The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell
How to Unf*ck Your Life - 8 Habits to Fix 98% of Your Problems
Fri, 29 Nov 2024
Get The Book (Buy Back Your Time): https://bit.ly/3pCTG78 Subscribe to My Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3W2tjp2 I’m a multi-millionaire, international speaker, best selling author and I have, no, problems… It’s because I call them puzzles… And I’ve been doing that LONG before I had money. It all comes down to this: problems are painful, puzzles are fun. I call it the Emotional Puzzles Paradox. And if you master this, it’ll solve 98% of your problems. In this video, I'm going to show you the 8 simple habits anyone can build, to turn every painful problem into a puzzle you enjoy solving. IG: @danmartell X: @danmartell
Chapter 1: What are the eight simple habits to unf*ck your life?
I'm going to show you the eight simple habits anyone can build to turn your painful problems into a puzzle you enjoy solving. Welcome to the Martell Method. I went from rehab at 17 to building $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.
Chapter 2: How does starting on hard mode benefit you?
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 habit number one, start on hard mode. You hear people say, building momentum with easy wins. Easy wins. I'm all about going hard.
When I'm creating, when I'm writing, when I'm strategizing, when I'm thinking of the biggest problems in my life, I do it first thing in the morning because I want to be creating connected to my creator. And all I know is that the more I build the muscle of starting with the hardest thing,
It also builds my confidence because confidence is built when we keep the commitments we make to ourselves in private. And anytime people come to me, they say like, oh, I don't feel very confident. I'm uncertain about myself. I always say it's because you're not keeping the promises you made to yourself when nobody else is watching. We often commit to
the big project because that's fun, that's exciting, that's easy. But the game is one on the daily discipline of doing the hard thing first, not putting it off to when you feel in the mood or you feel it's going to be easier. Start in hard mode. But that's not where hard mode stops because it's not always the work that's holding us back. It's the energy and focus we bring to it.
And that's where habit number two comes in. Workout every day. Small problems feel massive when you have low energy. When you're not feeling good about yourself, every little thing feels like a mountain. They also feel massive when you're constantly live in your comfort zone, when you're doing the thing that feels safe.
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Chapter 3: Why is working out daily essential for success?
See, a lot of people see me today and don't realize that not that long ago, I was a little chubby and my whole life I struggled with my weight. I weighed 265 pounds when I was younger and I just went up and down and up and down. And for a long time, it was this yo-yo and I always had an excuse.
And then I eventually said, no, I'm going to do the hard thing and I'm going to get way outside my comfort zone. And I decided to get visible abs in 90 days. It was crazy, but I got ripped. But guess what else working hard did for me? It also turned out that my nutrition and my body were connected and allowed me to really activate my ADHD into a superpower.
It built my confidence outside the gym, even though it also shaped my body. And that's why today, if you see anything I post on social media, it's always about sweat every day. I believe that when I go to the gym, it's about my mind, not my physicality. And that's why today I work out every day. I exhaust the body to tame the mind.
I do the reps in the gym to make sure that my mind knows what to focus on. The crazy part is some people go to the gym feeling super tired and they're like, I don't want to go to the gym. I'm just, I'm already tired. I've never left the gym not feeling better. And it gives you the energy to work on life's puzzles.
If you have a trouble with being consistent going to the gym, here's an advanced move. Schedule it with somebody else. Decide to choose a workout partner where you made a commitment every day at 8 a.m. you go to the gym together. You will do more for somebody else than you'll ever do for yourself. I've never canceled going to the gym when I knew I was gonna have to meet somebody else there.
So do yourself a favor, find a training buddy and go all in. I've never met one person that couldn't find 30 minutes to get down on the ground, do some pushups, do some pull up, doing some jumping jacks, do some sit ups, do whatever. Body weight movements to get a sweat on, to feel better about themselves. And that energy will allow you to take over the world.
But you can't just brute force your way to success. or hope your way to wealth, habit number three is how you dial in your strategy. Before we get back to the episode, if you actually want to know what my real life looks like and see the people and the businesses and the companies I buy and my family and just like how I make it all work,
go follow me on instagram dan martell to elsa martell on instagram it's where i show the behind the scenes the real deal real time i'd love to see you there have an amazing day habit number three measure daily if you're like most people feeling a lack of direction or spinning your wheels or not feeling motivated it's usually because you can't physically see if you're even moving towards your goal most people don't even have goals think about money
One of my core philosophies is if I want my money to grow, I got to focus on it. And I look at my bank account daily. Every day I get email reports for all the companies I'm involved in with the daily cash position. And I personally look at all of my bank accounts. Why? I learned a long time ago that if I want something to grow, I got to look at it. I got to focus on it.
