David Meltzer | How Do We Overcome Unhappiness?

Speak­er 1:

We believe and have always believed in this coun­try that man was cre­at­ed in the image of God, that he was giv­en tal­ents and respon­si­bil­i­ties and was instruct­ed to use them to make this world a bet­ter place in which to live. And you see, this is the real­ly great thing of America.

Doug:

It’s time to dis­cov­er what binds us togeth­er. And find­ing it has the pow­er to trans­form our world. That’s what I believe. How about you?

All right. Hel­lo, every­body. And wel­come to Believe. Great to have you along with us today is a spe­cial day. We’re going to be talk­ing about this frus­tra­tion, this unhap­pi­ness that it seems to be in the world today, and how it might be hurt­ing us in Amer­i­ca. But we’re with a guy who’s an amaz­ing, pos­i­tive per­son. We’re with David Meltzer. And David, you have been a great his­to­ry of engage­ment of pos­i­tiv­i­ty. And your exam­ple has inspired movies. Your abil­i­ty to talk to peo­ple around the world is spec­tac­u­lar. And I know you were just with a bunch of friends [inaudi­ble 00:01:15] and the Direct Sell­ing Asso­ci­a­tion recent­ly. So tell me about that real quick [inaudi­ble 00:01:20] how that went.

David Meltzer:

Yeah. I did­n’t know you were involved with them, but I was just blessed to leave my daugh­ter’s high school grad­u­a­tion par­ty ear­ly. I heard I was blessed to leave that with all those kids to fly overnight to Boca Raton for the DSA, the Direct Sell­ing Asso­ci­a­tion’s annu­al meet­ing. And I keynote not­ed that with a talk about hap­pi­ness, about empow­er­ing oth­ers to make mon­ey, help peo­ple and have fun, and the extra­or­di­nary oppor­tu­ni­ties that direct sell­ing gives to peo­ple in order to make a lot of mon­ey and help a lot of peo­ple and have a lot of fun.

But what I real­ly enjoyed most beyond the extra­or­di­nary peo­ple like Joni Rogers-Kante and oth­ers who had invit­ed me down there was that there’s no bet­ter indus­try to illus­trate one of the biggest facades that exists today, which I call the extra mile. You see, with the hun­dreds of peo­ple that I work with in my own com­pa­ny and thou­sands around the world, they all tell me, ​“David, Mr. Meltzer, I go the extra mile.”

And I was like, ​“You cer­tain­ly do, just like my kids do. You go the extra mile every once in a while.” And that does­n’t work in the direct sell­ing world at all, because what hap­pens is peo­ple who go the extra mile every once in a while, they live their life in blame, shame and jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, because going the extra mile every once in a while does­n’t do it. And so they go back and say, ​“Oh yeah, but I went the extra mile here.” And it’s like a kid com­ing home and break­ing cur­few, right? In the morn­ing when you take away their phone for break­ing cur­few, what do they jus­ti­fy? ​“Oh, but I’m a good kid. I got straight As, dad. Don’t take my phone.”

I’m like, ​“Whoa, whoa, you went the extra mile every once in a while to get good grades, but not every day, right?” I’m talk­ing about in order to be suc­cess­ful in DSA, in order to be suc­cess­ful in life, you need to enjoy the con­sis­tent every day, per­sis­tent, with­out quit, pur­suit of your poten­tial. You need to go the extra mile every day to live in the emp­ty mile. And here’s the good, nice thing about it, as you see this in direct sell­ing, the emp­ty mile is less com­pet­i­tive. There’s less resis­tance. There’s less fric­tion. So the peo­ple who live in the emp­ty mile by going the extra mile every day some­how end up with these huge down­streams in unbe­liev­able health, wealth, hap­pi­ness and wor­thi­ness, while every­body else is jus­ti­fy­ing with blame and shame why they’re not where they want to be, because they went to the extra mile two weeks ago.

