Dan Martell - February 15, 2016


How To Achieve Work-Life Balance ｜ Dan Martell


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In this episode, I talk about how to achieve work-life balance and why it's one of the most important things you can do to balance your life. I share my personal story of how I found a balance in my life and how I think you can find it too.

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00:00:00.000 How to achieve work-life balance.
00:00:02.640 Like check this out, here's the deal. 0.99
00:00:04.000 I used to think balance was bullshit. 0.97
00:00:05.760 I've said this publicly on podcasts, interviews, et cetera, 0.99
00:00:10.000 and I've now come to learn in the last few companies
00:00:13.280 that there is another way to approach it.
00:00:15.440 I'm gonna share with you guys that in this video.
00:00:17.120 I don't know if you've heard my story.
00:00:18.840 When I built Spheric Technologies, 0.88
00:00:20.400 I was one of those crazy maniac workers.
00:00:23.560 Like I just believed I was on a mission, I was driven,
00:00:25.720 I was working 100 hours a week, I sacrificed my relationships.
00:00:28.600 I mean, I was so bad that I would show up to parties.
00:00:31.620 Like, check it out, my friend, I still remember,
00:00:32.920 my buddy Nick, he's having a house party,
00:00:34.760 and I show up on my laptop.
00:00:36.500 Like, what kind of friend are you trying to, like,
00:00:40.100 socialize and tap on your keyboard
00:00:42.240 to get work done on a Friday night?
00:00:43.560 Horrible, like, I'm embarrassed to tell you guys this,
00:00:46.800 but that was my life, and I've now since found
00:00:49.560 a better way, and that's what I wanna share with you guys.
00:00:51.860 I truly believe that the first thing
00:00:54.600 I wanna share with you guys, I've got three,
00:00:55.840 but the first one is work-life integration.
00:00:57.920 It's all about just it all being the same thing.
00:01:00.900 I am who I am.
00:01:01.780 Some people used to say, Dan, why wouldn't you retire
00:01:04.340 if you've achieved all this success?
00:01:06.480 And I feel absolutely blessed that those things have happened.
00:01:08.800 But the truth is, is how can I retire from being me?
00:01:11.420 Instead, I integrate all aspects of my life.
00:01:15.220 When I go on vacation, people are like,
00:01:16.660 oh, why don't you unplug?
00:01:18.000 And I'm like, unplug from what?
00:01:19.620 It's who I am.
00:01:20.940 I meditate in the morning.
00:01:22.180 I have retreats with my wife every quarter.
00:01:25.080 To me, life is integrated with business,
00:01:27.780 with family, with everything, it's who I am.
00:01:30.120 I don't need to disconnect at 5 p.m.,
00:01:32.640 don't take any calls, don't do anything work-related,
00:01:35.720 et cetera, that's just crazy.
00:01:37.920 To me, it's looking at my day and asking,
00:01:39.600 how can I get the most out of it?
00:01:41.580 Both be super present with my kids
00:01:43.560 and super effective as an executive, as a CEO,
00:01:46.560 as a founder, as a business person.
00:01:48.700 Those things are just part of the day, part of the week,
00:01:51.340 so that's step one, work-life integration,
00:01:53.660 not balance, it's bowl, don't bother.
00:01:56.020 Integrate it, make it one.
00:01:57.520 Two is the seven pillars.
00:01:59.280 I believe that everybody has seven core pillars
00:02:02.040 in their life, and on a weekly basis,
00:02:04.640 at least monthly, you wanna reflect on how you're doing.
00:02:06.940 Just give yourself a score, a one to 10.
00:02:09.220 You know, things like health, love, hobbies,
00:02:13.880 friends, mission, spirituality, finances.
00:02:18.880 Those are the things you wanna think about and say,
00:02:21.440 you know, on a one to 10 for my health, how am I doing?
00:02:24.460 Did I get to the gym as much as I wanted to?
00:02:26.960 Am I eating healthy, is that a five or a six?
00:02:29.200 Because here's the cool part, if you do that
00:02:31.100 on a weekly basis, it's my schedule,
00:02:32.540 you can do it on monthly, it doesn't matter.
00:02:35.020 If you do one to 10 and you start giving yourselves fives,
