Dan Martell - June 13, 2025


20 Things I Quit to Simplify My Life


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20 Things I Quit to Simplify My Life 1. Stop lying to yourself 2. Stop eating 3. Stop caring about what other people think 4. Stop thinking short term instead of long term 5. Stop worrying about other people s opinions 6. Stop letting feelings affect where I show up or how I perform 7. Stop having a rigid morning routine 8. Stop being productive 9. Stop taking shortcuts 10. Stop playing video games 11. Stop answering random phone calls 12. Stop making excuses 13. Stop canceling meetings 14. Stop wasting your time 15. Stop procrastinating 16. Stop getting distracted 17. Stop paying attention to other people

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00:00:00.080 Stop lying to yourself.
00:00:01.740 I'm gonna share with you 20 things that I quit
00:00:03.820 to simplify my life, to focus on what actually matters.
00:00:06.900 Because when kids come up to me
00:00:08.020 and I'm driving one of my supercars,
00:00:09.500 they always ask me, hey man, what do you do?
00:00:12.080 And I always say the same thing.
00:00:13.360 It's not what I do, it's what I don't do.
00:00:15.740 Starting with the first thing I quit,
00:00:17.180 trying to separate work and life.
00:00:19.660 For me, I integrate both things.
00:00:21.500 I don't wanna make it separate.
00:00:23.020 I want my family to be around when I'm working.
00:00:25.160 I want my workmates to be around when I'm playing.
00:00:27.420 I just realized if I'm gonna travel the world
00:00:29.560 and try to live life to the fullest,
00:00:32.080 then everybody is gonna be part of that life.
00:00:34.000 I don't keep them separate.
00:00:35.000 The second thing I quit is eating because of my emotions.
00:00:37.300 If you can't control what you put in your mouth,
00:00:40.300 trust me, it will affect your confidence
00:00:42.360 because confidence is a byproduct
00:00:44.020 of keeping the commitments you make to yourself in private
00:00:46.360 and you know what you should be eating.
00:00:48.100 The third is caring what other people think.
00:00:50.880 When I look at my life and the pain I've gone through
00:00:53.340 and realizing that if I made decisions
00:00:55.860 based on what other people thought I should do,
00:00:58.600 guess who wasn't there when I was in pain?
00:01:00.800 And if they haven't done the thing that I wanna do
00:01:03.100 and I care about their opinion
00:01:04.460 and I use that to make decisions,
00:01:06.640 now I'm living somebody else's life.
00:01:09.160 When I take my last breath,
00:01:10.500 I wanna know that I live my life.
00:01:12.120 The fourth thing I quit is thinking short-term
00:01:14.300 instead of long-term.
00:01:16.020 If you want to build a life, it's gonna take time.
00:01:19.040 If you wanna be successful, it's gonna take time.
00:01:21.400 If you try to take shortcuts, guess what?
00:01:23.340 It'll burn you every time.
00:01:25.000 Investing in long-term decisions
00:01:26.600 with long-term people playing long-term games
00:01:28.920 is how you win in life.
00:01:30.100 Number five is having a rigid morning routine.
00:01:32.480 It's kind of crazy because I always ask people
00:01:34.140 that have like the 37-hour, 17-step morning routine.
00:01:38.340 What if you don't have it?
00:01:40.180 Does that mean like the rest of your day is shot?
00:01:42.340 You can't enjoy yourself?
00:01:43.800 My whole thing is being fluid.
00:01:45.560 There's key things that I do
00:01:47.180 that takes literally minutes to reset and center.
00:01:50.560 Other than that, those are just bonuses
00:01:52.480 not required for me to have a great day.
00:01:54.340 Number six is canceling meetings last minute.
00:01:57.540 I used to think it was okay to reschedule,
00:01:59.520 reset and push things off.
00:02:01.080 The problem was, is I was telling myself
00:02:02.660 that my priorities weren't important.
00:02:04.680 And guess what?
00:02:05.360 Other people don't wanna work with people
00:02:07.320 they can't depend on.
00:02:08.460 And every time I let my feelings or my mood
00:02:10.840 affect where I showed up or how I performed, 0.99
00:02:13.220 it bit me in the butt. 0.97
00:02:14.220 Number seven is having notifications on my phone. 0.98
00:02:16.760 This device is a professional distractor device.
00:02:19.600 And if you allow it to bug you, to vibrate,
00:02:22.500 to ring, to ding, you will not be able to get into flow state. You won't be able to do the work.
00:02:27.940 The biggest thing robbing you from focus is the distraction that comes from this little device.
00:02:33.360 Number eight is having lots of meetings. What I thought was productive was literally a distraction
00:02:38.760 and allowing people to take my calendar and make me busy and then not having the time to actually
00:02:43.800 think, did you know there's only one or two really important decisions you have to make every day?
00:02:47.520 And if you don't have the space to actually think about those decisions, then you'll just
00:02:51.200 bogged down by being busy but not moving forward there's a massive difference between busy people
00:02:56.080 and productive people and being in meetings all day is just giving you permission to avoid the
00:03:00.480 real big decisions number nine is trying to remember every freaking detail i gotta tell you
00:03:05.200 my dad used to ask me all the time like hey dan what about this part of the business that part
00:03:08.400 of business and i was like dad i don't know and guess what i got okay with that because the need
00:03:13.120 to remember everything is going to cause you from actually focusing on the things that are important
00:03:17.680 can i get the answer yes do i need to remember and memorize everything no create the space in
00:03:22.800 your brain to be able to make better decisions number 10 alcohol partying or honestly any vice
00:03:28.720 when i looked at my life i realized that success is not about adding a bunch of stuff it's actually
00:03:34.320 about taking things away and the more i subtracted i added to my life i know that your next level is
