Dan Martell - 13 Hacks to be 99.9% More Disciplined That Cost Nothing

00:00:00.000 I'm going to share the 13 hacks that can make anyone 99% more discipline that cost nothing.

00:00:05.840 These are the strategies that I use to go from a distracted, broke 23-year-old with ADHD to

00:00:10.780 consistently crushing every hard task without fail and building a $100 million empire. You can

00:00:15.300 start using these hacks today, even if you lack motivation. So without further explaining it,

00:00:20.080 these are the 13 hacks to unlock more discipline. Starting with number one, cancel your morning

00:00:24.940 alarm. I know a guy that literally has seven morning alarms. He wakes up, he hits the snooze

00:00:30.900 button. He wakes up again, snooze button again. And he's got a snooze alarm set every 15 minutes.

00:00:37.140 What are you doing? Why are you laying in bed? Do you know what you tell yourself when you do this

00:00:42.780 is that life is a snooze and you're better off just laying there than not getting up and attacking

00:00:47.920 the day. Most of your problems could easily be solved if you just went to bed on time.

00:00:52.180 How do I get up at 4 a.m. every day without an alarm?

00:00:55.520 I just go to bed at 9 p.m.

00:00:56.940 It's not that impressive.

00:00:58.380 I have an alarm to tell me when I go to bed.

00:01:01.280 If you wanna wake up ready to attack the day,

00:01:04.060 if the first decision you get the chance to make

00:01:06.060 is snoozing your alarm, you've just lost the battle.

00:01:09.100 Think about this.

00:01:09.640 If you just delete your alarm,

00:01:11.240 it will force you to think about your bedtime

00:01:13.040 because you gotta go to bed at a time

00:01:14.420 where your body will naturally wake up.

00:01:16.600 So instead, set a bedtime alarm.

00:01:19.220 That is different from what you will hear

00:01:21.140 from everybody else.

00:01:22.180 it's more important to go to bed on time and let your body wake you up when it's done resting

00:01:27.680 than for you to wake yourself up out of bed because you don't have a forcing function to

00:01:31.940 go to bed on time see if you know you have to go to sleep because your body's going to wake up and

00:01:36.120 you can't have an alarm intercept you won't allow yourself to watch another episode watch another

00:01:40.340 episode watch another episode you will go to bed on time because you have to get the time in for

00:01:44.900 your body to feel restful so that when you wake up you can attack it before we get to number two

00:01:49.140 we've got a goal of hitting a million subscribers so if you haven't already hit subscribe which

00:01:53.380 brings us to hack number two upgrade your tv to a library i remember listening to jim roan who's

00:01:58.580 like the godfather of personal development a long time ago and he said most people that are broke

00:02:02.580 have bigger tvs than they do libraries the average person has a 65 75 bazillion inch tv my invitation

00:02:10.900 is have a bigger library go invest in books when i buy books somebody says hey you should buy this

00:02:15.540 book i buy that book every other book the author has i see what's recommended to me i have an

00:02:20.420 unlimited budget for my mind that belief will keep me disciplined and focus on achieving things that

00:02:26.420 most people can't there's a reason supercar companies like ferrari lamborghini don't run tv

00:02:31.140 ads because the people who buy those cars don't watch tv they don't want to be advertised to

00:02:36.900 they're out there creating their world not being sold on living a better world because they're

00:02:42.260 already doing it your body is wired for dopamine and tv is very good at delivering it and if you

00:02:48.100 get into it and addicted to it it will take over your life see most people that stop me when i'm

00:02:52.420 driving one of my supercars they ask me what did you do to become rich i'll tell you what i didn't

00:02:56.660 do i didn't sit around watching tv i fed my mind i read books my success is the byproduct of feeding

00:03:03.300 my mind of going all in on education education that nobody made me do i didn't sit in a classroom

00:03:10.100 or I wasn't forced to do homework.

00:03:11.540 I was self-educated because I wanted more for myself.

00:03:14.980 I just think having a bigger library

00:03:16.860 is more important to have a bigger TV

00:03:18.780 because if you actually focus on educating yourself,

00:03:21.680 that habit will create discipline.

00:03:24.020 Which brings us to hack number three,

00:03:25.700 turn off all notifications.

