Dan Martell - May 29, 2023


Achieve Your Goals With Less Work


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In this episode, I talk about how I became a multi-millionaire at 28 years old and how you can do the same at 28 too. In this episode we talk about: 1. Give yourself permission to dream 2. Focus on standards 3. Unlock resources

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00:00:00.000 This is the scientific guide for setting and achieving goals because when I started off I had
00:00:05.380 two failed companies back to back and eventually I became a multi-millionaire at 28 and I want to
00:00:10.940 teach you what I've learned through reading books like The Power of Thinking Big or Thinking Grow
00:00:15.420 Rich or my personal coach Ed Milet that taught me the strategies for not only having a dream
00:00:22.100 and a vision but also achieving that in a way that almost became inevitable. This is how we do it.
00:00:30.660 Number one is you have to give yourself permission to dream.
00:00:33.600 See, most people when they're thinking of their goals
00:00:36.340 or their vision for their life
00:00:38.520 or some of the things they wanna achieve,
00:00:40.840 they kinda know it inside, but they're worried.
00:00:43.620 It's like, what if I call my shot and I don't achieve it?
00:00:46.000 Or what if I say it out loud and somebody laughs at me?
00:00:49.180 Or do I really have permission to dream of this goal?
00:00:52.460 Like some people don't wanna give themselves
00:00:54.460 permission to dream.
00:00:55.960 And you know, recently I was working with my coach,
00:00:58.200 Ed Milet, and we were at his house
00:00:59.840 And he had a bunch of us working on our goals for the year.
00:01:02.620 And he encouraged us to go out into his yard,
00:01:05.640 to find a quiet spot, to go sit down
00:01:08.440 and really get clear and check in with ourselves, right?
00:01:12.240 To really look inside and ask ourselves,
00:01:15.120 if we gave ourselves a 25 year vision
00:01:18.880 of what our life could become,
00:01:21.700 and we allowed ourselves to dream a little bit,
00:01:24.860 what could that look like?
00:01:26.220 And whatever came to our heart,
00:01:28.340 whatever came to our mind,
00:01:30.000 he encouraged us to write it down.
00:01:32.300 And what happened is in that moment,
00:01:34.420 in that space, around those people,
00:01:37.280 I checked in and I wrote stuff down
00:01:39.340 that just came through me that I never even thought of.
00:01:42.120 Ever, in that moment, it was like a download.
00:01:45.280 I gave myself permission to dream.
00:01:47.340 One of those goals was this crazy idea
00:01:49.480 of donating 10,000 copies of Think and Grow Rich
00:01:52.420 to every high schooler in my city.
00:01:54.700 Where did that come from?
00:01:56.480 I'd never thought of that before,
00:01:58.300 but I connected with my heart and a place of service.
00:02:01.260 It was like, well, of course, that is something I wanna do.
00:02:04.260 And I put it down and it was something
00:02:05.780 that I've taken action on.
00:02:07.200 These are the opportunities,
00:02:08.780 is that if you give yourself permission to dream,
00:02:11.440 then you'll be able to create a compelling future
00:02:14.820 that'll pull you forward from,
00:02:16.640 a canvas that you can work backwards from
00:02:19.220 to identify what projects, what goals for the next 10 years,
00:02:23.320 maybe this year that you wanna pull from
00:02:25.640 and make a reality today,
00:02:27.240 but it starts by giving yourself permission to dream.
00:02:29.820 Number two is to focus on standards.
00:02:32.160 What this means is that we need to identify the systems,
00:02:35.340 the processes, that if we follow and we adhere to,
00:02:39.600 our dreams and goals become inevitable.
00:02:41.980 You know, there's a great quote by James Clear
00:02:44.080 in his book, Atomic Habits, it states,
00:02:45.840 we don't rise to the size of our goals,
00:02:48.480 we fall to the level of our systems.
