Dan Martell - November 15, 2025


How to Build Systems (with AI) to ACTUALLY Achieve Your Goals


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00:00:00.000 Did you know you can achieve any goal by building systems that use the power of AI?
00:00:05.100 Because I'm here to tell you, you really can balance work, health, relationships,
00:00:09.340 personal growth without burning out. I know this firsthand. I went from broke at 24
00:00:14.280 to hitting every goal I set for myself and more by building systems that made it easy.
00:00:19.900 AI has made creating these kinds of systems easier than ever before. So today, I'm going
00:00:25.500 to show you how to use the power of AI to build those same systems for yourself so you can stop
00:00:30.880 relying on willpower and brute force and instead make it almost effortless to hit any goal you've
00:00:36.860 ever wanted to achieve. So let's get into this. The first thing is you have to think in systems,
00:00:41.660 not just goals. Every person has the same goal, make more money. The person with the system has
00:00:47.800 the higher probability of hitting that goal if they actually sat down to figure it out. Systems
00:00:52.740 take over when willpower and motivation go away. A system for me is a process that's repeatable
00:00:59.980 that I can execute, look at the feedback and the results it gave me, and then use that to improve
00:01:05.700 the system. If you want to be successful, it's not like you have to grind harder. You have to build
00:01:10.540 systems that grind for you. Systems is an acronym. It stands for save yourself time, energy, money,
00:01:17.100 and stress you have to think in systems to achieve your goals not just have a goal but before anything
00:01:23.340 else you need to know exactly where you're going that's why you need number two clarify your goals
00:01:29.020 ai can't help you if your goals aren't clear how are you supposed to hit a target you can't see
00:01:34.540 saying make me more successful it's gonna say what area tell me more the truth is is most people
00:01:40.220 don't know what their five-year goals are i interview literally dozens of people every month
00:01:44.300 and one of my questions i ask them is in five years you wake up you wave a magic wand you can
00:01:48.460 have anything paint me a picture of your life and they always say that's a great question nobody's
00:01:53.740 ever asked me that before hmm okay well if we don't know what the future looks like then we
00:02:01.500 can't make decisions in the short term because we don't know how they align clarity equals
00:02:06.060 acceleration if you want to accelerate your life get clear on your five-year goals my favorite
00:02:11.500 example of this is Gary V. If you don't know who he is, Gary Vaynerchuk, Google him. Every person
00:02:16.920 knows his goal. His number one goal in life is to buy the New York Jets. Now he's been saying this
00:02:22.300 since he was in his twenties when buying a multi-billion dollar sports team made no sense
00:02:27.120 to anybody around him. Why? Because he wanted to have clarity around his direction. It became his
00:02:32.740 North Star. That's the power of clarity. Not only does it align your actions, it even enrolls
00:02:39.380 strangers, your audience on social media to support you in achieving of that goal. I have
00:02:44.580 zero doubt Gary's going to achieve it because he has clarity around what it is. If you don't know
00:02:50.040 where you're going, then any path will do, which means you might get way off track only to find
00:02:55.880 out that you're 10 miles off base when you could have been 20 miles ahead of goal. So if you're
00:03:00.420 not 100% clear on where you're headed, here's how you can fix this in three easy steps. First,
00:03:05.980 we need to tell chat gbt just ask it help me define a five-year smart goal specific measurable
00:03:12.220 attainable relevant and time bound ask me clarifying questions if you post that into
00:03:17.500 chat gbt it will start asking you questions to get clarity for it to help you next we have to
00:03:23.340 answer every question my favorite way to do this is use voice to text in the chat gbt interface you
00:03:28.940 just click the little icon for the voice and just talk to it and ramble next we have to refine by
00:03:34.060 by going back and forth until the goals it's suggesting
00:03:37.480 clicks with your soul.
00:03:38.920 If I look at something and I'm like anxious, but excited,
00:03:42.460 usually a good path.
00:03:43.520 Oftentimes my anxiety around a goal that I'm excited about
00:03:47.240 means I have to do it.
00:03:49.060 If something else I see that and I'm like,
00:03:51.520 that's not for me.
00:03:52.640 Give yourself permission to pass.