00:03:27.980 You may not know this,

00:03:29.300 but the software companies in Silicon Valley

00:03:31.640 are engineering the distractions

00:03:33.860 and distractions destroy dreams.

00:03:36.100 Even my buddy has a retail store

00:03:37.640 and we called him at five in the morning

00:03:39.140 to ask him a question.

00:03:39.920 He answered the phone and then he got mad at us

00:03:41.840 for calling him at five in the morning.

00:03:42.960 I said, dude, you can put your phone in Do Not Disturb.

00:03:45.220 He said, well, that must be nice for you,

00:03:46.620 but I have a store and the alarm goes through to my phone,

00:03:48.840 so I have to be able to answer it.

00:03:50.320 Okay, so you're the only person in the history of the world

00:03:52.800 that has a retail store

00:03:53.640 that doesn't have your security alarm go to a professional?

00:03:57.400 Most people don't realize

00:03:58.680 that their need to always be in the loop,

00:04:01.500 thumb on the pulse of their business

00:04:03.100 is actually distracting them from doing deep focus work

00:04:06.300 and building that discipline muscle.

00:04:07.980 Your goal should matter more

00:04:09.540 than the notifications you're allowing.

00:04:11.200 You should design a life that's more interesting

00:04:13.580 than the social media apps pulling you in to be distracted.

00:04:16.660 The only person who can call me directly is my wife.

00:04:19.860 That is a special setting I set up on my phone.

00:04:22.360 Everybody else, unless I need the call,

00:04:24.740 I put my phone in do not disturb.

00:04:26.540 Instead, what I do is I schedule time

00:04:28.500 to review my messages.

00:04:30.040 I plug in to Slack, to text messages, to miss calls.

00:04:33.580 I decide when I connect.

00:04:35.100 And that's why I don't even do my email inbox anymore.

00:04:37.420 I talk about it in my book, Buy Back Your Time.

00:04:39.560 A lot of people brag about inbox zero.

00:04:41.540 What about zero inbox?

00:04:43.360 Because I learned your email inbox

00:04:45.300 is nothing more than a public to-do list

00:04:47.380 of other people's priorities on your time.

00:04:49.640 Turning off notifications is the key to unlocking discipline

00:04:53.020 because stops you from being distracted.

00:04:55.300 When you are disciplined and you're in the zone

00:04:57.620 and you're getting work done,

00:04:59.000 having a ping, a vibration, a noise interrupt you

00:05:02.780 is crazy to me.

00:05:04.800 My doors close in my office.

00:05:06.100 is my kids aren't allowed to come and knock on the door.

00:05:08.420 They understand that when I do that,

00:05:10.160 that's a signal to everybody in the home

00:05:11.760 that that's when I go and I do my deep work.

00:05:14.120 And out of respect, unless it's an emergency,

00:05:16.100 please don't interrupt me.

00:05:17.520 You need to do that for yourself.

00:05:19.120 Your focus needs to be protected.

00:05:21.440 Your energy needs to be protected.

00:05:23.260 Your attention needs to be protected.

00:05:25.800 Give it to the work.

00:05:27.080 Which brings us to number four, hack your algorithm.

00:05:30.060 This idea will probably mess you up,

00:05:32.620 but I spend millions of dollars every year

00:05:34.380 to buy back my time to then get work done throughout the day to scroll social media

00:05:39.820 at night i probably scroll three hours a day of tick tock why because i've actually curated

00:05:45.180 my social feed to feed my mind every video i've liked i've searched i've added to it i'm learning

00:05:51.580 about ai media success and motivation and my feed is actually a mini university i've designed don't

00:05:58.460 Don't let the algorithm drag you down,

00:06:00.420 mindless distractions, curate it, unfollow people.

00:06:04.000 Don't look at stuff that triggers you.

00:06:05.960 I think we live in this beautiful world

00:06:07.580 where you can decide who you want to learn from,

00:06:10.640 people that have been there,

00:06:11.780 that are closer to your goals than your current friends,

00:06:14.320 and then you can actually unfollow people

00:06:16.520 and refollow the folks that are gonna support you.

00:06:18.800 You're allowed to do this.

00:06:19.920 A lot of you are scared to do it.

00:06:21.600 Just mute them.

00:06:22.720 Just say less of this.

00:06:24.020 Like when something shows up in my feed

00:06:25.760 and I don't want that, I just say, give me less.

