The Cobbler's Kids Have No Shoes | Road to Revenue #83

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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What does “the cobbler’s kids have no shoes” actually mean? The idea behind this phrase is that someone with a specific skill, knowledge, or desire is often so busy assisting others that their own affairs go unattended. They fail to apply their expertise to the situations that they face and experience some consequences as a result How do we reconcile this concept with the saying “the more we give the more we receive”? To start, you can’t give to others what you don’t have for yourself. Forgiveness is a great example of something that you need to have for yourself first, in order to be forgiving of others. When it comes to receiving, our focus should be on appreciation and acknowledgment. When I say appreciation, I mean that you should try to add value to everything that you receive. You should also acknowledge what you’ve received and share your gratitude freely, especially for the things that others do not have. Tweet me @davidmeltzer your favorite takeaway from today's episode and come ask me questions live every Friday during my Free Weekly Training. Text me at (949) 298-2905 or email me at [email protected] to join! Follow the Road to Revenue Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2xBCPHs9IWy5kYPO94rJ0N?si=3936604f462342dd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. It's Monday. So we've got another episode of the Road to Revenue series.
0:04.8	Today's episode is one of my favorite trainings yet. The cobbler's kids have no shoes.
0:12.0	What do we cover today? The biggest lesson I've learned this week and how to seek open minds,
0:18.2	open hands and open hearts. Tweet me at David Meltzer. Your favorite takeaway from today's episode
0:23.4	and check the show notes to see how you can text me or email me at any time.
0:29.2	This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. All right, let's get started.
0:34.2	With the cobbler's kids have no shoes. Number one, I have a saying, don't get so busy,
0:40.3	you forget what you have. In other words, so many people take for granted what other people
0:46.6	are wishing for. They get so busy, inaccessible, inaccessible, they get so busy, they forget what they
0:53.8	have. And if we can make a practice of gratitude, then we can have the ability to not take for
1:01.8	going to what other people are wishing for or what we're wishing for. The idea behind cobbler's
1:06.7	kids have no shoes though is that someone has a specific skill, a knowledge or desire, and is
1:15.3	often too busy assisting others that their own affairs go unintended. And I see this so many
1:23.3	different times in my life that the most intentionally wonderful giving people that have
1:31.7	extraordinary skills, knowledge and desire are so busy assisting everybody else that their own
1:39.2	affairs go unintended. And one of those affairs that go under tended is their health.
1:45.5	And then they end up getting exactly what they don't want because they want to take care of
1:50.0	others, but then others have to take care of them or their wealth or their happiness or their
1:55.8	worthiness. And all three in four of those things are our specific things that we are so with good
2:04.0	intentions giving away that we don't take care of our own affairs. The cobbler's kids have no shoes.
2:11.1	And I want you to take inventory today of this and ask yourself, I need to receive and utilize
2:18.4	my skills for me. So then I can give it away with appreciation. So with the good intention of
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