Dan Martell - November 07, 2022


How to Overcome Setbacks Like an Athlete


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152

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00:00:00.200 I literally laid there on the ground and said,
00:00:01.600 God, why are you doing this?
00:00:03.120 What, why are you challenging me?
00:00:05.460 I'm racing, you're not gonna stop me.
00:00:21.600 Hey there, I'm Dan Martell, serial entrepreneur,
00:00:23.520 investor, creator of SaaS Academy.
00:00:25.200 In this episode, I wanna share with you
00:00:26.800 how to overcome physical setbacks.
00:00:30.520 I'm talking about like punched in the gut kind of scenarios
00:00:35.020 where it doesn't matter if it's like injuries,
00:00:39.260 COVID, sickness, whatever it is.
00:00:42.520 Like there might be something that happens to you
00:00:44.500 and you just like physically feel down.
00:00:47.040 I wanna share with you some mindset and some beliefs
00:00:49.080 that are gonna help you overcome them
00:00:50.640 that I learned from my experience.
00:00:52.080 And I know you guys may be new to my journey,
00:00:54.400 but I try to share my life out loud.
00:00:56.800 I shine my light as bright as possible
00:00:58.980 because I just feel like, hey, if I'm learning these lessons,
00:01:01.740 I just wanna share my journey.
00:01:03.720 And about a year and a half ago,
00:01:06.400 I made the decision to move to the other side of Canada.
00:01:10.280 So I grew up on East Coast, Canada,
00:01:12.120 a place called New Brunswick,
00:01:13.440 and I moved to British Columbia into the mountains
00:01:15.480 in this beautiful city called Kelowna.
00:01:17.700 And at the time I was training for an Ironman.
00:01:20.960 And the challenge was is that, you know,
00:01:23.060 One of my favorite parts about training for triathlon
00:01:26.500 is working out with my friends.
00:01:29.020 And here I was in a new city,
00:01:31.640 moved away from all my training partners,
00:01:34.140 and I had to continue training
00:01:36.600 to try to keep up to the volume required
00:01:38.940 to actually be successful doing this Ironman distance races.
00:01:43.180 And it was tough.
00:01:44.900 It was really hard to find that rhythm and whatnot.
00:01:48.420 And early in my training season, I think in May,
00:01:52.100 I went mountain biking with some friends
00:01:54.760 and I'm kind of new to mountain biking.
00:01:57.700 And I think sometimes my skill is a little too,
00:02:02.320 I'm a little too confident for the level I'm at
00:02:05.000 and I'm aggressive.
00:02:06.660 And I was doing this run.
00:02:08.380 It was like off trail forks.
00:02:10.200 It was like a hidden local run in this place
00:02:12.020 called Kamloops called Rio.
00:02:15.300 Oh, I forget, it was just called Rio.
00:02:16.720 And I come around the turn, I hit this jump,
00:02:18.660 I go in the air and I didn't realize
00:02:20.380 but the jump actually turned right.
00:02:21.740 And I went straight and I ended up punching a tree
00:02:24.580 with my hand, breaking my knuckles, landing sideways,
00:02:28.400 rolling down a ravine, breaking my shoulder
00:02:31.500 and just laying there thinking to myself,
00:02:34.440 like, what did I just do?
00:02:36.260 Like my hand went numb, my shoulder was in pain.
00:02:39.800 I had to like grab my bike, pull myself out of this ravine,
00:02:42.580 scream at my friends that were down the mountain
00:02:44.900 a little bit, try to ride out another 10 kilometers
00:02:48.080 with a broken hand.
00:02:49.360 And I didn't know it at the time.
00:02:51.760 And the whole time I'm just thinking like,
00:02:53.720 oh my gosh, like I just screwed up my race season, you know?
00:02:58.160 And I didn't even wanna tell anybody for hours.
00:03:01.780 I didn't call my wife.
00:03:02.740 I just, you know, they were like, how's your shoulder?
00:03:04.540 I'm like, I don't know.
00:03:05.460 And how's the hand?
00:03:06.600 And even my buddy Jason's like, hey dude,
00:03:08.800 I don't know if it's broken or dislocated.
00:03:10.780 He was a paramedic.
00:03:11.840 So I was like listening to him and he's like,
00:03:13.600 but if I pull on it, it might fix it.
00:03:17.660 but if it's broken, it's gonna hurt like a mofo.
00:03:21.620 And I was like, I just put my hand out and I said, pull.