00:06:28.020 and you can curate your feed that way,

00:06:29.940 it costs you nothing,

00:06:30.900 it'll change your whole psychology,

00:06:32.900 your focus, your ability to create,

00:06:35.020 your ability to stay disciplined.

00:06:36.480 Just click on those three dots and say,

00:06:38.540 recommend posts like this or not interested.

00:06:41.140 Which brings us to hack number five, master your list.

00:06:43.980 The other day, somebody asked me,

00:06:45.220 Dan, do you have a system for,

00:06:47.300 and I stopped them and I said, yes.

00:06:49.320 They're like, you don't even know what I asked.

00:06:50.460 I have a system for packing,

00:06:52.300 I have a system for my food prep,

00:06:54.040 I have a system for travel,

00:06:55.080 I have a system for everything.

00:06:56.160 I have list upon list upon list, why?

00:06:59.100 Because if I was ever gonna do it once,

00:07:01.040 I'm gonna write it down so that the next time

00:07:03.100 it's easier on me and I don't forget anything.

00:07:05.560 And as I build them, I can then give them to somebody else

00:07:08.840 so they can do them for me to buy back my time.

00:07:11.160 Checklists are the key to getting more time.

00:07:14.040 Checklists are the way that you stay disciplined

00:07:16.620 in your work so that you don't get distracted

00:07:18.460 by things that you don't have to do.

00:07:20.100 The most disciplined people aren't superhuman.

00:07:22.900 They just write everything down.

00:07:24.180 They take everything in their mind

00:07:25.460 put it on the list because your brain is not meant to remember things your brain is meant to be used

00:07:29.620 to solve massive problems you want to keep it empty so that the cycles are available not trying

00:07:34.420 to keep all these open loops going so you don't forget anything see your lack of discipline is

00:07:39.060 actually a lack of clarity because it's clogged up and foggy trying to remember all these things that

00:07:43.940 you should just write down get it out of your brain it makes everything else easier and once

00:07:48.500 you have everything out it's a sequence of what to attack and what i've learned is your sequencing

00:07:53.700 equal success if you get it out of your brain you put it on paper and you sort it and you attack it

00:07:58.580 in the right order that's how you start to build momentum which brings us number six stack your

00:08:03.140 habits every once in a while i'll get a client that comes into my world and they're like i want

00:08:07.700 to redesign everything i want to get this and change my business and do all this stuff and they

00:08:12.980 literally do everything and they take massive action because they read about this but what

00:08:17.380 they really are doing is they're setting themselves up to fail how many people you know that like

00:08:21.300 decide to get into fitness and then all of a sudden they go to the gym twice in one day

00:08:25.300 and they start running and then they're not eating properly and then they crash and then

00:08:29.060 they give up that happens all the time see i'm much more of a fan of massive action consistently

00:08:35.540 i'm more of a fan of saying hey let's stack our habits let's lock one in but a big one maybe it's

00:08:40.660 nutrition maybe it's working out maybe it's getting up earlier but once we lock it in then

00:08:45.140 we can stack it once we plug in one we can add another one easier once there's built consistency

00:08:51.060 James Clear said it best.

00:08:52.300 He said, habits are the compounding interest

00:08:54.140 of self-improvement.

00:08:55.320 The best way to actually install a new habit

00:08:58.400 to have discipline long-term is to ask yourself,

00:09:01.000 what do you already do automatically?

00:09:02.880 How can you use that as a trigger

00:09:04.720 and add the new habit to it?

00:09:06.580 Put your new habit beside that one

00:09:08.440 until it becomes automatic.

00:09:09.780 If you have a habit of brushing your teeth

00:09:11.540 and you wanna remember to take your vitamins,

00:09:13.900 then take those vitamins and place it

00:09:15.720 next to your toothpaste.

00:09:16.860 If you wanna have a habit of reading your book

00:09:19.000 and you know that every morning you grab a cup of coffee,

00:09:21.400 put your Kindle or your book next to the coffee maker

00:09:24.040 so that you grab both at the same time.

00:09:26.040 The highest level of habit is when it becomes your identity.

00:09:28.960 See, I'm pretty sure if you don't smoke,

00:09:30.720 last week you did not tell yourself 14,000 times

00:09:33.540 not to stop and buy cigarettes.

00:09:34.940 Why?