Doug:

Right, right. Well, you’re right. Going that extra mile every day is impor­tant. Talk a lit­tle bit about … and I just love the way you have the phras­es … you have this under­stand­ing, and you have this per­spec­tive. There’s a lot of peo­ple who are not in that place right now. There’s a lot of divi­sion that’s in our coun­try, that I won­der how it’s hurt­ing our coun­try. So talk a lit­tle bit about the peo­ple who aren’t there, who are blam­ing, who are jus­ti­fy­ing their posi­tion. How do we under­stand where they are so that we can help them make that transition?

David Meltzer:

First, you have to meet peo­ple where they’re at. So you need to ask them and find peo­ple to meet where they’re at that have open minds. I tell every­one that every­one has an open mind at a cer­tain time. Some peo­ple have open minds 90% of the time, some peo­ple have open minds 10% of the time. So what we want to do first is vet for the open mind to find the open hearts and open hands in order to meet peo­ple where they’re at, because most peo­ple spend the major­i­ty of their time on peo­ple that are bleed­ing them, let alone peo­ple that are not open-mind­ed. And so by find­ing out what peo­ple are doing today and then find­ing out what they like about it and what they don’t like about it, we then can explore through open-end­ed ques­tions that have an open mind, ​“Would it help you if I did this?”

You see, if we know what we want in a day, per­son­al­ly, expe­ri­en­tial­ly, giv­ing and receiv­ing-wise, we can find out who we can help, but also who can help us. And when we do that, we cre­ate inspi­ra­tion, or in spir­it, we real­ize and we acknowl­edge, remind, remem­ber and rec­ol­lect that we are con­nect­ed to abun­dance, to infi­nite every­thing for every­one, that we don’t have to live in a zero-sum game in a world of not enough, where you’re a vic­tim or just enough, where things come for you, where you’re buy­ing things you don’t need to impress peo­ple you don’t like.

But there is actu­al­ly a world of faith where the source, the omni­scient, all-pow­er­ful, all-know­ing source, the omnipresent source, loves you more than your mom, where you’re always pro­tect­ed and pro­mot­ed with more than enough of every­thing for every­one. You don’t have to live in a zero-sum game. You can live in a val­ue-add game, but it does know good. Unless you find the open mind, the open heart and open hand by find­ing out by open-end­ed ques­tions, ​“What are you doing today? What do you like about it? What don’t you like about it? And would it help you if” … That is the tem­plate that I’ve cre­at­ed for peo­ple to find those open minds, to meet peo­ple where they’re at, to teach them grat­i­tude, for­give­ness, account­abil­i­ty, and live inspired.

Doug:

Yeah, I love it. David, when you talk about these sorts of things, when you have this incred­i­ble out­look and we rec­og­nize that there’s peo­ple … You talk about how we can con­nect with peo­ple who are in an unhap­py state, a cou­ple things come to mind. It’d be easy to say, ​“Well, you just must have had every­thing going your way. You must have nev­er had a chal­lenge in your life. Every­thing was just per­fect for you.” It’s easy for you to say that. But you’ve had a few chal­lenges in your life. Share with our audi­ence some of the things that you’ve gone through, because life isn’t with­out chal­lenge, and it’s not with­out tak­ing risks to get to a bet­ter place.

David Meltzer:

Yeah, I have tons of pain, set­backs, fail­ures, mis­takes, voids, short­ages and obsta­cles in my life, like every­one else. I still have them. I have what every­one else has today, but I spend min­utes and moments, not days, weeks, months, and years. So I grew up with a sin­gle mom, six kids, not enough food. My mom worked two jobs, packed my din­ner in a paper bag so that we could eat in between being a sec­ond grade teacher and fill­ing up turn­stiles with greet­ing cards at con­ve­nience stores. And yet from there, I also was abused as a nine-year-old, from a rel­a­tive of mine. Then I go and I don’t have mon­ey to go to col­lege, but find a way through that. Then I end up liv­ing a life of for me, where I make mul­ti­mil­lions of dol­lars, and I end up los­ing everything.

2008 hits, I lose over a hun­dred mil­lion dol­lars and go bank­rupt. I go from 33 homes in San Diego, a ski moun­tain and a golf course to lit­er­al­ly a rent­ed house, rent­ed fur­ni­ture, one car, three daugh­ters under 10 years old, and a preg­nant wife with my son. I then rebuild that as well, with all types of chal­lenges, set­backs and fail­ures, the same as any­body else, that I had to re-engi­neer what I was doing in mul­ti­ple dif­fer­ent directions.