00:02:37.620 your brain is an amazing guilt machine.
00:02:40.740 It will automatically say, hey, you're five,
00:02:43.160 you really need to go to the gym tomorrow, 0.99
00:02:44.800 or you need to stop eating carbs and crap 0.69
00:02:48.120 and gravy and all this other stuff.
00:02:49.840 Might be time to get some green juice
00:02:51.380 or green smoothies going on in your life.
00:02:53.620 Or maybe it's hobbies, right, or your mission.
00:02:56.160 Maybe you don't feel like you've been living on mission
00:02:58.580 or your finances are in a mess
00:03:00.120 because you've been just putting your head in the sand
00:03:01.440 and you don't even want to pay attention to them.
00:03:03.220 Whatever it is, the outcome
00:03:05.000 or what you need to do strategically, it's up to you.
00:03:06.840 But I would say to achieve work-life balance
00:03:10.220 or essentially integration,
00:03:11.880 reviewing those seven key pillars of your life is key.
00:03:15.320 For me, it's a weekly basis in a spreadsheet.
00:03:17.380 It's simple, it's numerical, it's geeky.
00:03:19.560 It's just the way my brain works.
00:03:20.800 So that's what I would suggest for you guys.
00:03:22.420 Number three is leveraging net time.
00:03:24.520 NET stands for no extra time.
00:03:27.520 Look, we all want to do more, we want to progress,
00:03:29.700 we want to achieve, but you need to find times to do this.
00:03:32.620 So one example of NET time is audiobooks.
00:03:34.800 I listen to audiobooks when I work out
00:03:36.360 and when I'm driving in the car.
00:03:37.700 That is an opportunity for me to read and consume
00:03:39.840 and feed my mind and not take any extra time out of my day
00:03:43.200 when I'm in community and I'm working out.
00:03:45.040 Another idea is founder dinners.
00:03:46.400 You've probably heard me talk about bringing
00:03:48.040 other entrepreneurs together to break bread.
00:03:50.620 It's a great idea, and that is no extra time.
00:03:53.920 I've got to take time and eat lunch, so why not?
00:03:56.640 I mean, I also suggest maybe thinking about
00:03:59.180 organizing events to go do hobbies.
00:04:01.420 Like for me, it's snowboarding,
00:04:02.680 so every year I organize an event,
00:04:04.600 one of the coolest places in North America,
00:04:07.640 deepest powder, it's a cat skiing thing,
00:04:10.180 so we take a helicopter to a lodge.
00:04:12.020 I invite some of my best friends in business,
00:04:14.880 and it is all things.
00:04:16.480 It's getting to know them on a personal level,
00:04:18.720 it's talking about business, it's getting my hobby in,
00:04:21.620 it's net time, no extra time.
00:04:23.540 To me, this is the way to approach it.
00:04:25.700 So I'm gonna recap real quick.
00:04:27.160 One, work-life integration.
00:04:29.320 Just make your day and your week
00:04:31.520 part of everything you want to accomplish.
00:04:33.020 If you need to meditate in the morning
00:04:34.480 to get a mini-vacation,
00:04:36.040 so that you don't need to take seven or,
00:04:37.840 I mean, I can't believe people take 14 days off vacation
00:04:41.960 and unplug and don't do anything.
00:04:43.960 I don't get it, it's not me.
00:04:46.160 The seven pillars, right?
00:04:47.360 So really review those seven pillars of your life
00:04:49.200 and ask yourself on a one to 10, how you doing?
00:04:51.720 And the third, look for net time.
00:04:54.520 Maybe you could work out with your friends
00:04:56.140 so you get your health and you get your friendship.
00:04:58.160 Or you bring a group of your team,
00:05:01.180 you go and go for a hike so you get some business
00:05:03.260 and you get some health in there.
00:05:04.660 There's always opportunities for you
00:05:05.940 to look for leverage, net time.
00:05:07.640 That's what I got for you.
00:05:08.480 If you think somebody could benefit
00:05:09.740 from watching this video, share the link.
00:05:11.820 I'd invite you to also subscribe to my video.
00:05:14.300 And as per usual, I wanna challenge you guys
00:05:15.900 to live a bigger life and a bigger business.
00:05:17.840 I'll see you next Monday.