00:02:50.760 See, most of us have not thought through,
00:02:52.560 if this is the outcome I wanna achieve,
00:02:54.620 financial relationships our health then what level of standard or process or daily discipline
00:03:01.180 would i have to live what activities would i have to do today that would make that outcome
00:03:06.300 inevitable so for example if i was trying to achieve a certain body structure or certain
00:03:12.460 health outcome i would set some standard that would look like you know eat less than 2 000
00:03:18.220 calories a day 200 grams of protein and work out for 45 minutes and if i adhered to that standard
00:03:24.620 to that system every day it would make my goal inevitable if my dream was to have a vo2 max of 38
00:03:33.340 then knowing if i ran 5k and i did hill sprints my vo2 max would be achieved if it's to add revenue
00:03:40.540 to my business then i gotta ask myself what level of marketing and sales daily consistently weekly
00:03:47.420 that are non-negotiables the first two or three hours of my day when i wake up i'm going to attack
00:03:52.780 that standard that process that system that i've defined for myself that's going to make that goal
00:03:58.300 inevitable that is what it means by define your standards and hold them that's how we achieve
00:04:04.380 goals number three unlock resources when i'm defining a goal and i've set the standard then
00:04:10.220 i'm looking at resources i'm asking myself who are the people that i know that are best in class at
00:04:15.500 this i'm trying to get healthy who are the fittest people i know writing their names down two or
00:04:19.740 three names what's the equipment i might need write those down what are the resources the books
00:04:24.860 write those down what are programs maybe i need a coach what do i need to make this thing
00:04:30.300 inevitable most people never think in that moment of inspiration that i need to get some resources
00:04:35.580 around me so that i can hold myself to that level of come in see when you write down the names of
00:04:41.580 of the people and you take the time to text message them,
00:04:44.700 send them a message and say,
00:04:46.320 I've set a goal to achieve this level of fitness
00:04:50.100 and by this date and I'm committed and I respect you
00:04:53.920 and I want you to support me.
00:04:55.540 When you send that message,
00:04:56.760 you now create positive peer pressure to execute.
00:05:00.240 When you invest the money in a coach, a lot of money.
00:05:03.240 Some people invest too little.
00:05:04.720 They're like, oh yeah, I have a coach.
00:05:05.860 I pay him a hundred bucks a month.
00:05:07.140 That's not enough to get you up at five
00:05:09.220 in the morning to the gym.
00:05:10.720 Sometimes you need to pay more so that you pay attention,
00:05:14.000 so that you do the work,
00:05:15.220 so that you are honest with yourself about your progress.
00:05:18.080 And if you're gonna keep skipping days
00:05:20.080 or missing the activity and the standard that you outline,
00:05:23.440 somebody's gonna hold you accountable
00:05:24.880 because you wanna get your money's worth.
00:05:26.560 That's why sometimes you have to make the investment.
00:05:28.680 But in that moment of inspiration,
00:05:30.800 you write down those resources,
00:05:32.200 you send those text messages,
00:05:33.840 you purchase those pieces of equipment that you need,
00:05:36.880 or you buy those books that you need to read.
00:05:39.520 that's when the magic starts to come together
00:05:41.640 to allow you to crush your goal.
00:05:43.740 Number four is you have to celebrate the journey.
00:05:46.420 And I got this from my coach, Ed.
00:05:47.900 It's one of the coolest things
00:05:49.200 that I've added to my achievement process
00:05:51.660 that's really made it kind of like fun for me.
00:05:54.700 It's gamified it.
00:05:55.700 And the concept is that as you're executing,
00:05:58.600 as you're achieving your different goals,
00:06:01.000 you set these milestones along the way.
00:06:02.860 If I wanted to get in a certain shape
00:06:05.380 or achieve some kind of financial outcome,
00:06:07.760 I'm gonna set these dates and these milestones
00:06:10.220 of where I should be along that journey,
00:06:12.740 along that path to achieving the bigger goal for that area.
00:06:16.860 And what I do is I define what the reward is.
00:06:19.640 See, we need that dopamine hit.
00:06:21.200 We need that reward as we're making progress
00:06:23.740 to remind ourselves that, hey, there's something bigger.
00:06:26.180 And what I love to do, and this is my tip for you,
00:06:28.880 is if you've got a goal, work backwards from that date,
00:06:32.100 that smart, attainable, time-bound goal,
00:06:35.880 and then outline and map the date and the reward,
00:06:40.120 but make it something that you could actually buy today,
00:06:42.740 but you defer it, you create deferred gratification,
00:06:45.420 meaning that if it's a trip, if it's a possession,
00:06:48.320 you wanna buy some cool watch, a new office chair.
00:06:52.040 Cause see what happens is as you become more successful,
00:06:55.280 you know, you get to a place where maybe those purchases
00:06:57.800 just kind of seem like things you do
00:06:59.840 and you get away from the, I worked for this,
00:07:02.100 I appreciate it, I'm rewarding myself.
00:07:04.680 So what I do is I think about
00:07:06.240 what are all the things I might wanna buy this year?
00:07:08.160 What are all the trips I wanna go on?
00:07:09.900 And I create all my goals and I set the rewards
00:07:12.760 as micro achievements on that path,
00:07:16.600 and I map them to the things that I wanna get that year.