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Chapter 4: How can measuring daily improve your life?
And just like a video game that gives you feedback while you're playing, now your life is giving you back some information to know if you're making better decisions. If you don't measure things, how are you supposed to know if you're getting better? So here's the deal.
I learned a long time ago, if you want something to get better, the higher precision that you measure it with, the tooling that you use to measure, the frequency of measurement is the first step.
Most people struggle in their life or in business and it's because they haven't broken down each step from the initial concept to the finished revenue or like, hey, waking up in the morning all the way to losing weight. And then they wonder why they're not making any money with their marketing funnel or losing any weight. Well, it's because that
afternoon snack that you think isn't a big deal, turns out it's putting you over on the calories. Or there's a button missing in a landing page, and because it's not working, because you don't know, because a funnel step isn't being reported properly, is costing you a ton of money. So this is the big idea. What you focus on will expand.
And when you measure daily, the thing you want to grow will grow. Here's the final concept. The first step towards progress is just looking where to step. The most important next step, what's called the mins, just take that step to measuring, it'll get you on the path. Most people don't wanna measure because it sounds like effort.
But if you're going to do all the work of planning, going to the gym, actually working out, and then you don't measure your food, your macros, I just think it's kind of silly because that could be the needle mover. That could be the hinge on the big massive door that makes it easy for you to get results.
But that not wanting to measure because it feels like work is the misdata that you need to know if you're making better decisions. So now you've got the foundation, but if you're feeling stuck on problems that feel too big with no idea how to actually make progress, habit number four is what will unlock it for you. And it's this, learn daily. The problem is that so many people hit a wall.
They wanna grow, but then they hit what I call their complexity ceiling. And what I've learned is that each level, there's a new devil. Usually what happens when people hit those ceilings, they just spiral inside their own head. They keep trying a bunch of stuff based on history and things they've tried, but it doesn't work.
All they do is they keep searching for answers, but they're missing information. When I was 17, my dad did one of the coolest things ever. And at the time I didn't understand it, which is he gave me an unlimited budget for books. He said, as long as I finished them, he'd buy me the next one. And my dad didn't come from money and we didn't have all the resources in the world.
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Chapter 5: What role do books play in personal development?
to create the most value for other people in their world than anybody else in their world so if you want to help your customers be more successful read books that could help them read books about their industry read books about personal problems leadership whatever you can do to better yourself to then help them that's a game changer most people are so selfish if they're like if i can't make money reading this book i'm not going to read it how about
You read a book for somebody else and they make the money. How about you give them the idea and they go become wealthy? I believe you receive what you desire for others. And this concept of reading books for your customers is essentially just reinforcing that concept. What good is consuming 1800 books if you're not retaining or using it?
This next habit will make sure you're not just blasting through content, hoping for change. 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.
So here's habit number five, teach daily. There's this old concept called the learning pyramid. It says you only retain about 10% by reading alone, but by teaching someone you'll retain about 90%. When I started making my role about teaching, everything changed in my life. In my twenties, my first company, I just expected everybody I hired to just know how to do the thing.
It turns out that's a really bad way to lead. Now, I literally don't go a single day without achieving some kind of teaching. Why? Because it reinforces the learning. Here's how I'd recommend you do it so that you can really deepen your learning. We all have opportunities to teach every day. Think about it this way. You could teach one-on-one, think,
colleagues, team members, spouse, if they're open to it. You could teach to a group. Think leadership training for your whole company, youth program, or any group of people that are willing to come together. You can even do live Q&A. You could just like tweet out a link and say, hey, I'm gonna do a live Q&A and I'd love to teach you some stuff. Or you can teach in your content.
And this is essentially talking to your camera. Pull out your phone. and talk to it, teach a concept, teach a lesson, teach an insight that you got that day and just post it on social media, post it on your Instagram stories, post it on your YouTube.