00:03:40.960 on the other side of you actually giving something up you might not want to hear this you might think
00:03:44.960 think it's okay to vape. You might think it's okay to gamble. You might think it's okay to play video
00:03:48.560 games. I know that you know that next level is going to require you to kill that devil. Number 0.99
00:03:52.580 11 is answering random phone calls. Did you know in your phone, you can, there's a setting, there's
00:03:57.760 a toggle. It says any unknown number, send immediately to voicemail. That's a pro move,
00:04:02.800 but I just stopped answering my phone. Why? If I made a commitment to get something done,
00:04:07.540 that thing has to get done. If somebody else wants my time, they can wait until I'm done.
00:04:11.580 I just write down their name and call them back when I'm finished. Number 12, trying to finish
00:04:16.700 every book that I started. It's so funny how some people are like, did you finish the book? Did you
00:04:21.920 read that book? I might've read the first chapter, maybe the third chapter. If it was good, I got to
00:04:26.200 the fifth chapter. Every once in a while, a book's going to keep my attention to the very end.
00:04:30.740 I don't need to read the whole book. I'm just looking for one thing that I think can change
00:04:34.520 my whole perspective, one nugget, one idea that'll give me something to move forward with.
00:04:39.100 Once I got that, I might close the book,
00:04:40.960 put it down and never visit it again and that's okay.
00:04:43.420 Number 13, multitasking in general.
00:04:45.980 See, most people think they can multitask is actually fake.
00:04:48.740 It's a focus tasking.
00:04:50.320 So you go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
00:04:52.840 eight, nine, 10, try to go A, B, C, D, E, F, G.
00:04:55.480 Now go one, A, two, B, three, C.
00:04:58.520 See how much slower it is?
00:04:59.940 Your multitasking is actually fake.
00:05:02.300 Lock and load, focus and get the thing done
00:05:04.480 before trying to do too many things at once. 0.99
00:05:06.120 Number 14, spending time with people that suck my energy.
00:05:09.840 I had to get really honest and it was hard 0.93
00:05:12.020 because I was scared I was gonna piss people off
00:05:13.560 to start choosing folks that when I spent time with them,
00:05:16.880 when I talked to them, they gave me energy.
00:05:19.160 They made me feel good about myself.
00:05:20.860 Like it's so crazy how it could be family members
00:05:23.120 and friends, but it could also be people
00:05:25.040 you used to look up to that all of a sudden
00:05:27.420 start criticizing because you're making more progress
00:05:29.840 than them.
00:05:30.520 You need to protect your energy and do a friendventory
00:05:33.340 and get rid of those energy vampires. 0.99
00:05:35.500 Number 15, trying to make everybody happy.
00:05:37.980 Here's what I learned.
00:05:38.880 Their reality is their reality.
00:05:40.940 I'm not responsible for the reality
00:05:42.900 they found themselves in.
00:05:44.220 And I have no problem realizing some of my decisions
00:05:46.820 may not make them happy.
00:05:48.580 But if I know I'm doing them with the right intention,
00:05:50.740 then that's on them to figure out their own story.
00:05:53.280 Number 16, staying up late at night.
00:05:55.500 I gotta tell you, I turn into a pumpkin at 9 p.m.
00:05:58.200 and I'm okay with it.
00:05:59.180 Last night I had a big dinner
00:06:00.340 and I told everybody before I showed up,
00:06:02.280 hey, if it goes late, that's cool,
00:06:04.100 but I'm going to peace out. And I did. Why? I'd rather upset a few people by going to bed early
00:06:09.860 so that I have my mornings and I'm not groggy and tired. Because when I think of my life,
00:06:14.020 I want to be focused. I care about my energy in the morning. I'm not going to ruin that by
00:06:17.960 staying up late because somebody's got some social hour thing they want to do. What's funny is most
00:06:21.740 people have an alarm that goes off to wake them up. I have an alarm that goes off to tell me to
00:06:25.340 go to bed. Number 17, blaming other people. If you realize that your whole life, your situation,
00:06:31.680 everything is 100% your fault
00:06:33.740 and you are accountable for your creation,
00:06:36.360 you will give yourself power.
00:06:37.880 I don't wanna give somebody else the power on my life.
00:06:40.420 Number 18, saying yes to everyone.
00:06:43.080 Here's what's crazy, is the more you grow,
00:06:45.660 the more people will want to ask you for things.
00:06:48.120 The more you expand who you are and better your life,
00:06:51.440 people will wanna take some of your time.
00:06:53.700 Learning to say no is the key.
00:06:55.680 Saying yes to everybody will only lead you disappointed.
00:06:58.520 So here's my philosophy.
00:06:59.900 Sometimes we have to say no today to other people
00:07:02.800 to say yes to the goals that we plan for ourselves. 0.99
00:07:05.220 Number 19, overthinking every damn decision. 0.95
00:07:09.680 I had a mentor of mine say to me once, 0.98
00:07:11.240 he said, the point of leadership
00:07:12.700 is making decisions with imperfect data.
00:07:15.900 If you got 70% of what you need to know, decide.
00:07:19.960 Don't get stuck in the analysis paralysis.
00:07:22.360 Most people are worried about making the right decision.
00:07:24.780 I'm about making a decision
00:07:26.480 and figuring out how to make it right.
00:07:27.980 number 20 was stop comparing myself to other people the thing you actually may be inspired
00:07:33.260 by me for is being me a hundred percent me the most unique thing that you can do is be you so
00:07:38.300 here's the deal you didn't live somebody else's life i don't have other people's bodies i don't
00:07:42.700 have their brains i have me the only person i compare myself to is me from yesterday if you do
00:07:49.340 that you will live a life that is uniquely yours so now if you want to be 99 more productive than
00:07:56.060 anybody else click the video and I'll see you on the other side.