But I will tell you this: through dai­ly prac­tices and val­ues of grat­i­tude, for­give­ness, account­abil­i­ty and inspi­ra­tion, through the under­stand­ing that I’m already hap­py, healthy, wealthy and wor­thy, I just con­tin­ue fig­ure out what I’m doing to inter­fere with it. And I only let the inter­fer­ence last for min­utes and moments, not days, weeks, months and years. I know what I want every day, real­is­ti­cal­ly, who I can help, who can help me, how to get it done.

I know how to pri­or­i­tize it, but most impor­tant­ly, I know how to apply my why. I’m not in search of being hap­py, healthy, wealthy and wor­thy. I already know I am. I’m fig­ur­ing out what I’m doing to inter­fere with it. And I use lin­ear time, prag­mat­ic time, today, to think about and dream about an unre­al­is­tic future and past, because my yes­ter­day and tomor­row are rel­a­tive in time. Today is real­is­tic time. So I’m going to be pro­duc­tive, acces­si­ble and gra­cious with my real­is­tic time towards a tra­jec­to­ry, by empow­er­ing over a bil­lion peo­ple to be hap­py, by empow­er­ing peo­ple to make more mon­ey, help more peo­ple and have more fun. Doug, I’ve nev­er met any­one that makes a ton of mon­ey, helps a ton of peo­ple and has a ton of fun that aren’t happy.

Doug:

There you go. There you go. And being hap­py, this idea of being hap­py is not stuff. This is an inside out thing. You’ve talked and I’ve seen you talk about your cen­ter, your faith, and that hav­ing a place … and you just talked about it a lit­tle bit. Maybe go just a touch deep­er. Because when we talk about believe in this pod­cast, we’re talk­ing about encour­ag­ing peo­ple to find their cen­ter. What do they real­ly believe? And then from there, they could move for­ward. So help us under­stand how you’ve gone through that, and your center.

David Meltzer:

Well, I thought I was in con­trol of every­thing. I lived, like most peo­ple, as a tube, food in, food out, push­ing a Boul­der to the top of the hill, just to have it roll down to the bot­tom the next day. I call it igno­rant arro­gance, where we know we don’t know what we don’t know, but we’re pre­tend­ing like we do. I then shift­ed to igno­rant humil­i­ty, which allows me to tell peo­ple, ​“Look, I don’t know what I don’t know, but I’m going to do my best, learn lessons and have fun.” I’m going to live my life with ser­vice and with val­ue by doing so. But in order to do so, I have to have faith. No longer am I going in search of any­thing of what’s com­ing to me. All I’m focused in on is what I’m becom­ing, because I give mean­ing to every­thing I see.

And if I give mean­ing to every­thing I see, I can’t find out­side of me what I can’t find inside of me. And so I’m uti­liz­ing that enjoy­ment of the con­sis­tent, per­sis­tent pur­suit of my poten­tial, the five dai­ly prac­tices … which by the way, for your audi­ence, every­one, my book on dai­ly prac­tices for free for your audi­ence, email me, david@​dmeltzer.​com. I’m more than hap­py to send it to every­one, david@​dmeltzer.​com, because it ends up in being some­thing I did­n’t have when I lived in the world of just enough, buy­ing things I did­n’t need to impress peo­ple I did­n’t like, think­ing I was in con­trol. I am not in con­trol of any­thing out­side of me. I am only in con­trol of my mind­set, my heart­set and my handset.

And so in order to acknowl­edge that, I believe that there’s some­thing big­ger than me, an omni­scient, all pow­er­ful, all-know­ing, omnipresent source that loves me more than my mom loves me. And the anal­o­gy that changed my life was I remem­ber when I was three years old. Now, my mom is a con­sum­mate sec­ond grade teacher. She’s a Sun­day school teacher. She has giv­en her life to her six chil­dren, all who went to the Ivy Leagues, grad­u­at­ed sum­ma cum laude, and lived by the line, ​“Doc­tor, lawyer or fail­ure.” My mom is an incred­i­ble mom, but she nev­er yelled at us. She nev­er hit us. But when I was three years old, I went to reach a hot stove. My mom slapped the crap out of my hand and screamed at me, ​“No.” I start­ed to cry.