00:09:35.680 Because you don't smoke.

00:09:36.540 And as soon as you build a habit into who you are,

00:09:39.500 that's how easy it becomes.

00:09:40.900 You don't think about it, it's just what you do.

00:09:42.520 So for example, for me,

00:09:44.220 working out daily takes no discipline anymore.

00:09:46.720 Why?

00:09:47.160 Because it's just who I am.

00:09:48.520 sweat every day has been my mantra for years i need to work out if i don't it's just as weird

00:09:53.800 as walking around not wearing any pants like it's weird so i work out i feel better it's who i am

00:10:00.440 habits need to be stacked so that it just becomes your identity which brings us to hack number seven

00:10:04.920 commit to someone the other day i was at the gym and this guy named jack on my team came to me and

00:10:09.400 he was like hey man i want to produce more content i said no you don't say yes i do i said prove it

00:10:14.040 so how i said you ready for this it was yeah i said commit to doing two a day commit to doing

00:10:18.680 two a day if you do you get to bring your girlfriend to a spa if you don't you have to 0.53

00:10:22.600 run a marathon with no prep and you have to go post on social media and tell everybody about it

00:10:26.600 and then he shook my hand that is commitment because he made the commitment to me he made

00:10:31.160 the commitment to his girlfriend because she wanted to go to the spa and he made a commitment

00:10:34.520 to all of his friends on social media there's zero chance he's not going to hit it and i'm

00:10:38.440 I'm happy to report he's 16, 17 days in,

00:10:41.160 hasn't missed two a day,

00:10:42.680 and I guarantee he's not gonna miss.

00:10:44.140 Here's why.

00:10:45.100 People will do more for others

00:10:46.540 than they'll ever do for themselves.

00:10:47.840 You'll do more for your dog than you'll do for yourself.

00:10:50.320 I've seen people that gives the dog a prescription.

00:10:52.960 There's 100 days of pills, two pills a day,

00:10:55.200 and that person never misses one of those pills

00:10:57.460 for those 100 days,

00:10:58.280 and yet the doctor gives them a prescription

00:11:00.160 for some kind of flu or whatever they got,

00:11:02.720 and they might fill out 75% of it consistently.

00:11:05.520 Having somebody else you're committed to

00:11:07.320 is how you create discipline.

00:11:08.740 Finding a mentor or a coach to hold you accountable,

00:11:11.920 that is the purpose of those people in your life.

00:11:14.680 Scheduling your gym time with a buddy,

00:11:16.600 that's how you ensure you show up,

00:11:18.640 because I guarantee you'll be less likely

00:11:20.480 to cancel on a friend that went out of their way

00:11:22.580 to change their time to match yours,

00:11:25.000 so you guys can go get your pump on.

00:11:26.200 The way you build discipline

00:11:27.680 is design the game to be easy to play.

00:11:30.480 If you want to get something done,

00:11:32.240 tell somebody you respect,

00:11:33.560 because then they'll hold you accountable.

00:11:34.720 Which brings us to number eight, clean out your pantry. 0.63

00:11:37.420 I believe it's easier to avoid the dragon than to slay it.

00:11:40.600 So many of my fitness clients couldn't stick to the plan. 0.98

00:11:44.200 So many of them sabotage, ate some crap, 0.92

00:11:47.400 made bad decisions, and I just kept saying, 0.99

00:11:49.840 go into your house, take all the food out of there.

00:11:52.920 Tell your family you need them to be on board

00:11:55.380 for the next 90 days, stop blaming them.

00:11:58.060 If you need to get a locked cabinet

00:11:59.440 that your spouse has the key to, do that.

00:12:01.840 but I'm telling you the best way to win

00:12:04.540 in the discipline game is to just avoid

00:12:06.540 having to make the decision.

00:12:07.680 Set the standard in your house,

00:12:09.340 don't have it as an option, get it out of your view,

00:12:12.120 and it'll be way easier for you to pull off.

00:12:13.720 Here's a big idea.

00:12:14.840 Your environment will always win over your willpower.

00:12:18.160 If you wanna make good decisions,

00:12:20.440 you have to make good choices

00:12:21.980 and the only choices are available.

00:12:23.400 It's not hard to have discipline and make good choices

00:12:26.640 if the only choices available to you are good choices.

00:12:29.840 Make good choices, the only choices available.

