Dan Martell - March 29, 2024


How I Brainwashed Myself to Success…


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

223.07965

Word Count

2,303

Sentence Count

97


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
00:00:00.000 This is how I brainwashed myself into success.
00:00:03.180 When I was 17 years old, I was angry, depressed,
00:00:05.860 and I honestly thought something was wrong with me.
00:00:07.660 Now fast forward to today,
00:00:09.140 my life looks completely different.
00:00:11.340 I have the privilege of speaking on stages around the world
00:00:14.040 like Tony Robbins, I run a $100 million company,
00:00:16.780 I fly around on my jet, I even have a best-selling book,
00:00:19.480 but it didn't happen overnight.
00:00:20.940 It took me from the age of 17 up until 26 years old,
00:00:24.240 almost nine years until I ever made my first million dollars,
00:00:27.120 but it was implementing these habits and rituals into my life
00:00:30.300 that essentially allowed me to brainwash myself
00:00:32.180 into thinking differently, acting differently,
00:00:34.200 and pulling success into my life.
00:00:36.680 Step one is changing your environment.
00:00:38.920 When I was 16, I ended up spending 11 months
00:00:41.600 in a rehab center called Portage.
00:00:43.420 And at the end of the program,
00:00:44.380 they ask us to do an integration plan.
00:00:46.420 It's designed to help build a plan for your life.
00:00:49.460 Who are your friends, your peer groups,
00:00:50.880 where are you gonna live?
00:00:51.820 How are you gonna do in school?
00:00:53.000 What job are you gonna get?
00:00:54.020 How are you gonna stay busy
00:00:54.960 so you don't slide yourself back into old patterns
00:00:58.080 and old behaviors.
00:00:59.060 That process was invaluable.
00:01:01.060 It allowed me to stay sober, build a new peer group,
00:01:02.940 and really transform my life.
00:01:04.240 I did the same thing at 22 when I decided to move out west
00:01:07.120 and move away from the town I grew up in
00:01:08.980 to go see if there was any other opportunities out there.
00:01:11.940 There's probably a fear that if you decide
00:01:13.520 to change your environment and make new friends,
00:01:16.120 that you're gonna alienate them,
00:01:17.400 they're gonna be upset with you, and I get that.
00:01:19.440 And it's a hard place to go to,
00:01:21.080 but here's what I learned,
00:01:21.960 is that the people that I thought were supporting me
00:01:24.320 were really taking me down.
00:01:25.540 Family members that I was born into this family
00:01:27.540 were holding me back.
00:01:28.660 Sometimes we have to create space,
00:01:30.320 go out of our way to create opportunities
00:01:32.400 to maybe find new friends
00:01:33.980 that can support your dreams and goals.
00:01:35.760 My rule is if you're the smartest person on your street,
00:01:38.260 find a new street.
00:01:39.120 If you're the smartest person in the room,
00:01:40.500 go find some new friends.
00:01:41.780 Changing your environment is step one
00:01:43.620 in brainwashing yourself to success
00:01:45.520 because you need to make sure that you have the space
00:01:48.160 to build from a foundation of positivity.
00:01:50.820 Which brings us to step two, which is remove all vices.
00:01:53.840 You know, often when I'm driving around in my McLaren,
00:01:56.000 I have kids that run up and they're always screaming like,
00:01:58.100 hey, what do you do?
00:01:58.940 And how did you afford this car?
00:02:00.240 Often answer, it's what I don't do.
00:02:02.420 I don't drink, I don't do drugs,
00:02:04.240 I take care of my body, I don't gamble.
00:02:06.560 I don't spend time with people that don't support me.
00:02:09.120 It's what I don't do versus what I do
00:02:11.220 that actually creates the space for me to be successful.
00:02:13.980 And that's why I think vices will mess with your mind.
00:02:17.060 I often ask my private coaching clients
00:02:18.760 this simple question, how do you self-medicate your pain?
00:02:21.680 And for a lot of people,
00:02:22.520 you got to look at your vices you got to look at the things that you use to alter your state so
00:02:26.400 that you don't have to feel because it's in that space that you're going to avoid doing the work
00:02:30.880 to brainwash yourself to be successful you can't have the vices because the vices turn off the
00:02:35.680 part of the brain that's actually going to receive habits of success but honestly as you go up the
00:02:40.800 pyramid of success you realize that if we don't address what i call the bugaboos the things that
00:02:45.580 are holding them back that those are the things they're going to show up to self-sabotage all the
00:02:49.980 success they've had up to that point and give it all back. And you see these people that are
00:02:53.720 financially successful only to watch them live a life that looks like they're trying to escape
00:02:59.060 from something. They're in pain. They don't want to feel. And those are usually the things that
