Dan Martell - Give me 25 minutes, and you’ll get more done than 97% of people

00:00:00.000 If you're the kind of person who wants to get more done in less time, then you've clicked on

00:00:03.640 the right video. Because if you give me just a few minutes, I'll give you decades of productivity

00:00:08.160 advice in return. Because the most successful people, they don't rely on discipline or willpower

00:00:13.140 to be productive. They rewire their brain to make it impossible to fail. I've got intense ADHD,

00:00:20.020 but the systems I've built turn that from a weakness into a weapon. And those systems is

00:00:25.720 what helped me build several multi-million dollar businesses. And through it all, I've learned there

00:00:30.280 are only five things that make productivity simple and life a whole lot easier. Starting with the

00:00:35.960 two-minute rule. I first learned this from a guy named David Allen. He wrote an incredible book

00:00:39.900 called Getting Things Done. And a long time ago, I went to an event in New York City where he's

00:00:44.540 speaking and he shared this wisdom that was so simple yet so profound. A rule that applies to

00:00:50.760 everything that I'll talk about today. If something takes less than two minutes, just do it. Don't

00:00:57.340 think it. Don't plan it. Just act. Most people spend more time writing down, tracking, put it

00:01:03.160 in their project management software than the actual work to just do it. The longer you hesitate,

00:01:08.440 the heavier the task actually gets and the longer the list of the task get. I like to say JFDI,

00:01:14.800 Just do it. Send the email, book the meeting, shoot the video, respond to the text. Just do

00:01:20.500 it now. Less than two minutes. Don't even write it down. Those tiny actions actually build massive

00:01:26.220 momentum. Reminds me of this quote by Jeff Bezos, which I love. He says, stress doesn't come from

00:01:31.120 hard work. It comes from ignoring things that you shouldn't be ignoring. It's true. Some people

00:01:36.460 create more pain in their life from the decision they got to make than the downside that might

00:01:41.180 happen if they just make the decision. Now, not every task takes two minutes. So what do you do

00:01:45.580 when you've got real work that demands focus, energy, and time? You need to fix your focus.

00:01:50.940 Here's a wild idea. You can't be productive if you have no idea what to focus on. Clarity

00:01:57.700 creates acceleration. If I have a clear direction of where I'm going, I can sprint. Most people wake

00:02:03.840 up wanting to be productive, but they can't be productive because they don't know what they're

00:02:07.280 trying to produce. In many ways, I think about it like a target. How can I hit a target if I can't

00:02:12.920 see it? But once I see it, then it's about focus. Follow one course until successful. That's what

00:02:19.080 the best of the best do. As a nerd, I think of it like a vector. And if you don't know what that is,

00:02:24.000 it's an easy thing to understand. A vector is essentially an arrow. The arrow has a direction

00:02:28.700 and it has a force. If it's got a lot of power behind it, then that vector is strong in a

00:02:33.960 direction. It means that it's not about just how hard you work. It's about working in the right

00:02:38.560 direction. This first got introduced to me through a guy named Sean Ellis, who's like the original

00:02:43.320 growth hacker, if you've ever heard that term. And he shared me this concept called North Star

00:02:48.080 Metrics. Essentially, he said, if you can distill everything you're trying to accomplish in your

00:02:53.260 business into one number, then it gets everybody focused on the right thing. So I was building this

00:02:59.000 company Clarity. And when we sat down as a team and looked at it, we realized there's this thing

00:03:02.980 called expert driven signups to the degree we could convince people that were using our platform

00:03:08.140 to share it with other people and they would drive signups to use our product, that that was our

00:03:13.740 North Star metric. That became our focus. That became our guiding light for all things, our

00:03:18.500 sprints, our developments, our marketing, everything. That one decision to get everybody

00:03:23.000 focused on our North Star metric is the reason why we sold the company two years later. Real

00:03:27.480 productivity isn't managing time. It's managing focus. So here's two steps you can follow to fix

00:03:33.480 your focus. The first, you have to define your 12 power goals. At the beginning of the year,

00:03:39.580 I always sit down and I go for a walk and I get quiet and I sit down with my heart in the trees.

