Dan Martell - July 08, 2019


What It Means To Be Successful In Life


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00:00:00.080 Hey there, Dan Martell here,
00:00:01.200 serial entrepreneur, investor, and creator of SaaS Academy.
00:00:04.240 In this video, I wanna do something a little special
00:00:06.600 and really deconstruct the meaning of success for me.
00:00:11.480 Now, be sure to stay at the end
00:00:12.640 because I'm gonna share with you a framework
00:00:14.360 that I taught at my Idea to Exit workshop
00:00:17.520 called the Future Living Framework.
00:00:19.680 So at the end, I'm gonna share with you
00:00:21.040 how to get access to that,
00:00:22.640 but let's get going with some new beliefs
00:00:24.400 for your mind of success.
00:00:30.000 So a few months ago, I was giving a talk at the local high school in my city
00:00:43.540 and, you know, did my thing, shared my story and kind of my journey
00:00:48.140 and challenges that I've gone through, you know, as a teenager and in business.
00:00:52.040 And at the end of it, one of the first questions that came from one of the kids
00:00:56.520 in the front row was, you know, what does success mean to you?
00:01:00.360 And I'm sitting there and it like floored me
00:01:03.460 because like I never really thought about the concept,
00:01:06.900 like what drives me, what do I think success is,
00:01:11.900 you know, because it's definitely not about wealth.
00:01:15.000 And I just started unpacking some ideas
00:01:16.880 and kind of riffed for like 15 minutes
00:01:18.500 and I realized I'd never shared some of these beliefs
00:01:21.080 and honestly, I never consciously even thought about them.
00:01:23.940 So in this video, I want to share with you guys
00:01:26.380 Six, non-obvious beliefs around success
00:01:30.340 that I think could really serve, guide you as a compass
00:01:33.260 to discover your true north in a way that will not make you
00:01:37.180 feel less than other people.
00:01:38.900 And I think that's the big thing for me
00:01:41.080 is success is not a numerical number.
00:01:45.220 It's more of a mindset and approach to life.
00:01:48.100 And that's what I'm going to share in this video.
00:01:49.960 Number one, be better today than you were yesterday.
00:01:53.760 So one of my core beliefs is that a lot of people
00:01:57.260 waste their time, energy, feel frustrated
00:02:00.340 based on their comparing themselves to other people.
00:02:03.740 So there's this great saying that don't compare, you know,
00:02:06.640 somebody else's chapter 12 to your chapter one, right?
00:02:09.980 Don't compare somebody else's highlight reel
00:02:13.080 to your daily living.
00:02:14.620 I think that too often, especially with social media,
00:02:17.360 it's like a double-edged sword.
00:02:18.980 It's really incredible to be inspired and watch videos
00:02:21.560 and be on Instagram and find people
00:02:23.740 that show you what's possible in life,
00:02:26.980 but in the same token, the same breath,
00:02:30.080 for some reason our minds wanna quickly go to,
00:02:32.780 well, why am I not there, and what am I missing,
00:02:35.400 and how come I've always messed up,
00:02:37.400 and why am I not further along in my life,
00:02:39.460 and what I believe is the only thing
00:02:42.040 from a success point of view to help you figure this out
00:02:45.060 is you can only compare yourself to who you were,
00:02:48.280 to yourself of yesterday.
00:02:49.960 So just think about that concept.
00:02:51.580 So success to me is getting in a mindset
00:02:54.280 where every day you are better than who you were yesterday.
00:02:57.740 And the cool part is even if you only do 1%,
00:03:00.860 if you're 1% better today than you were yesterday,
00:03:04.140 in 72 days it compounds and you double.
00:03:07.280 Think about the power of that, of focus, of betterment,
00:03:10.040 of personal development, of growth,
00:03:12.000 if you just focus on 1% better today.
00:03:15.040 It's actually a core value in my company
00:03:16.840 and I believe it at my core.
00:03:18.140 So compete against yourself of yesterday, and that will help you discover success.
00:03:24.240 Number two, create experiences.
00:03:26.900 You know, here's what I've learned, and I've talked to, you know, entrepreneurs.
00:03:30.100 One of my buddies, Hal Elrod, has an incredible, I mean, incredible story of, you know,
00:03:35.320 this car accident that almost took his life in rehabilitation.
00:03:38.260 And, you know, he's now the author of The Morning Miracle.
