The Power of Doing What You Don’t Love Every Day

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I break down the shift from chasing money to understanding alignment, gratitude, and service as the real drivers of fulfillment. I share how losing over $100 million forced me to reevaluate my values and build a new life rooted in consistent habits, emotional awareness, and faith in something bigger than myself. From sleeping in cars to leading global meetups, I talk about how prioritizing non-negotiables like sleep, health, and family created more freedom than chasing outcomes ever did. I also share how asking better questions, managing fear, and defining value has helped me guide others toward lives of abundance, joy, and purpose.

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0:00.0	What a blessing it is to be here today on my mission
0:03.8	to empower over a billion people.
0:05.0	And for me, I've lived in three worlds.
0:08.6	And I'm going to talk for about 20 minutes.
0:10.1	And then we'll get to do what I love to do,
0:12.3	which is answer anything and everything you have,
0:14.8	any curiosities you have.
0:16.8	I travel the entire world over 200 cities and do meetups because I'm more interested in what people are listening for.
0:26.4	My journey led me from a world, as you saw in the video, not enough.
0:30.3	A single mom, six kids.
0:32.5	She worked two jobs.
0:35.0	If I sound like I'm choking up, she recently passed.
0:37.8	And I think about for me, her packing my dinner on paper bag so we could eat in between
0:46.7	those jobs and what I caught from her.
0:52.8	My mom tried to teach me, but like most entrepreneurs,
0:56.7	we don't really listen to our parents,
0:59.0	which is okay because just because someone loves you,
1:01.7	doesn't believe you good advice,
1:03.4	especially if we're an entrepreneur,
1:04.6	because most people that love us are more interested
1:07.1	in our security and our stability than our crazy dreams.
1:11.4	And so for me, understanding that world of not enough, I just wanted to be rich,
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