00:03:45.600 I literally like to go to nature. And I ask myself, what do I want to accomplish this year

00:03:51.400 in all aspects of my life, from the business side to the family side, to the adventure side,

00:03:56.740 to just creating the world.

00:03:58.740 And I just do a flood of consciousness.

00:04:00.600 I just write down a bunch of things.

00:04:03.260 Now, what I do is I take that list and I look at them

00:04:05.540 and I always take the one thing that goes to the top

00:04:08.880 that if I accomplish that one,

00:04:10.140 it makes everything else easier.

00:04:12.200 But then I backfill it with the other 11 that are aligned,

00:04:15.180 that feel good, that, I mean, that are crazy.

00:04:18.240 A couple of years ago, I had this wild idea

00:04:20.540 to donate 10,000 copies of Think and Grow Rich

00:04:23.760 to every kid in my hometown

00:04:25.440 as almost like an economic experiment in our city.

00:04:28.980 That process of having those 12 goals is the first step

00:04:32.680 because that'll give you a North Star.

00:04:34.920 Where most people miss the opportunity

00:04:36.920 is I then set up a habit to review that list

00:04:40.420 three times a day.

00:04:41.600 Think about it.

00:04:42.360 Most people write a business plan or a life plan

00:04:44.200 and then after the first few weeks,

00:04:45.740 they put it in a drawer and they never revisit it.

00:04:47.620 Because I sit down and I have triggers set up in my life

00:04:50.300 when I sit in my car, when I'm at my office,

00:04:52.120 when I read in the morning,

00:04:53.320 where I pull out my phone and it's in a note file

00:04:55.340 and it's literally pinned at the top of my phone

00:04:57.380 and I just review and that allows me to ask myself,

00:05:01.140 how aligned is my calendar?

00:05:02.800 What do I got going on today?

00:05:04.060 When's the last time I did anything on that?

00:05:06.360 It reminds me of a quote by Stephen Covey,

00:05:08.160 which he says, the main thing

00:05:09.380 is to keep the main thing, the main thing.

00:05:11.380 Essentially, if these are your goals,

00:05:13.240 look at them and make sure your calendar reflects your goal. 0.92

00:05:15.820 If you do that, you will be a freaking weapon.

00:05:18.360 Then we have to choose our top three daily wins.

00:05:21.260 Essentially, we have to ask ourselves,

00:05:22.700 what are the projects that we move forward

00:05:24.500 that if we win around, we'll get these things done.

00:05:27.580 You know, a lot of these are projects,

00:05:28.720 but I actually need to break it down

00:05:30.260 into something tactical and tangible.

00:05:31.920 So it has to be aligned with your goals.

00:05:34.440 That's why they're three daily wins.

00:05:36.400 If all I do is get those three things done for the day,

00:05:39.520 I consider the day absolutely a winning day.

00:05:42.000 And my mission every morning

00:05:43.940 is to create what I call a winning streak.

00:05:46.520 Start with a focus, get those things done,

00:05:49.320 and everything else would backfill.

00:05:51.400 All the got a second meetings, the conversation,

00:05:54.220 the TikTok feed, the tweets, the requests, the text messages, the all that, all that will fill

00:06:01.520 in. These are the big rocks, three things, three projects, I get them done, usually first thing in

00:06:06.560 the morning, and everything else feels like gravy. And look, if you're a high level entrepreneur

00:06:11.060 juggling employees, meetings, travel clients, a family that really wants you to be present at

00:06:16.760 dinner, you know, focus isn't a luxury. It's a necessity. That's why I created the perfect week

00:06:22.040 template it's the system i use to protect my deep work and ensure that my team has the rhythms that

00:06:28.120 i have the health and the relationships are maintained so i can be successful i created this

00:06:32.760 specifically for founders and operators with real responsibility so if that's you and you want me to

00:06:38.040 send it over to you for free dm me the word youtube week on instagram at dare martell or click the link

00:06:43.720 below in the description i'll send you over a copy now you know exactly what matters but if you really 0.85

