Dan Martell - 8 Tiny Habits That Made Me Rich

00:00:00.000 These eight habits quickly transform my life and if you try them for just seven days they'll

00:00:05.080 transform yours too. I went from an ADHD mess to someone who can run several multi-million

00:00:11.540 dollar companies while still having time for my family, travel, and my hobbies. In this video

00:00:17.420 I'm going to show you how to build habits that will start your day clear and prepared,

00:00:22.040 build energy and stay consistent, set up your environment so progress feels automatic,

00:00:27.580 and many more improvements that will make your life feel easier and better every week.

00:00:33.080 All starting with winning tomorrow, today.

00:00:36.720 Your tomorrow is won or lost the night before.

00:00:40.700 You essentially can't have a productive morning if you have a weak night routine.

00:00:45.720 Because bedtime for me, it's the real productivity hack.

00:00:48.620 And most people freaking ignore it.

00:00:50.440 The metaphor I like to think about is like my battle for my day

00:00:53.620 is actually fought in yesterday's battlefield.

00:00:55.960 And there's a few things you need to do every night before bed.

00:00:59.580 First, plan tomorrow, tonight.

00:01:02.380 My day is dialed the night before.

00:01:04.900 My whole week is dialed in the Sunday before the week.

00:01:08.320 And I'll actually touch on how you do that in a little bit.

00:01:11.200 Then, set a bedtime alarm.

00:01:13.260 Most people set a time to wake up.

00:01:15.020 I have an alarm that goes off to tell me to go to bed.

00:01:17.500 Because if I don't, I know my morning is room.

00:01:19.680 Next, dump all your open loops into a list before you go to sleep.

00:01:24.660 Most people can't sleep well,

00:01:26.300 so they wake up tired

00:01:27.320 because they've been tossing and turning,

00:01:29.240 which they needed to write down and forget about,

00:01:31.680 but instead they like sat there and thought about it

00:01:34.000 and didn't sleep and then I can't sleep,

00:01:35.500 so maybe I should watch a show

00:01:36.420 and then I watch a show and then I can't see any sleep.

00:01:38.640 Dump it out in a book.

00:01:40.780 Have something to write on next to your bed.

00:01:42.560 And finally, put any unfinished tasks in your calendar

00:01:45.600 to tackle it tomorrow.

00:01:46.800 At the end of my workday,

00:01:48.180 I have a Google Doc where I dump all the unfinished tasks

00:01:51.580 and it's linked to my calendar for the next day to review,

00:01:54.000 so that way I have a ramp down period

00:01:56.180 so that I don't have any open projects or tasks

00:01:59.040 that can't wait for the next morning.

00:02:00.460 Now you set yourself up for success the night before.

00:02:03.560 You need to look at the habits

00:02:04.700 that will quickly transform your life

00:02:06.260 from the moment you wake up.

00:02:08.120 Habit number two, protect your morning.

00:02:10.580 Your body is an on switch for your brain.

00:02:13.340 Starting your day on the right foot

00:02:14.980 sets the tone and your mood for the rest of the day.

00:02:18.980 If you follow me on Instagram,

00:02:20.940 you will definitely see me post,

00:02:22.400 exhaust the body, tame the mind. Why? See, when I was diagnosed with ADHD at 11 and struggled on

00:02:28.220 medication for 20 plus years, being somebody that I wasn't, it occurred to me that the harder I

00:02:33.700 worked out, the more ability I had to control my thoughts, control my focus, control my output.

00:02:39.580 And that morning time is so important to get that right that I don't leave it up to chance.

00:02:44.700 So to do this, block the first 60 minutes of every day and do these three steps.

00:02:49.460 Number one, input fasting. 1.00

00:02:51.560 Avoid the news, motherfucker. 0.99

00:02:53.000 It's all the worst things happening in the world. 1.00

00:02:55.140 And everybody's like, but I need to know what's going on.

00:02:57.160 Trust me, the other people watching news will tell you.

00:02:59.580 Social feeds, same thing.

00:03:01.260 You're like, I'm just gonna check my messages.

