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The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell

How CEOs Get Sh*t Done - 5 Productivity Rules to Do More in Less Time

Wed, 04 Dec 2024

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Get The Book (Buy Back Your Time): https://bit.ly/3pCTG78  Subscribe to My Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3W2tjp2 When I was in my 20s and 30s I wasted so much time travelling… And I would use it as an excuse to fall behind on my commitments. Until I implemented these 5 CEO Productivity Rules that helped me compress decades into days. Where I can run a $100M business empire all while maintaining my sanity and travel the world with my team. So, here’s how to compress time like a CEO. IG: @danmartell X: @danmartell

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Chapter 1: What are the five CEO productivity rules?

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This is how CEOs get more done in a week than most get done in a year. When I was in my 20s and 30s, I wasted so much time traveling and I would use it as an excuse to fall behind on my commitments until I implemented these five CEO productivity rules that helped me compress decades into days. So here's how to compress time like a CEO. Welcome to the Martell Method.

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Chapter 2: How can daily non-negotiables boost productivity?

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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. And make sure you don't miss anything by subscribing to my newsletter at martellmethod.com. Number one, daily non-negotiables. The first CEO rule of productivity is keep your commitments.

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Chapter 3: What daily habits should every CEO adopt?

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If it's in your calendar, do it. When I was starting my coaching program, I sat down and I outlined all my daily non-negotiables that made it impossible to fail, and then I followed them and it made my results inevitable. So here are three non-negotiables that any person can use to absolutely accelerate their life. Number one, read every day. 10 pages.

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Without fail, if you follow me on social media, you will see me post about my morning reading. Why? Because A, it's accountability. So I'm reading to find the gold nuggets I can share with everybody that follows me. And two, I'm feeding my mind. I'm ramping it up so that I'm connecting these different parts of my psychology so I can be available for conversations. Number two, work out.

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exhaust the body tame the mind if you're struggling with focus struggling with creativity struggling with your energy it sounds crazy but if you go and work out you'll have more energy when you leave and number three review goals i have 12 goals for the year 12 massive things i decided to do personal professional community contribution

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revenue, and I look at these goals three, four times a day, and I'm looking at my calendar and I'm asking myself, does my time reflect these priorities? I use my calendar to guide my actions, to hold me accountable, to set my priorities. And when it shows up, I do it. It's not a negotiation. If these are the goals I want to achieve this year,

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Have I properly allocated both my bank account, my resources, and my time to those goals? If not, I changed something. It allowed me to build the business as a byproduct of the daily non-negotiables that I committed to. Because I'm keeping them front of mind, it's impossible for me to fail.

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At the end of the day, we build our confidence by keeping the commitments we make to ourselves in private, and that's why I have these non-negotiables every day. Which leads us to number two, which is plan the play. I first learned this by watching Richard Branson, the billionaire that every other billionaire wants to be like, operate his day to day.

Chapter 4: How can planning your day enhance productivity?

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I had the privilege of spending a week with him in his home in Verbier, Switzerland, and I watched him execute every day, every minute. There was no time that was unallocated. Now, Did he also allocate time to come skiing with us? Sure did. But did he have time with his assistant in the morning so he could respond to the hundreds of people that want his attention? Yep.

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He tries to squeeze as much life out of life. See, most people freestyle their day and they wonder why they don't get anything done. They literally don't put anything in the calendar because that way it feels more freeing. But the truth is, is sometimes constraint.

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creates freedom knowing what i gotta get done and doing those as early as possible in the morning means that i feel free for the rest of the day a goal without a plan is just a wish so many people say i have this goal this year to make a million dollars i'm like what's the plan if you can't back out your goal into weekly and daily actions and activities that make that goal inevitable then it's just a wish everybody wants to be successful

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But success is where preparation and opportunity meet. Think about this. Most people would win in life if they actually just took a little bit of time in the morning to prepare for their day. Think of it this way. We plan our work and then we work the plan. If you don't, then life will happen by default. If you do, life will happen by design.

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Chapter 5: What does creating a cadence mean for success?

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Which leads us to rule number three, which is create a cadence. I used to travel 200 days a year. My schedule was packed. But the truth is it wasn't efficient. I used to think that because I was busy, I was being productive. Couldn't have been further from the truth. What I realize now is my life is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Because if you sprint and then fall and sprint and then fall, you're actually not making as much progress if you just set up your life to be this ongoing, never stopping marathon. Success is not achieved in bursts. People that do that to themselves in many ways, it's self-sabotaging behavior.

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They burst into new opportunities instead of saying, okay, what could I commit to every day that sustained effort over time that on the back end of that would make my goals and my dreams inevitable, like they would just have to happen. So what did I change in regards to my travel? First off, one trip per month, maximum seven days away from my family.

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Because I have that constraint and I have that rhythm, I'm very diligent about what goes into those seven days. I'm talking to people, I'm coordinating, I'm reprioritizing because that is the one shot I have on goal for FaceTime with people. I batch all my speaking, my podcasts, my founder dinners, my events, my book meetups, all of it into as little time as possible.

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And when I land in a city, I make sure I take it over. I see all the people I want to see. I do all the things I need to see, including the fun stuff, like going to a comedy show. But I make it part of the rhythm so it's sustainable over the long run.

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Before we get back to the episode, if you want to jumpstart your week with my top stories and tactics, be sure to subscribe to the Martell Method newsletter. It's where you'll elevate your mindset, fitness, and business in less than five minutes a week. Find it at martellmethod.com. which leads us to rule number four, which is curate connections.

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I first learned this strategy reading a book called Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi. He talked about the idea of getting people together to break bread. And I'll tell you, as an introverted programmer, when I started, there was no way I was gonna do this. What value could I give them? I had so little self-confidence that I convinced myself out of it for so long until I finally did it.

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And I remember my first is with a guy named Larry and that meal, it was just him and I. I felt all this pressure. But at the end of it, I thought to myself, that was the most valuable two hours in a long time. I learned a lot about the industry. I learned a lot about myself. I realized I didn't have to talk that much. I just had to ask really good questions.

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So now I always host either founder lunches, founder dinners, founders hikes. But connection for me is so valuable because you can't get away from in person. I used to go to cities and then just stay in my hotel room. And then I would leave feeling like, man, I didn't see all these people that live there. Here's what I've learned.

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