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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Lasting Impact of Mindful Generosity

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In today's special episode, marking 25 years of holiday training, we focus on the critical roles of giving, receiving, and witnessing. We uncover how true appreciation deepens when we part with something, whether by choice or circumstance. Engaging in a thoughtful exercise with pennies, dollars, and books, each endowed with different meanings, we see firsthand how value shifts based on our perceptions. The discussion emphasizes the three lenses of appreciation: productivity, accessibility, and graciousness, highlighting the need to add value and learn from every experience. This episode invites listeners to embrace an abundance mindset, illustrating the far-reaching impact of our actions and the capacity of a single light particle to dispel darkness, symbolizing hope and positivity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to year 25 of holiday training. It's changed throughout the years.

0:05.5

And there's an interesting thing that has evolved with the holiday training because

0:09.9

with the aspect of video.

0:13.0

We used to do the holiday training

0:15.3

with no video at all, and it moved everyone.

0:19.1

And there was no pressure about doing it

0:21.3

because it was always different but it was interesting when we went to

0:26.4

sports one marketing we decided to film it and this is pre social media we decided to

0:32.0

film it and create more of a capture, more of a theater type of situation

0:41.3

of like, hey, let's show everybody else what we've been doing for 10 years.

0:46.0

So in 2010 was the first holiday training and in December, and now that's 13 years ago and my biggest concern afterwards because

0:56.7

we showed the video to everyone in actually I'm sure in 2010 we had a video

1:02.2

I think is just people came back and told their stories.

1:05.9

We went around and everyone told their stories

1:08.7

and there was not a dry eye.

1:11.4

People were so moved. And then I wanted to do it every year and I forget what year we

1:16.8

started videoing it to share it with other people but the word the reason I

1:21.2

thought we videoed it the interesting thing was the word got out and the reason I thought we videoed it the interesting thing was the

1:23.5

word got out and people like news stations were calling in and there's all this

1:28.5

excitement like hey can you come over to our place because we went to assisted living and all of these

1:34.3

different things but the anticipation was very much like a Super Bowl or a big

1:40.9

sporting event and my biggest concern in surrounding my old business around the biggest

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