Dan Martell - November 10, 2023


How to Plan Your Week Like a CEO


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7 minutes

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1,604

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72

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1


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00:00:00.000 I'm going to break down my exact 36-hour week as a multi-millionaire in four steps.
00:00:04.640 This is how just last week I was able to shoot 13 podcasts, go to an NBA game,
00:00:08.940 run an Ironman, be present with my kids, and still grow my business.
00:00:16.060 Back in the day, I used to just work, work, work. I'd stay up till
00:00:19.140 two in the morning and I would eat crap food. And then I would go to work the next morning and
00:00:23.260 go from meeting to meeting. And then in the afternoon, my brain would be dead. And I'm
00:00:26.780 trying to make these decisions around product and marketing biz dev and nothing worked and then
00:00:31.460 eventually I gave myself permission to change my schedule to map to my energy and everything
00:00:37.400 shifted here's the strategy people are always talking about time management you can't manage
00:00:42.620 time you can only manage the energy that you've got within that time first off you have to work
00:00:47.640 out and eat clean I can tell the difference when I have sugar or things are not good for me second
00:00:52.080 thing is you need to decide what do you do in the morning versus what do you do in the afternoon
00:00:56.380 because most people, they're incredibly creative
00:00:58.860 and resourceful in the morning, whereas in the afternoon,
00:01:01.420 maybe that's better where you're gonna collaborate
00:01:03.000 and talk to other people.
00:01:04.380 Now, the most important question to ask
00:01:06.000 is what would make this easier?
00:01:08.380 If you have to do work that feels like work,
00:01:10.460 ask yourself, what would be true if this thing was easier?
00:01:13.000 Maybe it's scheduling a meeting with somebody else
00:01:14.920 so that you're accountable to them
00:01:16.060 or that you collaborate with them.
00:01:17.380 Maybe it's deciding to get out of your office
00:01:19.400 and get out somewhere else
00:01:20.520 where you feel more collaborative or more creative.
00:01:23.440 That is the question that'll change everything for you.
00:01:25.760 This is how I set up my life to continue growing my businesses, but without it being at the expense
00:01:31.500 of everything else that's important to me. You see, a long time ago, I actually ended up in rehab.
00:01:36.360 And even though it was a very dark moment in my life, the silver lining at the end of it was that
00:01:41.100 I was taught this strategy called the transition plan, where I sat down and I designed my whole
00:01:45.920 life, everything to make my life be set up in a way that was going to support my new sobriety.
00:01:51.000 And I've taken that concept to my life today. I mean, just this week, I've done podcast
00:01:55.560 interviews, hiked mountains with my kids, ran my event, and even ran an Ironman all in one week.
00:02:00.480 And I know this sounds crazy, but it's because I don't have a separation between personal and work.
00:02:06.340 To me, I love the people I work with. My friends are people I do Ironmans with. My wife is my
00:02:11.900 partner in all ways. That's just, to me, the integrated life. So I want to teach you my
00:02:16.320 framework to think through this. Here's how it works. So to do it right, you need this framework
00:02:20.080 called the 10X Vision Map.
00:02:22.080 Essentially, it's a four box quadrant
00:02:24.240 that lays out the different areas of your life
00:02:26.880 that matters the most so that you can have a vision
00:02:29.360 for what you're trying to accomplish.
00:02:30.700 The first box is your team.
00:02:32.540 When I think about this,
00:02:33.740 I'm thinking about the people in my life,
00:02:36.140 my friends, my advisors, my coworkers, my business partners.
00:02:40.280 It's everybody on the team.
00:02:41.760 Think about if you had to design
00:02:43.020 the best of the best 50 people
00:02:45.440 that you knew that you would do life with,
00:02:47.560 that you would build businesses with,
00:02:48.760 that you enjoy vacations with,
00:02:50.720 that is the core focus of your team.
00:02:53.280 The second one is your one business.
00:02:55.100 See, most people, they wanna have multiple businesses,
00:02:58.240 multiple streams of income.
00:02:59.340 Here's the thing is any wealthy person
00:03:01.240 made it because of one business that they focused on
00:03:04.060 until they got it to scale, 10 million plus in revenue.
00:03:08.000 So design that one business.
00:03:09.980 What does it look like?
00:03:11.020 What does the culture look like?
00:03:12.260 What does the brand look like?
00:03:13.460 What are the awards look like?
00:03:14.640 What are you gonna do from that business?
00:03:16.980 What are you gonna create?
00:03:17.860 So that's number two.
00:03:18.520 the third quadrant is your empire and this is my favorite part some people get scared of the word
00:03:24.360 empire but for me an empire is a life you never have to retire from so ask yourself if you get
00:03:29.560 successful or when you get successful on that core business what does that unlock what's the other
00:03:35.000 things you can do now that you have the resources that were unlocked from that business now the