00:06:48.920 want to be productive with your time the next step is cutting everything that doesn't cut the crap 0.64

00:06:55.480 you don't need more to win you need to do less most people fail in life from indigestion not 1.00

00:07:03.800 starvation meaning they say yes to too many things at once they get overwhelmed and through that

00:07:09.480 overwhelm they don't feel productive they get anxiety they get stressed out they got to take

00:07:14.680 medication it's wild what people will do to themselves so instead of saying yes to everything

00:07:20.280 because we think it's a game of addition it's actually a game of subtraction it's removing

00:07:25.320 things out of your life so you can focus on the things that are actually going to move it forward

00:07:29.480 the skill i would invite you to consider is a very deep scientific and powerful skill called

00:07:35.960 the art of saying no no is a complete sentence and it ends with a period you don't have to give

00:07:41.320 a reason you can just check in with your heart and say if it doesn't resonate it's a no my wife

00:07:46.680 and i have this very simple rule if it isn't a heck yeah it's a hell no if somebody's asking

00:07:53.160 you to do something and that thing would be today or tonight and the answer would be no

00:07:58.120 then i don't care if it's in six months make it a hard no it's better to close the loops by making

00:08:03.080 a decision not leaving them open see that two minute rule coming into play then to leave it as

00:08:07.640 a maybe you will stress yourself out around maybes if you would jump out of bed to go do the thing

00:08:13.800 that you're being asked to do then yeah do it if it's a no just say no put yourself first so here

00:08:22.520 are three ways to cut the crap out of your life and become more productive immediately the first

00:08:27.400 one say no by default it's a wild concept to consider that no matter what you're asked to do

00:08:33.960 by other people just say no now i know you have if you have a boss or you have clients you might

00:08:39.240 not want to do this because you'll probably get fired but protect your calendar treat it like a

00:08:43.880 bank account that every time somebody asks you to do something they're essentially asking for you to

00:08:48.920 give them money because they are it's your time you just don't realize it every day has 86 400

00:08:56.760 seconds think about that is in dollar bills every time somebody asks hey you got a second they're

00:09:01.960 They're not asking for a second.

00:09:03.360 They're asking for maybe $17, maybe $60.

00:09:08.100 Like, what are they asking for?

00:09:09.740 And if you wouldn't give them that, protect it,

00:09:13.060 which then allows you to choose how you use your time,

00:09:15.760 which I'm gonna get into in a second.

00:09:17.340 If it aligns with your goals, then it's an easy yes.

00:09:20.940 If it doesn't, then you say no.

00:09:23.920 But be careful, because there's this middle ground

00:09:25.640 of things that will stretch you, that will scare you,

00:09:28.800 that will put you outside of your comfort zone.

00:09:30.580 it. I don't want you to get too quick to say no. If it aligns with your goal and it pushes you

00:09:35.260 outside of your comfort zone, those are the ones that are yes. So next we have to audit your time

00:09:40.880 weekly. Every Sunday, I want you to take some time to look at the previous week and ask yourself

00:09:46.560 what worked and what didn't. The stuff that worked, run the play. The stuff that didn't,

00:09:52.300 cancel, cut, clear it, fix it. And then on a monthly basis, look at your previous month

00:09:57.600 and then create a thing called the kill list. 0.93

00:10:00.580 Essentially eliminate any task,

00:10:03.020 any reoccurring stuff that don't support your dreams.

00:10:06.060 Have no mercy.

00:10:07.220 If you don't, you won't create the space

00:10:09.720 to do the work that's gonna push your life forward.

00:10:12.480 And you do that by either deleting, delegating,

00:10:15.640 automating, or just doing the work.

00:10:18.500 And last, one of my favorite, simplest, easiest,

00:10:21.380 and easily the most productive

00:10:22.640 is pretty much live in D&D mode.

00:10:25.420 D&D mode is yes, on your phone.

00:10:27.700 Right now my phone is do not disturb.

00:10:29.880 But by default, you should literally get rid of all your distractions.