00:12:32.540 I mean, the same can be applied to your phone.

00:12:34.660 Clean out all the distracting app, just delete them.

00:12:37.380 Only check your social media on your computer

00:12:39.220 if you have to.

00:12:39.920 Or video games, you're allowed to move them

00:12:42.180 out of your home, put them at your friend's house.

00:12:43.800 Hey man, I just bought you a new game console,

00:12:45.660 but I'm gonna come over and play it on weekends.

00:12:47.120 Is that okay? Okay, cool.

00:12:48.040 Get it out of your home.

00:12:49.120 It's way easier to avoid the dragon than to slay it.

00:12:52.140 Which brings us to hack number nine, make failure painful.

00:12:55.520 This was actually painful,

00:12:57.040 but the best decision I've ever made.

00:12:58.340 My first business coach was $1,500 a month.

00:13:01.400 I didn't have the money.

00:13:02.440 I figured if he's so good within a couple months,

00:13:04.480 he should be able to help me make money to pay for him.

00:13:06.500 But not doing the work was the pain.

00:13:09.180 Not showing up would have been painful.

00:13:11.340 Not taking deep amounts of notes

00:13:13.320 would have been the most costly thing.

00:13:14.940 Not the money.

00:13:15.920 It's not getting the results.

00:13:17.480 That would have been the painful thing.

00:13:19.360 And that's why I set up the game

00:13:20.680 so that the pain is something I don't wanna feel,

00:13:23.580 so I'm willing to do the work to avoid it.

00:13:25.560 Most people don't pay, so they don't pay attention.

00:13:28.680 They don't realize that the transformation

00:13:30.200 they're looking for happens at the transaction

00:13:32.880 because in that moment, they say to themselves,

00:13:35.820 I wanna get my money's worth.

00:13:37.720 People will always work harder to avoid pain

00:13:40.020 than to gain pleasure.

00:13:41.100 So here's a few ideas to make sure

00:13:42.620 that it builds your discipline.

00:13:43.880 First off, always have stakes involved.

00:13:46.360 Anytime you make a commitment,

00:13:48.160 you should create a scenario where if you don't achieve it,

00:13:51.420 there's pain in your life.

00:13:52.980 Have the stakes there, put your money on the line.

00:13:55.180 if you're like how do i make this painful i would make a donation to an organization you hate maybe

00:13:59.980 it's the opposite political party you believe in or whatever it is but if you don't achieve

00:14:03.420 the thing you want then you have to give a large amount of money to that organization or you can

00:14:07.740 have some fun and say hey if i don't do this i'm going to give you a thousand dollars if i don't

00:14:11.580 follow through i wouldn't even give it to a friend i would actually give it to an enemy

00:14:14.620 what if you made a commitment to your friend to give a thousand dollars to your enemy somebody

00:14:19.180 you actually despise if you don't achieve your goal do you think you're going to want to do that

00:14:23.500 no pain number three embarrassment can also be a great one you know when i decided to do project

00:14:28.860 visible labs which is 90 days and i went from like 17 body fat down to five percent the stakes i put

00:14:35.900 on the line was entering a fitness competition as is dad bod no tan no shaved chest if i didn't

00:14:41.900 achieve it motivated that's not even the right word highly motivated oh and then some there was

00:14:47.580 zero chance i wasn't gonna hit i would have sat there for 13 days and not ate any food to hit my

00:14:51.900 goal which brings us to number 10 start with the big domino most people believe that we build

00:14:56.860 momentum i think it's a complete lie i think the best thing you can do is start your day with the

00:15:02.540 hardest problems that's where you have your most creativity and it always for me goes first in my

00:15:08.540 day that momentum though then gets built to the other stuff but i'm not like trying to do little

00:15:13.980 wins i'm trying to get a massive win early in the next biggest one and the next biggest one before

00:15:18.700 before I deplete my ability to think creatively.

00:15:21.300 The truth is the hardest task

00:15:23.160 is to stop picking the easiest task.

00:15:25.080 In many ways, people's dreams to a bigger life

00:15:28.460 are usually derailed

00:15:30.020 because there's an easier path to a smaller goal.

00:15:32.660 Most people could have bigger lives

00:15:34.460 if they allowed themselves to pick hard things

00:15:37.040 and stick to them, not just take a path that's easier.