00:03:41.120 to even after that book came out and created this movement,
00:03:45.680 he had an incredible fight with cancer.
00:03:49.460 I mean, and the guy's 35 years old, so a lot to go through.
00:03:53.460 And what I believe is in talking to people like Hal
00:03:56.780 and many other people that have faced potential death
00:03:59.560 or even are further along in life
00:04:02.220 is that when you ask them what's important to them,
00:04:04.520 they do not say work.
00:04:06.500 They don't say, I wish I would have worked more in life.
00:04:09.960 What they say is, I wish I would have spent more time
00:04:12.500 with the people that I cared about.
00:04:14.120 And Hal is an incredible father and person in the community.
00:04:19.120 So it's not even just like the family.
00:04:22.460 It's really just like the people.
00:04:24.200 So the way I think about it is, if I gave you seven days,
00:04:26.960 if I said, hey, in seven days, you just
00:04:29.640 found out that your life is going to be over.
00:04:32.200 And you can't tell anybody.
00:04:33.900 OK, nobody can know.
00:04:34.780 Only you know.
00:04:35.680 You got seven days.
00:04:37.660 What are you going to do on each one of those days?
00:04:39.760 Who are you going to spend it with?
00:04:40.760 Where are you going to go?
00:04:41.740 What are you going to create?
00:04:43.380 And what I've experienced, and this has been true for myself,
00:04:46.280 is that one of those potential things
00:04:49.540 you could do in those seven days is, you know,
00:04:51.900 get together with your whole family
00:04:53.740 and love on everybody as much as you can
00:04:55.540 and learn from them and suck in their wisdom
00:04:58.560 and share with them some of the life lessons
00:05:00.220 that you've, you know, gotten so far in life
00:05:02.540 to be helpful, right, to give some resources
00:05:04.640 and thoughts and ideas.
00:05:06.200 And I think that that is just such a powerful way
00:05:09.040 to think about success in life
00:05:10.740 is are you creating experiences
00:05:12.900 that are in line with if you only had seven days?
00:05:16.060 Because here's what's crazy,
00:05:17.340 is for a lot of people,
00:05:18.660 that is not out of reach to do in the next 12 months.
00:05:21.580 Renting a house on a beach,
00:05:23.560 you know, it could be very expensive,
00:05:24.980 but if everybody pitched in, it's not crazy.
00:05:26.820 But coordinating it,
00:05:28.560 mending relationships with people in your life
00:05:30.540 that maybe you've been distanced from,
00:05:32.180 and bringing people together to do that,
00:05:33.980 that's something that everybody watching this video
00:05:36.200 could probably do in the next 12 months,
00:05:38.680 And if you only had seven days,
00:05:40.480 it's probably one of the first things you would do.
00:05:42.520 So don't wait.
00:05:43.260 And to me, that's what success is, is asking myself,
00:05:46.120 look, outside of the numerical, financial,
00:05:49.680 wealth-driven markers of success,
00:05:52.040 what truly is meaningful to you
00:05:54.840 and how do you front load that in your life
00:05:56.600 on a weekly and monthly basis?
00:05:59.080 Number three, serving others.
00:06:01.060 I believe that if you've had anybody show up in your life
00:06:04.460 and support you and you've gotten some success
00:06:07.280 And I'm talking about even if you've read somebody's book
00:06:10.000 or you watch a video on YouTube that really supported you
00:06:13.200 and served you and helped you get to the next level,
00:06:16.060 that it is our responsibility to help the other person
00:06:20.300 get up that step, that stage, that level.
00:06:23.880 Somebody says that once you reach the top,
00:06:26.320 it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down
00:06:28.420 to help others come up.
00:06:29.920 And I just think that when I think of the most successful people,
00:06:33.380 people that are living with joy and excitement and passion,
00:06:36.680 These are people that make it their mission that is part of their DNA to serve other people,
00:06:41.820 to help other people with no expectation whatsoever.
00:06:45.080 And what's crazy is for many of you, you watch these people on social media, these influencers,
00:06:49.580 and you think they're a certain way.
00:06:51.060 And when you dig deep because they don't share this stuff,
00:06:54.160 they're actually incredibly community driven and philanthropic,
00:06:58.760 but they just don't need, they don't feel the need to share that.
00:07:01.540 So I know that one of the most powerful things
00:07:05.200 that, for me, really drives my belief in success
00:07:09.300 is am I serving others?
