Fearless Success: Cultivating a Rich Mindset with David Meltzer

I am very thrilled to have the remarkable David Meltzer join me for Season Two, Episode Two! In today's episode, we dive into Fearless Success: Cultivating  Rich Mindset.

David shares his profound insights, emphasizing the importance of TIME as a non-negotiable variable. He breaks down the mindset of scarcity and abundance, highlighting the transformative power of adding value through asking and giving. David's perspective on gratitude, forgiveness, and effective communication provides actionable steps for personal and professional growth.

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Introduction (00:21)
Gratitude and The Meaning We Give (01:03)
Mindset and Perception (02:26)
Daily Practices for Success (03:30)
Non-Negotiables and Time (09:53)
Shifting from Scarcity to Abundance (14:09)
Wisdom on Scarcity and Abundance (16:13)
Closing (18:39)

David Meltzer is a legendary sports executive and formerly served as CEO of the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire. He is one of the world's top Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Business coaches. David has been recognized by Variety Magazine as their Sports Humanitarian of the Year and awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

David is the Executive Producer of the Apple TV series 2 Minute Drill and Office Hours. He is also the executive producer of Entrepreneur’s #1 digital business show, Elevator Pitch. David is featured in many books, movies, and TV shows such as World’s Greatest Motivators, Think and Grow Rich, and Beyond the Secret featured on Netflix. His life’s mission is to empower OVER 1 BILLION people to be happy! This simple yet powerful mission has led him on an incredible journey to provide one thing… VALUE. In all his content, and communication that’s exactly what you’ll receive.

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Transcript

Dr. Ryan Wakim: 0:10

Welcome to the end game podcast, where I bet you didn't know what you didn't know. I'm Dr. Ryan Wakeham, successful entrepreneur and your end game coach. I'm very excited to welcome incredibly special guest to me, David Meltzer for today. This is our season two, episode two, great new year, new me, new you. And we're here to talk to David today. About fearless success, cultivating a rich mindset again with David Meltzer. Welcome David in, but you don't really need any introduction. I'm sure. So again, I credibly thankful for you being part of my podcast today.

David Meltzer: 0:47

Well, I'm credibly happy to be here

Dr. Ryan Wakim: 0:50

and I know you do a lot of this stuff. So you'll be guiding me

David Meltzer: 0:54

more than I'll be guiding you. Honestly, this is my favorite topic in subject matter. You know, and even within the context of the holiday season, I have learned that giving not only is one in a unified, abundant, infinite system, not only does it include appreciate adding value and acknowledgement of learning the lessons of not having what we had previously, whether it's lost, stolen, cheated, manipulated, or given, but also the importance of the value add of asking for more. But in the construct of what you're doing here, doctor, is that giving has meaning. And, you know, if I have three pennies and I give my first penny to someone and say, here, would you like a penny that has a meaning? And if I give the next printed penny and say, Hey, please take this penny, it's really bad luck. That penny has a meaning. And if the third person I get any Say, Hey, I've had this penny since I was five years old. And all it's done is bring me the best luck in the world. I am in the position and situation that I'm in because of this penny. And I think you need it more than me. Although the penny in the U S currency has the exact same value. It's the meaning that truly gives it value. And in the context of what I'm talking about is that we give meaning to everything that we see. And it's people like you that are helping people give the meaning that is best suited to the trajectory of their potential. And a lot of people leave out. The value of that meaning and the importance of that meeting

Dr. Ryan Wakim: 2:25

we've talked before, but as you know, as a psychiatrist, I am incredibly big believer in the idea of mindset is such an important foundation and perceptions reality. Right? I've talked about this before. I know you've talked about this a lot, which is this concept of, you know, be it manifestation or. The idea around, to your point, here's this, this same tangible thing with technically the same value, but how you perceive that value and what you perceive in that penny itself is dramatically different, or could be dramatically different person to person, and your ability to you. I'd say both cultivate a mindset, but also sharpen one's mindset. I've heard you speak many times, obviously listened to you a bunch as well. That's a true gift, and you've obviously had platforms through which you could provide that gift. But what you continue to do with it is just remarkable. How do you make sure every day, and you mentioned a few things, but how do you make sure every day you wake up? And put yourself in that mindset that makes you who you are and

