Dan Martell - how I turned my life around…

00:00:00.580 You know, you see the Dan of today

00:00:02.040 that's running Ironmans, that's fit,

00:00:03.840 that's got his family stuff together

00:00:06.000 and driving supercars

00:00:07.440 and building multi-million dollar companies.

00:00:09.320 But there was a point where I was 265 pounds,

00:00:11.960 where I felt like I was less than nothing

00:00:14.760 when I looked in the mirror

00:00:17.000 and thought my kids see this person.

00:00:19.000 And here I was trying to give them advice

00:00:21.240 and like I was saying stuff

00:00:22.580 that I knew I didn't even believe myself.

00:00:24.320 And I see that often.

00:00:25.240 It's like, why isn't this person listening to me?

00:00:27.480 You don't even listen to yourself.

00:00:29.320 You don't have any proof of all this stuff

00:00:31.680 that you wish everybody else should do.

00:00:33.360 And I wanna go straight to that.

00:00:34.880 I think too often people are too soft on you

00:00:37.180 and nobody's gonna tell you how it is.

00:00:38.900 So I wanna share the five specific strategies

00:00:41.160 that will absolutely transform your life.

00:00:42.980 I just wanna show you what I've done for myself,

00:00:45.180 what worked for me to allow me to create

00:00:47.000 this incredible life I'm super blessed to have.

00:00:49.800 Number one is you gotta reset.

00:00:51.320 If you are done, if you're sick and tired

00:00:54.100 of being sick and tired, then this message is for you.

00:00:57.460 Now's the time.

00:00:58.560 If you know that you're not as strong as you should be,

00:01:01.340 if you know you're not showing up

00:01:02.560 as powerful as you could in your business,

00:01:05.180 you have these glimpses, that's your ego,

00:01:07.080 that's your psychology telling you to step it up.

00:01:09.960 That's your subconscious saying you have more to give.

00:01:13.300 Be that person, but it starts with a reset.

00:01:15.720 You see, oftentimes, rock bottom is required.

00:01:19.560 I get calls from parents all the time,

00:01:21.180 and the thing I tell them is sometimes

00:01:22.520 you gotta let your kid hit rock bottom.

00:01:24.760 Right now, they haven't felt enough pain

00:01:26.580 because you keep protecting them.

00:01:28.260 But this is for you.

00:01:29.220 I want you to fight for the reset.

00:01:31.580 If now is the day that enough is enough

00:01:33.920 and you wanna move forward,

00:01:35.600 then just make that declaration today.

00:01:38.940 Write it in your journal.

00:01:40.120 Put the date.

00:01:41.300 Make a commitment.

00:01:42.100 What's the new standard that you're gonna hold yourself to?

00:01:45.260 Let me invite you to consider a blank piece of paper.

00:01:49.020 If you've gone through a full reset,

00:01:50.940 it's a beautiful thing to have.

00:01:52.780 Don't waste it.

00:01:54.100 I had a friend of mine go through a divorce

00:01:55.380 and I told him, I said,

00:01:56.080 hey man, I know it's emotionally tough right now,

00:01:58.580 but you've been given a gift.

00:02:00.040 You've got a blank piece of paper

00:02:01.080 and you can do anything on there

00:02:03.020 and nobody's gonna hold you accountable.

00:02:04.820 If you left town, you went to a new city

00:02:06.360 and you started from scratch,

00:02:07.560 they're gonna understand

00:02:08.440 that you're going through some stuff.

00:02:09.900 Give yourself the gift of writing down some stuff

00:02:12.680 and making today the day that you push things forward.

00:02:15.580 Embrace the reset.

00:02:17.040 Number two is vision.

00:02:18.380 People that don't have vision

00:02:19.580 have a hard time making decisions.

00:02:21.700 They feel stuck all the time

00:02:23.160 because they don't know which decision

00:02:24.800 aligns with getting them closer to their vision.

00:02:28.240 I want you to write down, what could you create?

00:02:31.000 Take a piece of paper, write down 12 ideas.

00:02:33.980 Give yourself a year and just write them all down.

00:02:36.480 Don't worry about the how.

00:02:38.380 Just write it down.

00:02:39.340 What would you wanna create in your life?

00:02:41.000 Now, here's the kicker.

00:02:42.740 Circle the one that if you know you achieved,

00:02:45.940 the rest of them would be easy to get through.

00:02:47.760 Pick the one and do that.

00:02:50.400 Wake up every day for the next 365 days and go for that.

00:02:54.340 This is backed by deep scientific studies

00:02:56.740 that the people that have a clear picture

00:02:59.180 of the life they wanna create

00:03:00.720 live a more fulfilled life

00:03:02.260 because they feel like they're on path.

00:03:04.200 That is my invitation to you.

00:03:06.020 Create a compelling vision.

00:03:08.280 Number three is identity.

00:03:09.720 Think about this.

00:03:10.940 You will never get a penny more than you think you're worth.

00:03:14.520 Your bank account is a reflection of your identity.

00:03:17.660 Your health, your body,

00:03:19.800 everything is a reflection of your identity.

00:03:21.420 I'll prove it to you.

00:03:22.220 Imagine this, you get on a scale tomorrow

00:03:23.720 and whatever you expect to read, it says 20 pounds heavier.

00:03:27.840 In that moment, are you gonna then go

00:03:29.340 and have a breakfast burrito?

00:03:31.060 Are you gonna adjust yourself?

00:03:32.340 You're gonna change some things.

00:03:33.740 The reason why is you have an identity

00:03:35.380 of how you see yourself and it's not that number.

