is,

1:55.6

and I have kind of give some premise, you know, that, you know, back before 2008, your life was very different, the way

2:02.3

that you operated, the way that you, your foundations you built were very, very different to

2:06.4

the way that you operate today. And I kind of, and I don't know the full context. I know you met

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