00:10:33.940 For those that are willing to follow along, and I want you to leave a comment below and

00:10:37.340 let me know if you did it, go into your notifications and turn them all off.

00:10:43.120 Oh, I know.

00:10:44.660 You're going, I can't.

00:10:46.420 What about my calendar?

00:10:47.840 What about my messages from my friends?

00:10:49.860 What I know.

00:10:51.520 Here's what I've discovered.

00:10:52.660 we allow these tools to take away from our life our distractions our focus and all I would say is

00:10:59.980 schedule time to plug in either for me 11 30 or 4 30 but I also even use the time when I'm doing

00:11:06.120 my fasted cardio in the morning to do all my slack messages I've blocked these times to plug in I

00:11:11.800 don't let the apps distract me I'm so easily distracted with my ADHD that like I said I had

00:11:18.160 to create these systems so that I could just be productive. It turned in to be a massive level up.

00:11:24.880 Turn it off. I dare you. Turn it off. And then you decide when you want to plug into an app.

00:11:30.580 Notifications add so much crap into our life that we need to learn how to cut it.

00:11:35.640 If you do this, you'll be way more focused on what matters most.

00:11:39.460 All right. So once you've cleared all that noise all over the place, it's time to optimize your

00:11:44.660 productivity for your most important resource. Protect your peaks. Believe it or not, time is

00:11:51.340 technically not your most valuable resource. It's your energy. I don't care how productive you want

00:11:57.880 to be. If your body is like shutting down, your brain is fried, you will not create your best

00:12:04.960 work. That is energy. Every person has natural energy peaks. So you got to protect it like it's

00:12:12.440 sacred ground. When you line up your toughest work, your most creative work, your most challenging

00:12:17.720 work with your peak hours of productivity, you get way more done with way less effort. For me,

00:12:24.400 it's mornings. It's my deep work. Do not allow just anybody to come in during your peak time,

00:12:29.880 your peak energy to create and distract you. The way I think about it is the energy that I put

00:12:35.440 into something is felt out of it by the people consuming it. So my energy flows where my attention

00:12:41.100 goes, I can't be distracted if I'm trying to do big things. Here's a wild thought that I had one

00:12:46.820 day is that early in the morning or late at night, if you think about it, everybody else in the world,

00:12:52.080 they're actually horizontal. They're sleeping, they're dreaming. And I think the reason why

00:12:57.320 most people do the most creative work then is because the connection to their creator is thin,

00:13:03.000 right? Everybody else is sleeping and they're dreaming so that you can tap into that energy.

00:13:07.060 I know it's wild.

00:13:08.180 There may not be any signs to back it up,

00:13:09.800 but I will tell you when I create in the morning,

00:13:12.020 connected to my creator,

00:13:13.240 I come up with the most amazing and beautiful

00:13:15.480 and elegant solutions to my biggest problems.

00:13:18.520 So here are two simple and powerful ways

00:13:20.840 to maximize your energy and protect your peaks.

00:13:23.060 The first is we have to do an energy audit.

00:13:25.660 We talked about doing a time audit.

00:13:27.480 Now we gotta look at energy.

00:13:28.840 We have to look throughout our week and our day,

00:13:31.420 what are the things that take our energy?

00:13:34.140 And what I've discovered is that most people

00:13:36.220 already have these natural flows.

00:13:38.120 Like maybe in the morning it's really productive

00:13:39.680 and in the afternoon is when you'd prefer

00:13:41.540 to be talking to people.

00:13:42.760 That's what I do.

00:13:43.500 I don't do any meetings before 11 a.m.

00:13:45.760 Why?

00:13:46.400 Because that work is for me.

00:13:48.380 Once I invest in me, then the rest of the world can get me.

00:13:52.040 But guess what?

00:13:52.600 They'll get a better version of me

00:13:53.940 because I know that that morning was spent

00:13:56.060 doing things that are gonna move my dreams forward,

00:13:58.520 my goals forward, my tasks forward.

00:14:00.780 And then when I show up, I'm present with them.

