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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The #1 Reason Why People Quit on Their Goals

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I'll take you through the unexpected magic of exponential growth. We'll see how small, consistent steps can lead to huge changes, almost overnight. It's about understanding the power of persistence, keeping faith, and the joy in our journey towards big dreams. I'll share my own experience of empowering a billion people to be happy, and how starting with just one person can create a massive ripple effect. Get ready to be inspired to start small, dream big, and believe in the exponential potential of your actions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In a lily

0:02.0

lily doubles its growth every day

0:05.4

And so if I was going to tell you this pond right here has one lily in it and it will take 30 days for the lilies to cover the entire pond. What day would the lilies cover half

0:16.5

the pond? Now, most people, the first thought that you have is

0:23.3

the problem. That's why you have questions like I can't find my niche. I don't know my purpose. I don't know my purpose.

0:27.5

I don't know why why? It's because in 30 days on day 29 is when the Lily Pond is halfway covered. The next day

0:37.7

will be fully covered. The scary thing is on day 28, two days is only a quarter covered.

0:44.8

Only a quarter covered two days before.

0:46.9

So you're working day one through 28,

0:49.8

not seeing hardly any increase, any revelation of niche or experience or

0:56.4

spectral. Got to have faith. You've got to have faith in what you're doing by

1:00.8

enjoying, find the life, love, and the lessons and what you're doing and enjoying, find the life, the love, and the lessons and what you're doing

1:04.0

and be able to do it every single day so you get the doubling effect of the lilies so that, yes, you get to

1:10.4

day number 28 and 29 and especially day

1:13.3

30 and guess what's so fun about that.

1:15.6

You day 31, you need two ponds and then day 32,

1:19.1

you need four ponds.

1:20.1

My dream is to empower over a billion people to be happy.

1:24.4

That's a pretty big dream. People laughed at me and that when I started I had the same question

1:29.8

how am I actually going to do this? I know the impact of it, and I know that it would change the world.

1:37.8

But now then I said, oh my God, am I saying I can change the whole world?

1:41.9

Empowering over a billion people to create a collective

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