Dan Martell - March 11, 2025


If You Want to Achieve Your Goals in 2026, Watch This


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00:00:00.000 stop wasting your life. I'm going to share with you the seven principles to achieve all your
00:00:04.800 goals this year. These principles help me go from a distracted mess to a hyper-focused CEO.
00:00:10.020 So here's how to make this year the best year of your life. Starting with principle number one,
00:00:14.640 set your standards. People talk about goals all the time, but what they don't talk about
00:00:18.960 is standards. The process that you hold that make the goals inevitable. So here's how I solve things.
00:00:24.860 You have to link your goals to your daily standards.
00:00:28.760 So if you don't know what daily standard you would hold
00:00:30.980 that would make your goals inevitable,
00:00:32.500 then you really don't have a process
00:00:34.620 or a blueprint for being successful.
00:00:37.000 So for example, if I want visible abs,
00:00:39.400 I gotta ask myself, what's my daily standard for my macros?
00:00:42.840 What's my daily standards for working out?
00:00:44.840 What's my daily standards for recovery?
00:00:46.840 If I don't have that so I can measure black and white,
00:00:49.620 did I do it or did I not?
00:00:51.300 Knowing that if I showed up every day
00:00:53.480 and held that standard,
00:00:54.920 it would make that six pack inevitable.
00:00:57.060 Another strategy I like to do
00:00:58.280 is I like to write them down, obviously,
00:01:00.420 make them smart, specific, measurable,
00:01:02.620 attainable, realistic, and timely,
00:01:04.380 and then look at them multiple times a day.
00:01:06.940 I look at my personal goals for the year,
00:01:09.040 three times a day.
00:01:09.760 I connect them to a trigger and I review them
00:01:12.160 and I ask myself, am I showing up to achieve those goals?
00:01:15.340 Is my calendar aligned to achieve those goals?
00:01:17.740 What other aspects of my life do I need to align
00:01:20.020 to make sure I hit it?
00:01:20.940 When you write it down and you review it every day, it makes the whole process easier.
00:01:25.860 And that process is part of the five daily non-negotiables that I mandate every one of
00:01:30.300 my clients to do inside of my coaching program. If you're interested in working with me directly
00:01:34.420 to elevate your game this year, just find me on Instagram and message me the word YouTube
00:01:38.860 Elite and I'll see if you'd be a fit. But setting standards isn't enough. You have to make them
00:01:44.340 easy to keep them consistent. Which brings us to principle number two, design your environment.
00:01:50.160 When I was 17, I ended up going to a rehab
00:01:52.620 because I struggled with addiction
00:01:54.100 and it was a tough period of my life.
00:01:56.400 The beautiful thing about going to this place
00:01:58.380 where I spent 11 months to work on myself
00:02:00.560 is that I got to learn the power of your environment.
00:02:03.960 See, most people fall back
00:02:06.080 because they go to the same bad environment.
00:02:08.460 Most people relapse because they're released
00:02:10.460 back into their same family, their same city,
00:02:12.640 their same school, and they really struggle to stay sober
00:02:15.500 because they're exposed to the same negative influences
00:02:18.500 in their life.
00:02:19.680 your environment, how you set it up will decide if you fail or you move forward. Part of that
00:02:25.600 environment brings up this philosophy I have, which is it's easier to avoid the dragon than to
00:02:30.400 slay it. Just deciding on what is in your environment, what you take out so you don't
00:02:35.280 have to make decisions every day will make the whole process of achieving goals so much easier.
00:02:39.320 For example, before I go to bed, I lay out my clothes for the next morning for the gym,
00:02:43.520 ready to go. Why? I don't want to make a decision around it. The way I think about it is most people
00:02:48.500 want to either make more money or get in shape. Those are the big buckets. So if you think about
00:02:52.740 it, get in shape. How do you design your environment to make it inevitable you'll
00:02:56.940 achieve your goals? Well, first off, take all the crap out of your kitchen. Anything that is a
00:03:00.980 slippery slope around a bad decision, especially late at night, take it the heck out of your life.
00:03:06.200 Now I've got kids and what if my wife doesn't like it? Hey, have a conversation with them.
00:03:09.960 If you're serious about hitting your fitness goal, you have to prune and design your environment.
00:03:14.640 same thing with money what makes it easier for you to make cold calls is it coffee in the morning
00:03:19.600 get yourself a nice coffee machine in your office is it your vision board in front of you is it a
00:03:25.560 great chair so when you sit down you feel comfortable if you just make the game easier
00:03:30.680 to play you'll have the highest potential of being successful so instead of buying that next video
00:03:35.160 game or going out with your friends and spend a couple hundred bucks at the bar spend money on
00:03:39.640 your environment to make your goals easier to achieve but there's another way that we can hack
00:03:44.260 our mindset to make our goals even easier to achieve. Which brings us to principle number
00:03:48.540 three, gamify progress. There's actually a reason why video games become psychologically addictive
00:03:55.660 is because they visualize progress per level that makes you feel like you're accomplishing
00:04:01.460 small micro wins. Think about it. You jump on something, big explosion, big celebration,
00:04:06.540 the ability to build your character. These are all visual progression to the goal of winning the game.