00:07:20.000 So I tie my progress to that reward to celebrate the journey.
00:07:25.220 And what I love to do,
00:07:26.420 and it's a tip I'll share with you guys,
00:07:28.140 is I like to map experiences, travel, trips, et cetera,
00:07:32.580 with health-related goals and possessions,
00:07:35.620 things I wanna buy, things that, you know,
00:07:38.100 any physical items, to financial outcomes, right?
00:07:41.560 Just feels good for me.
00:07:42.680 And I map those rewards to those things
00:07:46.200 that I wanna add to my life, to those trips,
00:07:48.280 and I make them non-negotiable
00:07:49.880 so that I'm rewarding myself from celebrating
00:07:51.980 along that journey to achieving my goal.
00:07:54.500 Number five, connect to triggers.
00:07:56.580 See, one of the most important things about goal setting
00:07:59.900 or having a vision for your life
00:08:01.140 is to review it on a frequency so it becomes top of mind.
00:08:04.320 See, most people, when they set their goals, their vision,
00:08:07.840 their planning for the year, they might write it down,
00:08:10.560 put it on a piece of paper, stuff it in a notion file,
00:08:13.540 you know, put it somewhere, share with a friend
00:08:15.860 and never look at it ever again, right?
00:08:18.500 They're like, oh, I have goals.
00:08:19.620 It's like, where are they?
00:08:20.460 And they start looking in their inbox or their emails
00:08:22.480 or some PowerPoint or keynote deck they put together,
00:08:25.300 but they haven't reviewed it in months.
00:08:27.600 What I wanna encourage you to do is connect to a trigger
00:08:30.660 that reviews your top 12 goals for the year, okay?
00:08:33.320 I want you to figure out what is it throughout your day?
00:08:36.420 Where are you going?
00:08:37.520 What are the moments where you can get present
00:08:40.420 and review your goals?
00:08:41.920 Like for me, it's when I sit in my car,
00:08:44.200 I sit in my chair out in my living room,
00:08:46.160 or I sit on my desk here.
00:08:47.500 I usually review my 12 goals for the year
00:08:50.280 three to four times a year, okay?
00:08:52.480 And I do that because I wanna keep them top of mind.
00:08:55.220 And in that three minute moment, as I scan through them,
00:08:58.500 I ask myself, what could I do to move these forward?
00:09:00.660 Is that I gotta add something to my calendar?
00:09:02.420 Do I have to send a message to somebody?
00:09:03.940 Do I have to send an email?
00:09:05.280 Do I have to make a commitment to move this forward?
00:09:07.540 And here's the deal, 12 goals for the year.
00:09:10.380 And these are pretty audacious goals.
00:09:13.020 Even if you only hit nine of them,
00:09:15.220 it will bring you a level of progress and momentum
00:09:18.140 that will transform your life.
00:09:19.660 And that's how we do it.
00:09:20.840 We connect triggers to the review
00:09:23.900 to keep those goals top of mind,
00:09:25.480 to move them forward and make them inevitable.
00:09:27.620 If you liked this video,
00:09:28.660 then I'm gonna highly encourage you,
00:09:30.120 go in your calendar and block out 60 minutes.
00:09:32.560 And in that time, I want you to check in on your heart.
00:09:35.660 I wanna give you permission to dream.
00:09:37.920 Think about if there were no limitations,
00:09:40.420 if you showed up powerfully in your life
00:09:43.440 for the next 25 years, what could you accomplish?
00:09:46.780 How could you serve?
00:09:47.920 How could you help other people?
00:09:49.720 What would you achieve?
00:09:50.960 And write those things down and use your heart to guide you.
00:09:54.360 If it's on your mind, it's in your heart,
00:09:56.000 is the reason it's there because it's you,
00:09:58.360 It's within you to achieve them.
00:10:00.360 If you wanna take it another level further,
00:10:02.640 be sure to grab a copy of my book, Buy Back Your Time.
00:10:05.140 Chapter 13, I talk about dream bigger, achieve bigger,
00:10:09.060 and I unpack my 10X vision map,
00:10:11.540 which is a process to visualize your dreams
00:10:14.700 so that you can have a map that you look at,
00:10:17.260 that you can connect with,
00:10:18.620 and you can see your whole life become a reality.
00:10:21.780 So if you like this video, be sure to leave a comment.
00:10:24.520 Let me know what resonated the most with you.
00:10:26.500 And as per usual, I want to challenge you
00:10:28.220 to live a bigger life and a bigger business.
00:10:30.220 And I'll see you next Monday.