Dan Martell - March 18, 2025


Spare me 10 minutes, and I’ll save you 15 years of your life

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In this episode, I talk about how to find clarity around your goals and why it's so important to have a clear vision of what you want to do with your life. It took me 15 years to learn a simple framework that changed my life and my work forever. I first learned this rubbing shoulders with some of the smartest and most successful billionaires you probably know. And I've personally used this rule to create my dream life, including speaking on a Tony Robbins stage, flying around in my own jet, and mentoring hundreds of kids in my local community.

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00:00:00.000 It took me 15 years to learn what I'm about to tell you in just a few minutes.
00:00:04.560 It's a simple framework that changed my life and my work forever. It's called the Rule of 300.
00:00:10.080 I first learned this rubbing shoulders with literally some of the smartest and most successful
00:00:13.980 billionaires you probably know. And I've personally used this rule to create my dream life,
00:00:17.940 including speaking on Tony Robbins stage, flying around in my own jet, and mentoring
00:00:21.860 hundreds of kids in my local community. So without further explaining it, this is the Rule of 300.
00:00:26.800 starting with a hundred percent clarity. The crazy thing I've realized is that most people
00:00:31.720 can't tell you what they want. I hike with entrepreneurs every week and I'm always asking
00:00:36.180 them about their dreams, their goals. Most of them cannot tell me what they want to create.
00:00:40.720 They can't tell me what they want to achieve, what they want to buy, what they want their life to
00:00:44.840 stand for. Versus you got a guy like Sam on my team, who's crystal clear about what he wants to
00:00:49.500 do, how he wants to show up and what he wants to achieve. And what I've learned is when people are
00:00:53.000 clear about what they want, it allows other people to help them. That's why I felt super privileged
00:00:58.000 that I could support him by helping him buy his dream car, his GT4. How are you supposed to know
00:01:02.900 what somebody wants if they don't tell you? How is anybody supposed to help you if you don't tell
00:01:06.780 them? Everybody knows Gary Vaynerchuk wants to buy the New York Jets. Why? Because he tells
00:01:12.720 everybody. He's got clarity around it. Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. He says it every time he's
00:01:19.000 front of a mic every time there's a camera on him he says it our mission is our mission is our
00:01:23.880 mission is and you get a bunch of people doing that i'm on a mission to build a billion dollar
00:01:28.680 software company that is my mission it's what i've always said it's what i've always wanted to do
00:01:32.840 i just keep telling people i tell my team and when you activate it by being clear other people can
00:01:38.840 support you we don't create our future we attract it see most people think i gotta do all this stuff
00:01:45.160 to eventually get something no you have to become the person to attract into your life those results
00:01:51.320 so how do you find clarity number one dream big if i could go back to talk to my 20 year old self
00:01:57.160 i'm telling you i would just say bigger bigger bigger you underestimate what's possible when
00:02:04.200 you focus and you compound over one year five years 10 years 25 years so start with one year
00:02:10.360 goal but then build the five and the 55 i've got a business plan for 55 years into the future the
00:02:15.960 reason why is because i know that i'm gonna wake up every day and create so make sure you're
00:02:20.600 dreaming big number two is shop your dreams i'm a big fan of encouraging people to go stay in a
00:02:27.720 dream house go rent a supercar if you can't afford it go sit in the lobby at the ritz carlton go
00:02:34.840 shop your dreams get around the energy the smell see most people just don't allow themselves to
00:02:39.720 touch their dream and the truth is is that's the only way that you're gonna make it normal you're
00:02:44.840 gonna create a sense of this is normal a few months ago i was talking to one of my sales guy
00:02:49.480 his dream was to drive a porsche i said dude have you visited the porsche dealership have you sat
00:02:54.280 in your dream car have you asked the sales guy to run the numbers to let you know even what it
00:02:58.920 would cost he's like no get in my car so we drove to the dealership not only did he sit in it i told
00:03:04.920 the sales guy send him the numbers how much is a down payment what it's going to cost per month why