00:03:24.980 And he grabbed it and he pulled
00:03:26.800 and my whole hand went like,
00:03:29.060 almost like it got like blown up by a bomb.
00:03:31.440 And I was just like, ah!
00:03:32.860 And he's like, oh, well, it's not dislocated.
00:03:35.480 You probably gotta go to the hospital.
00:03:36.660 So that night I went to the hospital
00:03:38.060 at like seven o'clock at night,
00:03:39.420 spent the whole night in the hospital.
00:03:40.500 I woke up the next morning and I was in a depression.
00:03:43.700 Like here I am bandaged up, you know,
00:03:47.840 tore out my shoulder, broke my hand.
00:03:51.440 You know, I can't sleep.
00:03:53.120 I'm super uncomfortable.
00:03:54.240 I got full road rash.
00:03:56.060 And like for the first three hours of that morning,
00:04:00.060 I was like, I was in a funk.
00:04:03.000 Like I normally don't wake up like that.
00:04:04.940 I'm a very happy go get it kind of guy.
00:04:08.600 And I was mad at myself for getting into that headspace.
00:04:12.460 And I just thought, okay, I got to take massive action.
00:04:14.260 This is something I learned a long time ago.
00:04:15.420 I got to do something.
00:04:16.120 So I got up, I got dressed,
00:04:17.760 and I went and I hiked a mountain locally
00:04:19.820 called Mount Knox, okay?
00:04:21.040 Like pretty serious hike.
00:04:22.140 Takes about an hour to go up and down.
00:04:24.100 And my wife's like, shouldn't you be resting?
00:04:26.360 Shouldn't you relax?
00:04:27.140 And I'm like, I just can't.
00:04:29.220 I can't sit here and do that.
00:04:31.400 So I started working with a physio person.
00:04:34.380 I had essentially nine weeks before my race,
00:04:37.120 and I kept at it.
00:04:39.260 And it was looking promising.
00:04:41.440 and it'd be great if that was the story but it wasn't a month and a bit later i'm at the marina
00:04:49.280 and um i was a boat i went and got some food for the family i was coming back to my boat
00:04:55.360 and as i went through the marina door the steel door shut on my heel and sliced the back of my
00:05:03.460 heel open and i just remember running down to the boat i'd like jumped inside the boat i just like
00:05:09.520 laid on the bed and I was like peanut my wife's name's peanuts my name I said I cut my heel open
00:05:14.880 I think it's bleeding and she was like oh my god what did you do and I was like what is it bad
00:05:19.660 she's like yeah it's bad and it's like I don't want to make anybody throw up but um so she somehow
00:05:25.660 got the blood you know to kind of like stop bleeding and I went to the hospital and I'm
00:05:30.200 laying there and I'm like I cannot believe I just did this like I did all this work on rehab and I
00:05:34.880 have a chance to even race and luckily the doctor was my friend's wife Jose and she's a triathlete
00:05:43.800 and I said Jose I need your help she's like what I said I got a race she goes how far is the race I
00:05:47.780 said in a couple weeks she's like oh my gosh so she like put these stitches and like this this
00:05:54.440 skin new skin all this stuff and she's like it may not hold but at least get you through the race and
00:05:59.260 I was like thank you right like crisis avoided but I was just like at that point I was starting to
00:06:04.560 you know people are saying to me like shouldn't you slow down isn't this life telling you like
00:06:10.060 all these things and I was like no this is just what happens when you live life like I want to
00:06:15.980 go on my boat I want a mountain bike I want to do stuff I'm not going to sit around and
00:06:19.400 you know live life in a bubble and do nothing that was the the thing the stories I was telling
00:06:24.980 myself and then fast forward a couple weeks after that I'm training and I'm in aero position coming
00:06:32.420 down fairly busy street probably shouldn't have been doing this and a car without turning their
00:06:38.080 blinkers on cuts off the bike lane I'm in the bike lane cuts me off and I hit the side of it
00:06:43.840 luckily they're at a 45 degree and I'll hit the side of it in aero position and go flying like
00:06:48.540 Superman over the car and when I land I did this tuck and roll and you'll see the video I'm going
00:06:55.060 to splice it in you'll see what happened okay and luckily I just got the the rotation done
00:07:01.860 where I just, I didn't even hit my head.
00:07:03.900 I didn't even hit my shoulder.
00:07:05.280 And I almost could have stood up.