00:03:54.440 Where people mess this up
00:03:55.700 is they think they have to be perfect.
00:03:57.600 They think they have to be right.
00:03:58.700 And I'm telling you, the good news is
00:04:00.000 you don't have to be right.
00:04:01.020 You just have to have a direction.
00:04:02.600 So even if you're like, I'm not sure 100%, that's okay.
00:04:05.720 If it speaks to you a little bit and it feels good,
00:04:07.820 just use that for now.
00:04:08.940 You can always adjust in the future.
00:04:10.440 And remember, make sure it's a smart goal,
00:04:13.100 specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time bound.
00:04:16.580 If you do this, then you have clarity.
00:04:19.420 If you don't, you just have vagueness
00:04:21.240 and you can't hit a target, you can't see.
00:04:23.020 If you wanna take this another level
00:04:24.680 from a planning point of view to make it super simple,
00:04:27.380 you can click the link in the description
00:04:29.000 and I'll give you my one page preloaded year
00:04:31.600 where you take your five-year goals
00:04:33.840 and then you put it in that one page
00:04:35.640 so you have clarity around what you should be doing
00:04:38.280 with the next 12 months of your life.
00:04:39.880 It is so simple and easy
00:04:41.780 and will give you massive clarity
00:04:43.160 that if you show it to anybody,
00:04:44.580 they're gonna think you're a freaking genius for doing this
00:04:46.760 and it's my gift to you.
00:04:47.740 Once AI helps you get clear goals,
00:04:50.140 the next step is making them unforgettable,
00:04:52.420 which brings us to step three.
00:04:54.020 Turn your goals into a vision board.
00:04:56.300 Your brain doesn't think in words, it thinks in pictures.
00:04:59.460 just imagine a really fat elephant sitting on a red chair gotcha if we can give it a very clear
00:05:06.580 image of what we want our life to look like the goals we want to accomplish as if we've already
00:05:11.080 done it then it will act like a heat-seeking missile to go find opportunities to make that
00:05:17.080 happen that's why we need a vision board everybody on my team i have them outline their vision for
00:05:22.220 their life specific things like the car they want the house they want the achievements they want to
00:05:26.880 and I have them add it to the wallpaper on their phone.
00:05:30.640 My favorite story is Sam, my creative director,
00:05:33.320 because for four or five years,
00:05:35.280 he had a white Porsche GT4 on his phone.
00:05:38.700 So my wife and I decided to buy him his dream car.
00:05:41.180 I just want to play for you that moment
00:05:44.020 because it like touched me on a level
00:05:45.920 I didn't expect at the time.
00:05:56.880 Isn't this the one you have on your phone screen, Sam?
00:05:59.480 Yep.
00:06:00.480 In white?
00:06:01.180 Yep.
00:06:02.080 Shut up.
00:06:02.780 Show me your phone.
00:06:04.880 Same one.
00:06:05.880 It's the K-Man 2.
00:06:08.080 My routine.
00:06:09.080 You know what I'm saying?
00:06:09.780 How long?
00:06:10.380 What were you saying?
00:06:10.880 Five years you've been with me?
00:06:11.980 Yep.
00:06:13.080 Six years.
00:06:14.380 It's been a while.
00:06:15.580 You know what's crazy?
00:06:16.280 You know what's crazy about this guy?
00:06:19.780 Tyler.
00:06:23.280 He puts everybody else first.
00:06:25.080 He would never do this for himself.
00:06:29.680 That's what I did.
00:06:34.280 I love you, brother.
00:06:38.760 It's all insured and ready for you to drive away, man.
00:06:41.720 Woo!
00:06:44.780 I remember after I did that to Sam,
00:06:46.920 every person at the company started going like,
00:06:49.440 hey, look at my dream car.
00:06:50.280 Look at my dream car.
00:06:51.100 I'm like, you should figure out who Sam is
00:06:53.540 to understand why I bought him that car.
00:06:56.220 But when you visualize your goals,
00:06:58.400 then it makes it so much more realistic
00:07:00.520 and your mind will help you have the conversations
00:07:03.060 to make them come true.
