Turn Competition Into a Calling

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I share how to turn competition into a calling by shifting from comparison to purpose. Instead of measuring yourself against others, measure progress against your own potential through gratitude, service, and consistent action. I break down the AAA strategy—alignment, action, and adjustment—and explain why being a steward of your brand before monetizing it builds lasting trust and value. You’ll learn how to transform attention into education, convert lessons into systems, and build a life stack rooted in faith, fundamentals, and financial literacy. When gratitude leads and service follows, pressure becomes a privilege, not a problem.

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0:00.0	In business and in sports, we don't rise to the level of our goals.
0:04.7	We fall to the level of our systems.
0:08.6	And a lot of people fail to create the systems, and then the systems create failure.
0:15.8	When we've used the faith in fundamentals and in business, financial literacy,
0:23.7	we replace anxiety with timing and alignment and transform our short-term victories into long-term leadership.
0:30.8	These lessons today, which just email me, I'm happy to send, are a blueprint for purpose
0:36.9	in motion. They shift your focus from
0:39.5	chasing outcomes of being happy when to building outcomes through gratitude and service and
0:46.9	daily disciplined action. If you apply them with intention, you won't just play the game better.
0:54.2	You'll change the game forever
0:56.5	and for every one around you.
0:59.7	The first lesson about transforming this competition
1:04.1	into a calling is compete with your potential,
1:09.2	not the person next to you.
1:13.0	Comparison is the thief of joy.
1:19.6	Comparing yourself to rivals will interfere with the infinite amount of energy, intuition,
1:25.9	inspiration, and intelligence, and will create a resistance in a realm of scarcity.
1:33.1	Competing with your potential and looking determinative of the inventory of skills,
1:40.1	knowledge, and desires will build your ability to be consistent, confident, comfortable,
1:43.2	and will compound the growth exponentially.
1:47.7	So many studies of rival,
1:51.0	when I'm coaching athletes,
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