00:04:12.160 do that with your own personal goals having a calendar down in your kitchen every time you
00:04:16.560 work out put a big x across it so that you feel like you're making progress the goal is to fill
00:04:20.820 up the calendar if you wanted to make more money have a thermometer set up that you designed to
00:04:25.840 have your goal per week so that you're hitting your goal every week and also i would recommend
00:04:30.140 do it per day my buddy the other day was telling about his software he built for snow removal he
00:04:34.660 made it simple that every person is operators that are removing snow he's got a map all the places
00:04:40.000 he's got to remove the snow are red and as he pulls into the driveway it turns green it makes
00:04:44.600 it a fun little game for his snow operators to remove the snow at the client's house without
00:04:49.600 ever missing a house because it's visual for me it's a daily progress it's a daily visual stepping
00:04:55.340 on a scale and checking in and texting my coach that text message is part of that daily rhythm
00:05:00.980 i have a daily email that i get for all of my businesses that show me my cash position i check
00:05:06.680 those. It is a habit that keeps my mind focused on my outcomes. And that's why the more you focus
00:05:13.200 on, the more it'll expand. Most people don't know this. Your life is the results of your most
00:05:18.700 dominant feelings, actions, and beliefs. If you think about goal setting, project planning,
00:05:25.760 reviewing your goals, vision board, all of it is designed to keep you focused on your most dominant
00:05:31.400 actions, feelings, and beliefs around what's possible. And when you do that, you create your
00:05:36.540 reality. But to actually achieve your goal this year, you have to think way bigger than your
00:05:40.880 actions. Which brings us to principle number four, connect to an identity. For me, identity is
00:05:46.240 everything. When I first started my fitness journey, it wasn't about trying to get fit. It
00:05:51.000 was about becoming something. So I used to write down that I was an athlete. And it's crazy because
00:05:55.780 when I started doing CrossFit, all of a sudden now I'm competing every day because that's the
00:06:00.320 way CrossFit set up. And I started to build this identity of being an athlete. If you want to
00:06:04.460 change your results first, change how you see yourself. It's kind of interesting because most
00:06:09.720 people think when I have that thing, then I'll do the thing. Then I'll be the person. And the truth
00:06:16.060 is, is that it doesn't work like that. It's completely different. Reverse it. First, you
00:06:20.080 have to be the person. Then you do the work and then you'll have the results. It always comes
00:06:25.000 first. You know, Jim Rohn used to joke, you better hope nobody gives you a million dollars before
00:06:28.560 you're a millionaire because if you do, you're going to quickly lose it. Oftentimes, you shouldn't
00:06:33.580 get the thing until you're ready for it. A big part of that is the identity of being somebody
00:06:38.800 that can manage it. Even in my fitness program, most people think they're joining to get shredded
00:06:43.540 or to put on some muscle, but the truth is they come into my life to reset their identity. I make
00:06:49.300 them design a mantra, a sentence of identity that they have to repeat to themselves all the time
00:06:55.340 when they go to the gym,
00:06:56.600 when they're reminding themselves what it's all about
00:06:58.800 because that identity will make it
00:07:01.340 so that that's just who they are.
00:07:02.740 And you get to a place where eating a certain way
00:07:05.500 isn't a diet, it's called food.
00:07:08.180 Think about when you can get to a place
00:07:09.900 where going to the gym is just part of who you are,
00:07:12.840 that not going to the gym would feel as weird
00:07:15.400 as not wearing pants.
00:07:16.640 You'd be like, I don't feel good, I don't feel myself.
00:07:18.760 That's why when you see me talk about
00:07:20.260 exhaust the body, tame the mind,
00:07:22.340 I'm really resetting the identity.
00:07:24.480 I'm getting my mind straight.
00:07:25.960 I'm keeping the control over my thoughts.
00:07:28.320 And the more we speak our identity out loud,
00:07:30.840 it's who we've become.
00:07:32.180 So I know it sounds crazy,
00:07:33.420 but before I ever was an Iron Manor,
00:07:35.820 I wrote it down in my journal every morning
00:07:38.660 for years before I ever finished my first race.
00:07:42.440 But achieving your goals this year
00:07:43.780 isn't gonna happen by yourself.
00:07:45.760 Which brings us to principle number five,
00:07:47.860 upgrade your peer group.
00:07:49.180 I remember a long time ago, I was in my mid-20s.