00:07:04.120 None of that would have been possible
00:07:05.800 without him having a vision
00:07:07.640 that was a vision board for his life
00:07:09.660 and looking at it literally hundreds of times a day.
00:07:12.320 I don't believe we create our future.
00:07:14.240 I think we attract our future by doing three things,
00:07:16.880 having 100% clarity, 100% belief, 100% of the time.
00:07:20.840 To the degree you do those three things all the time,
00:07:23.720 you will pull that future into your life.
00:07:25.960 With AI, creating a vision board has never been easier.
00:07:29.960 First, just take your five-year goal and make it 4D.
00:07:33.220 You need to like give it some dimension,
00:07:35.300 some pep, some color, like really amp it up.
00:07:38.000 Next, we asked ChatGPT, help me describe this goal
00:07:41.460 with sight, sound, colors, smells, details
00:07:43.940 of what life would look like when I've achieved it.
00:07:46.960 If you wanna take it to another level,
00:07:48.760 make it photorealistic as much as you can
00:07:50.820 to the age you'll be then.
00:07:53.060 Next, we have to have ChatGPT format the description
00:07:56.540 so that you can plug it into a tool.
00:07:58.400 So you ask it to create a visual prompt
00:08:00.540 that you could use for whatever tool you wanna visualize
00:08:02.440 and ask it to write the prompt that's gonna create that.
00:08:05.120 Next, we use Mid Journey, Canva, Gemini, Sora,
00:08:08.260 whatever tool of choice of AI image generation
00:08:10.440 you wanna use and then paste that prompt into it
00:08:13.080 to create the vision board.
00:08:14.020 Once you have it, have it formatted
00:08:15.980 to whatever place you wanna see it.
00:08:17.660 So if it's your phone, set it up as a wallpaper.
00:08:19.780 If you wanna print it off, make it high def
00:08:21.420 so you can print it off, put it on your wall,
00:08:23.180 put it underneath the mirror in the bathroom
00:08:25.060 so you see it all the time.
00:08:26.240 Just make sure that you look at it
00:08:28.040 as if you're in that place.
00:08:30.200 Like really like close your eyes
00:08:31.500 and get into the energy and feel it.
00:08:33.700 That's what brings it to life.
00:08:35.340 Your frequency and energy of belief
00:08:37.540 is what you frequently see.
00:08:39.240 So if you believe it,
00:08:41.340 it will start to bring opportunities, ideas, conversations
00:08:44.400 and just magically get your fingers to do things
00:08:46.720 at the right time, then all of a sudden people will call it luck. But you know, it's because
00:08:50.060 you kept your mind focused on the right thing, like a heat seeking missile. Now, all this is
00:08:54.700 awesome. But without structure, it's essentially worthless. So if you actually want to achieve
00:09:00.060 your goals, you need AI to build a clear roadmap, which takes us to step number four, creating an AI
00:09:06.800 roadmap. To achieve any goal, you need to know the steps to get you there, the plan. Sequencing
00:09:14.260 equals success. You can have the same ingredients and a completely different recipe. One person
00:09:20.140 gets a beautiful chocolate cake. The other person following a different recipe creates a big pile of
00:09:25.020 mush. Why? They did the right things in the wrong order. AI will help you build a plan so you don't
00:09:30.280 waste your time. And the cool part is AI can translate that five-year vision that you know
00:09:34.800 you want to achieve and break it down into yearly, quarterly, monthly, and even weekly milestones for
00:09:40.240 you to calibrate to know if you're on track for example when i started doing ironmans i was
00:09:44.720 overwhelmed by the distance the race was going to require i mean it's wild the swim almost kills me
00:09:49.920 then i get on the bike power through the bike but the problem is then i burn a bunch of match sticks
00:09:54.880 so i don't have any energy left for the run then i jump into the marathon i'm already four hours
00:10:00.240 into this thing and now i got to go run 26 miles but what i decided to do is instead of focusing
00:10:05.280 on the 26 miles i focused on the next telephone pole and i made a commitment that i'm just going
00:10:10.000 going to get to the next telephone pole. And now I'm going to make a decision if I want to keep
00:10:12.820 running. And because I broke it down into telephone pole runs instead of a marathon,
00:10:18.360 it was way more approachable. And that's the power of step-by-step. So the cool part is AI is going to