00:03:03.440 Two hours later, you're still laying in bed.

00:03:05.520 You haven't even done anything.

00:03:06.460 Or your inbox of other people's priorities on your time

00:03:09.840 and you just let it take over your brain.

00:03:11.900 Put a fasting ritual in place

00:03:13.640 and don't let other people distract you.

00:03:15.660 Two, move your body and break a sweat.

00:03:18.520 Simple, put a weighted vest on and go for a walk

00:03:21.080 or go to the gym and go see how heavy you can live.

00:03:23.760 I don't care what it is,

00:03:24.760 but if you struggle with consistency,

00:03:26.900 get a workout partner.

00:03:28.160 I don't care what you do,

00:03:29.360 just make sure you wake up and break a sweat.

00:03:31.980 And three, drink a full bottle of water

00:03:34.040 as soon as you wake up.

00:03:35.100 Like you literally lay there for seven or eight hours,

00:03:37.900 your body's dehydrated.

00:03:39.140 That's why you weigh less in the morning

00:03:40.520 than you do when you go to bed

00:03:41.480 and you just like wake up and get into stuff

00:03:43.520 and you think your brain's gonna work

00:03:44.620 when you don't have enough liquids in it.

00:03:46.240 Don't do that.

00:03:46.880 drink that electrolyted water, hydrate and watch your brain revive itself.

00:03:51.360 I promise you, if you start doing these things first thing in the morning,

00:03:54.640 you'll see your whole life transform like that.

00:03:57.920 And look, I know a lot of you watching are business owners or CEOs who wake up reactive.

00:04:02.640 Inbox, slack, fires. That's why your weeks disappear.

00:04:06.240 That's why the first thing I do with every coaching client is install the five daily non-negotiables

00:04:11.200 that help them operate from momentum instead of chaos.

00:04:14.480 I've helped thousands of very high-level entrepreneurs transform their businesses

00:04:18.680 and their lives. So if you're a business owner and you're trying to cross seven figures and

00:04:22.980 becoming the leader you need to be, find me on Instagram, Dan Martell, and DM me the word

00:04:27.920 YouTube coach, and I'll see if I can help. Okay, now that you've prepared your body on a daily

00:04:33.300 basis, if you really want to transform your life, you need to prep your mind. Habit number three,

00:04:38.380 mindful journaling. You get in life what you focus on. And if you don't learn that you are

00:04:44.800 not your thoughts, that you won't actually create this separation, the learning. See,

00:04:48.960 when you can write out your goals, write out your strategies, write out your desires, that act

00:04:54.920 takes it out of here, which is a bad place to keep things and gets it out of your head. And

00:05:00.200 the cool part is it only takes five minutes. Like I'm not asking you to sit there and journal for

00:05:04.360 an hour. And it's not about writing a book other people are going to read. It's just about getting

00:05:08.520 your thoughts out of your mind. When I was in my mid twenties, I remember I was dealing with a

00:05:12.860 massive issue at work. And one of my mentors gave me a simple suggestion. Hey man, wake up tomorrow,

00:05:18.780 write everything that's on your mind down and finish it with some gratitude. See, my problem

00:05:23.180 is I was spiraling in my head. And as soon as I put it on paper, I can look at it. I could process

00:05:27.760 it. That act of doing that writing every morning is what got me through it. And this is why I

00:05:32.700 follow the one, two, three method.

00:05:34.160 And here's how you do it.

00:05:35.320 First, do the one big brain dump on anything on your mind.

00:05:39.760 Look, you do the dump at night

00:05:41.460 and you gotta have a dump in the morning.

00:05:44.340 Anything that's on your mind

00:05:45.780 that is just like open loops or challenges

00:05:48.420 or conversations you should have or concerns you have,

00:05:51.500 just dump it out on paper.

00:05:53.300 Then set two priorities for the day.

00:05:55.900 Like today, I wanna accomplish these two things.

00:05:58.140 Most people wanna do three or five or seven or 10.

00:06:00.500 look, if you just got two meaningful projects completed for that day, you can take that momentum

00:06:06.340 if you want into three, four, five, up to 10. It doesn't matter. I always write down two.

