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The Playbook With David Meltzer

You need to Surround Yourself With THE RIGHT PEOPLE

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

I always tell people, “Show me your friends, and I will show you your future.” You are who you surround yourself with, so one of the most important steps is separating yourself from those who don’t add value to your life. Ask yourself, “Do I feel good when I am around this person?”, and use your feelings as a barometer to decide if the relationship is worthwhile. Tweet me your takeaway from today’s episode @davidmeltzer Email Me! [email protected] Sign up for my Free Weekly Training https://free.dmeltzer.com/friday-training-1 Text Me! (949) 298-2905 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I know this seems calculating and a little bit manipulating, but I believe you're an aggregate

0:05.3

of the five people that you spend the most time with.

0:08.0

I tell people you have friends, take your five friends, average out how much money they

0:12.0

make and that's probably what you make.

0:15.5

This is the flavor.

0:17.7

One of the biggest accelerators in my life is I sought out very wealthy people to have

0:23.5

in my business.

0:24.5

So I started realizing that if I had a good idea with my friends, they couldn't do anything

0:29.8

if I had a good business plan, they couldn't do anything.

0:31.9

And I started realizing that really wealthy people have five friends that are really wealthy.

0:35.7

One of the reasons that I wanted to represent Paul Hall of Fame was because there was something

0:40.7

special about Hall of Famers.

0:43.0

They weren't always the best athletes.

0:44.9

There was something special and I wanted to surround myself with Hall of Fame energy.

0:51.6

And I did and it changed my life and it keeps changing my life.

0:55.8

I'm constantly.

0:56.8

And what's happening now too is other people are seeking me, like really important people.

1:02.9

You know, it's amazing, but it started by elevating expectations of who I want to be around.

1:11.0

Even within my family, if there's someone negative within my family, I don't disconnect

1:17.3

completely.

1:18.3

I just fall away.

1:20.4

You know, I'm not going to lie, I had to, when I lost everything, I had to fire friends.

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