00:10:23.460 help you answer the question of what's your next telephone pole. Here's how we do it. So first,
00:10:27.920 ask AI, turn my five-year goal into a year-by-year plan and ask it to include milestones. So that way
00:10:34.840 you can calibrate to know if you're on track. Next, we want to take the current year and break
00:10:39.140 it down into quarters every three months and do the same thing. Give me some milestones so I know
00:10:44.040 that I'm on track. Next, guess what we're going to do? Ask it to take that quarterly goal and break
00:10:48.860 it down into two or three rocks or projects so that you can focus on the biggest lever points
00:10:54.780 to achieve your goal. And then finally, at the end of the year, repeat that process for the next year
00:11:00.860 and the next year and the next year. And the best part, you can be as specific as you want. If you
00:11:06.200 want it to take the quarterly goals to the monthly goals to the weekly goals to the daily goals
00:11:10.240 and create a spreadsheet, just ask it. Whatever you need for yourself. You can ask it to create
00:11:15.780 the plan, then create the import file that you can then download from AI and import into the
00:11:22.200 tool of choice to track your progress. Now with steps and the milestones in place, it's kind of
00:11:26.920 cool. Next, we have to use AI to integrate them into your daily schedule. Number five, automate
00:11:32.660 and integrate. The best way to think about it is goals only stick when they live inside your day
00:11:38.640 to day. I call those standards. If I can design a standard that I follow every day that makes my
00:11:44.720 goal inevitable, then I have a system that's going to get the results. So what we want to do
00:11:50.240 is use AI to plug your big goals into the routines and tools that you already use. You can ask it to
00:11:56.660 take all of your goals and your milestones, create to do's that you have to check off every day and
00:12:01.220 then create the file that you can import so that it gets integrated into your software. Like for
00:12:07.000 example, I use AI to monitor my inbox, to look at my goals, to monitor the reports I get from my
00:12:13.060 investment portfolios and my CEOs. And if anybody misses anything, it sends me a message letting me
00:12:18.620 know that, Hey, it's Monday and Friday. You didn't get what you needed by these people. Do you want
00:12:23.700 me to message it? Yes, please. It messages those people. Why? I built a system for my goals that
00:12:29.480 have other people as dependents and then that way it can monitor for me so i don't have to think
00:12:34.600 about it i just created it once and then it runs forever ai is like a multiplier the people who
00:12:39.620 learn to use it will get 10x their output the people who don't will literally get left behind
00:12:44.540 the easiest way to integrate ai into your systems is 100 through your calendar the first thing we
00:12:50.180 want to do is ask ai i recommend chat gpt but you can use gemini it doesn't matter to look at your
00:12:55.800 calendar this week. So you either integrate it or you take a screenshot and then ask it to suggest
00:13:00.100 three reoccurring time slots that you can use to consistently have work to push those rocks forward.
00:13:06.380 So you're asking it to define the reoccurring calendar blocks for you to do the work that's
00:13:12.040 going to make the goal an outcome. Now, if you're in Gemini, since it's a Google product, and if
00:13:16.540 you're using Google Calendar, you can actually say in chat, book these three blocks into my calendar
00:13:21.700 every week for the next quarter, two hours each.
00:13:24.620 And you can do this with ChatGPT too.
00:13:26.280 Next, at the start of every week,
00:13:28.360 I want you to ask ChatGPT to scan your calendar
00:13:30.920 and shift any of your focus blocks
00:13:33.300 if they clash with other meetings
00:13:34.740 and suggest best alternatives.
00:13:36.420 So have it manage your calendar for you.
00:13:38.380 That's the pro move.
00:13:39.480 Now, these hacks are fricking great,
00:13:41.400 but they only go so far.
00:13:42.900 AI can also fix deeper problems
00:13:44.900 holding you back from achieving your goals.
00:13:47.140 Number six is the upgrade loop.
00:13:49.100 Once you get your systems running,
00:13:50.840 the next step is to upgrade.
00:13:53.140 Moving from the short-term fixes of building these systems
00:13:55.580 to long-term solutions.