00:06:11.140 And finally, three things you're grateful for. But here's the trick. One of those has to be

00:06:16.400 the most mundane thing ever. When I was going through that really tough time in my business,

00:06:20.220 one of my gratitude items was my coffee cup. Because I'll tell you, I was so grateful for

00:06:25.300 of coffee in my cup. And I wrote that down for six months. That might be the reason I got through it.

00:06:31.060 This will get all the clutter, that mess that's in your mind and get it out on paper so you can

00:06:36.500 organize it in a way that allows you to attack it. So now that your mind is clear and you've

00:06:40.980 prepped things, you've organized things, we need to transform your life by training your mind.

00:06:45.860 Habit number four, learn daily. This one is a non-negotiable. I don't care if I have three

00:06:53.220 minutes, I'm feeding my brain. Because here's what my billionaire mentor said to me a long time ago.

00:06:58.340 He said, if you already knew everything you needed to know to be successful, you'd be successful.

00:07:02.920 So by the fact that you're not, you don't. See, school was never meant to teach you what to learn.

00:07:08.080 School was meant to teach you how to learn. And most people forgot that. I wish somebody would

00:07:12.040 have said that to me. It's not about reading a book. It's about studying a book. For $30,

00:07:17.700 I can buy the blueprint of somebody who's accomplished the thing that I'm trying to do,

00:07:22.400 spent 30 years of mastery on that one topic

00:07:25.780 that I've never done before

00:07:26.980 and I can study and learn from that person

00:07:29.320 in six to eight hours, come on.

00:07:32.120 When I look back on my life

00:07:33.580 and I think of like these moments

00:07:35.460 that changed everything for me,

00:07:37.240 when I'm 17 and I'm in rehab

00:07:39.340 and I discover this yellow book on Java programming

00:07:42.260 and that passion that I discovered in that moment

00:07:45.300 around writing code,

00:07:46.960 reading literally saved my life

00:07:49.040 and it can do it for you too.

00:07:50.460 Today, I think I've read over 1,600 books.

00:07:53.440 I buy courses on things weekly,

00:07:55.400 and I have an unlimited budget for my mind.

00:07:57.860 Why?

00:07:58.340 Every reader may not be a leader,

00:08:00.440 but every leader is definitely a reader.

00:08:03.000 When you look at Elon, you look at Oprah, Zuck,

00:08:05.520 they've all attributed their success to reading.

00:08:08.040 So here are four tips

00:08:09.100 on how to efficiently learn every day.

00:08:11.600 One, read at least 10 pages of a book every morning.

00:08:15.740 Now, if you wanna cheat,

00:08:17.360 just bump the font up on your Kindle.

00:08:19.400 My wife makes fun of me all the time 1.00

00:08:20.500 as she thinks I'm blind.

00:08:21.540 Because then those 10 pages are a lot quicker to get through.

00:08:23.980 But I've been doing this for 18 years, almost religiously.

00:08:27.280 Right after I free my mind from journaling,

00:08:29.540 I go into feeding it by reading.

00:08:32.020 And number two, make sure you choose just-in-time books,

00:08:35.500 not just-in-case.

00:08:37.100 See, school taught you just-in-case.

00:08:39.080 Hey, here's some stuff you could use

00:08:40.660 just in case you need it.

00:08:42.080 I read books that I need to learn

00:08:43.980 to actually solve problems today.

00:08:45.880 When you find out about a book

00:08:47.680 and somebody says, that's a great read,

00:08:48.960 don't read it unless that's what you need to read today.

00:08:52.220 And if you're starting a book

00:08:53.260 and it doesn't give you value

00:08:54.660 or you feel it's relevant to you today,

00:08:56.800 drop it fast if it's not useful.

00:08:58.980 Number three, as soon as you find

00:09:00.800 a golden nugget of knowledge, apply it immediately.

00:09:04.500 J-F-D-I, okay, that is my philosophy.

00:09:07.380 If I feel that passage and it inspires me to do something,

00:09:10.820 go do something.