00:03:38.620 See, until you create what's called

00:03:39.980 an identity switch inside of you,

00:03:42.440 then the external is never gonna materialize.

00:03:45.120 Like when I went to CrossFit,

00:03:46.320 they called every person that goes to a CrossFit class.

00:03:48.500 It doesn't matter if you're first class

00:03:49.560 or you're a thousandth class, you're an athlete.

00:03:52.220 and in the class, you're a competitor

00:03:54.460 and there's a leaderboard.

00:03:56.100 Do you know how powerful that is?

00:03:58.060 Does an athlete eat pizza for lunch?

00:04:00.560 Does an athlete decide to stay up late and get drunk?

00:04:04.220 No, athletes perform.

00:04:06.420 They understand how to take care of their body,

00:04:08.120 they fuel their body

00:04:09.100 and they work on their weaknesses to become more.

00:04:11.740 And that is the beauty of an identity.

00:04:13.860 So I want you to consider, how do I look at myself?

00:04:17.200 What do I feel like I'm worth?

00:04:18.320 Am I a 10K a month type of person?

00:04:20.820 Am I a 60K a year type of person?

00:04:23.440 What do you feel you're worth?

00:04:25.340 And until you fight for that and show up like that

00:04:28.140 and invest in your mindset, invest in yourself

00:04:30.620 like somebody that operates at that level,

00:04:32.540 you'll never have it.

00:04:33.840 Think about it this way.

00:04:34.600 If every dollar in the world was given to every person,

00:04:37.900 evenly distributed all over the world,

00:04:40.060 within two or three years,

00:04:41.160 it'd be back in the hands of the same people

00:04:42.620 that had it originally.

00:04:43.520 Why?

00:04:44.260 Because of their identity and their decisions

00:04:46.400 and how they show up and how they're wasteful,

00:04:48.380 how they save, whatever it is,

00:04:49.700 their money beliefs.

00:04:51.140 That is your biggest opportunity to shift everything.

00:04:54.040 Number four is accountability.

00:04:55.940 It's very simple, if you just like called your shot,

00:04:58.580 told people what your goals are,

00:05:00.040 you're gonna have positive peer pressure

00:05:01.840 from those people going, hey, you still doing that thing?

00:05:04.380 So a lot of times the power of accountability

00:05:07.720 is the folks asking you how you're doing towards that path,

00:05:10.460 knowing tomorrow morning you could sleep in,

00:05:12.760 you could not do those sales calls,

00:05:14.200 but somebody's gonna ask you about it.

00:05:15.860 So building that into your life by calling your shots,

00:05:18.720 setting goals that's how you move your things forward not you by yourself in your mind see

00:05:23.040 most entrepreneurs don't achieve because it's commitments they make to themselves and they erode

00:05:27.680 at their self-confidence by not delivering on any of that and most importantly is have a coach

00:05:32.960 imagine meeting an olympic athlete that was going for gold and they said they didn't have a coach

00:05:37.680 you'd be like that's crazy you're no different who's reviewing your game tape with you who's

00:05:42.800 giving you feedback on your process who's giving you tactics and strategies to perfect the practice

00:05:48.400 right to hold you accountable to the goals you guys set as a team who's looking and giving you

00:05:54.160 corrections who's inspiring you what's the proximity those people around you just look at it are you

00:06:00.080 feeling like you're the small guy amongst your peer group you know it's easy to feel like the

00:06:04.240 top dog when you're a bunch of loser friends right and they might be well intentioned great people

00:06:08.960 but if you're the richest person on your street you got to find a new street accountability will

00:06:13.280 help you do that number five is your internal thermostat see most people don't realize that

00:06:18.160 that they have an internal thermostat

00:06:20.240 of what they think is normal.

00:06:22.240 And anytime they go out of that range,

00:06:24.500 that thermostat, like the temperature in a room,

00:06:27.560 if it goes too high, the cooling system cools in.

00:06:30.580 If it goes too low, the heating system kicks in, right?

00:06:33.780 It keeps the room at that set temperature.

00:06:36.800 Some people having the kitchen brand new

00:06:39.900 and clean every night, that's their thermostat.

00:06:42.160 Other people could have a sink full of dishes. 0.69

00:06:44.500 Everybody has internal thermostat.

00:06:46.200 Here's what I want you to consider

00:06:48.000 is how do you make the current high the new low?

00:06:52.140 Your revenue, okay, you might be stuck at like 5K a month,

00:06:55.280 10K a month, whatever it is.

00:06:56.640 You have a thermostat that sets that as a high.

00:06:59.920 And as soon as you go above that,

00:07:01.420 you take your foot off the gas, you slack off,

00:07:03.620 you take long vacations, you don't show up intensely.

00:07:06.760 So what I want you to encourage you

00:07:08.120 is whatever your old high watermark is,

00:07:10.440 is make it the new low and reset it, set the new number.

00:07:14.380 So if it's 5,000 a month, set it to 10,000.

00:07:17.140 Act the way you would if you're at 1,000.

00:07:19.900 That internal thermostat is setting your outcomes.

00:07:23.500 And if you can learn how to up-level it

00:07:26.320 by making that old high the new low,

00:07:27.960 that is how you're going to get new levels of achievement.

00:07:31.060 Those are the five strategies

00:07:32.720 to absolutely help you change your life backed by science.

00:07:36.080 I want you to leave a comment.

00:07:37.120 Let me know what was the most valuable one for you.

00:07:39.280 So look in the mirror, hold yourself accountable,

00:07:41.480 and I'll see you next week.

00:07:47.140 Thank you.

Dan Martell - August 21, 2023

how I turned my life around…

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