00:03:10.200 get familiar with it when i decided to start flying private i got familiar with it i got
00:03:15.240 surrounded with people i wanted to understand it i wanted to figure out the numbers i wanted to
00:03:19.800 see what would need to be true for it to make sense in my life most people don't allow themselves to
00:03:24.280 even shop their dreams three is write them down if you don't write it down you won't remember it
00:03:29.720 if you don't write it down you won't commit to it if you don't write it down you're not being
00:03:33.800 specific enough you're more likely to achieve goals that are written down this is scientifically
00:03:38.840 backed by all the research around goal setting write it down i have a notes file on my phone
00:03:43.960 okay it's called 12 power goals on that i have my 12 goals for the year i review that three to four
00:03:49.640 times a day why i want to keep it front and center think about it for yourself if you just review
00:03:55.800 your dreams your goals every day especially the ones for the next 12 months it'll make it inevitable
00:04:01.080 that you'll achieve that. Most people never do it. Be the person that's willing to do the thing
00:04:05.660 that nobody else is doing to achieve the goals. Number four is create a vision board. I'm a big
00:04:10.380 fan of visualizing what you want to achieve. Why? Your brain doesn't think in words. It thinks in
00:04:16.320 pictures. We have this thing called the reticular activating system. And when we give it a picture
00:04:20.980 to scan the world, it will literally ignore all other information and just find the thing that's
00:04:26.260 going to help you achieve your goal. If you get clear on what you want to achieve, you will make
00:04:30.180 success inevitable. Which brings us to 100% belief. This one is the hard one. Your beliefs either hold
00:04:37.000 up your vision, but sometimes beliefs can actually hold you back from what you want to achieve. So
00:04:41.940 for example, number one, limiting beliefs. Limiting beliefs are around you, about your skills. Maybe
00:04:48.020 you might think, I'm not smart enough. I don't have the right network or connections, or it takes
00:04:52.100 money to make money. All of these things are limiting beliefs about your possibility. Here's
00:04:56.680 what's crazy about limiting beliefs? You'll never hold on to what you don't think you deserve. You
00:05:01.540 will quickly get rid of it, even if you accidentally get it. Number two is negative beliefs. These are
00:05:06.200 beliefs about the world, about how everybody else is. If you think the world is bad, you will always
00:05:12.280 find bad. If you think the world is positive, you'll find positive. Most people talk crap about
00:05:17.160 other people that are successful so that they don't have to become successful. If I think that 0.96
00:05:21.540 the person driving the supercar is an a-hole, then why would I want to have a car? Because then 1.00
00:05:25.900 everybody's going to think I'm an a-hole. But the truth is your negative belief around how the world
00:05:30.060 is, it's causing you to play small. If you love people and you want to help them, the number one
00:05:34.320 thing you can do is inspire them to dream bigger and playing small never helped anybody. Number
00:05:39.220 three is positive beliefs. Positive beliefs as in you've already been there. You've done it. It's
00:05:44.640 accomplished. You got the t-shirt. You want to get into the headspace of beliefs where what you're
00:05:49.980 trying to achieve is very familiar to you. Talk as if it's already happened. I remember watching
00:05:54.620 on TikTok recently, a reel about Conor McGregor talking on a mic about his achievements. And he
00:06:00.500 pretty much said, if you can see it and you speak it, you can achieve it. I think he was talking to
00:06:06.160 Ronaldo, the soccer player. He was asking him about his jet. Have you got a jet yet? No? Yeah,
00:06:10.460 I might. Yeah. I want to get a jet. We're talking like young Conor McGregor that hadn't achieved
00:06:15.160 anything. He saw it. He spoke it. And he said, if you can do those things, you will achieve.
00:06:20.780 See, everything that's ever existed in the whole world,
00:06:24.440 this desk, this mic, this camera,
00:06:26.780 was first seen in the mind of somebody from the past.
00:06:29.620 Isn't that wild?
00:06:30.640 Your whole life, your whole existence
00:06:33.120 is essentially living in the dreams of people from the past
00:06:37.000 because nothing's ever got created, existed ever
00:06:40.480 before somebody saw it in their mind.
00:06:43.420 That is how it's always been.
00:06:44.980 What I need you to do is believe that it's possible for you.
00:06:48.500 Sure, it's gonna take work.
00:06:49.640 Sure, it's gonna take effort.