00:14:03.180 I'm not thinking about stuff that I should be doing later on I'm not giving

00:14:07.200 myself an out in the morning because I know I'm gonna get back on my laptop

00:14:09.960 after I put the kids to bed and if you do that and you honor those energy flows

00:14:14.520 then it creates a rhythm I know you've had these moments they're usually the

00:14:18.600 day before you have to go on vacation where you wake up because you have all

00:14:22.560 this stuff you got to do and you honor that task list you honor that calendar

00:14:26.340 and you're just like oh my god I got so much done today why can't every day be

00:14:29.940 like this it can be look at what happened look at your energy levels and try to replicate it

00:14:37.140 the other one is exhaust the body tame the mind i believe most people have to take medication

00:14:44.740 or self-medicate or do whatever they can to try to be focused because they don't get their body

00:14:52.000 moving i got this concept from an old stoic quote that said that we treat the body rigorously so

00:14:57.760 that it won't be disobedient to the mind as somebody who suffers with adhd i have to move my

00:15:04.480 body every day like i work out first thing in the morning and when i work out i push to the point

00:15:11.120 past pain because there's something that happens in that pump it actually clears my brain it's the

00:15:17.760 weirdest thing it's almost like a chiropractic alignment of my mind at the gym so if you've

00:15:23.840 never try it do it most people go like oh i'm gonna be so tired after the gym opposite it's

00:15:29.120 funny saying it's like i've never left the gym feeling tired more so than how i felt going in

00:15:34.560 i like to put my most difficult tasks right after the gym my most creative tasks like this right

00:15:40.000 after the gym why because that's when it's gonna get my best work my mind is primed after i work

00:15:47.040 out because i exhaust the body tame the mind and your gym could be as simple as putting a weighted

00:15:52.000 vest and going for a walk. It could be as simple as doing 100 air squats. It doesn't have to be

00:15:56.200 complicated. You'll be surprised how much more productive you'll be. So now we got our body

00:16:00.820 and our energy and our mind right, but none of that will actually make you more productive if

00:16:05.600 you don't follow this next step, which is setting up simple systems. This is a universal truth.

00:16:12.060 Systems beat motivations every single day of the week. A lot of people ask me, like,

00:16:17.240 i don't know how you stay so motivated i'm not i just follow the system i make it easy for me to

00:16:23.080 win i just have checklists that i have a little bit of discipline to start with and review it

00:16:28.120 and the best part the more you build your life the more people you'll have in your life the

00:16:32.440 more you'll coordinate with other people to do life and they will keep you accountable to the

00:16:37.240 system like my whole team works out when we travel we work out i literally think they would probably

00:16:41.960 be like oh something's wrong with dan if they texted me or i texted them and said i'm not going

00:16:45.960 into the gym tomorrow. So that's the whole point is that everybody has goals, you know, as James

00:16:51.600 Clear says, but it's the systems that create the winners, not the size of the goal you wrote down

00:16:57.820 on a paper. It's almost gotten to the point where I just make it hard on myself to fail. For example,

00:17:03.940 when I was writing my book, buy back your time, I said to myself, I will sit down and I will write

00:17:08.780 every day. And I sat there and I wrote every day. I think I made it to like 22 days. And then I

00:17:14.660 realize I hated it and I didn't want to do it. And then I missed one day and one day turned into

00:17:18.740 three days and then I wrote a little bit and then I didn't touch it for weeks. That was not a winning

00:17:22.400 system. What I then changed was that I hired somebody, his name is Ron, and I said, you be

00:17:28.020 the book CEO. You hold me accountable. You're the expert. I will work for you. So I created a system

00:17:35.100 with Ron where we actually co-created this project called Buy Back Your Time, this beautiful blue

00:17:40.500 book that's helped millions of people i had to create a system that i couldn't fail at by making

00:17:45.940 it other people's dreams and goals for me to support because i learned a long time ago and

00:17:50.260 i don't know if this is true for you i will do way more for somebody else than i will ever do for

00:17:54.820 myself i mean it's a challenge as you have more success in life to keep the hunger going when you

00:18:01.060 don't need anything and the way i do it is i make commitments to other people and that cheat code