00:03:03.440 cause them to fail, which brings us to step three, which is replacing those vices with a positive
00:03:08.360 habit like reading. My dad taught me the value of feeding my mind of educating. If you want to
00:03:14.240 brainwash yourself to success, it's really important to feed your mind, to read every day.
00:03:19.360 I have a rule that I read 10 pages every day.
00:03:21.720 I wanna focus my attention on positivity,
00:03:24.300 on ideas, on innovation.
00:03:26.180 I wanna study the world of success.
00:03:27.880 I wanna study my mind.
00:03:29.480 I wanna study my health.
00:03:30.680 I wanna study betterment.
00:03:32.100 I want to co-create with these brilliant minds
00:03:35.140 from the past.
00:03:36.060 For $30, you can acquire 25 years of experience
00:03:39.860 from a person in six to eight hour investment of your time.
00:03:43.240 I think that's one of the coolest things.
00:03:44.640 It's why I have a minimum 10 pages
00:03:47.220 of reading per day that I do.
00:03:49.360 because the words create our future.
00:03:51.600 We don't actually create our future,
00:03:53.440 we attract our future by focusing on the right things.
00:03:56.260 And for me, getting my mind right,
00:03:57.860 reading those words in that book,
00:03:59.740 visualizing what that's gonna look like,
00:04:01.520 I get to pull my future into my life.
00:04:04.040 And that's how I brainwash myself into success using books.
00:04:07.920 And here's the kicker.
00:04:08.940 You don't read books, you should study books.
00:04:11.540 That means highlighting, referencing,
00:04:13.780 trying to teach the concepts to other people,
00:04:15.700 taking a picture, sharing it on social media.
00:04:18.180 That's how I use books to feed my mind.
00:04:20.920 Which brings us to step four,
00:04:22.520 which is to start journaling.
00:04:24.060 In rehab, one of the processes that we went through
00:04:27.040 was to write down our feelings, write down our beliefs,
00:04:30.100 talk about what was coming up on our minds
00:04:32.460 so that we could kind of analyze our thoughts
00:04:34.420 to reflect on many years later
00:04:36.240 that I learned the process of visualizing
00:04:39.100 and writing down goals at 17 years old.
00:04:42.100 Just write down what comes to your mind.
00:04:43.940 What do you believe about something?
00:04:45.440 What are you scared about?
00:04:46.520 Why are you scared about?
00:04:47.420 how old is that fear? Where did that come from? And just continue to audit your thoughts, your
00:04:52.400 words, you'll start to build a self-reflection process. Like for me, that is literally how I've
00:04:57.820 brainwashed myself to success is by being able to look on a piece of paper what I was thinking
00:05:02.760 and even go back to last year and see the upgrade in my mind. You can actually teach yourself the
00:05:09.120 process of upgrading your mind. One process is I have the list of all my top 12 goals for the year
00:05:14.520 and I review it three times a day.
00:05:16.620 Why?
00:05:16.980 Because I use that as a reflection process
00:05:19.020 to ask myself, where am I at today?
00:05:20.860 What do I want to achieve this year?
00:05:22.120 And am I on pace?
00:05:23.220 What do I need to think about?
00:05:24.620 Who do I need to become to create that future?
00:05:27.040 That is one of the most important processes of journaling
00:05:29.580 is the self-reflection.
00:05:31.060 What is up with me?
00:05:31.960 Because I don't feel that way,
00:05:32.960 but why would I say those things?
00:05:34.280 So oftentimes, you know, we are not our reality.
00:05:37.040 We are the thoughts that we have.
00:05:38.500 Journaling is one of the strongest ways
00:05:40.440 to brainwash yourself to success.
00:05:42.320 It's like programming your mind.
00:05:44.180 So do 20 minutes every day as a daily habit, which brings us to step five, which is to take
00:05:48.940 massive imperfect action. You know, one of my life mottos is JFDI, which stands for just effing do
00:05:55.040 it. I have this belief that if something speaks to my soul, I have to take action before I
00:05:59.480 overthink it. We already know the right path. We just got to move towards it as fast as possible.
00:06:03.780 When I got out of rehab, I had a plan. I worked on the plan every day and every night I took
00:06:08.600 action. You know, that was one of the biggest things when they would report back to us and
00:06:11.700 do our groups we always had to share like what did we move forward in our life people actually
00:06:15.940 know what they got to do eat less than you're eating you probably got to move your body you
00:06:19.460 probably should read some books you should get around positive people like a lot of these things
00:06:22.980 are known but what is the first next action see oftentimes we're paralyzed because we haven't been
00:06:28.180 clear but what is the one next action i need to take to actually move things forward and that is