00:13:57.680 Early on, when we try to just start being more productive,
00:14:00.580 we'll do things like timers and hacks and quick fixes,
00:14:04.960 nicotine, EDM music with no vocals,
00:14:07.160 to try to be focused.
00:14:08.700 Those are all great, but they're external.
00:14:10.920 What we wanna do is move them internal
00:14:13.040 so that you become the identity of who you are
00:14:16.400 as someone who can produce, who can achieve goals.
00:14:18.720 the whole point of having a goal is not actually achieving the goal it's the person you become in
00:14:23.200 the pursuit of the goal but if we don't focus on the upgrade loop for ourselves then we're always
00:14:28.480 going to be at the mercy of these hacks and systems so imagine if you can't be healthy unless
00:14:33.080 you have like the compression socks and the freaking dialed in meals and macros and like
00:14:38.260 your perfect bed sleep with like the cool chili pad and all that stuff and then you go and you
00:14:42.780 want to travel the world for a year like i'm doing with my family so what does that mean i can't be
00:14:47.180 healthy and then all of a sudden I can't sleep well or I can't recover from a workout. No,
00:14:52.600 I've upgraded my identity, my mind to become the person who is healthy. I don't need the hacks
00:14:58.180 anymore. This upgrade loop will help you turn the short-term patches into long-term habits.
00:15:04.280 So for example, when I wanted to really dial in waking up earlier, I set an alarm clock for when
00:15:09.720 I went to bed. See, a lot of people see me get up at four or five o'clock in the morning. They're
00:15:13.160 oh my god what time do you go to sleep 9 p.m it's not that impressive but because i've built that
00:15:18.440 habit over the last decade now i don't even need alarm clock not only to go to bed but even wake up
00:15:24.440 it's just naturally who i am because i've built that into my identity my habits the people that
00:15:29.720 have achieved their goals at the highest level the wealthiest people the fittest people the most
00:15:33.640 successful people they think in decades not days they're not trying to upgrade for the next week
00:15:39.960 they're trying to upgrade who they are see when you're willing to sacrifice the short term for
00:15:44.360 the long term that's when the big stuff happens first we have to identify the patches in your
00:15:49.000 systems like where have you built these like reminders or hacks or shortcuts that are needed
00:15:53.960 for you to even accomplish something again look at your dependencies your vices your
00:16:00.040 routines some people like they can't even be productive if they don't have a morning routine
00:16:04.200 that lasts three hours that's up challenge yourself on the three hour morning routine
00:16:09.000 and go what would happen curious if you got up and you just worked is it really that impossible that
00:16:14.360 might be the biggest upgrade ever second is we have to ask ai list the possible root causes for
00:16:19.720 my low energy if your hack is you have low energy so you have to drink a bunch of caffeine in the
00:16:24.280 morning then maybe there's something else that's a precursor to your low energy that ai can give
00:16:29.400 you some ideas around it could be your nutrition could be the way you're sleeping you might have
00:16:34.520 these hacks that you're doing to be productive that you've gotten used to
00:16:38.200 that you can actually use to replace to get better at next i want you to ask the ai to
00:16:42.600 suggest replacements to take the patches and replace them with habits so instead of energy
00:16:47.880 drinks in the morning maybe it's going to suggest that you improve your sleep and nutrition
00:16:51.560 instead of a pomodoro timer maybe it's going to train me to focus on endurance in the morning
00:16:56.760 which is what i do now exhaust the body tame the mind the cool part is you keep upgrading slowly
00:17:02.200 and you let the system evolve you your identity and who you've become so my question to you is
00:17:08.920 what are you pretending not to know because when ai can solve any problem you can give it
00:17:13.320 then the problem to solve is figure out what problem you want to solve right now figure out
00:17:17.080 what you want your life to look like in five years crystal clarity break it down have a plan
00:17:21.640 one year quarterly monthly build the systems integrate into who you are and that's how you'll
00:17:27.480 you'll achieve it. Now remember, if you want my preloaded year template, just click the link in
00:17:31.980 the description below and I'll send it to you. It will change the way you look at your time.
00:17:36.340 Now, if you want to learn about a ChatGPT feature that no one uses, click here and I'll see you on
00:17:40.920 the other side.