00:09:11.920 And to go even further and to really lock it in,

00:09:15.100 step four, teach it to someone else.

00:09:18.060 Share that insight to a friend.

00:09:20.040 My favorite way is to actually screenshot the book passage,

00:09:23.140 highlight it, and then tell people on my social media

00:09:25.560 why I like it.

00:09:26.880 The social posts on a daily basis,

00:09:29.080 that accountability is a really great way

00:09:31.480 to add value to your followers

00:09:32.940 and also hold you accountable to always reading.

00:09:35.860 So we made sure your mind, your body,

00:09:38.100 are fed and they're growing.

00:09:39.960 But if we wanna quickly transform your life,

00:09:42.080 this next habit is crucial.

00:09:44.160 Habit number five, environment engineering.

00:09:47.340 Let me tell you what I mean by that.

00:09:48.880 Few things will influence your life more

00:09:51.440 than your environment.

00:09:52.900 If you think about it, you can have the best mindset,

00:09:55.480 positive, excited, but if I take you

00:09:57.820 and I put you in a commercial grade freezer,

00:10:00.140 you're gonna be cold.

00:10:01.260 If you're like, but I'm warm, I'm warm,

00:10:03.380 I'm thinking about being warm.

00:10:04.600 No, you're gonna freeze to death.

00:10:05.880 If I take you out of the freezer

00:10:07.520 and I put you on a beach and it's sunny outside,

00:10:10.060 guess what?

00:10:11.000 You will get warm.

00:10:12.580 You are the byproduct of where you spend the most time.

00:10:15.460 the people you talk to, the way you structure your environment. Is it clean? The things you

00:10:20.980 look at, you are a sensory adapter to the world around you. Most people underestimate or don't

00:10:28.220 even consider designing that. And I always break that down into two parts, the people and the

00:10:33.680 place. People, those raise or lower your standards by the expectation they have on your life. We'll

00:10:40.780 dig into that. The places define your energy and your focus. You ever walk into a room and you're

00:10:45.800 like, I feel the vibe of this place. The way I like to frame it is people are either pulling you

00:10:50.700 up or they're pushing you down. They're either supporting your dreams or telling you why you

00:10:55.820 should stay small. And here's what I know. God has a way bigger plan for you than being a big fish

00:11:01.740 in a really small pond. So make sure you're in the right pond. So here's how you can design your life

00:11:07.180 and transform it forever.

00:11:09.040 The first thing is we have to learn

00:11:10.420 how to design our environment.

00:11:11.760 See, most people make it hard on themselves to win.

00:11:14.500 I always ensure that the right action

00:11:16.700 that I wanna take in my life,

00:11:17.860 the right habit is the easiest action. 0.97

00:11:20.020 So for example, I don't keep shit in my house 0.99

00:11:22.540 that I know I would fucking go crazy on, 0.99

00:11:24.820 like boxes of peanut butter and chocolate Ritz. 0.96

00:11:27.420 I mean, they don't even make those, 0.97

00:11:28.620 but if they did, I would eat the whole frigging box 0.97

00:11:30.580 because I learned a long time ago, 0.97

00:11:32.000 it's easier to avoid the dragon than to slay it.

00:11:34.460 For example, there's a certain type of protein bar

00:11:37.220 that I treat like a chocolate bar.

00:11:40.220 So I had to tell my team, hide them in the office.

00:11:43.300 Don't tell me where they're at.

00:11:44.720 And guess what?

00:11:45.420 I'm so sneaky that I watch one of them

00:11:47.820 go get me one one day

00:11:49.080 and I found where they hid it in the bottom drawer 0.98

00:11:51.040 in the back cabinet and I fucking grabbed the box. 0.98

00:11:53.740 Now, I told them I was doing it 0.98

00:11:55.040 when they had to change the spot.

00:11:56.320 I'm also human and I'm always designing my environment

00:11:59.400 to make the right decision, the easiest one. 0.95

00:12:01.720 Number two, surround yourself with killers.

00:12:05.140 The people around you and their expectations of you

00:12:08.400 will set the tone for your life.

