Dan Martell - July 24, 2023


Are you spiralling down or spiralling up？

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Episode Stats


Length

41 seconds

Words per minute

252.17

Word count

174

Sentence count

11


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about the difference between a downward and upward spiral and how it all started with a decision. I also talk about how important it is to be careful with your habits and your daily focus because you may wake up in 6 months and be 50 pounds overweight or half your net worth.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The problem is when you have people that have no purpose and you just give them money, they decay.
00:00:04.500 I call it a downward spiral versus an upward spiral.
00:00:06.960 If you think about people that have had a downward spiral, there was a day the spiral started.
00:00:10.260 Are you aware? Because it could have been today.
00:00:12.040 That's an interesting idea to think about.
00:00:13.680 Am I spiraling up or am I spiraling down?
00:00:15.980 And I may not know. I think I'm going sideways, but you're not.
00:00:18.740 There's only one of those two options.
00:00:20.340 That's why I always tell people, you've got to be so careful with your habits and your daily focus
00:00:24.040 because you may wake up in six months and be 50 pounds overweight or half your net worth or whatever,
00:00:29.460 but it started with a decision you don't see it here no that's like inception point yeah you only
00:00:35.560 have to be off by one degree over a long enough time horizon for it to be a complete miss in the
00:00:40.980 universe