00:18:07.860 has gotten me incredibly productive. Systems, it's a fun acronym. It stands for save yourself,

00:18:14.400 time, energy, money, and stress. So here are a few strategies that you can use today to build

00:18:20.320 systems that literally buy back your time. The first one is we have to batch our work. There's

00:18:25.480 no world where the same work sprinkled out throughout your week makes sense when the ramp

00:18:30.940 up time in your brain has to be focused. I call this batch work. So for example, if I'm doing

00:18:37.140 sales calls put all your sales calls together if you're doing content put all your content together

00:18:41.860 if you're doing operational meetings put all your operational meetings together think of it this way

00:18:46.740 because everybody thinks you can multitask you can't it's an illusion i don't care who you are

00:18:52.100 i will prove it to you if i asked you to count to one two three four five six all the way to 26

00:18:56.820 how fast could you do it a lot of people pretty quick what about a b c d f g really quick most 0.99

00:19:01.780 people if you do those back to back it'd be like 23 26 seconds if i then ask you to go 1a 2b 3c

00:19:10.260 and onward not only will it take you a minute and a half to two minutes most people can't do it

00:19:16.180 because the brain can't switch if you can just focus on one task and get them all done and stack

00:19:22.020 those as batch meetings it will make you lethally productive and it's because of the neuroscience

00:19:27.460 behind it. It's actually called cognitive switching. And when you're doing tasks that

00:19:31.280 cause you to go from different sides of the brain, analytical versus creative, it's just

00:19:35.660 not a winning strategy. The second is DRI. And it's an acronym. It stands for don't repeat

00:19:40.820 yourself. As a programmer, I learned this when I was 17, that if I'm going to write some

00:19:46.500 code, put it in a place where I don't have to repeat myself, and then I can reference

00:19:50.140 it every other time I need it. Simple concept changed my life. Every time you make a decision

00:19:56.380 about a preference. Is that saved in a preference file? Now, I know you may not need somebody to

00:20:01.500 help you today, but what about in the future when you want somebody else to do something for you?

00:20:05.040 If you have all your preferences in a file, you can give them the preference file. On the other

00:20:09.540 end of the spectrum, I have a document called Working with Dan. What is that? Exactly what

00:20:14.720 it sounds like. I have a document that introduces what it's like to work with me. Why? I work

00:20:19.900 differently. Think about everything I just shared with you. So when new people get put on my team,

00:20:25.000 I give them the document. And then that way, I don't have to repeat myself. I don't have to tell

00:20:29.140 them how I like to talk or meetings or structure or anything. It's all in the document. That to me

00:20:33.680 is the concept of don't repeat yourself. So create checklists, create systems, follow them,

00:20:40.000 because the more you do it, then you'll have the playbook to have somebody else do it for you.

00:20:44.260 That's called proper delegation. Imagine how much time you would save if you never had to repeat

00:20:48.780 yourself. The third is the 108010 rule. And this one will change your life because a lot of people

00:20:53.580 have a hard time letting go because they're very creative and they feel that their unique vision

00:20:59.000 and approach to stuff is their fingerprint, which I get. But I know that at scale, across all these

00:21:05.300 different creative industries, from book writing to software development to branding, there are

00:21:10.780 people that have built massive companies by not being involved in every project, but influence

00:21:16.740 every project. Did you know Tom Clancy? Have you ever seen his books or video games? He's been dead

00:21:21.820 for like 15 years and he's a best-selling author last week and the month before and the month

00:21:27.940 before and the month before why he used the 1080 10 rule to have other people write like him this

00:21:35.280 is available to every mom to every leader to every ceo the way it works is very simple you want to

00:21:41.960 be involved when you're delegating any project in the first 10 i call that the ideation phase that's

00:21:47.560 where you sit down and you say, directionally speaking, consider this, consider this, here's

00:21:51.560 the outcome we want to achieve and give all of your inputs, resources, relationship, connections,

00:21:57.140 and encourage the team or the people to use those to move forward on the project. The other 80%

00:22:02.400 is the execution. This is where the team does 80% of the work. They actually go all the way to the

00:22:09.680 end. Think about like Steve Jobs with Johnny Eyes. He used to come into the design studio,

00:22:14.000 talk to Johnny about the vision he had for a product.

