Get The Book (Buy Back Your Time): https://bit.ly/3pCTG78 Subscribe to My Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3W2tjp2 Your dream life is less than 12 months away… and it begins with principles of success. And it’s these principles that helped me go from a broke 24 year old, to running my own business that generates over 100 million dollars in revenue a year. They helped me find my dream wife, build amazing businesses, and love the work I do every day. And you can apply these today without having a rich family, getting lucky or being early. So I’ve distilled it all into these 9 principles to build your dream life.
Chapter 1: How can you achieve your dream life in 12 months?
Your dream life is less than 12 months away, and it begins with principles of success. And it's these principles that help me go from a broke 24 year old to running my own business that generates over $100 million in revenue a year. They helped me find my dream wife, build amazing businesses, and love the work I do every day.
And you can apply these today without having a rich family, getting lucky, or being early. So I've distilled all these into nine principles to build your dream life. 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. Starting with principle number one, be willing to be misunderstood. Most people hold back because they're scared of being too much.
But the truth is if you want to be extra ordinary, you have to be okay with extra. It's in the word extra ordinary. The other day I was talking to one of my clients and he said to me, my wife doesn't support my growth. I feel like she's scared that our paths are going to divert and we'll be too far apart or we're going to be different.
And what I said to him is you have to be willing to go support your wife, but also understand she may not understand what you're about to do. And that's okay. Oftentimes your family are just too close to you to see your greatness and be okay with that. Don't fight them for it. Just understand they've seen you grow up. They've seen you at your worst. I don't expect them to understand.
I know that if I want to be the best at what I do and other people don't, that my weird dreams means a dream life. That for other people, they can't comprehend why anybody would want to get up and be that driven to create if they've never touched it. When you're living your truth, you're also showing them where they've been living a lie. And it's not their fault. Nobody's ever done that for them.
They need to see you the way they see you because it allows them to tell themselves a story for themselves that makes you the villain and their opinion on you is not your business. Nobody needs a change for me to achieve my dreams. Nobody has to be different. Nobody has to give me approval. You need to have everybody in your life.
Understand every decision you make is what's going to slow you down. If you want to be extraordinary, you need to be extra. But you can't achieve your dream life without defining it. Which brings us to principle number two, visualize your dreams. Napoleon Hill, who wrote the book Think and Grow Rich, talks about this all the time. The concept is to have a primary aim.
If you don't have a target, how are you supposed to hit it? Most people say, I just want to be richer. I want to be happier. I want to have more love. But when you say, what does that mean? They go, I don't know, just more. More is not a strategy. Everything you see around you was first imagined in someone's mind.
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Chapter 2: What are the principles to build your dream life?
And for me, the one I came up with that I use three, four, five times a day is how can I appreciate even more God's grace and guidance in this moment? And when I ask myself that question, Everything gets better. There's just something really powerful a question delivers when you asked it properly that resets our focus on our existence to bring ourselves to the present.
As Tony often says, ask a better question, live a better life. You're allowed to ask yourself a question like what would need to be true?
for this experience to be even better what would need to be true for me not to be fearful of making that decision what would need to be true for me to be excited to go out and meet new people the answer to those questions will give you the strategies that will get you those results but if you just sit back and hope that somebody else does it for you you will never move forward
Albert Einstein said it best a long time ago, a problem well-defined is a problem half solved. If you don't learn how to define your situation so that you can get it to a question that's clear, then you can't solve the problem. 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. But your dream life won't materialize without movement. Which brings us to principle number four, default to action. I get young men asking me every day on social media, how do I start a company? My answer is the same. Sell something to a stranger.
Well, what should I sell, Dan? It doesn't matter what you sell. It is doing something versus thinking about it. The wealthiest people default to action. They don't overthink things. They literally say, I'm going to make a decision, then make the decision right. I don't wait until I make the right decision. As Wayne Gretzky famously said, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
If today you overthink your situation to do nothing versus actually take a shot on goal, then by definition, it's like you didn't even try to take a shot. What changed for me in my life is when I realized that the only thing I needed to learn is shorten the distance between knowing and doing. That's why I came up with this mantra, JFDI. It's a license plate on my cars. It's my life philosophy.
The end of the day, if my soul says yes, then I have to take action. I was literally sitting on a book deal, a million dollar book deal that I almost didn't do, but I decided yes. Why? Because I already had all the information I need to make the decision. I just was putting it off. There's no need for that. Just say yes or it's a no. Whatever it is, don't sit on it.
Success is making decisions with imperfect data. That's what the best people do. So, JFDI, you've got to close the gap between knowing and doing. But action on its own won't create your dream life. Which brings us to principle number five, measure what matters. Most people struggle getting a result in their life Because they don't measure.
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