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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Difference Between Making Sacrifices and Investing in Yourself

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A "sacrifice" is a negative void in your life, what you're actually doing is investing in yourself. When you say that you are making a sacrifice, you are actually just looking for more of what you don't want. Stop calling it a sacrifice and start calling it an investment. If you're not willing to invest in yourself, what will you ever invest in? Tweet me @davidmeltzer your favorite takeaway from today's episode and come ask me questions live every Friday at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST. Text me at (949) 298-2905 or email me at [email protected] to join! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you're living in a world of not enough, right? We make her when you say I'm sacrificing something you make yourself a victim

0:06.5

I had to sleep in my car. I had to get have this. Well, that seems to be for me focusing on what we don't want. What's missing?

0:14.8

You know, why can't it just be I'm making an investment in myself by

0:21.6

this activity

0:23.3

Sleeping in it, you know, JK Rawlings would she make an investment in herself by staying on the street

0:30.3

writing getting

0:32.0

Could be easily perceived in that could be the meaning of it. Or oh my god, what sacrifice you made

0:39.0

Why is it a sacrifice if you're pursuing your potential?

0:42.8

You know what is it sacrificing? I mean

0:46.3

Not eating right people do that all the time

0:49.7

To not eat you know out for example

0:53.3

My wife does it all the time because she doesn't want to gain weight

0:55.6

He's she's investing in her in herself. So I

1:01.8

I even look at the losses I've had and I know this one was really hard for me to process

1:07.3

But I see the money that I lost right over a hundred million dollars as an investment

1:12.9

Right and it keeps paying back

1:15.3

If I didn't have that money if I didn't you know spending on what I spent it on

1:19.8

The mistakes that I made I wouldn't be able to make as much as I make today

1:23.8

I won't be able to help as many people. I won't be able to write the books. I

1:27.2

All of that was an investment where I see other people lose money far less than that and it's I'm a victim

1:33.9

You know this blame shame justification. I sacrifice all this for nothing

1:39.7

Did you did you really know you invested it into the the capabilities that you have to do more?

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