00:07:11.380 Am I doing things that are gonna help other people?
00:07:13.380 Am I giving back?
00:07:14.420 And that needs to be built into the DNA of my life.
00:07:17.860 Number four, work matters.
00:07:20.000 Like, at the end of the day, people are like,
00:07:21.520 oh yeah, I heard this guy's making a lot of money doing this,
00:07:23.680 or I heard this industry's really interesting
00:07:25.160 and you're gonna make a lot of money doing this,
00:07:26.300 and, you know, there's all the financial guys
00:07:28.220 on Wall Street and stuff.
00:07:29.760 Here's what I've discovered.
00:07:30.680 there is thousands of ways of making money.
00:07:34.140 And what I care more about is, is the work I'm doing,
00:07:38.980 yes, it needs to add value and create value
00:07:41.080 and capture value in the market,
00:07:42.780 but does it actually matter?
00:07:44.380 Is this something that is solving a problem
00:07:47.980 that I actually care about?
00:07:49.780 That, you know, is it solving a wrong
00:07:51.920 that I want to write in the world?
00:07:54.360 Because it is easy to make money doing something,
00:07:57.420 creating a system, finding a loophole in the market
00:08:00.440 whatever it is, but does the work matter?
00:08:03.460 So to me, asking myself that, and for many years,
00:08:07.060 it's been absolutely 100%, over a decade for sure.
00:08:10.440 But I just think that when I think of success,
00:08:12.940 that is the definition, is curating your life
00:08:16.680 to the point where your work is in line with your purpose
00:08:19.480 and your meaning and your mission.
00:08:20.980 That's powerful.
00:08:22.440 Number five, be remembered.
00:08:25.320 So this is what I think a lot of younger people
00:08:27.680 don't understand is, look, there's people out there
00:08:30.860 that you know and follow on social media
00:08:32.760 and in the news and actresses and musicians, et cetera,
00:08:36.000 that are famous.
00:08:36.920 People know of them.
00:08:38.120 They're notable, okay?
00:08:40.380 There's a huge difference between somebody
00:08:43.300 that everybody knows about and being somebody
00:08:47.040 that actually matters to those people, you know?
00:08:50.140 Like, I know so many folks on the internet,
00:08:53.080 but if they weren't around anymore, I would give zero Fs.
00:08:57.060 Like literally, no, I wouldn't think about them.
00:09:00.020 The only reason they are even in my consciousness
00:09:02.740 is because they show up either speaking at an event
00:09:05.240 or on a video or an ad on Facebook or whatever it is.
00:09:08.780 And the truth is if they went away,
00:09:10.080 they would have no meaning to my life
00:09:12.580 because of the way they decided to show up.
00:09:14.580 So what I think is more interesting is asking yourself
00:09:17.340 is what I'm doing really gonna impact people
00:09:22.060 to be remembered way past my time here on Earth, right?
00:09:25.420 One question I remember one of my mentors
00:09:27.300 asked me about aligning your life was,
00:09:29.660 what could you create today that would exist in 300 years?
00:09:32.280 And that's a really interesting question,
00:09:33.660 because 300 years is many, many, many, many generations.
00:09:37.640 But even on a small level, just be somebody
00:09:40.100 that when you interact with other folks,
00:09:42.820 that you bring the best out in them,
00:09:44.940 and they feel an appreciation for you.
00:09:47.140 I mean, my accountant, Marc Alain, young dude, 42 years old.
00:09:53.000 And, you know, I get the call and car accident.
00:09:56.940 And Mark was my accountant for, you know, 17 years.
00:10:01.120 The guy I turned to, the, you know,
00:10:04.360 the person that made me feel comfortable
00:10:06.200 because he took care of the numbers
00:10:07.780 and I focused on growing my businesses.
00:10:10.980 And I remember going to his funeral
00:10:12.440 and just seeing the amount of people.
00:10:16.560 I mean, the church was overflowing.
00:10:21.380 People couldn't even sit down.
00:10:22.600 They were lining the hallways.
00:10:24.440 And I only ever knew Mark is like the guy
00:10:27.240 that I would go visit his office and sit down,
00:10:29.440 you know, this like nothing spectacular,
00:10:32.040 but always, you know, passionate and excited
00:10:34.760 and curious about my business and just supporting me.
