Dan Martell - September 11, 2023


Manage ADHD Without Medication


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6 minutes

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1,361

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57


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00:00:00.000 here's how i manage my adhd with zero medication now if you've got adhd you probably are already
00:00:06.000 feeling distracted and squirrely and honestly you probably already clicked off this video
00:00:10.560 but i quit taking any medication about 10 years ago because i just didn't like the way it made
00:00:14.800 me feel i felt like i wasn't me i was like a zombie and i'm typically somebody's pretty high
00:00:20.720 energy so if you want to learn how i've gone from being diagnosed with adhd feeling broken like
00:00:26.640 like there was something wrong with me being distracted and struggling with getting anything
00:00:30.660 done to now where I get to live in my zone of genius and show up in the world in a more calm
00:00:36.100 and measured approach where I can run multi-million dollar companies as the CEO.
00:00:41.300 Be sure to check out these four areas that I focus on to get the most
00:00:45.360 out of my day and self-medicate without taking any medication.
00:00:49.220 number one is my mind see i learned a long time ago that my body has a certain type of energy and
00:00:59.300 focus for different parts of my day i don't know if you can relate to this but you might wake up
00:01:03.620 feeling like full of energy and focus and then by three o'clock in the afternoon you can't even have
00:01:08.740 a straight conversation with anybody so what i've done is i've given myself permission to design my
00:01:14.180 life in energy flows. What I do in the morning, what I do right after that, it's all designed to
00:01:19.820 get my mind focused on the types of activities that I'm ready for based on the flow. So for
00:01:24.680 example, I do all my creative work in the morning, any design stuff, any research, just things that
00:01:31.360 are going to require like deep work. I do those first thing in the morning. And then I reserve my
00:01:36.540 afternoons to conversations. I look at my day through energy so that my mind is focused and
00:01:42.520 that I don't get distracted based on the type of work
00:01:44.880 I may have put that's not gonna support me.
00:01:47.240 Number two is body.
00:01:48.560 This is probably the biggest area.
00:01:50.840 So I have this belief that we exhaust the body
00:01:53.920 to tame our mind, which means that every single day,
00:01:58.200 I sweat, I work out, I exhaust myself.
00:02:01.640 And by doing that, it's almost like it gives
00:02:03.360 like a chiropractic alignment to my thoughts
00:02:06.040 so that I can show up powerfully.
00:02:07.880 The other thing that I don't do is I don't sit there
00:02:10.360 and start my day by eating a bunch of sugar.
00:02:12.440 You know, I do a pretty low carb, high protein diet
00:02:15.780 because sugar will literally change the way I think.
00:02:20.120 I've seen it so many times when I put that into my body,
00:02:22.920 my thoughts change.
00:02:24.140 I go from being optimistic and aspirational about the future
00:02:27.220 to almost critical or pessimistic
00:02:30.080 or like have this lack of abundance mentality.
00:02:33.400 It's kind of crazy for me.
00:02:34.440 Now, the other thing I take incredibly serious is my sleep.
00:02:36.940 I usually sleep between seven and eight hours a night.
00:02:39.720 I go to bed early and I wake up early.
00:02:42.180 Now, I do this because I need to recover.
00:02:45.420 I need my mind to recover, I need my body to recover.
00:02:47.980 And because of that, I wear an Oura ring,
00:02:50.460 I wear an eye mask, I have a white noise machine,
00:02:53.560 I have a process for ramping down at the end of the day,
00:02:56.280 I have a journal that I can write in
00:02:57.680 if I've got anything spinning on my mind
00:02:59.400 because I want to park things so I can focus,
00:03:02.860 get to sleep to get my seven to eight hours that night.
00:03:05.980 Number three is time.
00:03:07.200 So when I look at my calendar,
00:03:09.220 I want every minute allocated.
00:03:11.780 Now, some people are gonna break out in hives
00:03:13.300 just even considering that.
00:03:14.900 But what I mean is even the personal
00:03:17.020 and the professional should be scheduled.
00:03:19.000 Why?
