The Hidden Cost of Worry
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Worry, but duplicative negative. |
| 0:03.1 | Worry often disguises itself as responsibility. |
| 0:07.5 | We tell ourselves that thinking about every possible outcome |
| 0:12.4 | means we are being prepared, |
| 0:15.4 | strategic, or even cautious. |
| 0:18.0 | But in reality, excessive worrying quietly interferes with some of our most |
| 0:24.7 | valuable resources, our infinite intuition, our infinite intelligence, our infinite inspiration, |
| 0:33.9 | our infinite energy, creativity, even our focus is interfered with when we worry. |
| 0:41.0 | Strategic foresight is extremely valuable to have a divine direction so that not only are we |
| 0:47.7 | disciplined, but we are devotional in what we do say, think, feel, and believe. |
| 0:52.2 | We are not just discipline working and forget to make money. We are not just disciplined working and forget to make |
| 0:55.3 | money. We're not just discipline working and forget to spend time with our family. We're not just |
| 0:59.8 | discipline working and forget to spend time on our health. But planning matters. But when concern |
| 1:07.6 | turns into constant anxiety about the divine direction, about the future, about the |
| 1:16.1 | outcomes, about the evidence that isn't there or is contrary to where we want to be, |
| 1:21.7 | the strategic foresight, it stops helping us, and it starts limiting us. It starts holding us back. |
| 1:29.9 | It impedes our own self-image. |
| 1:33.0 | As entrepreneurs, creators, investors, leaders, |
| 1:37.2 | our success depends on how we direct not only our attention, but our intention of what we do say, think, feel, and believe |
| 1:48.4 | to be devotional in our divine direction. |
| 1:51.9 | When we focus our attention and give our intention on imagined problems, we interfere with the infinite intuition, intelligence, inspiration, |
| 2:03.5 | and energy, creativity, and focus required to find the real solutions, the resolutions. |
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