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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Hidden Cost of Worry

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about how worry is a duplicative negative that interferes with our energy, creativity, and focus. Many people think worry is preparation, but it actually drains the energy we need to solve problems and move forward. I explain how worry distorts risk, delays decisions, and causes us to miss opportunities, options, and touches of favor. When we bring our attention back to the present moment and focus on the next step, momentum begins to build. Stop the worry, refocus your energy, and take aligned action. To join my next free Friday Training sessions, email me at david@dmeltzer.com

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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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