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The Playbook With David Meltzer

The Only Person Stopping You, Is YOU

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, I gave a talk to the University of California, Irvine Sports Business Association on how to get your dream job. This episode will resonate with a lot of you who are just starting their career, or those who are looking to transition to a different profession or industry. Don't limit your point of entry, careers are built on a combination of skills and knowledge, not the industry or vertical you currently sit in. Timestamps: 0:49 - when know what you want, it instantly becomes a possibility 3:07 - when you attach your happiness to an outcome based on time, that time will never come 7:57 - if you don't want it bad enough, somebody else does 11:17 - jobs vs industries 13:22 - live your life with passion, purpose, and profitability

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everything that you want already exists. You're the only thing that's not allowing it to happen.

0:05.8

This is entrepreneurs, the playbook.

0:08.8

I wasn't going to allow anybody to limit my life except for me.

0:13.0

And what I realized was the one thing I always did well in the past

0:17.0

was know what I wanted.

0:19.0

I wanted to buy my mom a house in a car.

0:22.0

I wanted to buy my mom a house in a car. I wanted to be rich. And not only did I know what I wanted, I know why I wanted it. I wanted to be happy. I wanted my mom to be happy that was the why that was the thing that drove me every

0:36.8

day regardless of what everyone else thought I could or couldn't do.

0:42.5

And then it was my job to understand how am I going to do it.

0:47.2

The interesting thing I saw mathematically about my life

0:49.8

is the minute you know what you want, and most people don't know what they want.

0:54.8

They haven't sat down and thought about it.

0:56.9

But the minute you know what you want you have a mathematical advantage over everyone

1:00.8

else, you now have a possibility.

1:04.4

And then if you know the why,

1:06.6

if you know the why in your life,

1:08.4

you now have a statistical success greater than possibility,

1:12.3

you have a probability.

1:14.0

When you know your why, you become inspired.

1:18.0

You have passion and purpose when you know your why.

1:21.0

And there's only one thing in your way

1:25.0

between you and what you want, and that's you.

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