Dan Martell — How to Make Time For Everything (Seriously, everything)

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Most entrepreneurs think making time for everything means working harder or sleeping less. That’s a lie.

I own and run multiple businesses generating over $100M in revenue, and I still train for Ironmans, travel with my kids, and never miss a date night with my wife. In this video, I’m sharing the exact system I use to fit work, family, health, and hobbies into every single week without sacrificing any of them.

If you’ve ever felt like there aren’t enough hours in the day, watch this to the end because this will change how you think about your calendar forever.

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I’m going to show you how to make time for everything. I’m talking work, family, your health, your hobbies, all of it. And I’m not talking about generic productivity advice. Those other guys can talk about that. I own and run multiple businesses that generate over a hundred million dollars a year, and I still train for Iron Man’s, travel the world with my kids, have time for date night with my wife every week, and have time to go snowboarding anytime I want. And I’m not special. I just figured out a system that allows me to do that. So, today I’m going to show you why you feel like you don’t have enough time, and the exact frameworks to fit anything and everything into your calendar. But first, we have to start with the lie that you’ve been telling yourself your entire career. Point number one, work-life balance is bull Everyone’s been told the answer is work-life [music] balance. Hey man, you got to have balance, balance everything. Balance by definition means your work and your life are opposites. In that scenario, if you do one, the other one loses, and if you do this one, this one loses. I don’t think there’s a work-life balance. It’s work-life integration. The healthier you are, the better you’re at at your job. The more present you are with your family, the more creative you can be when you work, cuz you’re not thinking about all the you got to fix later. Your hobbies refresh you, keep you energized, it sharpens your thinking. I believe the best strategy is just to be more diligent on the people you decide to build with. Then, when you hang and you talk with them, they light you up. You create. I mean, it’s why I go to the gym with my creative director Sam. I go on hikes with my CEO Todd. I do all my one-on-one meetings on scooters. Integrated, not separate. If I have to sit there at a computer on a Zoom call, because I’m in a Zoom call moment, and I got to be in my office, that would drive me nuts. Instead, if I’m on vacation and I need to do some calls, [music] I go and I sit in a place that lights me up, that makes me feel better. Everything reinforces everything. When you design it that way, it doesn’t become a sacrifice, because it’s just who you are. A lot of people think they got to work to then have fun. What if fun was just integrated into your work? Could you allow yourself to do that? I’m just just curious. Stop asking the question, “How do I balance it all?” and start asking yourself, “How do I design a life where it just all fits?” The reason most people can’t do this is you think you run your calendar, but you don’t. Your calendar runs you. So, spending your best hours on low-value tasks that [music] doesn’t do anything, and then wondering why your life hasn’t moved forward, that’s the problem. It’s not a time problem, it’s a priority problem. It’s what you decide to put in your calendar, or it’s not even there. And then you just allow anybody to just take it from you. We can’t make time, but [music] we can allocate it. So, how do you actually take back control of your life? Which brings me to point two, buy back your time. I know you hear buy and you think money, and you say, “I don’t have any money.” Hear me out. The buyback principle. And I wrote a whole book on this. This is because most people are stuck working 60, 70 hours a week, no time for their family, their health, they’re doing everything themselves. At the end of the day, they’re feeling super depleted and overwhelmed. This 12 hours of busy work, and they can’t point to one thing [music] that actually moved the needle. Constantly doing this loop, not thinking, reacting to every decision from a depleted brain. The core idea that I invite you to consider is stop spending time on work that drains you, buy it back, and then reinvest it in the things only you can do. I remember a while ago I was on a coaching call with this woman named Andrea. She runs an AI automation company, and the truth was is I caught her answering all her emails up until midn

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