00:12:10.220 Like even a culture at our office,

00:12:11.920 if you walked in and looked at everybody,

00:12:13.020 you'd be like, is this a fitness business?

00:12:14.860 Because they're all jacked.

00:12:16.260 We have a fridge that says Martell Macros

00:12:18.760 because we pay for everybody's meal prep.

00:12:20.900 And most people that join that are not into that,

00:12:24.200 they get inspired by it.

00:12:25.900 I mean, Jen on my team literally went from

00:12:28.380 her beginning weight to deciding to drop 40 pounds and hit the best physique she's ever 0.99

00:12:34.060 had in her life on her own through the exposure of surrounding herself by where she decided to work

00:12:40.020 with killers. Okay, with everything we just talked about, we set ourselves up for success,

00:12:45.660 but now we need to keep track of growth every day, which takes us to habit number six,

00:12:50.880 measure what matters. You can improve what you don't measure. The other day, a friend of mine

00:12:56.040 looked at me. He said, hey man, how fat were you in that picture? And I said, the truth was, I don't

00:13:00.740 know because I refused to step on a scale then. He goes, oh, that makes sense. Why do you think I was

00:13:05.840 fat? Because I didn't measure. I didn't want to know. And what I've learned in business and in

00:13:10.840 life is anything that's important to me, the more I measure it and more frequently I am with it,

00:13:16.880 the more honest I'll be about it. See, numbers just reveal the truth. They give you the foundation

00:13:21.660 for you to actually push against to make change.

00:13:24.380 If you don't track,

00:13:25.580 how can you make a better decision to improve the situation?

00:13:28.560 So for example, Jen, who I mentioned earlier,

00:13:30.880 the one thing you'll notice about her

00:13:32.760 and how she accomplished her fitness journey

00:13:34.840 is she started off by getting a DEXA scan.

00:13:37.780 She wanted to know what her body composition was.

00:13:40.360 Then she measured every day, every macro, every calorie.

00:13:45.380 And my favorite part

00:13:46.620 is then she talked about it with other people.

00:13:48.760 See, in talking about it,

00:13:50.300 she created accountability. I call that a forcing function. But if you don't measure, how can you be

00:13:56.420 accountable to something you don't know about? To make this super simple for you, I'm going to give

00:14:01.400 you only two steps you need to measure your success. First, you need to find your North Star

00:14:06.640 metric. It's the one number that moves the needle the most. So every goal that you want to accomplish

00:14:13.280 has one of them. You just got to figure out what it is. So for example, if it's getting in shape,

00:14:18.180 then the North Star metric could be just your macros.

00:14:21.540 Like what are you measuring per day?

00:14:23.260 The macronutrients that you're intaking,

00:14:25.660 which will add up to your calories.

00:14:27.820 And the whole point is to be in a caloric deficit.

00:14:30.360 Just know that whatever your goal is,

00:14:32.620 there's probably one number that if you could figure out,

00:14:35.660 it's like a leading indicator to you achieving your goal.

00:14:38.600 Just measure it every day.

00:14:40.080 Once you got that figured out,

00:14:41.460 and if you're still confused, just ask AI, it'll tell you.

00:14:44.980 Then we need to create a scorecard around that metric.

00:14:47.900 The key is, is I want you to log it.

00:14:50.380 I want you to like look it up and write it down

00:14:52.820 so that you can create an emotional connection

00:14:55.440 to that number and update it daily.

00:14:57.980 Every week, maybe it's on Sunday,

00:14:59.980 you sit down and you look at your progress.

00:15:02.480 So those two things,

00:15:04.300 the metric and the measurement will change everything.

00:15:07.620 But here's the thing.

00:15:08.840 Now that you're able to see the progress on a daily basis,

00:15:12.000 you need to build the habits to keep those numbers growing.