00:10:38.640 And then I find out from all these different speeches
00:10:40.800 about his commitment to his community
00:10:42.360 and that he coached, you know, his son's hockey league.
00:10:45.080 And I don't know, man, like that really had an impact on me
00:10:48.240 because I realized that it doesn't matter who you are,
00:10:51.400 that you have the opportunity to show up and serve people
00:10:55.280 and just participate in your world
00:10:58.000 in a way that can be different.
00:10:59.280 And that's a decision, right?
00:11:01.160 You're gonna get up and, you know,
00:11:02.620 go to the coffee shop and the grocery store, et cetera.
00:11:05.040 But you have a decision to make that,
00:11:07.600 are you gonna interact and show up in a way
00:11:09.780 that's gonna make people feel good about you being there?
00:11:12.840 And that was Mark for me.
00:11:14.140 So that to me is like, when I think of success,
00:11:16.320 I think about people like that.
00:11:18.200 Number six, gratitude and hunger.
00:11:21.400 So one of the ultimate life lessons is the mindset of gratitude, of being grateful for what you have,
00:11:31.360 and being ridiculously aware that if you were born in probably any other country,
00:11:36.780 I mean, you just literally won the gene lottery.
00:11:39.960 I'm a Canadian. I won the gene lottery.
00:11:42.700 I was born in a country that has a capitalist market that allows me to be an entrepreneur, to create my future.
00:11:49.140 and that's not true for many people in this world.
00:11:52.420 So there's the gratitude part,
00:11:53.920 but then there's the hunger part,
00:11:55.360 there's the want, there's the drive,
00:11:56.860 there's the focus on doing more,
00:12:01.480 giving more, and being driven.
00:12:03.120 And I think that sometimes people don't understand
00:12:05.520 that those things can exist in the same person
00:12:07.960 at the same time.
00:12:09.180 In the same moment, I can be crazy grateful
00:12:11.540 for the fact that my heart beats,
00:12:13.820 you know, 100,000 times a day,
00:12:15.940 that I've got clothes to wear,
00:12:17.260 that I'm not freezing to death right now,
00:12:19.020 that I'm not hungry, but in the same moment,
00:12:21.660 I'm gonna show up for this video and give you 110%
00:12:25.420 and drive to just create more value in the world.
00:12:29.580 Those are not opposing things.
00:12:31.120 And I think that the people that inspire me,
00:12:34.420 that motivate me, that I think are truly the most successful
00:12:37.100 can hold those two things in themselves
00:12:39.920 in the biggest way, both gratitude, appreciation,
00:12:43.780 and thankfulness, and are ridiculously driven
00:12:46.920 to do more, to give more, to be more.
00:12:49.680 And that to me, if you said like
00:12:51.380 all of the stuff I just shared,
00:12:53.440 what is the driving force and belief behind all that?
00:12:56.760 To me, it's gratitude and hunger,
00:13:00.580 being hungry for more, hunger to give back,
00:13:02.880 hunger to discover what's possible.
00:13:05.860 So quick recap on what success means to me.
00:13:08.300 Number one, better today than you were yesterday.
00:13:11.240 Number two, create experiences.
00:13:14.040 Number three, serving others.
00:13:16.420 Number four, work that matters.
00:13:18.980 Number five, be remembered.
00:13:21.360 And number six, gratitude and hunger.
00:13:24.620 So as I mentioned at the beginning,
00:13:25.660 I wanna share with you an exclusive resource
00:13:27.700 called Future Living.
00:13:29.380 It's a framework that I taught at my Idea to Exit workshop,
00:13:32.840 and it's really a mindset for understanding
00:13:35.400 how to project where you wanna be into the future,
00:13:38.640 not too far, but using that belief and that vision
00:13:41.780 to drive your actions, your mindsets,
00:13:44.000 and your confidence today to actually almost
00:13:48.840 breathe that future into life.
00:13:51.240 So you can click the link below to get access to that training.
00:13:54.280 And if you like this video, be sure to smash the like button.
00:13:56.920 Share this video with somebody you care about
00:13:59.120 and subscribe to the channel.
00:14:00.720 As per usual, I want to challenge you to live a bigger life
00:14:02.960 and a bigger business, and I'll see you next Monday.
00:14:05.360 Success.
00:14:06.660 Make it feel good.
00:14:07.660 Success.
00:14:09.260 It's going to be a good one.
00:14:10.200 It's going to be a good one.