The cool thing about social media is you can teach anything at any time to anyone, not say anybody's gonna watch, but it's about you retaining the information, not necessarily how many views you get. Here's the coolest part, building a teaching habit forces you to learn new things.
If you build that rhythm of always trying to learn something and then teach it, you'll always be looking for new things to learn and that's how you actually integrate those learnings into your life. The next habits are actually the opposite of what people are talking about. If you really wanna set yourself up for success, it's not a morning routine. Habit number six, prepare for tomorrow.
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Chapter 6: How should you approach reading for maximum benefit?
It's crazy because I do this program called King's Club for 15 to 20 year old youth. And the number one question almost every time I run the event that people ask me is I want to be successful. What do I need to do? And my answer is always the same. The truth is it's not what I did. It's what I don't do.
What I don't do is I don't drink, I don't do drugs, I don't eat sugar, I don't gamble, I don't vape, I don't do all the things that I know are gonna hold me back. And some of these things people go, well, Dan, how do I enjoy myself? If you need to take a substance to change your state because you're not happy with who you are, that's an issue.
And the problem with that is that if you actually are successful, that habit will actually be the reason that you lose that level of success. Oftentimes, when we want to move forward, we got to learn to let go of things so that we can make room for the new. So it's not about adding more stuff. It's about stopping things. Here's the big idea.
Every new level came when I gave up a bad habit, every time. It's almost like if you made a list of everything you're not willing to give up, I would consider that the reason why you're never going to win. Whatever you tell me I would never is your opportunity for reflection. So here's how I do it in practice.
I reflect a lot on decisions I've made and ask myself, if I had to make that again today, would it be an F yeah? See, a lot of people say yes to things that are two, three, four, five months into the future. What if it was tonight? If you woke up today and somebody said, hey, I need you to come to this charity event tonight at six o'clock and you looked at your calendar, would you say yes?
Would you be enthusiastically excited to do it? If not, you're allowed to say no. And you don't need a reason to say no. See, most people have this like people-pleasing desire and not hurting other people's feelings that they put themselves in a situation that they then become resentful for. At the end of the day, it's not what I do, it's what I don't do that makes me successful.
So here's the way I think about it. It's simple scales. Level one, stop bad habits. And you know what those are. It's literally the thing that you wish other people didn't find out about. It's the things you have shame around. Level two, stop low value tasks.
Anything that you're doing that you could pay somebody else a quarter of what you get paid per hour to do, let the other person have the employment Create the opportunity to create jobs. There's a good chance that if you're watching this, your time is valuable. If you don't consider your time valuable, nobody else will take it valuable either. And habit number eight is for the pros.
Now, if you're serious about tackling life with speed and without burning out, you'll make this a habit. Keep it dry. Dry stands for do not repeat yourself. See, most people assume if you want more money, you gotta work harder. Not true. Some of the people that put roofs on houses or build cement walls, they work harder than anybody else.
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Chapter 7: What are the three rules of reading?
So for example, when I'm creating my events, I've got like a one day and a two day event stencil. It's like a blueprint. So that way I have a stencil I give to somebody else that's organizing the event to follow and they're gonna get most of it exactly the way I would because they just follow that stencil.
If somebody asks you to paint like a hundred butterflies on a wall and all you had was like a brush, it would take you all day to hand paint those butterflies. But if I gave you a stencil that you could just put on the wall and kind of spray over, you could get those hundred done in an hour. Everything in life is like a process. You go from raw materials to some form of finished goods.
If you design it, it removes all the stress out of it. You keep all the fun stuff like planning, but you create a system, you create a checklist and the whole thing just gets easier. So you can either choose to run your systems or a lack of systems will run you. It can be as simple as making yourself breakfast all the way to manufacturing new shoes.
Now, I know you're not going to make your own clothes, but there's a lot of decisions you make in your home that you don't need to make every time. You can figure out what you want to eat on a monthly basis, break it down per week, per day. I even have it so that I have a checklist for all my packing so I don't even have to pack my clothes when I go on vacation. Now, I know that sounds crazy.
What's the worst that could happen? You have a credit card on you and you go shopping if you forget something? Not a big deal. Your life will dramatically change when you create systems for your personal life. And James Clear probably said it best because a lot of people have these massive goals. He says, you don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.
Having systems in your life create the foundation for success. But here's the thing, no matter what stage you're at, if you implement these eight habits, your life will be absolutely transformed. Empire.
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