00:15:15.080 Habit number seven,

00:15:16.180 fight for momentum momentum you know when you're in it it feels good you're like you've got

00:15:22.720 momentum there's consistency there's productivity you feel good about yourself it's like you're in

00:15:28.320 flow positive momentum when you're in it compounds faster because everybody else sees it and they're

00:15:34.320 like what are they doing different how do I support them you just act differently so my

00:15:38.920 whole thing is you're either spiraling up or you're spiraling down if you woke up today and

00:15:43.980 10 pounds heavier there was a day in the past where you woke up and you might have made a simple

00:15:48.780 decision to skip the gym but that one day turned into six days turned into 30 days and all of a

00:15:53.660 sudden now you get on 10 pounds if you start to spiral down you want to catch it quick what's

00:15:58.940 funny is that's the natural state like most people when they start to win they almost feel guilty

00:16:04.220 about it and then they kind of lose the momentum look at your habits look at your mindset whatever

00:16:09.500 worked. Keep doing it. Fight to stay in it. Don't let other people convince you. Like if you look

00:16:16.260 at the difference between winners and losers is that winners have bad moments, but losers have

00:16:20.940 bad days. How do you actually stay in momentum? How do you protect yourself? There's only three

00:16:26.620 things you got to keep in mind. One, done is better than perfect. If you know you should go

00:16:31.760 to the gym, just get up and get outside and go for a run. Like don't overcomplicate it. Just do

00:16:36.360 anything, right? Those tiny little wins will add up. Just get it done, even if it's just sloppy.

00:16:43.080 Number two, kill negative momentum immediately. Anytime you feel somebody or something, people

00:16:49.420 are placed, kind of get in your way from being in momentum. You have to be honest with yourself and

00:16:54.160 just say, I got to create some space. I got to not expose myself to that. I got to not read those

00:16:58.280 comments because those little decisions add up. So for example, I made a commitment that I never

00:17:03.800 miss the gym two days in a row. One day, totally cool. If it's an early morning flight and I can't

00:17:08.760 get to the gym, that's okay. Never two days in a row. Think of it this way. I like this language.

00:17:13.660 Don't let a slip turn into a slide. And the last one, number three, celebrate big wins. One of the

00:17:19.880 worst habits I've seen from really high performing people is they don't celebrate their wins. So if

00:17:23.800 you're one that's like, I don't like celebrating because I don't feel like I got there. Stop that.

00:17:27.540 That's exactly the habit that's gonna keep you

00:17:31.120 from building momentum.

00:17:33.060 Now, before we move on to the last habit, let me warn you.

00:17:37.040 It may not be what you wanna hear,

00:17:38.940 but if you actually wanna transform your life,

00:17:41.360 it might be the most important habit of them all.

00:17:44.660 Habit number eight, choose hard always.

00:17:49.300 I believe pain is the perfect teacher.

00:17:53.000 People that look at winners think they're special.

00:17:56.420 Winners lost more than losers

00:17:58.860 because they decided to make tough choices.

00:18:02.000 Because when you make those easy choices,

00:18:04.480 you end up living a hard life.

00:18:06.200 Think about it.

00:18:06.660 If I just lay in bed, that's easy.

00:18:08.440 Guess what?

00:18:08.920 I'm gonna have a hard life.

00:18:10.040 When you make the hard choices,

00:18:11.840 you end up living an easier life.

00:18:14.520 And it's crazy because there's always gonna be stress

00:18:17.240 on you, okay?

00:18:18.180 The difference is there's you stress,

00:18:20.560 stress that you chose.

00:18:22.300 You chose to go to the gym.

00:18:23.480 You put stress on your muscles.

00:18:24.720 that is self-imposed. And then there's distress. That is stress from the world imposing the

00:18:30.660 pressure on you because you're reacting to making easy decisions because they weren't hard decisions.

00:18:36.660 You stress build your identity. Distress appears when you avoid hard choices. It's like when I was

00:18:42.260 training for my Ironman. I was training three weeks before the race and a van cut me off

00:18:49.320 while I was in aero position going 25 miles an hour.