00:07:51.580 I joined a mastermind to upgrade my knowledge and experience.
00:07:56.220 Everybody in that room was running like an eight-figure-plus company,
00:07:59.340 and I felt like a frigging imposter.
00:08:01.420 It was super uncomfortable.
00:08:03.220 What happened, though, being in that group forced me to raise my standards to match theirs.
00:08:08.520 Being in proximity of people executing at a higher level forced me to reflect on how I was showing up.
00:08:16.080 I didn't want to go to the next meeting feeling like I was the low person on the totem pole,
00:08:21.080 and it made me be a lot more serious
00:08:22.980 and a lot more focused about hitting my goals.
00:08:25.160 And this is how I do it today.
00:08:27.260 I ask myself a simple question.
00:08:29.240 Are the people in my life closer to my goals
00:08:31.900 or just closest to me?
00:08:33.540 See, if nobody in your life that you spend time with
00:08:36.200 has achieved the thing you're trying to do,
00:08:38.020 then you're always gonna have to be fighting
00:08:39.900 an uphill battle.
00:08:40.940 So this is what's very unique about my approach.
00:08:43.260 Once I do my annual planning,
00:08:45.060 I understand where I wanna end up.
00:08:46.660 I ask myself, who are the people that I need in my life
00:08:49.520 to make those goals easier?
00:08:50.760 I call it a relationship plan.
00:08:52.580 This is everything from mentors,
00:08:54.040 people that will inspire me to make the right decisions,
00:08:57.020 coaches, folks that have the blueprint,
00:08:59.220 peers, other people along the journey
00:09:01.320 to make it less lonely.
00:09:02.520 I write down the names of the people.
00:09:04.680 And if I don't know who they are, I go search,
00:09:06.520 I go research, I go on YouTube, I go on Instagram,
00:09:08.940 I ask my friends.
00:09:10.000 So building that relationship plan
00:09:11.820 so that I invest in people to be around them,
00:09:14.860 to travel and seek their guidance,
00:09:17.000 that to me is how I'm able to achieve my goals
00:09:19.500 so much easier than most
00:09:20.700 because they're trying to figure it out on their own.
00:09:22.800 That's so crazy.
00:09:24.220 Find the people that have been to the mountaintop
00:09:26.240 and ask them how.
00:09:27.620 For example, when I hiked Mount Rainier,
00:09:29.820 the guy that brought us to the top in a season,
00:09:32.760 he does that summit 37 times.
00:09:35.200 Do you think maybe he has some experience to help us?
00:09:38.280 You better believe it.
00:09:39.220 Some of you are hiking Mount Rainier equivalent
00:09:42.100 in your fitness, in your relationships,
00:09:44.000 in your business, in your health for the first time.
00:09:46.420 And there's somebody right next to you
00:09:48.280 if you open up your eyes
00:09:49.260 and just look around in your community
00:09:50.620 that have done it 37 times a year
00:09:53.340 and you haven't even asked them for advice.
00:09:55.300 Why?
00:09:55.740 Is it because you're not capable
00:09:57.840 or willing to invest in yourself?
00:09:59.420 It's a flawed strategy and a very slow strategy
00:10:02.140 to avoid seeking other people
00:10:04.120 and really refining your relationships
00:10:06.000 to make your goals easier.
00:10:07.280 People always wanna ask me like,
00:10:08.820 who are the relationships I need to add?
00:10:10.860 I always say, well, who are the people you need to cut?
00:10:13.200 The other day, a friend of mine asked that same question
00:10:15.100 and I said, name me the one person that you know,
00:10:17.280 and I know you're gonna feel uncomfortable answering this.
