Dan Martell - September 11, 2023


Manage ADHD Without Medication


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Here s how I manage my ADHD with zero medication. If you've got ADHD you probably are already feeling distracted and squirrely and honestly, you probably already clicked off this video about 10 years ago because I just didn't like the way it made me feel. I felt like a zombie and I'm typically somebody who's pretty high energy. So if you want to learn how I've gone from being diagnosed with ADHD and feeling like there was something wrong with me being distracted and struggling with getting anything done to now where I get to live in my zone of genius and show up in the world in a more calm and measured approach where I can run multi-million dollar companies as the CEO.

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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.