The #1 Way You're Wasting All Your Energy

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest keys for any business leader comes from an understanding of the ego and how it tends to put us on a trajectory in the wrong direction. Ego Edges Goodness Out of your life. Why? The ego has illusionary needs, which can create a waste of your time and energy. The ego also has the need to be right or to be offended. It can cause you to feel a need to be separate, inferior, or superior. Ego can cause fear, guilt, or shame. It will have you searching for recognition for your achievements, instead of simply being happy with what you have achieved. One of our biggest problems comes when we get caught living in this ego-based consciousness and accelerate into the negative emotions we are experiencing. Our ego causes fear, which is followed by fear-based reactions. Those fear-based reactions are what cause us to end up off-track. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For at least me personally, when I have anxiety of certain things and I fear of the future
0:05.0	I work harder and I'll get more results and I'll be like, because I'm running, I'm
0:10.0	on a rat race and I'm...
0:12.0	Because you don't think there's enough.
0:14.7	So it is motivating.
0:15.7	If you don't think there's enough, if you live in a universe of scarcity, then anxiety
0:19.4	is going to motivate you.
0:20.6	The difficult thing about it is it's draining you at the same time.
0:23.7	See the difference between me and most people is, I'm twice as old as most people that
0:26.6	are watching me, but I have more energy and inspiration they have and I'm happier
0:29.9	than they are.
0:31.3	And I'll tell you why, because I'm not motivated by anxiety anymore.
0:34.4	Right?
0:35.4	In fact, every time I feel some sort of anxious feeling or anger or frustration, I'm
0:40.6	also proud of myself today.
0:41.8	I'm very efficient, whatever I'm in my mobile office.
0:45.0	I got young guys driving me from New York.
0:47.2	He doesn't know what he's doing.
0:48.2	He's totally scared.
0:49.2	He doesn't ask where he's going.
0:50.7	Right?
0:51.7	And all of a sudden I told him, make sure that he doesn't miss the exit.
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