00:07:06.700 Like I was really close to standoff.
00:07:08.360 This is years of snowboarding accidents, okay?
00:07:11.820 And all I thought to myself as I laid there
00:07:15.400 and there was like this guy that ran over.
00:07:16.840 He's like, don't move, I called the ambulance.
00:07:18.320 And I'm sitting there checking over my bike.
00:07:19.720 I'm like, I'm fine.
00:07:20.540 He's like, you're in shock.
00:07:21.600 And I'm like, dude, back away, right?
00:07:23.840 The only thing I was thinking about
00:07:24.860 is that my bike has crashed, okay?
00:07:26.760 Like anybody that does triathlons,
00:07:28.660 you don't, these are not bikes you pick up
00:07:30.860 at a Canadian tire or at a, you know, a Home Depot.
00:07:33.920 Like these are bikes that are made of carbon
00:07:37.300 and they're very expensive and they're very unique
00:07:39.200 and their size is specific to me.
00:07:41.840 And I'm just thinking my race is in a couple of weeks
00:07:44.320 and I don't have my bike anymore.
00:07:48.020 So when you talk about setbacks, physically, pain,
00:07:53.580 we make decisions.
00:07:54.980 We make decisions about the story that tells us
00:07:57.360 and how we respond.
00:07:58.560 and I'll tell you my mental fortitude was being challenged in that moment I literally laid there
00:08:05.300 on the ground and said God why are you doing this what why are you challenging me I'm racing
00:08:10.660 you're not gonna stop me I don't know why you're making me go through this but I made a decision
00:08:17.100 to race for bigger reasons it's more important than me so like can you please give me a break
00:08:23.780 because this was like crash rehab sliced teal not even fixed but like can do it and then you took
00:08:32.500 my bike away from me over a two-week period i had to find another bike okay and luckily i found a
00:08:38.360 used bike in another province and through a bunch of relationships and asking for favors we got the
00:08:44.080 bike taken apart put in a bar blah blah blah and maybe had two trainings on it prior to this race
00:08:50.720 for a full Ironman distance race.
00:08:53.380 And the morning of, I just sat there staring at the water
00:08:56.640 because it goes swim, bike, run,
00:08:59.580 thinking the amount of challenges that came up
00:09:02.980 to just get to this point to start the race.
00:09:06.140 I was just grateful.
00:09:06.960 I was like, I'm at least at the starting line.
00:09:09.500 I'm going to start this.
00:09:11.560 I know it's gonna be a suffer fest.
00:09:13.240 It's not gonna be easy, but I'm gonna do it.
00:09:15.440 And I'm gonna skip to the end
00:09:16.840 because it was one of the hardest things
00:09:19.200 I've ever done in my life physically and mentally, hands down. And I got the Ironman done through all
00:09:26.960 the challenges in 12 hours, 12 minutes, and 43 seconds. And I broke down at the fish and shine.
00:09:32.120 Like, you know, family was there, like just emotional wreck with my buddies that I've been
00:09:37.420 training years to do this, this, this full distance Ironman. And when I looked back,
00:09:43.840 there was a bunch of lessons learned,
00:09:46.860 things that I took from those moments,
00:09:49.520 stories that I started telling myself
00:09:51.320 because there was so many people saying different things.
00:09:55.460 Like the first thing I wanna share with all of you guys
00:09:57.120 is everybody would say to me, maybe you should slow down.
00:10:01.180 Maybe the world's trying to tell you something.
00:10:04.280 Maybe you should take it easy.
00:10:06.260 And I think a lot of people out there would have said,
00:10:09.040 you know what, maybe you're right.
00:10:10.400 And they would have.
00:10:11.040 They would have literally said like,
00:10:12.240 okay, maybe I should calm down.
00:10:14.280 Maybe I don't need to be mountain biking
00:10:15.860 and training for an Ironman at the same time, blah, blah.
00:10:17.780 Maybe I should pick one.
00:10:19.160 And I just kept saying, no, that's not true.
00:10:23.740 I'm not slowing down.
00:10:25.360 I would actually like get in my head and go,
00:10:27.180 no, what more can I do?
00:10:28.840 What's possible?
00:10:30.160 Do I really feel like I'm at the limit of my possibilities?
00:10:33.620 No.
00:10:34.900 And I think if you ask yourself the same question,
00:10:37.840 you'll find your answer.