I’m like, ​“Mom, why are you yelling at me? What did I do? Why’d you hit me?” I could­n’t believe it. I’m like, ​“Why are you pun­ish­ing me?” I’m three years old. She imme­di­ate­ly hugged me.

And she’s like, ​“Hon­ey, I’m not at all pun­ish­ing you. I’m pro­tect­ing you from what you don’t know. I’m pro­tect­ing you. I’m pro­mot­ing you to a safer, a bet­ter place.”

Well, I some­how con­nect­ed that to my whole life, say­ing, ​“How could going bank­rupt, liv­ing in a rent­ed house with rent­ed fur­ni­ture and one car, how could that be a pro­mo­tion and a pro­tec­tion?” Only if I had faith that there’s some­thing that knew every­thing that was look­ing and lov­ing me more than my mom loved me, because she’s igno­rant and hum­ble like me. She does­n’t know what she … My mom actu­al­ly told me the inter­net was a fad, not to take my job in the inter­net, which paid me over a mil­lion dol­lars in nine months and let me buy her the house and the car that I dreamed about buy­ing her.

I was pro­tect­ed and pro­mot­ed when they did­n’t let me into the right law school. I was pro­tect­ed and pro­mot­ed when I took job in the inter­net, not as a real lawyer. I was pro­tect­ed and pro­mot­ed when my wife threat­ened to leave me because I was on the wrong path. I was threat­ened and pro­mot­ed when my dad sent me a jack­et with no pock­ets and told me I was just like him. And I told him, ​“I’m noth­ing like you. You’re a liar, a cheater, a manip­u­la­tor. I hate you,” to find out I was my father and I hat­ed myself.

We can find the light, the love and the lessons in every­thing, and rec­on­cile time, whether it’s worth to find it at that day, time and moment, by uti­liz­ing the open-end­ed ques­tion guide, by find­ing open minds, open hearts and open hands. But most impor­tant­ly, real­iz­ing we are in con­trol of our mind­set, our heart­set, and our hand­set, con­nect­ed to and through an omni­scient, all-pow­er­ful, all-know­ing, omnipresent source that loves us more than your mom loves you, or even more than my mom loves me.

Doug:

Wow. Wow. That’s a pow­er­ful state­ment, and to put it in that con­text of love and pro­tec­tion so you can move for­ward. So your les­son is that we can learn. You talk about grat­i­tude a lot. And when you talk about the dif­fi­cult expe­ri­ences that you’ve gone through, you’ve shown how you have used those to move your­self for­ward. Talk a lit­tle bit about the inside feel­ing of how you feel about those, that sense of grat­i­tude that you speak about. I’ve seen you speak about that. Help us under­stand that and how we can apply that in our lives and build on a belief sys­tem, like you’ve been talk­ing about.

David Meltzer:

I love the word par­tic­i­pa­tion. I look at what peo­ple think about me, say about me. And I say to myself, ​“What did I do to par­tic­i­pate in their per­cep­tion of me, in their activ­i­ty? What did I do to par­tic­i­pate, and what am I sup­posed to learn through that to find the light, the love and the lessons in every­thing?” But the one thing that most peo­ple don’t talk about beyond par­tic­i­pa­tion in grat­i­tude, the coher­ence of remem­ber­ing to be thank­ful and actu­al­ly being thank­ful … which believe it or not is more dif­fi­cult than any­thing else. It takes 0.1 sec­onds, it is free, but by tonight, most peo­ple will for­get to say thank you. And by tomor­row, most of us will for­get to say thank you. And with­in three days, almost all of us will for­get to say thank you. That’s how hard it is to par­tic­i­pate in gratitude.