00:03:39.080 fourth area is the lifestyle what kind of conversations you want to have what kind of
00:03:43.960 of vacations do you want to take?
00:03:45.280 What kind of businesses do you want to co-create
00:03:47.580 with other people?
00:03:48.520 What kind of vibe do you want to have
00:03:50.240 when you go and do these things?
00:03:51.580 To me, the lifestyle is the health, it's the fitness.
00:03:55.360 So take the time to sit down and design that map,
00:03:58.820 visualize it, talk about it, be specific
00:04:00.900 and allow it to come to life.
00:04:02.600 If you're listening to this and it feels like a lot,
00:04:04.940 I'm gonna share a secret with you next
00:04:06.680 that's gonna make this whole thing make sense
00:04:08.780 and feel effortless.
00:04:10.160 If you don't have a goal, you'll spend all of your life
00:04:13.440 running up and down the field and never score.
00:04:16.760 Before I started my company, Spiric, when I was 24,
00:04:19.200 I tried, in business, failed.
00:04:22.280 So I started reading books,
00:04:23.640 and there's two books that absolutely changed my thinking.
00:04:26.380 It was Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
00:04:28.760 and Good to Great by Jim Collins.
00:04:30.480 Those laid the foundation for me
00:04:32.340 of understanding how goals work.
00:04:34.300 So to do this, I have this framework I teach
00:04:36.200 called the Slingshot Planner.
00:04:37.640 If I'm working with you, I'm just gonna draw these boxes
00:04:40.660 and go three years from now,
00:04:41.980 let's talk about the numbers,
00:04:43.240 Let's talk about the revenue.
00:04:44.400 Let's talk about the team size,
00:04:45.580 three-year target, a two-year, and a one-year.
00:04:48.100 Then I take out another piece of paper
00:04:49.920 from now to 12 months from now.
00:04:52.220 We break it up into four quarters,
00:04:53.960 and we do the same thing.
00:04:55.300 What are the numbers, the team size,
00:04:57.160 the revenue, the other metrics?
00:04:58.780 For each quarter, we wanna do one new thing
00:05:01.140 and two upgrades.
00:05:03.120 I'm actually gonna force you
00:05:04.680 to only pick one new thing per quarter.
00:05:08.620 So if that's Facebook ads,
00:05:10.380 if that's strategic partnerships,
00:05:11.980 if that's a new product suite,
00:05:13.980 I want you to literally constrain yourself
00:05:16.100 that you only have four shots on goal
00:05:17.820 this year, this quarter to do new things.
00:05:20.700 But then I'm gonna invite you to look at
00:05:22.480 what you're currently doing that's kind of working,
00:05:24.600 but you haven't really put enough resources behind it
00:05:26.620 and choose two projects that are upgrades.
00:05:29.660 So now you have a clear understanding
00:05:30.860 how to think strategically in your goals.
00:05:33.320 The next process, if you don't understand this,
00:05:35.940 you will take all this momentum, all this excitement
00:05:38.400 and flush it down the drain
00:05:39.680 because it requires a way to plan
00:05:42.420 and not having that means you're gonna literally
00:05:44.880 just run in circles.
00:05:46.320 You know the day before you go on vacation,
00:05:48.220 you get three times as much done
00:05:49.780 than any other normal day?
00:05:51.340 Why is that?
00:05:52.400 Well, here's what I've learned.
00:05:53.640 I used to be that guy that would just work a little bit,
00:05:55.700 feel really good about myself
00:05:56.660 and then take a couple hours off.
00:05:58.140 I didn't have a strategy.
00:05:59.780 And then I read a book by David Allen
00:06:01.320 and everything changed.
00:06:02.820 It's called Getting Things Done.
00:06:04.000 The way I work is completely different.
00:06:05.280 I have a place for all the crazy distractions
00:06:07.600 that come into my world
00:06:08.500 so I can be incredibly productive.
00:06:10.440 Here's how it works.
00:06:11.520 So I'm here in Scottsdale for a week
00:06:13.100 and this is how I plan that week.
00:06:15.200 First thing I do is I pull up my iPad
00:06:17.460 and I have this template that I use.
00:06:19.080 I take all the activities, commitments,
00:06:21.660 things that I already had to do before I came.
00:06:23.380 Then I add to that list
00:06:24.580 and I add everything that I would like to do.
00:06:26.200 The people I'd love to meet,
00:06:27.260 the different companies that I wanna connect with,
00:06:29.000 maybe the other podcasts I wanna be on.
00:06:30.660 So I have this complete list
00:06:32.000 and I look at the seven days
00:06:33.440 and I design it by three parts.
00:06:35.480 I have the morning, the afternoon, in the night
00:06:37.560 and I take all the ingredients of that perfect week
00:06:40.680 and I move them over into the different time slots
00:06:43.240 and I'm batching things together so the energies flow.
00:06:46.680 Once I have all those parts in there
00:06:48.720 and I see what fits, what doesn't,
00:06:50.280 and I make some concessions,
00:06:51.780 then I give that to my assistant to start executing.
00:06:54.660 The logistics, the timing, the travel time, all of it,
00:06:57.900 it's on her to figure it out
00:06:58.920 and then only bring back to me where there's conflicts.
00:07:01.800 So that's my four-step process
00:07:03.440 for how to design the perfect week.
00:07:05.340 But if you want to go deeper on managing your energy,
00:07:08.280 then be sure to check out my video
00:07:09.620 on managing your ADHD without medication.
00:07:12.300 So click the link and I'll see you on the other side.