The Lessons That Changed My Life

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Whether you have nothing or a 40-million-dollar home in Newport Beach, there will always be people who live as if there’s not enough. Then there’s the world of “just enough.” That world blends scarcity with abundance. Even people who are generous will trade rather than give—they’ll give, but they will always expect something in return. The world I’m trying to manifest is a world of “more than enough,” where people are living in truth and consciousness. I have five different rules for businesses looking to live in this world of more than enough: 1 - Know your personal giving and receiving values. Evaluate those four things every day. 2 - Learn to ask a series of questions to learn how you can provide value to every person in every situation. 3 - Learn a series of questions with which you can ask for help—which is the most difficult and radically humble thing. I lost over $100 million by not asking for help, and my world changed when I learned how to ask the right questions. 4 - Study with a lens of productivity, accessibility, and gratitude what you are doing every day. Study your sleep. Study your calendar and figure out what’s urgent, and what you can delegate to someone else. 5 - Practice ending fear. When you feel like you’re on fire, stop, drop, and roll. Figure out why you feel that way. When we do these things, we’re more successful and happier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I know it's been a while since I've shared my story on my podcast,
0:04.8	so if you'd like to listen to the lessons of my journey and learn from them, or
0:10.0	re-listen to the lessons of my journey and learn from them, please tune in on this episode of
0:16.8	the playbook. This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I thought I'd talk about the three worlds that I've
0:22.5	lived in in my lifetime. My journey and my journey is full of lessons. I believe that the
0:30.6	purpose of our journey is to learn lessons and pain is only an indicator that we have lessons to learn.
0:36.1	Setbacks, failures, and mistakes, which I've made plenty are not punishment for something I've
0:41.3	done. It's just simply propelling me to a better place, a better situation. And I was born into
0:47.0	the first world that a lot of us are born into, and it's a world of not enough.
0:51.7	Anyone here grew up poor, some of you, good, but I feel sorry for the rest of you,
0:57.4	because you can never teach someone what that's like, but more over, I grew up in a world of
1:03.2	not enough. That was full of love. I had a single mom, six kids in my family, five boys, one
1:08.9	girl. My mom was a second grade teacher who packed her dinners in a paper bag, took us off into
1:14.5	a country square station wagon to fill up turnstiles at convenience stores with greeting cards,
1:19.4	just so we could eat. My special night out was two large french fries and a big bowl shared
1:25.6	between six kids. And I dreamed when I was young of being rich. I wanted to leave the world. I'm
1:33.1	not enough. I was tired of being a victim. Everything happening to me, why me? I wanted to
1:41.0	solve the one problem that was existing in my life, which was financial frustration.
1:47.0	Only time I wasn't happy was when I would catch my mom crying because the car would break down
1:52.1	or we couldn't afford to rent or food. And I decided at five years old that I was going to solve
1:57.3	that problem with money. That money would buy me the last corner pin of happiness. It would buy
2:03.2	me happiness and love. I'd buy my mom a house, a car, and I'd live happily ever after. I would
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