00:06:50.780 sure it's going to take resources. It may not happen overnight. It won't happen overnight,
00:06:54.400 but I need you to believe that it's yours to have. You wouldn't have it on your heart. You
00:06:58.400 wouldn't desire it if you couldn't achieve it. That I believe. If you can hold a belief true,
00:07:03.380 you will make success inevitable, which brings us to 100% of the time. See, when a plane takes off,
00:07:08.900 most people don't realize it, but most of the fuel required to fly from point A to point B
00:07:13.780 over an hour is used in that first takeoff. That is momentum. If you don't believe 100%
00:07:20.080 of the time if you don't keep that clarity and that belief there you're not going to build the
00:07:24.940 momentum the person that writes the business plan that opens it up in six months or review it
00:07:28.800 that's not a winner people that win in line not only hold the belief have clarity but they do
00:07:35.200 that as frequently as possible i think about somebody that's had a big weight loss journey
00:07:39.060 they have looked at their weight thought about their meals shared their preferences with their
00:07:43.620 friends talk about it non-stop a hundred percent of the time they have a vision for what's possible
00:07:47.840 i'm losing the way i'm gonna look like this and they don't waver from it momentum isn't about
00:07:51.960 perfect days it's about showing up on imperfect ones so the rule of 300 how can you keep 100
00:07:58.580 clarity on your goals 100 belief that you can achieve it 100 of the time so you don't waver
00:08:04.640 the way i do it is a few steps the first one is i design my environment see i want to default the
00:08:10.540 design of my space of my decisions to be already made to win putting my clothes out so that i work
00:08:16.380 out in the morning, making sure my peer group of people are folks closer to my goals, not closer to
00:08:21.900 me, making sure that I curate the space to win. That's number one. Number two, you have to manage
00:08:27.960 your energy. See, we don't manage our time. Time comes and goes. You can't stop that. Can you manage
00:08:32.880 your energy? Can somebody that's high energy and positive achieve more than somebody's low energy
00:08:37.660 and negative? Just think about that feeling. If I said, hey, man, show me what a negative energy
00:08:41.140 person looks like you'd be like you know head down shoulders forward low energy nobody wants
00:08:46.980 to help that person if i say high energy you go oh all of a sudden just what you eat your exercise
00:08:52.180 these are things that manage your energy is going to help you get there faster the third is build
00:08:56.340 your achievement list when you feel down when you feel defeated when you feel like a setback
00:09:01.380 or you're going into a big moment in your life make a list of all the achievements you've ever
00:09:06.340 done that's allowed you to feel proud. Because I want you to remind yourself how great you are.
00:09:11.840 See, you wouldn't be here if you didn't believe that you were destined for greatness. I know the
00:09:16.600 fact that you're hearing my voice right now tells me that you are going to do something awesome with
00:09:20.980 your life. Because of that, I want you to make that list. That list of things, small things,
00:09:25.900 like first time for me, I ever did a kickflip on a skateboard. Now I read that list. It's like,
00:09:30.280 sold my first company at 28. That's crazy. And then did it again at 30 and then did it again
00:09:35.080 at 32. It's wild. All these things that have happened. Bought my first jet. This is crazy.
00:09:39.780 But I review these things to remind me about what I've accomplished because in those moments of
00:09:44.840 doubt, reviewing that list will get me out of it. It doesn't matter how small it is. It's about the
00:09:49.740 energy and remembering what you've accomplished in the past. The reason why this list works so well
00:09:54.780 is because in those moments where you feel defeated or you don't feel enough, or you've
00:09:59.460 got to show up in a powerful way in a critical meeting, reviewing that list will remind you
00:10:04.320 that you've already done the work.
00:10:05.900 You've been there before.
00:10:07.200 You've had those setbacks and you've overcome them.
00:10:09.780 And that is the energy that you need to remind yourself
00:10:13.160 that the belief is there,
00:10:14.620 that you've had the clarity before
00:10:15.780 and that you've done hard things.
00:10:17.540 And that'll change the game for you.
00:10:18.960 The 300% rule will make your success inevitable.
00:10:23.180 That's the process.
00:10:24.280 We have to show up with clarity, belief, and time
00:10:26.980 to make your goals a reality.
00:10:29.000 But if you wanna learn the eight habits
00:10:31.080 that will fix 98% of your problems,
00:10:33.080 click the video and I'll see you on the other side.