00:10:40.200 You know, when the world says, people say,
00:10:41.860 oh, maybe you should slow down because, you know,
00:10:43.800 you just got sick, you got the flu and you go,
00:10:45.980 I haven't been really working that hard, you know?
00:10:48.720 Maybe I'm not working like serious enough.
00:10:51.420 Maybe I'm half-assing this.
00:10:53.060 Maybe I'm being an amateur when I should be a pro.
00:10:56.080 You know.
00:10:57.640 So my question to you is,
00:10:59.620 is it that you should slow down
00:11:01.140 or maybe you should be a little bit more serious
00:11:03.040 and intentional and attack your goals and dreams
00:11:06.440 a little bit ferociously with more intensity?
00:11:10.100 That's where I was coming from.
00:11:11.100 I was like, you know what?
00:11:12.060 No, I don't, when I audit my life
00:11:13.660 and I look at where I'm at, I don't need to slow down.
00:11:16.220 Maybe I need to push more.
00:11:17.540 Maybe I have more capacity.
00:11:19.300 Maybe this is just some weird way
00:11:21.900 of challenging my intent and desire
00:11:24.020 and saying like, do you really want this?
00:11:25.680 Like, is this something that you're kind of interested in
00:11:28.800 or are you committed?
00:11:30.900 That's my question to you.
00:11:32.500 Are you interested in your goals and your dreams
00:11:35.020 or are you committed to their outcome?
00:11:37.660 So I would reframe that and that's what I was doing.
00:11:40.780 the first thing the second one is i look at the facts not the feelings people you know and look
00:11:45.420 i love my family they were worried about me they wanted me to do the right thing they wanted me to
00:11:49.500 be safe i get it but i look at the facts you know like for example when i crashed on my road bike
00:11:55.580 and i got cut off and i got in a biking accident my biking coach a long time prior to that two
00:12:00.060 years prior said to me the reality of it is it with a road bike if you're training on the road
00:12:05.340 It's not if you crash, it's when you will crash.
00:12:08.780 It's just part of the numbers.
00:12:10.400 It's a fact, it's the data.
00:12:13.120 So do I look at it as a sign that I should stop?
00:12:17.600 No, I look at it as like, hey, that's normal.
00:12:20.020 That's a normal thing that happens.
00:12:21.840 And where I went to was,
00:12:24.640 how did I contribute to that outcome?
00:12:27.600 Which is crazy talk for a lot of people.
00:12:30.520 Some of you guys get in an accident
00:12:32.400 or something bad happens and you go,
00:12:33.900 it's that person's fault.
00:12:34.960 I can't believe this person did this to me.
00:12:36.420 I can't believe this happened to me.
00:12:38.020 I get cut off and not my fault at all.
00:12:42.360 Person doesn't set their blinker,
00:12:43.660 doesn't see me, cuts off a bike lane.
00:12:45.860 And I immediately go to,
00:12:47.680 what did I do to contribute to this?
00:12:50.700 Did I need to be going 30 some kilometers an hour
00:12:53.580 in a major city on a bike lane?
00:12:55.460 Did I need to be driving a narrow position?
00:12:57.920 Could I have, you know, like there's so many things.
00:13:01.480 Did I have a front flashing white light on my bike?
00:13:03.860 The answer was no.
00:13:04.920 Do I have one today?
00:13:05.900 Yes, I looked at what the lessons were for me to learn
00:13:09.740 and I moved forward using facts, not feeling.
00:13:12.880 And that is my question to you.
00:13:15.160 When you've looked at things that have happened,
00:13:17.080 your failed business, a failed hire,
00:13:19.640 a failed customer experience or whatever,
00:13:21.860 customer fires you or whatever,
00:13:23.480 is it fact that you suck or is it fact that you're not good?
00:13:26.320 Is it fact that you're a bad entrepreneur
00:13:27.980 or did you have a moment?
00:13:30.020 And did you ask yourself, how did I contribute to that?
00:13:32.260 What are the lessons I need to learn?
00:13:33.840 internalize those get them then move forward with that new perspective and then finally it's filter
00:13:40.640 the feedback look i love my family i love my friends but when it comes to internalizing
00:13:49.760 suggestions feedback okay you should slow down maybe the world's trying to tell you something
00:13:55.360 etc i went to my coach i went to my mentors i went to the doctors i love my friends and my family
00:14:03.840 but their opinion is not an expert opinion.
00:14:07.940 I went to the doctor, can I do this race?