00:06:33.700 why for me brainwashing my mind is making a commitment to the next step but what is the next
00:06:39.140 logical step to move this outcome forward and i'm just making a commitment to it and before i can
00:06:43.620 overthink it i just move i take action and that's why i think that action is one of the best ways
00:06:48.580 for you to brainwash yourself to success which brings us to step six which is dream big you know
00:06:54.260 when i started my first company spheric technologies i had a pretty modest goal today at the time it
00:06:59.860 felt massive which was get to five million a year in five years with 25 people that was aiming higher
00:07:06.420 than high. I thought if I could do that, I could do anything. That would be the craziest thing ever.
00:07:11.300 And within the first year, following the process of brainwashing myself to success, we did almost
00:07:15.740 a million dollars in the first year. Here's the thing. Big dreams inspire people. Small dreams
00:07:21.060 don't. Shoot for the stars because even if you only land on the moon, at least you're amongst
00:07:25.340 the skies. Dreaming big forces you to stop caring about what other people think because it would be
00:07:30.000 impossible for you to go for something that other people think is impossible and you actually care
00:07:35.140 what they think that allows you to speak your future into reality every person you admire every
00:07:40.500 social media influencer every celebrity every athlete you admire them because they've spoken
00:07:45.860 their dreams out loud you know their goals they tell you this is the shot they call their shot
00:07:51.460 and those shots are not little because they wouldn't inspire anybody so think about this
00:07:55.300 you need to build the process of not only thinking big but actually speaking big out loud to yourself
00:08:01.060 to your friends find people that are going to protect the idea and not shoot it down too quick
00:08:05.300 but is the process of allowing myself to continue to upgrade my thoughts upgrade my dreams because
00:08:10.920 i'll never expand past the bigness of my ideas if you think about it all the people you admire
00:08:16.020 from gary v what does he want to buy new york jets elon musk what does he want to do colonize
00:08:20.540 mars jeff bezos what does he want to do the largest bookstore in the world and now the largest
00:08:24.820 retailer in the world essentially amazon.com is the number one place for people to buy these are
00:08:29.140 all things that they said publicly they called their shot they first dreamed big but then spoke
00:08:34.180 big that manifested that created those things into their lives that is why this process of dreaming
00:08:40.580 big is one of the best ways for you to brainwash yourself into success which brings us to step seven
00:08:45.940 which is dedicate a thousand days see most people they're only thinking in the next 90 days the next
00:08:50.740 six months if you actually dedicated yourself to an outcome what could you do within that time
00:08:55.380 frame. So here's my invitation. I want you to consider thinking bigger. This is about actually
00:09:00.060 doing it. If you showed up every day, eating well, working out, focusing on positivity,
00:09:05.400 any action towards your habits, towards your dreams, towards your goals. If you did that
00:09:09.360 every day for a thousand days, I actually think you'd wake up and you'd be living a completely
00:09:14.720 different life, which is kind of crazy. If you think about it in three years, whatever dream
00:09:18.860 goal you want to achieve is actually possible. If you can dedicate yourself to a thousand days
00:09:24.860 of execution, a thousand days of discipline, a thousand days of being consistent. Give yourself
00:09:29.960 permission to think bigger. Make yourself really focus on what you say yes to because saying yes
00:09:35.200 to something that isn't aligned is a no to your dreams, but saying no to something that isn't
00:09:39.620 aligned is saying yes to your dream, right? When I say a thousand days, that's three years. That's
00:09:43.600 not a long time. Imagine being rich, being healthy, being in an incredible relationship,
00:09:48.520 you know, having an incredible group of friends that you can celebrate life with. Those are all
00:09:52.220 things that are available to you on the other side of showing up every day for you, for your dreams,
00:09:57.600 for your family. If you're that person, you're going to stand out so much quicker. See, the work
00:10:01.900 instills the worth. So when you show up and you do the work, you're telling yourself that you're
00:10:06.640 worth it. And that is why for me, dedicating myself to at least a thousand days for change
00:10:11.080 and anything meaningful in my life is how I brainwash myself into success. If you want to
00:10:15.360 learn the eight habits that are keeping you poor, click the link and I'll see you on the other side.