00:03:19.320 Because I don't wanna allow my brain to sit down and go,
00:03:22.060 what should I be doing with my time?
00:03:24.120 So it's always allocated.
00:03:25.500 Because of that, and I talk about this in my book,
00:03:27.600 it's called The Perfect Week,
00:03:29.120 I'm able to grab similar types of activities
00:03:31.980 and batch them together.
00:03:33.600 When I sit down to shoot video,
00:03:35.680 I wanna be doing a bunch of videos.
00:03:37.340 When I sit down to do podcast interviews,
00:03:39.380 I wanna batch podcast interviews.
00:03:40.920 When I sit down to do sales calls, no matter what it is,
00:03:43.400 if I'm negotiating deals,
00:03:44.620 I want all those meetings batched together.
00:03:47.100 See, a lot of people think they can multitask,
00:03:49.080 go from like one thing to the next thing.
00:03:51.180 But I want you to consider this.
00:03:52.740 If I asked you to go and list out one to 26 numbers,
00:03:56.540 like count one, two, three, four, five, six,
00:03:58.280 all the way to 26, and I asked you to do it,
00:04:00.200 the average person can do it in about five seconds.
00:04:02.860 If I asked you to scream out the alphabet,
00:04:05.380 A, B, C, D, E, F, G, all the way to Z,
00:04:07.620 the average person can do it a little bit faster
00:04:09.540 and do it in about four and a half seconds.
00:04:12.040 But if I ask you to go 1A, 2B, 3C, 4D,
00:04:17.920 it'll usually take people a minute to a minute and a half.
00:04:20.300 So that took most people 20 times longer to multitask
00:04:25.260 than to just start sequentially and work through things.
00:04:28.540 That's why I batch my time.
00:04:30.940 It allows my mind to focus, get the work done,
00:04:33.860 ramp up into the energy or the creative state
00:04:35.860 that I need to be in to do the work
00:04:37.900 and not multitask.
00:04:40.120 Number four is the team.
00:04:41.920 See, I learned in high school,
00:04:43.560 we used to have like school projects,
00:04:45.360 which I wasn't the best in school,
00:04:47.320 but this is how I learned about leadership and delegation
00:04:50.920 is I would sit in this group with other people
00:04:52.860 and there'd be divvying out different parts of the project.
00:04:55.820 And I would always take the stuff that I love to do
00:04:58.140 because I knew I would do it.
00:04:59.380 And then find people that would do the things
00:05:01.900 that I would feel like I'm working at.
00:05:03.740 So if you have a business or you have people around you
00:05:06.600 You can negotiate who does what.
00:05:08.840 I want you to consider taking the things
00:05:11.240 that suck your energy that you naturally would run from
00:05:14.660 and give it to other people.
00:05:16.240 See, when we start working through other people
00:05:18.120 that play at the things you work at,
00:05:20.380 it changes your relationship with your mind,
00:05:23.020 with time, with your calendar, with your work, right?
00:05:26.660 And I know there's some times where you have to do the work.
00:05:30.000 There's like tax season, I get it.
00:05:32.300 Financial stuff, I hate doing it.
00:05:33.840 I remember one of my tricks is actually to schedule time
00:05:36.840 with my assistant to update things financially.
00:05:39.840 So the other day I had to update my personal net worksheet
00:05:42.540 for a bunch of investments I was doing.
00:05:44.040 So I just scheduled the meeting with my assistant
00:05:46.940 as a forcing function to focus on the project at hand
00:05:50.980 to get it done within that 30 minute block.
00:05:53.280 So even having other people that might own stuff,
00:05:56.280 delegating to them,
00:05:57.700 but then having them schedule meetings with you
00:05:59.720 so it's a collaborative meeting,
00:06:01.200 that could change everything in regards to your ability
00:06:03.760 to focus when it matters.
00:06:05.380 One day you'll realize that 100% of your opportunity
00:06:09.080 to move forward is turning your ADHD into a superpower.
00:06:13.820 It's the reason why I've been able to go
00:06:15.520 from a distracted CEO to somebody that's built
00:06:18.300 a life of unlimited creation
00:06:20.140 that I never have to retire from.
00:06:21.840 Now, if you like these strategies and you wanna learn more,
00:06:24.100 be sure to sign up for my new newsletter
00:06:26.500 that goes deeper on the strategies that I talked about
00:06:29.480 because I wanna teach you how to build a life
00:06:31.420 and a business that you don't grow to hate.
00:06:33.760 Amen.