00:22:17.040 Then Johnny would sit down with his team

00:22:18.740 and take all that time to build prototypes

00:22:20.880 and get it to a place where there's a real product.

00:22:23.920 And then the last 10% is actually integration.

00:22:27.220 And that's where you can come back at the end

00:22:29.420 and you go, okay, let's make these little tweaks here.

00:22:32.360 And then I'm going to be involved in making sure

00:22:34.900 that it reaches the market the way I feel like it.

00:22:37.480 So that could be doing the press tour.

00:22:39.860 If you're an author, that could be doing the podcast tour.

00:22:42.040 That could be Steve Jobs on stage at the event

00:22:45.560 announcing a new product.

00:22:47.880 And finally, number four, standardize your meetings.

00:22:51.100 I can't tell you how valuable this is.

00:22:53.480 If that you create rhythms in your life

00:22:55.640 from work to personal that allows you to stay on track

00:22:59.540 so everything is moving towards

00:23:01.400 achieving the life you wanna live.

00:23:03.200 I do this for every meeting.

00:23:04.820 I don't go to a meeting unless it has an agenda.

00:23:07.080 My reoccurring meetings are few but very powerful.

00:23:10.520 I'm very clear about what my expectations are.

00:23:12.980 And I even do it for my personal life.

00:23:14.720 Today, actually, we have our family meeting

00:23:16.580 where we sit down and we have a structure to that meeting

00:23:19.020 that's written out the agenda

00:23:20.180 and we go over every aspect of our life every week.

00:23:24.360 Why?

00:23:25.060 Because I wanna make sure we're always aligned.

00:23:27.140 It's one-on-one time

00:23:28.380 because busy families sometimes forget

00:23:30.620 that that one-on-one time

00:23:31.820 is where you have these beautiful conversations

00:23:33.680 and moments that otherwise might get missed.

00:23:36.860 Standardizing my meetings

00:23:38.240 because I already have the rhythm

00:23:39.640 from doing my time and energy audit from before

00:23:41.800 is a game changer for productivity.

00:23:44.400 Every meeting should have these five things.

00:23:46.300 First, you should have an agenda.

00:23:47.780 The other is you have a project owner,

00:23:49.140 what I call a DRI, direct responsible individual,

00:23:51.980 like who owns a meeting?

00:23:53.160 And guess what?

00:23:53.780 It's rarely me.

00:23:55.460 Three, what are the decisions

00:23:56.760 we wanna make in this meeting?

00:23:58.640 Fourth is what are the next steps?

00:24:00.560 Do we have them?

00:24:01.400 And then when are the deadlines for those decisions?

00:24:03.860 If you make sure every meeting has this,

00:24:05.640 you will become incredibly productive.

00:24:07.260 and if you don't, it's just noise. If you build these into your daily, monthly, and yearly systems,

00:24:14.660 you'll see yourself get way more productive way faster. Now I know when I share these strategies

00:24:20.840 with people, they usually push back, especially if they're creative, especially if they're people

00:24:25.780 that they just want to like be a little bit more free in life because it can sound like a lot of

00:24:31.220 systems. It can sound like a lot of structure and a lot of people don't like structure. What you may

00:24:36.320 not realize is that if you want to be creative, then you have to have constraints. It's always

00:24:41.980 been that way. The more you have constraints, the more creative you can be because it allows you to

00:24:47.120 be present. If you actually want to be freer and have more time to feel creative, then having

00:24:54.540 structure is the way. And remember, if you want to download my exact structure for Design My Perfect

00:24:59.920 Week that has helped me buy back like 30 hours a week, just DM me the word YouTube week on

00:25:05.120 Instagram or just click the link below in the description and I'll send that over to you.

00:25:08.840 Next up, if you want to learn how to get rich without luck, talent, or a freaking trust fund,

00:25:13.620 click here and I'll see you on the other side.

Dan Martell - February 03, 2026

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