The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell
13 Hacks to be 99.9% More Disciplined That Cost Nothing
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Get The Book (Buy Back Your Time): https://bit.ly/3pCTG78 Subscribe to My Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3W2tjp2 Want more discipline? These proven hacks work even if you have zero motivation right now. In this episode I share the 13 hacks that can make anyone 99% more disciplined… And they cost nothing. These are the strategies that I used to go from a distracted, broke 23 year old with ADHD, to consistently crushing every hard task without fail, AND building a 100 million dollar business. You can start using these hacks TODAY, even if you lack motivation.
Chapter 1: What are the 13 hacks for building discipline?
I'm going to share the 13 hacks that can make anyone 99% more disciplined that cost nothing. These are the strategies that I use to go from a distracted, broke 23-year-old with ADHD to consistently crushing every hard task without fail and building $100 million empire. You can start using these hacks today, even if you lack motivation. Welcome to the Martell Method.
I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million empire and being a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. In this podcast, I'll show you exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to hate. My bestselling book, Buy Back Your Time, is out now. Grab a copy at buybackyourtime.com or at any of your preferred online retailers.
So without further explaining it, these are the 13 hacks to unlock more discipline. Starting with number one, cancel your morning alarm. I know a guy that literally has seven morning alarms. He wakes up, he hits the snooze button. He wakes up again, snooze button again. And he's got a snooze alarm set every 15 minutes. What are you doing? Why are you laying in bed?
Do you know what you tell yourself when you do this is that life is a snooze and you're better off just laying there than not getting up and attacking the day. Most of your problems could easily be solved if you just went to bed on time. How do I get up at 4 a.m. every day without an alarm? I just go to bed at 9 p.m. It's not that impressive. I have an alarm to tell me when I go to bed.
If you want to wake up ready to attack the day, if the first decision you get the chance to make is snoozing your alarm, you've just lost the battle. Think about this. If you just delete your alarm, it will force you to think about your bedtime because you got to go to bed at a time where your body will naturally wake up. So instead, set a bedtime alarm.
That is different from what you will hear from everybody else. It's more important to go to bed on time and let your body wake you up when it's done resting than for you to wake yourself up out of bed because you don't have a forcing function to go to bed on time.
See, if you know you have to go to sleep because your body's going to wake up and you can't have an alarm intercept, you won't allow yourself to watch another episode, watch another episode, watch another episode. You will go to bed on time because you have to get the time in for your body to feel restful so that when you wake up, you can attack it.
before we get to number two we've got a goal of hitting a million subscribers so if you haven't already hit subscribe which brings us to hack number two upgrade your tv to a library i remember listening to jim rohn who's like the godfather of personal development a long time ago and he said most people that are broke have bigger tvs than they do libraries the average person has a 65 75 bazillion inch tv my invitation is have a bigger library go invest in books
When I buy books, somebody says, hey, you should buy this book. I buy that book, every other book the author has. I see what's recommended to me. I have an unlimited budget for my mind. That belief will keep me disciplined and focused on achieving things that most people can't. There's a reason supercar companies like Ferrari and Lamborghini don't run TV ads.
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Chapter 2: How can canceling your morning alarm improve discipline?
So many of them sabotage, ate some crap, made bad decisions. And I just kept saying, go into your house, take all the food out of there. Tell your family you need them to be on board for the next 90 days. Stop blaming them. If you need to get a locked cabinet that your spouse has the key to do that.
But I'm telling you the best way to win in the discipline game is to just avoid having to make the decision. Set the standard in your house. Don't have it as an option. Get it out of your view. It'll be way easier for you to pull off. Here's a big idea. Your environment will always win over your willpower. If you want to make good decisions, you have to make good choices.
The only choices are available. It's not hard to have discipline and make good choices if the only choices available to you are good choices. Make good choices. The only choice is available. I mean, the same can be applied to your phone. Clean out all the distracting app. Just delete them. Only check your social media on your computer if you have to. Or video games.
You're allowed to move them out of your home. Put them at your friend's house. Hey man, I just bought you a new game console, but I'm gonna come over and play it on weekends. Is that okay? Okay, cool. Get it out of your home. It's way easier to avoid the dragon than to slay it. Which brings us to hack number nine, make failure painful.
This was actually painful, but the best decision I've ever made. My first business coach was 1500 bucks a month. I didn't have the money. I figured if he's so good within a couple months, he should be able to help me make money to pay for him. But not doing the work was the pain. Not showing up would have been painful. Not taking deep amounts of notes would have been the most costly thing.
Not the money. It's not getting the results. That would have been the painful thing. And that's why I set up the game
so that the pain is something i don't want to feel so i'm willing to do the work to avoid it most people don't pay so they don't pay attention they don't realize that the transformation they're looking for happens at the transaction because in that moment they say to themselves i want to get my money's worth people will always work harder to avoid pain than to gain pleasure
So here's a few ideas to make sure that it builds your discipline. First off, always have stakes involved. Anytime you make a commitment, you should create a scenario where if you don't achieve it, there's pain in your life. Have the stakes there. Put your money on the line. If you're like, how do I make this painful? I would make a donation to an organization you hate.
Maybe it's the opposite political party you believe in or whatever it is, but if you don't achieve the thing you want, then you have to give a large amount of money to that organization. Or you can have some fun and say, hey, if I don't do this, I'm gonna give you $1,000 if I don't follow through. I wouldn't even give it to a friend, I would actually give it to an enemy.
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