00:15:40.180 So how do we do that?

00:15:41.160 We put the big ones first

00:15:42.560 and the other ones just fall into place.

00:15:44.380 In practice, your biggest commitments

00:15:46.380 are first in the calendar.

00:15:47.820 I put them literally in the calendar.

00:15:49.440 I honor my calendar.

00:15:50.560 Sometimes we have this thing, this test,

00:15:52.300 this presentation we have to give in the future.

00:15:54.060 And instead of just attacking the work today,

00:15:56.000 we put it off and it creates anxiety and frustration.

00:15:59.100 And we're not nice to the people around us

00:16:00.820 and they don't know why.

00:16:02.100 And you know it's because you're upset at yourself,

00:16:03.960 but you take it out on everybody all around you.

00:16:06.040 That's not fair.

00:16:07.260 Decide to do the hardest thing first

00:16:09.060 and build that momentum in your life.

00:16:10.620 Which brings us to hack number 11,

00:16:12.140 delete useless decisions.

00:16:14.120 Do you wanna take a guess what's in my closet?

00:16:16.440 The blue shirt.

00:16:17.620 A blue shirt, I only wear blue shirts.

00:16:19.780 I have thousands of blue shirts.

00:16:21.320 I have a lot, why?

00:16:23.180 I don't wanna have to think.

00:16:24.520 When I sat down a long time ago and said,

00:16:26.240 hey, I know I got a good dress every day,

00:16:27.980 I didn't wanna have to take any cognitive overhead

00:16:30.500 to actually make those decisions.

00:16:31.820 I decided to wear the same color pattern

00:16:33.860 with the same clothes, with the same brand every day.

00:16:36.740 And then that way, it doesn't become decision fatigue.

00:16:39.440 I just believe to decide once, then dream bigger.

00:16:43.420 Make the decision, don't repeat yourself, it's called dry,

00:16:46.900 then move on to bigger problems see most people they keep making the same little decisions all

00:16:52.100 the time and they don't have the mental capacity to attack the big stuff i would much rather you

00:16:57.060 focus your discipline and willpower on important decisions jeff bezos said this a long time ago

00:17:02.020 he said when i wake up i read in the newspaper i putter and i get to work and i only have to make

00:17:07.460 two to three big decisions in the day and usually before 11 a.m and after that i'm good those big

00:17:14.420 decisions require your focus if you take that mind power and that creativity away by making little

00:17:21.140 decisions that you don't need to make it takes away from your ability to do big things pretty

00:17:24.900 much everything in my life the way i think about it is my existence meals i do meal prep i eat the

00:17:30.500 same macros workouts i go to the same place same time people i interact with same people clothes i

00:17:36.260 wear my weekly schedule my rhythm of existence they're all the same i've decided to make my

00:17:41.380 decision a while ago follow the process if it's not broken i keep it going because i want to add

00:17:46.500 big things not get distracted by little things which brings us to number 12 find disciplined

00:17:51.940 friends when i decided to leave my small town and go explore what the world had for me i also knew

00:17:58.100 i was looking to surround myself with people that were closer to my goals than closer to me and

00:18:04.180 that's a big question you should ask yourself are the folks you're spending time with gonna support

00:18:09.220 you encourage you or does it make it harder for you to go after what you want to create it's

00:18:13.860 interesting because when i think of the list of things that i do to be successful and then i think

00:18:19.300 of a person's name i just have to ask myself does this person make it more likely that i'll do those

00:18:24.340 things or less likely if it's less likely why would i involve them in my life at the way i'm

00:18:29.140 doing right now maybe i just got to create some space maybe i can love them from a distance i mean

00:18:33.460 you've heard this before but you become the average of the five people you spend the most

00:18:37.060 time with but the way i think about it is you become the average of the five people you allow

00:18:41.780 to influence you the cool part is you can get influenced by people on social media as i mentioned

00:18:47.460 and by other people that you read about that inspire you here's what i've learned is discipline

00:18:52.420 is contagious being around other people that have discipline that track their macros that work out

00:18:57.380 every day it makes your life to make good decisions so much easier now if that requires you to do a

00:19:03.060 friendventory where you sit down and you actually say here are my goals what kind of people would

00:19:07.700 i want to spend time with they're going to help me get those goals faster and then maybe make a