David Meltzer: 3:28

who you want to be very pragmatic, but it comes to daily practices. And believe it or not, my daily practices starts tonight. So I don't necessarily adhere to what others might perceive as a day for me. My day starts with an unwinding routine to put my mind, my body and my soul in a position to recover. Thank you. And to access during the negotiable time called sleep. And in fact, the only mentor I've had for the last 17 years without pausing, quitting or changing is my sleep mentor to help me facilitate, determined upon my travel, my diet, my timeframes and time zones, how to best unwind, how to best put my mind, my body, my soul into a position of recovery. Obviously. But also ask information, the energy that's taking monetization and materialization and manifestation into the waking hours of both non negotiable and negotiable activities. And so I think just shifting a paradigm of number one, positioning myself to recover and access, and then utilizing when I awake. As a baseline plateau for the day, so many people live their lives like tubes, food in food out, and they believe the beginning of the day starts with a day awake. I believe the beginning of the day starts with the seven hours of non negotiable time that I spend sleeping and then create a new plateau to elevate my higher self, and then use that as a baseline to determine one thing. What am I doing to interfere my progress with my good behavior, which creates good progress? What am I doing to interfere with it? Uh, which is an entire paradigm shift from waking up at the bottom of the hill, doing everything I can to push the boulder up to the top of the hill, just to have it roll back down to the bottom of the hill the next day, and then go three, four, 50 years and wonder why I'm still at the bottom of the hill. When all I have to do is shift that perspective and take an unwinding routine To recurrent access to plateau every day and grow during the day and then utilizing the baseline of each day in order to effectuate understate, not how am I going to get more happy, more healthy, more wealthy, more worthy, but instead, what am I doing to interfere with it? And this paradigm shift perspective participation is one that we can derive four different things from one gratitude, the ability to find the light, the love and the lesson in each day to give it a meaning aligned with the trajectory of where we want to be or better to be forgiving or empathetic so that we can give forgiveness and be at ease to maximize the flow and diminish the. Disease that's created by that interference to be accountable in three respects. Accountability means learning the light, the love and the lessons through gratitude and forgiveness through asking, what did I do to be responsible? What am I doing to attract and what am I doing to participate in the perception and accountability lies in? What am I supposed to learn from it with these to the final? Effective communication that exists, not only between everything and everyone in every situation in every event, what is between us, not only here, but what exists between us and, and I'm sure all powerful, all knowing infinite, abundant, unified system of thought that we participate in that we're accountable, gracious and forgiving and, and in this realm, we can continue. Progress in a trajectory of where we are better by giving meaning to the light, the love of the lessons through these four key values. And pragmatically that has worked not only for me, but our thousands, if not even now millions of people to make more money, help more people and have more fun in their lives, utilizing these values and these practices

Dr. Ryan Wakim: 7:30

to synthesize that down to something that. In my practice, I think is incredibly just to kind of reiterate is this idea of actually preparing yourself for your next day in the present. And that includes the resilience you get in the recharge you get through high quality sleep. And I love how you talk about that as not just being number one, a part of a paradigm shift, number two, being a non negotiable for you, because we have. Far too many people who don't care, don't put the effort into the sleep, they just kind of are waiting for the next day. And they're not waking up at a kind of an energy level or an optimization level, or they can be effective. Right? And so if you want to do all of those things and both be successful, but also give back, you can't do any of that unless you're in the right mindset. And that starts with that paradigm shift of just getting quality sleep. And it's something again, both as a psychiatrist. And in my own experience with entrepreneurship and coaching and mentoring. We don't put nearly enough focus on and it is that it is part of the foundation for to your point for being successful.

David Meltzer: 8:39

Interesting. You said about energy too, right? Because you have to know the characteristics of it in order to effectuate it. Energy attracts more like energy. It accelerates on itself and it creates exponential outcomes. All three things are things that we want, especially when it's aligned with the energy of money or the energy of behavior or the energy of thought or the energy of belief or the energy of feeling. And so who wouldn't want. Their positive energy, regardless of the materialization or form that it takes of actions, words, thoughts, beliefs, or feelings or money or behavior who won't want it to attract more of the good, accelerate faster and give you exponential outcomes aligned with where you want to be or better clearing interference between you and where you want to be or better. A thousand

Dr. Ryan Wakim: 9:27

percent agree. And that's why people like you help to impact others in ways that are really difficult to put into words sometimes. What for you, again, just kind of taking what I asked before and maybe taking it one step further. What is another non negotiable for you? What is something else that is, as you think about how you might be successful, either personally or professionally, what is another non negotiable in your life?