But beyond par­tic­i­pa­tion, the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion of time with­in the con­text of grat­i­tude … This is why I talk about real­is­tic, lin­ear time, to know our dai­ly prac­tices today, to be unre­al­is­tic and rel­a­tive of yes­ter­day and the future. The rea­son it’s so impor­tant is that there is light, love and lessons in every­thing. Most peo­ple spend the major­i­ty of their time with peo­ple, things and events that bleed them; jobs they don’t like, rela­tion­ships that bleed us, events, sit­u­a­tions that bleed us, instead of rec­on­cil­ing time and say­ing to our­selves, ​“Hey, I know there’s light, love and lessons in Doug, but is it worth my time today, today?”

And if it is, then we can go ahead and par­tic­i­pate in the rela­tion­ship, the sit­u­a­tion, the book, the idea, what­ev­er it may be, or the per­cep­tion of some­one else of us. Peo­ple waste so much time with oth­er peo­ple’s per­cep­tions instead of their own. They’re so wor­ried about what oth­er peo­ple think, say, do and want for them. It’s ter­ri­ble. Trust me. You should only be con­cerned of your par­tic­i­pa­tion in that oth­er per­son­’s per­cep­tion of you.

I have three teenage daugh­ters. And if I could take back all the time, emo­tion, val­ue and friend­ships that they’ve wor­ried about because of what oth­er peo­ple have said, done, or thought, and I’ll say to them, ​“How are you wor­ried about what they think of you when you don’t even know or wor­ry about what you think of you?” Why not just ask your­self, ​“What am I doing to par­tic­i­pate in what those peo­ple think of me, and what am I sup­posed to learn from it?” Don’t wor­ry about the judge­ments and con­di­tions and attacks that you feel or think or per­ceive. I can’t tell you how much time, emo­tion, val­ue and rela­tion­ships I’ve wast­ed on thoughts about what oth­er peo­ple think about me that were so far off, that were so far off, that I just wast­ed my time, emo­tion, val­ue and rela­tion­ship over wor­ry­ing or com­plain­ing about some­body else’s per­cep­tion of me, when all I had to do is ask, ​“What am I doing to par­tic­i­pate in the per­cep­tion, and what am I sup­posed to learn from it?”

There’s light, love and lessons in every­one. Grat­i­tude is the abil­i­ty to not only find the light, the love and the lessons, but to rec­on­cile time. Is it worth it? Are they bleed­ing me or feed­ing me? And let’s go ahead and find the light, the love and lessons in the peo­ple that are feed­ing us and feed that. Sur­round your­self with the right peo­ple and the right ideas. It’s much eas­i­er to have coher­ence of grat­i­tude to uti­lize your 0.1 sec­onds that’s free, in its most advan­ta­geous manner.

Doug:

Yeah, yeah. I love all the per­spec­tives that you bring about how we par­tic­i­pate, what we do. Let’s go back a lit­tle bit and talk, because we’ve talked before about this idea, and you talked about the direct sell­ing, this idea of the Amer­i­can dream and this idea of over­com­ing these things. And if we talk about the chal­lenge with unhap­pi­ness and that it’s hurt­ing Amer­i­ca, if we were to get to the hap­pi­ness part, if we were to put these prac­tices into our dai­ly lives, as you talk about, what do you see we could change in our com­mu­ni­ty, in our state, in our country?

David Meltzer:

Yeah. Well, first, clear­ing the inter­fer­ence not only between us and what we’re con­nect­ed to and through, but clear­ing the inter­fer­ence between us and every­one else, right? When we have less inter­fer­ence or less fric­tion in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of inspi­ra­tion, to be tru­ly con­nect­ed in a world of more than enough, then abun­dance can flow freely. Let me show you how it works. So if we can, num­ber one, appre­ci­ate our dif­fer­ences and our sim­i­lar­i­ties … not just the sim­i­lar­i­ties, right? I get when peo­ple, ​“Oh, we’re all human.” Okay, great. We can appre­ci­ate that we all have bod­ies and minds and we’re all human, but why not appre­ci­ate the dif­fer­ences, right, uti­liz­ing the weak­ness­es to move to a place where they’re strengths, and max­i­miz­ing the strengths of one anoth­er? Because as a whole, if we appre­ci­ate, if we live in a val­ue-add world, not a zero-sum world, when we appre­ci­ate, we expand, which is what the uni­verse is doing, expand­ing and grow­ing and accelerating.

