Your Ego is the Enemy

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Choosing to detach from an outcome, can seem extremely conflictual, and it is hard for people to understand. One of the common questions I get is this: “How do you have goals yet remain detached from an outcome?” The truth is, I’m very driven toward the goals I set. I try to take my ego and time, two driving factors for many, out of my goal setting. What I do is this: I set a goal, and at the same time, I detach my happiness from the goal. I do not create an immediate plan to get to my goal. My plan, when I start out, is simply to provide value toward that overall goal every single day, making sure I put forth a minimum amount of effort toward the achievements I want and “raising the bar” each day as I proceed, in order to build momentum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you start practicing trajectory, your relationships get better.
0:03.2	Get better. Why? Because you don't ruin your whole day or a whole
0:07.2	relationship over nothing. This is entrepreneur's
0:10.4	the playbook. The ego is what corrodes the connection to
0:14.4	full inspiration or truth. The ego is the need to be right,
0:17.6	the need to be offended, the need to be separate, the need to be inferior,
0:20.8	superior, anxious, fearful, guilty, resentful, all of
0:24.0	different fear-based emotions. If we're full of anxiety,
0:28.4	what I say get out of my own way, it's going to corrode the connection to
0:31.7	me getting what I want. Number one being accessible to help others
0:34.9	and also accessing what I want. Understanding this stress is an
0:38.7	opportunity to get better to expand. And so I have shifted my perspective of
0:43.4	the stressful moments in every day and it's what am I going to do with them
0:46.8	to actually expand as a benefit. I say the law of
0:50.3	surrender is the most hyper-aggressive misunderstood law that I've ever
0:54.1	even found them because I always thought people were high broke sitting on their
0:57.4	mom's couch when they were surrendering. But it's a
1:00.1	hyper-aggressive state of mind to say, okay, I have the need to be right,
1:04.5	offended, separate, inferior, superior, angry,
1:06.8	anxious, all of the different ego-based emotions. Now I have to fight through
1:10.8	that to somehow not only mentally put myself
1:14.4	et cetera and this is where people I think are confused. It's
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