David Meltzer: 9:53

One of them is time, you know, a lot of people don't understand, you know, time itself is a dependent variable of all matter in the present, right? We are limited by three things. One, the meaning that we give the past, which we've discussed agnosia and probably already, but you will never be able to overachieve the meaning you give your past with it or outsmart it, go over and under, through it, around it, lie to achieve them. That are diet. You also in the future will never overcome your own self image, but time is dependent variable because if we understand the past is infinite and we control it by our meaning, the future is infinite and we control it by our self image. Now, the number one non negotiable is time. How are you going to utilize the 24 hours that we're given today? Sleep. Minus is off seven hours for me of non negotiable time. That leaves 17 hours of time. Now I just prioritize those non negotiables like everybody else. Number one health. So I spend a minimum amount of time each day or time on my health. If I'm healthy, I get as many wishes as I want. If I'm unhealthy, I'll only have one wish to family. Very common. My negotiable family. The difference between me and other people is my family's a non negotiable. So if I have, regardless of financial non negotiable, it falls behind my family, non negotiable. If somebody says I need to have a meeting at this time and I tell them I am going to my spokesman at that time, you're going to have to give me a different time. I have no shame interference or disappointment or fear in telling someone that. Non negotiable. I either need to go to sleep, I need to work out or eat, right. Or do whatever else my health is. I do balance and meditation and a variety of things each day. And I have a problem telling people that my family comes before finance. And then of course, faith is another non negotiable in essence, reversing nearing each day, seven hours of non negotiable sleep, about three hours minimum each day with that health family, finance, fitness, and faith. It then still leaves 14 hours to do whatever the F I want to do. And now it's a matter of utilizing the pragmatic system of daily practices in order to effectuate being productive, accessible, and gracious with the activities I have planned. I don't have planned in that 14 hours, the activities I get paid for, I don't get paid for in those 14 hours. And then knowing that I have, since I have more than enough to do more than enough options, opportunities and touches a favor. Incomplete humility. I wake up and tell myself I'm so blessed. I have so much I can do. I just need to prioritize that, which is most important to me in alignment with the trajectory of where I want to be or better giving meaning or learning lessons and finding light and love in my past in order to be at ease in the flow. While I'm utilizing. That 14 hours of negotiable time to be productive, accessible, gracious. So for me, the number one non negotiable after sleep is just time. So I give a minimum of 10 minutes a day to study time, to prioritize my time in what's most important to me with non negotiable and negotiable time. Uh, knowing that prioritization is the antidote to the two things that interfere most with our acceleration of our trajectory, which is procrastination. Feeling overwhelmed. If nobody procrastinated or feel felt overwhelmed, doctor, you'd be out of business. That's

Dr. Ryan Wakim: 13:23

no true words have been spoken, right? Yeah. I love where you come at this from a, again, going back to mindset, you, everything you talk about and everything you say is really through the lens of. What I would call abundance, and I think you similar terminology and not through a lens of scarcity. And I know what I've seen a lot of both in clinical practice. And again, and kind of mentoring is what often gets in the way between an entrepreneur and his successes, his or her successes. And again, that could be personal too, is a scarcity mindset. What words of wisdom do you have around how you might shift that mindset? If you are someone who wakes up every day in that setting? Well,