Now, in that same con­text of how we can unite with one anoth­er, clear the inter­fer­ence that we per­ceive exists between one anoth­er, the dif­fer­ences that are not appre­ci­at­ed, once we appre­ci­ate the dif­fer­ences, we can acknowl­edge and rec­og­nize the dif­fer­ences by giv­ing it away, by allow­ing it to be lost, stolen or manip­u­lat­ed with no judg­ment or con­di­tions. Because the only way we can acknowl­edge and rec­og­nize the con­nec­tiv­i­ty, the inspi­ra­tion between us, the sim­i­lar­i­ties and the dif­fer­ences that are appre­ci­at­ed, is to give it away, to acknowl­edge it and rec­og­nize it.

Now, most peo­ple stop there. What I try to encour­age peo­ple to do is to ask, to be more inter­est­ed than inter­est­ing, to not live in a zero-sum game, but to live in full faith that there’s more than enough of every­thing for every­one. So not only do I want every­one to appre­ci­ate the sim­i­lar­i­ties and dif­fer­ences, to rec­og­nize and acknowl­edge them by giv­ing them away, but I want you to add val­ue by ask­ing for help. By uti­liz­ing the open-end­ed ques­tion tem­plate, by sim­ply ask­ing peo­ple and find­ing the open minds, open hearts and open hands, ​“What are you doing today? What do you like about it? What don’t you like about it? Would it help you if I did this? Would it help you if I could do this? Would it help you if I intro­duced you to this? Would it help you if” … Then you could cir­cle back to com­plete it by say­ing, ​“Do you know any­one that can help me?”

See, what I want to cre­ate is a com­mu­ni­ty of not only pow­er spon­sors, peo­ple that can help one anoth­er, but even fur­ther­more, espe­cial­ly with social media, a com­mu­ni­ty of spon­sors, peo­ple who know peo­ple that can help us. Nev­er before … you and I are a lit­tle bit longer in the tooth, Doug. We remem­ber a day where we only had access to our com­mu­ni­ties, to a news­pa­per arti­cle, at best a TV show.

Doug:

Yeah, right. Right.

David Meltzer:

Not today. We have access to 7.6 bil­lion peo­ple. Our fre­quen­cy is our neigh­bor­hood. Let’s ele­vate the aware­ness. Let’s ele­vate oth­ers to ele­vate our­selves by ask­ing, ​“Do you know any­one that can help me?” If you ask for help, which is just as impor­tant as giv­ing it, I think it’s crit­i­cal to unite through not only giv­ing, but receiv­ing, by ask­ing for help through appre­ci­a­tion, acknowl­edge­ment and hope.

Doug:

Beau­ti­ful. And you talk, this con­nects … And we’ll wrap here, because I know we’ve got a short peri­od of time to chat. But you talk about being open and build­ing rela­tion­ships and ask­ing that ques­tion and lis­ten­ing to peo­ple. And you talk about this idea of a bil­lion peo­ple being hap­py, but to empow­er a bil­lion peo­ple … because you can’t make some­body hap­py. Help us under­stand how we can be part of empow­er­ing some­body with us, some­body that we know, so that they can find that path to happiness.

David Meltzer:

I love that. Well, first of all, it’s over a bil­lion peo­ple. I always tell peo­ple the only thing that you want to kill in your life­time is your lim­i­ta­tions. [inaudi­ble 00:23:17]-

Doug:

There you go. I like it. Okay, over a bil­lion peo­ple. I’m with you there.