00:10:19.260 that you're going to have to cut out of your life to create space for those new people
00:10:23.500 that you've been putting off that tough conversation because you care about them and
00:10:27.020 they've been good to you unfortunately today in your heart you know they've been an anchor in
00:10:32.140 your progress which brings us to principle number six get back on the horse i find it fascinating
00:10:37.980 that most people have this dream of a perfect morning and if they don't do something they just
00:10:43.500 throw away their whole day they don't work out first thing in the morning they don't decide to
00:10:47.500 to go in the afternoon. They miss getting a good kickstart in their morning in regards to their
00:10:51.600 calls or their process or whatever it is. And they just write off the rest of the day. And the truth
00:10:56.240 is, is you don't have to do it that way. The other day, my buddy's telling about this concept called
00:11:00.240 the floor in the ceiling. He says, look, my floor is, I went for a walk. My ceiling is, I got all
00:11:06.360 the workouts done. I showed up at a 10 out of 10. And all I hold myself accountable is being in
00:11:11.980 between the floor and the ceiling. If I got a bunch of stuff done, great. But at minimum, I want to
00:11:16.460 get my walk in. My rule is I don't go more than two days without doing the thing. If you don't
00:11:22.140 get back on the horse, then you might start what's called a negative downward spiral where you'll wake
00:11:26.820 up in 35, 45 days and realize you haven't been to the gym. You put on that 5, 10, 15 pounds,
00:11:32.500 especially after a vacation where you might not have made the best decisions. And instead of just
00:11:36.680 saying, I'm going to do anything today to get back on the horse, you throw it all away, all your
00:11:41.960 gains. There's this really fun thing I heard once. It said, you can start a diet halfway through a
00:11:46.060 bag of chips. It's that simple. If you keep showing up, even if you've been a few days
00:11:51.180 without doing the thing and you don't quit, that's what makes people impressive. Just because you had
00:11:55.940 a bad moment doesn't need to make it a bad day. But don't just try to go heads down and be quiet
00:12:00.940 about it. Which brings us to principle number seven, make it public. When I made the decision
00:12:05.600 to get visible abs at 44 years old, I could have easily just started a process, got on a meal plan,
00:12:12.340 started working out and not tell a soul and that actually would have been easier because soon as
00:12:17.100 you tell somebody else guess what you're indirectly accountable to them they're going to ask you about
00:12:21.300 it and most people do this with their goals they keep it to themselves because they don't want
00:12:25.080 anybody else asking them about it they don't want to be public about it they don't want to be
00:12:28.580 questioned about it they don't want to be second guessed about it and the truth is is when you
00:12:32.340 talk about it you activate your goals it's why i'm so passionate about creating content and
00:12:37.620 publishing your thoughts public to the internet is because in many ways it's the most beautiful
00:12:42.140 personal development program because it forces you to confront the areas of your life that you
00:12:47.800 don't want to be accountable to. All my clients in my business program, I make them do this because
00:12:52.460 I want them to be accountable to people. I want them to call their shot. Think of it this way.
00:12:57.460 Every person you admire has publicly called their shot, has told people, this is what I'm going to
00:13:02.920 do. From Walt Disney to Dana White to The Rock, these are the folks that you see do massive things
00:13:09.120 in the world. But before they ever achieved those things, they said it. My favorite part about doing
00:13:13.940 that is that you can also inspire others to join you in the process. When I decided to do 75 hard
00:13:19.860 the first time, I had 300 people that said, I want to do it too. Cool. We're starting on Monday,
00:13:24.820 get your weekend sorted and let's kick it off. It also attracts resources and people to you that
00:13:30.020 want to help you. One of the coolest things about this is you'll never know who you'll inspire.
00:13:34.480 I remember my buddy, Damon Fryer came up to me and he said, Hey, last time we met,
00:13:37.840 you mentioned you quit drinking i didn't really have a problem but i knew as i got older i didn't
00:13:41.520 need it in my life and i haven't drank in a couple months and i'm thinking of doing the work to get
00:13:45.760 absolutely shredded like you did and i introduced him to my coach and they started working together
00:13:49.920 today he is absolutely ripped why because i decided to share my goals publicly most people
00:13:57.360 are scared of looking bad of failing publicly than anything else so you use that as a way to
00:14:04.640 to propel you forward.
00:14:05.960 It's like you could hire a coach to hold you accountable
00:14:08.780 or you could just tell everybody you know
00:14:10.460 what you're gonna go do and have them question you
00:14:12.980 if you're on pace.
00:14:14.000 Tell everybody you're doing that Spartan race.
00:14:15.520 Tell everybody you're doing the Ironman.
00:14:16.700 Tell everybody you're gonna go enter a CrossFit competition
00:14:19.140 even if you've not registered.
00:14:20.400 Trust me, you'll probably wanna go do those things
00:14:23.120 so that you don't have to tell everybody
00:14:24.660 that you didn't do it and let everybody down.
00:14:26.880 The coolest part about this process,
00:14:28.840 even though yes, it's fun to hit your goals
00:14:30.860 and achieve things and be successful,
00:14:33.080 is that if you do this right, you'll wake up every day
00:14:36.740 to become the best version of yourself.
00:14:38.580 In many ways, the person that you needed most
00:14:40.680 in some of your darkest moments.
00:14:42.260 And then in sharing this process
00:14:44.140 and telling other people about it,
00:14:45.700 you'll inspire folks you didn't even know were watching.
00:14:48.180 And in a few years,
00:14:49.180 maybe they'll have enough courage to share it with you.
00:14:51.400 But I know you will impact their life.
00:14:53.520 Your decision to improve your situation
00:14:56.480 will help other people.
00:14:57.780 And if that's not enough motivation to go after it,
00:15:00.300 I don't know what else is.
00:15:01.520 So if you want to learn the seven things I quit to go from broke to millionaire, click here and I'll see you on the other side.