00:18:54.720 it destroyed my bike it almost dislocated my hip and when I started talking to my friends that were

00:19:02.960 also training with me for the Ironman and family members they all said to me maybe you should sit

00:19:07.500 this out and I remember thinking I could and nobody else would hold it against me in many

00:19:14.440 ways they were encouraging me to do it but then I realized a quote I heard a long time ago is

00:19:19.400 sometimes life is getting you ready to receive what you've been asking for and i knew in that

00:19:25.640 moment i could choose easy and not race or i can go work my way to find another bike train on the

00:19:32.680 bike rehab myself and show up to the starting line and i will tell you that full distance ironman

00:19:39.000 that i started on a bike i hardly trained on in the heat we were running in if i didn't go through

00:19:46.280 that the mental preparation to deal with that level of heart i'm telling you i had to go into

00:19:52.280 a pain cave i didn't want to enter but because i went through that it got me ready it was the

00:19:58.760 most ridiculous thing i'd ever done in my life to that point and in the same breath when i finished

00:20:04.040 i got crazy emotional because i knew i'd earned that and if i didn't go through it i wouldn't

00:20:11.320 have grown through it to become the person who could have kept pushing so if life is hard good

00:20:18.280 because winners push past the point where everybody else said stopping was justified so if you want to

00:20:24.600 prioritize choosing hard to transform your life do this first pick one challenge that scares you

00:20:30.200 i don't care if it's the everesting challenge 75 hard running your first 10k literally deciding to

00:20:37.720 drop 10 pounds just pick something that you know you have a hard time doing and decide to use it

00:20:43.880 to shape you two tell people about your commitment activate it activate the outcome tell people

00:20:51.080 because it'll create accountability i call it positive peer pressure go on social media and

00:20:56.360 tell everybody this is what i'm going to do by this date hold me accountable three when you hit

00:21:01.720 the wall and you will say good. When you can reprogram your mind and go, man, I don't want

00:21:08.760 to do that. Good. Oh my gosh, this is hard. Good. Why? Because if it was easy, everybody would have

00:21:17.100 it. And the point of having it isn't to have it. It's to become the person who can get it.

00:21:22.880 This is why I shoot these videos. This is why I'm here for you. I want to show you that there's

00:21:27.760 nothing special about what I've done. I just chose hard. I decided to get up and say, look,

00:21:33.320 I don't want to just retire. I don't want to rest on my past accomplishments. I don't want to be

00:21:39.280 okay. I want to see what's possible. And four, stack everything with your previous habits.

00:21:46.440 See, as you work through these, you build a winning streak. You build momentum through

00:21:52.140 consistency. And if you can build the habit to choose hard by default, so few people do that,

00:21:59.760 that it'll separate you from everybody else and transform your life. With all that being said,

00:22:05.560 I want to end on this. Your life is the byproduct of your habits. And I know you've probably like

00:22:12.120 tried things in the past and it didn't work and you reset and you're like, you're beating yourself

00:22:16.340 up for it. I want you to know this, that dream life you want is so close. I actually think if

00:22:24.420 you knew how close it was, it would scare you. It's a few days away from being a little bit

00:22:31.020 better, a little bit more consistent, a little bit more disciplined that over time it stacks

00:22:36.680 and it snowballs. And all of a sudden you wake up one day and you're like, how is this my life?

00:22:40.840 and it's not a decade it literally could be six months but the key is you got to start with one

00:22:47.720 and you got to dial it in and then you got to stack the next and the whole philosophy that i

00:22:52.520 like to think to myself is can i be one percent better every day i'm not competing against anybody

00:22:58.360 else in the world not my brother not my friends not the internet i'm here to compete against me

00:23:04.920 me from yesterday, you from yesterday, and you can wake up right now. You can start right now

00:23:12.120 and decide to get on that journey and watch your whole life transform in front of you.

00:23:17.920 And remember, if you're a business owner and you're looking to grow both in your business

00:23:21.900 and your life, just find me on Instagram and message me YouTube coach, and I'll see if I can

00:23:26.240 help. And if you want to learn how to get rich without luck, talent, and a trust fund,

00:23:30.400 click here and I'll see you on the other side.

Dan Martell - February 23, 2026

8 Tiny Habits That Made Me Rich

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