How To ACTUALLY Change Your Life

Welcome to the Growth Stacking podcast. This is Dan Martell. You know, you see the Dan of today that's running Ironman, that's fit, that's got his family stuff together and driving supercars and building multi million dollar companies. But there was a point where I was 265 pounds, where I felt like I was less than nothing when I looked in the mirror and thought, my kids see this person. And here I was trying to give them advice and like I was saying stuff that I knew I didn't even believe. And I see that often, it's like, why isn't this person listening to me? You don't even listen to yourself. You don't have any proof of all this stuff that you wish everybody else should do. And I want to go straight to that. I think too often people are too soft on you and nobody's going to tell you how it is. So I want to share the five specific strategies that will absolutely transform your life. I just want to show you what I've done for myself, what worked for me to allow me to create this incredible life I'm super blessed to have. Number one is you gotta reset. If you are done, if you're sick and tired of being sick and tired, then this message is for you. Now's the time. If you know that you're not as strong as you should be, if you know you're not showing up as powerful as you could in your business, you have these glimpse, that's your ego, that's your psychology telling you to step it up. That's your subconscious saying you have more to give. Be that person. But it starts with a reset. You see, oftentimes rock bottom is required. I get calls from parents all the time. And the thing I tell them is sometimes you gotta let your kid hit rock bottom. Right now, they haven't felt enough pain because you keep protecting them. But this is for you. I want you to fight for the reset. If now is the day that enough is enough and you wanna move forward, then just make that declaration today. Write it in your journal, put the date, make a commitment. What's the new standard that you're gonna hold yourself to? Let me invite you to consider a blank piece of paper if you've gone through a full reset is a beautiful thing to have. Don't waste it. I had a friend of mine go through a divorce. And I told him, I said, hey man, I know it's emotionally tough right now, but you've been given a gift. You got a blank piece of paper and you can do anything on there, and nobody's going to hold you accountable. If you left town, you went to a new city, and you started from scratch, they're going to understand that you're going through some stuff. Give yourself the gift of writing down some stuff and making today the day that you push things forward. Embrace the the reset. Number two is vision. People that don't have vision have a hard time making decisions. They feel stuck all the time because they don't know which decision aligns with getting them closer to their vision. I want you to write down what could you create? Take a piece of paper, write down 12 ideas. Give yourself a year and just write them all down. Don't worry about the how, just write it down. What would you want to create in your life? Now, here's the kicker. Circle the one that if you know you achieved, the rest of them would be easy to get through. Pick the one and do that. Wake up every day for the next 365 days and go for that. This is backed by deep scientific studies that the people that have a clear picture of the life they want to create live a more fulfilled life because they feel like they're on path. That is my invitation to you create a compelling vision. Number three is identity. Think about this. You will never get a penny more than you think you're worth. Your bank account is a reflection of your identity, your health, your body, everything is a reflection of your identity. I'll prove it to you. Imagine this. You get on a scale tomorrow and whatever you expect to read, it says 20 pounds heavier. In that moment, are you going to then go and have a breakfast burrito? Are you going to adjust yourself? You're going to change some things. The reason why is you have an identity of how you see yourself. And it's not that number. So see, until you create what's called an identity switch inside of you, then the external is never gonna materialize. Like when I went to CrossFit, they called every person that goes to CrossFit class. Doesn't matter if you're first class or your thousandth class. You are an athlete. And in the class you are a competitor. And there's a leaderboard. Do you know how powerful that is? Does an athlete eat pizza for lunch? Does an athlete decide to stay up late and get drunk? No, no. Athletes perform. They understand how to take care of their body, they fuel their body, and they work on their weaknesses to become more. And that is the beauty of an identity. So I want you to consider. How do I look? At myself, what do I feel like I'm worth? Am I a 10k a month type of person? Am I a 60k a year type of person? What do you feel you're worth? And until you fight for that and show up like that and invest in your mindset, invest in yourself like somebody that operates at that level, you, you'll never have it. Think about it this way. If every dollar in the world was given to every person, evenly distributed all over the world, within two or three years, it'd be back in the hands of the same people that had it originally. Why? Because of their identity and their decisions and how they show up and how they're wasteful, how they save whatever it is, their money, beliefs. And that is your biggest opportunity to shift everything. Number four is accountability. It's very simple. If you just like called your shot, told people what your goals are, you're going to have positive peer pressure from those people going, hey, you still doing that thing? So a lot of times the power of accountability is the folks asking you how you're doing towards that path, knowing tomorrow morning you could sleep in, you could not do those sales calls, but somebody's going to ask you about it. So building that into your life by calling your shots, setting goals, that's how you move your things forward. Not you by yourself in your mind. See, most entrepreneurs don't achieve because it's commitments they make to themselves and they erode at their self confidence by not delivering on any of that. And most importantly is have a coach. Imagine meeting an Olympic athlete that was going for gold and they said they didn't have a coach. You'd be like, that's crazy. You're no different. Who's reviewing your game tape with you? Who's giving you feedback on your process? Who's giving you tactics and strategies to perfect the practice, right? To hold you accountable to the goals you guys set as a team. Who's looking and giving you corrections? Who's inspiring you? What's the proximity those people around you? Just look at it. Are you feeling like you're the small guy amongst your peer group? You know, it's easy to feel like the top dog when you're a bunch of loser friends, right? And they might be well intentioned, great people, but if you're the richest person on your street, you got to find a new street. Accountability will help you do that. Number five is your internal thermostat. See, most people don't realize that they have an internal thermostat of what they think is Normal. And anytime they go out of that range, that thermostat, like the temperature in a room, if it goes too high, the cooling system cools in. If it goes too low, the heating system kicks in. Right? It keeps the room at that set temperature. You know, some people having the kitchen brand new and clean every night, that's their thermostat. Other people can have a sink full of dishes. Everybody has internal thermostat. Here's what I want you to consider is how do you make the current high the new low, your revenue? Okay, you might be stuck at like 5k a month, 10k a month, whatever it is, you have a thermostat that sets that as a high. And as soon as you go above that, you take your foot off the gas, you slack off, you take long vacations, you don't show up intensely. So what I want you to encourage you is whatever your old high water mark is, is make it the new low and reset it. Set the new number. So if it's 5,000amonth, set it to 10,000. Act the way you would if you're at 1,000, that internal thermostat is setting your outcomes. And, and if you can learn how to uplevel it by making that old high the new low, that is how you're going to get new levels of achievement. Those are the five strategies to absolutely help you change your life, backed by science. I want you to leave a comment, let me know what was the most valuable one for you. So look in the mirror, hold yourself accountable, and I'll see you next week. If you like this week's episode, be sure to visit itunes, leave a review that'll help us get in front of other founders just like you. And if you're looking for more resources and video trainings, be sure to check out dan martel2l's martel.com to subscribe. Keep up the hustle, keep stacking your growth, and I'll see you next Monday's episode. Peace. Grow peace. Bye bye.