The #1 Thing Holding You Back From Success

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest keys for any business leader comes from an understanding of the ego and how it tends to put us on a trajectory in the wrong direction. Ego Edges Goodness Out of your life. Why? The ego has illusionary needs, which can create a waste of your time and energy. The ego also has the need to be right or to be offended. It can cause you to feel a need to be separate, inferior, or superior. Ego can cause fear, guilt, or shame. It will have you searching for recognition for your achievements, instead of simply being happy with what you have achieved. One of our biggest problems comes when we get caught living in this ego-based consciousness and accelerate into the negative emotions we are experiencing. Our ego causes fear, which is followed by fear-based reactions. Those fear-based reactions are what cause us to end up off-track. 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	Imagine if you and I are racing and I run a 10 minute mile and you run a five minute mile
0:04.8	I will beat you because you don't know how to unpack your ego
0:09.6	This is the labor that we were running arrays by laps
0:14.1	You might be 10 times faster than me in the first lap
0:17.7	But if I concentrate on acceleration and exponential growth meaning when I'm running all I'm trying to do is get faster
0:25.4	And have longer legs so my strides are longer. Yeah
0:29.0	It's just a matter of time before I walk you a
0:32.4	Matter of time because if you're running your fastest you might even get tired by the second lap
0:36.3	And I'll just keep on loving so what makes us tired?
0:39.0	Ego makes us tired. How do I and stay inspired the whole day?
0:42.1	It's because every time you have a need to be right to separate offended guilty resentful angry frustrated any of the feeds of the ego
0:50.5	Imagine if you and I are racing and I run a 10 minute mile and you run a five minute mile
0:55.6	right and I will beat you
0:58.8	Because you don't know how to unpack your ego meaning ego creates resistance void shortages in obstacles
1:04.2	Let's say that every time you're frustrated angry fear of loss ain't anxious separate and fear of superior
1:10.1	All the different needs of the ego
1:12.1	Imagine if that was five pounds on a backpack on your back
1:15.7	How long will it take even if I'm just steady at a 10 if I keep the ego out of it
1:21.4	I'll be kicking your butt within labs and what happens though is if I keep the ego off of me
1:26.5	That allows me to have that acceleration and exponential growth while most people are slowing down
1:31.5	Don't stop it with your ego. They need to be right. They need to be offended
1:34.8	They need to be superior inferior separate need for guilt need for fear need for a task need for judgment
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