David Meltzer:

Over a bil­lion peo­ple. And yes, the only way that I can get there is by empow­er­ing oth­ers to empow­er oth­ers. So I’m look­ing for a thou­sand peo­ple like you, Doug, that I know in your life­time will empow­er a thou­sand peo­ple to empow­er a thou­sand peo­ple. A thou­sand times a thou­sand’s a mil­lion. A mil­lion times a thou­sand’s a bil­lion. Now, how do we do it? Well, let’s not have peo­ple lis­ten to us. What I want peo­ple to do is to be more inter­est­ed than inter­est­ing. I want peo­ple to learn what peo­ple are lis­ten­ing for. I want peo­ple to find the open minds, open hearts and open hands and find out what they’re lis­ten­ing for, and how can we add val­ue to what they’re lis­ten­ing for, and how can they add val­ue to what we’re lis­ten­ing for?

And when we are in this abun­dant faith-based per­spec­tive of more than enough of every­thing for every­one, with an omni­scient, all-pow­er­ful, all-know­ing, omnipresent source that loves us more than our mom, we can empow­er oth­er peo­ple with the heart­set and the hand­set to not only cre­ate abun­dance for them­selves and live in an infi­nite world, but empow­er oth­ers to do the same. We could share our heart­set, the way we feel, and we could share our hand­set, the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, acces­si­bil­i­ty and grat­i­tude, by shar­ing our mind­set, heart­set and hand­set, by find­ing open minds, open hearts and open hands to uti­lize the mind­set, hand­set and heartset.

It’s amaz­ing how much more pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, acces­si­bil­i­ty and grat­i­tude there’ll be in the world. And the more pro­duc­tive the world is, right, the more val­ue the world is pro­vid­ing, the more acces­si­ble the world is. When we’re more acces­si­ble, we are able to access more, too. So we bring a duplica­tive val­ue to acces­si­bil­i­ty of not only being acces­si­ble of oth­ers, but receiv­ing. And then that all will rec­on­cile into grat­i­tude by uti­liz­ing man­made, con­struc­tive time to find out and pri­or­i­tize, is it worth it to find the light, the love and the lessons in those peo­ple and sit­u­a­tions that feed us so we can feed those, max­i­miz­ing our love and truth, max­i­miz­ing our poten­tial, allow­ing us to enjoy, to be hap­py with the con­sis­tent, every day, per­sis­tent with­out quit, pur­suit of our own potential?

Every­one born and appre­ci­at­ing the gifts that we’ve been giv­en, not what oth­er peo­ple [inaudi­ble 00:25:36] for us, not what’s miss­ing, not what we have, but what we want, our poten­tial. And all of this will aggre­gate and accu­mu­late and coor­di­nate and col­lab­o­rate togeth­er to cre­ate a greater expec­ta­tion, greater per­cep­tion of the par­tic­i­pa­tion in the jour­ney that we’re all on togeth­er as a col­lec­tive con­scious­ness, remind­ing, remem­ber­ing and recollecting.

What is it? What do you think? Those sure sound like words of togeth­er­ness. So let’s all remind, remem­ber and rec­ol­lect togeth­er. Let’s empow­er one anoth­er to empow­er oth­ers to be more inter­est­ing, to be kind, not only kind, but kind to our future selves by doing good deeds. My name, David, means beloved. My last name, Meltzer, means ser­vant. Let us all be David Meltzers. Let us all be beloved ser­vants to one anoth­er by ask­ing how we could be of ser­vice and val­ue and ask­ing for help. I promise you, you will make a lot of mon­ey, help a lot of peo­ple and have a lot of fun, and most impor­tant­ly, be happy,

Doug:

Be hap­py. Well, there you go, my friend, David Meltzer, what a beloved ser­vant, and words of wis­dom. And I think that being inter­est­ed in some­body else and putting that rela­tion­ship as a pri­or­i­ty out there, help­ing us be hap­py. And if we are empow­er­ing oth­ers to find that source of hap­pi­ness them­selves, we can cre­ate uni­ty and make our com­mu­ni­ties a bet­ter place. David, thank you so much for tak­ing your time with us. We appre­ci­ate it. God bless you. Take care, and we’ll look for­ward to see­ing you soon.

David Meltzer:

Thank you for ele­vat­ing oth­ers to ele­vate your­self, my friend. David@​dmeltzer.​com. I’m here to be of ser­vice. Thank you, Doug. Take care.

Doug:

All right. And thank you all for join­ing us on Believe. We’ll look for­ward to see­ing you next time.