David Meltzer: 14:06

first of all, using time as a variable, let's look at how much time, because time is a quantitative measurement. And for example, I feel guilty and I don't want to feel guilty. I eat time because the only way I can quantify progress is, man, I felt guilty for two hours and 20 minutes today. Maybe I'll try to spend two hours, 19 minutes tomorrow feeling guilty. And eventually I won't feel guilty or it'll just be minutes and moments. And I'll get better at identifying guilt, which is interfering with my potential reaction to fear, to ego based consciousness that I know interferes with my potential. And so when I'm looking at. What is the biggest problem with most people is a mindset of scarcity. Scarcity incorporates. There's not enough. Therefore, I want what I don't have. I want what's missing. I want what other people have. And unfortunately, when we put our attention on those things, we get more of what's missing more of what we don't have and more of what other people have. So I like to categorize when I'm being scarce. Because people aren't scarce a hundred percent of the time. And I like to use time to see I might spending so much time days, weeks, months, and years in scarcity, two types of scarcity, one, not enough where you're a victim. There's not enough of anything. And you could have more than anyone else and still live in scarcity. You feel as if there's not enough food. So you overeat, there's not enough money. So you continually trade negotiate. Time for money in order to get more money, not utilizing the non negotiables of prioritizing your life with what fulfills you the most aligning with your passion purpose, which actually then allows profitability to follow you instead of chasing it because we'll never have enough. If you live in the world of not enough, then there's this really confusing world of just enough. And it's teased by people who are. Is that our generous that live in a world of for me, everything's happening for me. I give to receive, I trade and negotiate giving even. And in that old is still scarce because it's a zero sum game. When you give to receive or you expect something back, it's a trader and negotiation, there's winners and losers. But if I can convince people to spend the majority of their time, only minutes and moments and not enough, and just enough, if I can convince people that there's a world that is omniscient, powerful, knowing a system that's unified, infinite, and above it. And in this world, but world of More than enough of everything for everyone. Not just enough or not enough, but more than enough of everything. People will stop buying what they don't need and impressing people. They don't like, and what they will realize is that not only in the world of more than enough of everything for everyone, do we appreciate everything? We add value to it. Not only are we okay, acknowledging it, sucking every lesson in light and love out of it by giving it away. A learning from when it's lost, stolen, cheated, and manipulated from us. But most importantly, a confirmation of the world of more than of everything. One is understanding. We aren't in a competition of value zero sum game where there's winners and losers. We're in a value add game. So when I am asking for help from others, I'm adding value to that person. And when I'm giving help to others, I'm adding value to that person. I am creating a flow, a confirmation of the ease in which I was born into an infinite, abundant, omniscient, all powerful source that loves me more than my mom. And if I can help people understand, it's not what I have that determines whether I'm scarce or not. It's not I give that determines whether I'm scarce enough. It's actually the confirmation of asking for help and giving help to be in a community that want to help each other and know people that can help each other. A confirmation that I'm constantly adding value for and from appreciation, acknowledgement, and asking. And giving more, that's

Dr. Ryan Wakim: 18:08

incredible insight. The notion of this is not a zero sum game and that you can both add value by asking and add value by giving definitely a different way to look at it. And I would say an area of even myself, I can improve upon around how we define scarcity and abundance. I think, you know, at this point, I am truly appreciative of all your time. David, if there's anything else you wanted to give me or our listeners as part of the podcast, turn it over to you one last time. I

David Meltzer: 18:37

would, um, for your community, my mission in life is to empower others, to empower others to be happy and just sharing my lessons and stories with you and your community is so important to me on that mission. Uh, to that end, I would love to give your entire community my book. I would decide, send it to them, pay for shipping, pay for the book. So if they would email me either for the habit machine, the daily practices and my book. It's David at D Meltzer. com. Please put that in the notes. And if you forget my email, which is David at D Meltzer. com, go ahead and Google me, David Meltzer. I'm on every platform. I'm easy to access and I want to empower you. I do free Friday trainings every Friday. I do Q and A's of the day every day. I'm on almost every platform for free to help. So please reach out to me. David at D melter. com. Join our community of people that want to help other people that can help each other. We'll all together live in abundance. It's a more than enough world. We can all make more money, help more people and have more fun. Every single day. Thank you, Dr. Ryan. I appreciate you so much. Please come back and join me as well. I look forward to our next thing. Thank you, David.

Dr. Ryan Wakim: 20:00

It was a pleasure having you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks, David, for joining us today. I was super valuable insights and incredible to get to experience that knowledge base firsthand. Again, I'm Dr. Ryan Wakeham, successful entrepreneur and your end game coach. I'm here to teach you how to exist today so that you may expand tomorrow and create the ultimate endgame of your wildest desires. I hope you liked today's episode. Don't hesitate to share, subscribe, send it to others, like it yourself. Don't hesitate to go to David Meltzer's website or email him directly. He's incredibly helpful. Passionate, obviously, about what he does, and he stands true by that. I've emailed him before and I get a response right back. So we'll put that in the show notes too. Again, it was great to have everyone today. Look forward to talking to you again. Talk to you soon.