00:14:11.260 The answer was, if you do these things, yes.
00:14:14.660 I went to my coach, is it possible for me to rehab
00:14:18.080 and to do the volume I need to set my fitness level
00:14:20.160 at a certain level to be able to come back?
00:14:21.820 Yes, are these things abnormal or normal?
00:14:26.080 Normal, okay, is there anything I can learn from this?
00:14:28.920 Yes, X, Y, and Z, perfect,
00:14:30.600 let's incorporate it into the training,
00:14:31.920 and let's change the way we move forward.
00:14:33.980 But I had to filter that feedback
00:14:35.800 so that I wasn't inadvertently telling myself stories
00:14:38.640 that just aren't true.
00:14:41.100 Like we're meaning makers.
00:14:42.480 As a human, we define the meaning
00:14:45.820 that we associate to experiences, to events,
00:14:48.960 to moments in our life.
00:14:50.620 And we can either choose to make that moment
00:14:53.720 like a powerful, empowering, and supportive thing,
00:14:57.020 that's the meaning we give it,
00:14:58.660 or we could use it as a way
00:15:00.420 to like bring us small and shrivel us down
00:15:03.720 and pull back our desires and play a small game.
00:15:08.020 I choose expansive, I choose big.
00:15:11.180 I choose to use these moments
00:15:13.820 as the foundation to build from, right?
00:15:17.400 And use that as the reason, the meaning to move forward
00:15:21.420 with more ferociousness, with more drive,
00:15:24.560 with more certainty, with more courageousness.
00:15:26.860 And that's what I want from all of you.
00:15:28.580 There's this great quote.
00:15:29.900 I don't know who said it because a lot of quotes,
00:15:31.440 it's like, was it Einstein?
00:15:33.520 Was it Michael Jordan?
00:15:34.420 I don't know.
00:15:35.260 But it's, it doesn't get easier, you get better, okay?
00:15:39.640 It doesn't get easier.
00:15:41.140 Life will not get easier.
00:15:42.240 If you want more from life, it will get harder.
00:15:44.820 But what will change?
00:15:46.340 My experience has been from physically having my body attack
00:15:49.540 and it didn't stop.
00:15:50.380 It happened again this year, injuries.
00:15:53.020 Like, if you want to play life to the fullest, right?
00:15:57.340 and not end up at the end totally protected
00:15:59.980 and feeling safe in a cocoon,
00:16:01.300 but totally, like instead what I wanna do
00:16:03.440 is just like slide into the end
00:16:05.000 and just feel like super weathered and be like,
00:16:07.060 oh my gosh, what a crazy ride, right?
00:16:09.700 When my time comes, I'm gonna be like,
00:16:11.980 whoo, that was amazing.
00:16:13.560 That was crazy.
00:16:15.200 I cannot believe I fit all that in
00:16:17.120 and got to do all these things
00:16:18.700 and experience life to the fullest.
00:16:20.460 That's the way I'm gonna finish things, right?
00:16:24.260 And what I've discovered is that if I want that,
00:16:26.220 if I wanna live this life and be extraordinary,
00:16:29.620 because you can't be ordinary
00:16:30.660 if you want extraordinary results,
00:16:32.040 if I wanna be extraordinary is that I need to get better
00:16:36.760 because life will not get easier on me.
00:16:38.920 I will get better on how I approach it,
00:16:40.960 attack it and solve problems.
00:16:42.480 And that's what I want for all of you.
00:16:44.280 So that's what I hope this message lands
00:16:46.940 in your soul and your heart, okay?
00:16:49.100 Is that instead of telling yourself a negative story
00:16:52.100 around the meaning of what things happen,
00:16:53.440 you decide to choose positive and push forward.
00:16:55.640 because my belief is you got way more in you, way more.
00:16:59.720 I know it in my soul.
00:17:00.560 I don't even need to know you to say that.
00:17:02.340 You have more capacity
00:17:03.640 than you're giving yourself permission to express.
00:17:06.260 And if this message is resonating with you,
00:17:08.420 that is your calling in your heart to do more, to be more,
00:17:12.940 to not dim your light,
00:17:14.060 to shine it as bright as freaking possible.
00:17:17.060 And with that, I hope this message finds you incredibly well.
00:17:19.640 And I wanna challenge you as per usual
00:17:21.260 to live a bigger life and a bigger business.
00:17:23.700 And I'll see you next Monday.
00:17:25.640 We'll be back.