00:19:11.540 list of your current friends and go is this somebody i see supporting my future holding me

00:19:15.940 back and it doesn't mean just because you've known somebody since high school you sat next to

00:19:19.780 somebody in math class that you have to be friends with them forever but some people you do like one

00:19:24.740 of my best friends marty i've known him since i was 13. he works at the government and he is still

00:19:29.940 my biggest fan. I love Marty. I have all the time in the world for Marty. When I interviewed Dana

00:19:34.760 White, the first person I called afterwards was Marty. But the people in my life today are

00:19:39.960 definitely closer to my goals and dreams than closer to me. Some of you might feel really

00:19:44.540 lonely. You might not feel like you have any friends. Just find virtual mentors. Find mentors

00:19:48.640 in the form of books, coaching, online podcasts. I mean, I'm assuming it's why you're listening

00:19:53.420 to this. You want to find people that are going to show you the world that you know you want to

00:19:57.620 create so that you can learn from them their beliefs or their points of view to adopt those

00:20:02.040 to make your life easier. Which brings us to the last hack, number 13, visualize your goals.

00:20:06.920 Guess how many times I look at my goals? Yearly? Monthly? Weekly? No, at least three times a day.

00:20:15.060 Three times a day, I have 12 power goals that I've decided for the year that I review to ask

00:20:20.780 myself, am I investing my calendar and my bank account towards those goals appropriately? And

00:20:25.960 is my calendar a reflection of those priorities and if they're not what phone calls do i need to

00:20:30.760 make what projects do i need to stop or start and that to me is how throughout the year i'm able to

00:20:36.280 get to about 75 to 80 of those goals not 100 because they're massive but 65 75 of big goals

00:20:43.480 12 of them for the year i wouldn't be able to do it if i didn't review them with that frequency

00:20:47.880 so if you're struggling with discipline it's really just a test and the test is this do you

00:20:52.680 want it as bad as you say you do because if you do you're willing to do the work and the way you get

00:20:57.880 the work done is by reviewing the work by setting the goal by visualizing the goal by attacking it

00:21:02.480 it's not enough to just have goals you have to have the goals and be in the energy of receiving

00:21:07.280 them so i call this the rule of 300 you need to have 100 clarity know exactly to the decimal to

00:21:13.080 the detail to the specificity of the goal you need to have 100 belief that you can achieve it even if

00:21:19.220 it makes no sense. You've never done it before. You have to believe in your soul 100% that you

00:21:24.600 can do it. And then you have to have 100% belief, 100% clarity, 100% of the time. Most people don't

00:21:30.580 have clarity, don't have a belief, or they can't even believe it 100% of the time. They might be

00:21:34.520 inspired for a minute, but then self-doubt creeps in. I'm just asking myself, to what degree do I

00:21:39.100 have clarity? Do I believe it? And can I hold that belief true? To the degree I can do that,

00:21:44.120 the 300% rule, I can create or pull into my life that outcome. You need to feel it. You need to

00:21:50.260 smell it. It needs to be part of your identity. That's why it's so important to shop your dreams.

00:21:54.640 If you want to buy a car, go sit in that car, smell the leather, hold the steering wheel,

00:22:00.460 get a photo of you sitting in that car, not a picture from the internet. You in that car,

00:22:05.960 in that house, in that hotel, in that group of friends. I need you to go there to shop your

00:22:11.180 dream so that you can make it part of your reality. The whole point of being disciplined

00:22:15.680 is because you're creating yourself to be ready to achieve the thing you want. Discipline is a

00:22:21.980 means to a process of you becoming, of you getting ready to receive all the dreams and goals you've

00:22:28.300 been asking for. And if you don't visualize where you want to get to, if you don't make it about

00:22:33.760 other people, if in that process you don't see how your effort is contributing to other people,

00:22:39.440 then it's going to make it really hard to be disciplined, to be consistent.

00:22:43.100 And I will tell you the most powerful thing that you can have is clarity around your vision.

00:22:48.340 And once you have that, you have that aim, everything else just fits into place and it

00:22:52.940 becomes so much easier.

00:22:54.360 If you want to learn the nine steps to get your together, click here and I'll see you

00:22:57.900 on the other side.

Dan Martell - January 27, 2025

13 Hacks to be 99.9% More Disciplined That Cost Nothing

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