How CEOs Get Sh*t Done - 5 Productivity Rules to Do More in Less Time

this is how CEOs get more done in a week than most get done in a year when I was in my 20s and 30s I wasted so much time traveling and I would use it as an excuse to fall behind on my commitments until I implemented these five CEO productivity rules that helped me compress decades into days so here's how to compress time like a CEO number one daily non-negotiables the first CEO rule of productivity is keep your commitments if it's in your calendar do it when I was starting my coaching program I sat down

and I outlined all my daily non-negotiables that made it impossible to fail and then I followed them and it made my results inevitable so here are three non-negotiables that any person can use to absolutely accelerate their life number one read every day 10 pages without fail if you follow me on social media you will see me post about my morning reading why because a it's accountability so I'm reading to find the gold nuggets I can share with everybody that follows me and two I'm feeding my mind I'm ramping it up so that I'm connecting these

different parts of my psychology so I can be available for [Music] conversation why read it in the morning it's literally a primer of the day it also I consider it an offering to the world cuz now I have this thing I can gift to the world this new thought this new quote this new idea y I'm like hey have you ever heard about this no yeah I write it this morning now you've got value to give walk around with a little secret number two work out exhaust the body tame the mind if you're struggling with

Focus struggling with creativity struggling with your energy it sounds crazy but if you go and work out you'll have more energy when you leave L dude I don't do anything that's important without working out first you just feel your brain get better as you work out and that's what a lot of people think is the opposite they're like I'm going to be tired it's like I've never left the gym emotionally tired I've left the gym physically tired and number three review goal goals I have 12 goals for the year 12 massive things I decided to

do personal professional Community contribution revenue and I look at these goals three four times a day and I'm looking at my calendar and I'm asking myself does my time reflect these priorities I use my calendar to guide my actions to hold me accountable to set my priorities and when it shows up I do it it's not a negotiation the opportunities that have showed up in my life in the last 12 months when people see that I speak on Tony Robin stage the book being number one wouldn't happened and the coaches I get to work with

wouldn't happened none of that would happened if I didn't invest in becoming pro at social media so your calendar is where I'll encourage you guys all to consider when you look at the amount of time you put towards the thing you say is important if it's not in your calendar like think about what a pro athlete does to decide to go gold in the Olympics they show up right I call it want Power not Willow some of you guys think you need willpower you don't need willpower you need want you need desire you need drive

if these are the goals I want to achieve this year have I properly allocated both my bank account my resources and my time to those goals if not I change something it allowed me to build the business as a byproduct of the daily non-negotiables that I committed to because I'm keeping them front of mine it's impossible for me to fail at the end of the day we build our confidence by keeping the commitments we make to ourselves in private and that's why I have these non-negotiables every day which leads us to number two which is

plan the play I first learned this by watching Richard Branson the billionaire that every other billionaire wants to be like operate his dayto day I had the privilege of spending a week with them in his home in verb Switzerland and I watched him execute every day every minute there was no time that was unallocated now did he also allocate time to come skiing with us sure did but did he have time with his assistant in the morning so he could respond to the hundreds of people that want his attention yep he tries to squeeze as

much life out of life see most people freestyle their day and they wonder why they don't get anything done they literally don't put anything in the calendar cuz that way it feels more freeing but the truth is is sometimes const strength creates Freedom knowing what I got to get done and doing those as early as possible in the morning means that I feel free for the rest of the day a goal without a plan is just a wish so many people say I have this goal this year to make a million dollars I'm like what's

the plan if you can't back out your goal into weekly and daily actions and activities that make that goal inevitable then it's just a wish everybody wants to be successful but success is where preparation and opportunity meet think about this most people would win in life if they actually just took a little bit of time in the morning to prepare for their day think of it this way we plan our work and then we work the plan if you don't then life will happen by default if you do life will happen by Design the way

I look at the world it's like Tetris the blocks come down if we don't set them up right to put them in that grid is your life and if you're not optimizing using this framework then you might have a lot of blocks but you got a lot of white space cuz you didn't do it in the right sequencing sequencing equals success which leads us to rule number three which is create a Cadence I used to travel 200 days a year my schedule was packed but the truth is it wasn't efficient I used to think that

because I was busy I was being productive couldn't have been further from the truth what I realize now is my life is a marathon not a Sprint because if you sprint and then fall and Sprint and then fall you're actually not making as much progress if you just set up your life to be this ongoing never stopping Marathon success is not achieved in burst people that do that to themselves in many ways is self-sabotaging behavior they burst into New Opportunities instead of saying okay what could I commit to every day that sustained effort over time

that on that back end of that would make my goals and my dreams inevitable like they would just have to happen so what did I change in regards to my travel first off one trip per month maximum 7 days away from my family because I have that constraint and I have that Rhythm I'm very diligent about what goes into those 7 days I'm talking to people I'm coordinating I'm rep prioritizing because that is the one shot I have on goal for Facetime with people I batch all my speaking my podcast my founder dinners my events

my book meetups all of it into as little time as possible and when I land in a city I make sure I take it over I see all the people I want to see I do all the things I need to see including the fun stuff like going to a comedy show but I make it part of the Rhythm so it's sustainable over the long run all right if you have a question for Dan he'll be right here q& a do when I set a goal no matter what it is financial personal health I then

ask myself what is the daily Standard I'd have to maintain that makes that goal inevitable and you know what's funny is some people win they can't tell you how they won but if you watch the behavior it was that they just did this they woke up every day consistently consistently consistently consistently consistently and it turned out that it worked so don't tell me what your goals are tell me what you're willing to [Music] sacrifice I just look at what we do as like little mustard seeds planted every books on every handshake every conversation every question

we're building Title Wave which leads us to rule number four which is curate connections I first learned this strategy reading a book called Never Eat Alone by Keith farazi he talked about the idea of getting people together to break bread and I tell you as an introverted programmer when I started there was no way I was going to do this what value could I give them I had so little self-confidence that I convinced myself out of it for so long until I finally did it and I remember my first is with a guy named Larry

in that meal it was just him and I I felt all this pressure but at the end of it I thought to myself that was the most valuable two hours in a long time I learned a lot about the industry I learned a lot about myself I realized I didn't have to talk that much I just had to ask really good questions so now I always host either founder lunches founder dinners Founders hikes but connection for me is so valuable because you can't get away from in person and goes guess what I bucked Hamilton Collection

Studios magic and I didn't even know they had a coing wow isn't that crazy yeah that is hey nice to meet you Tommy good to see you dude we're here cuz I have a bunch of event stuff in Chicago and I had you guys on my radar so this is my group going up this is Sam this is my creative director Todd Todd he runs a media company this is going to be an expensive [Music] visit when you see me get this car you'll know the moment it happened I used to go to cities and

then just stay in my hotel room and then I would leave feeling like man I didn't see all these people that lived there here's what I've learned the biggest opportunities will come into your life through loose ties of other people it's not the people you know well your big opportunity is probably going to be introduced to you by somebody you haven't seen in a while you just have to make an effort to see them invite them to a meal the more people that you know the more opportunities you create think of them like little seeds

that you're planting every time you see somebody and that's what's new and you tell them they go oh my gosh my buddy Mark needs a talk to you right if you think about it your number one job is to solve problems the best way to solve a problem is to know the person who's the best in the world is solving that problem you have 50,000 words so you wrote a book so far okay I want to get it all out though well I I mean it all depends your style like I like to collaborate with

people so finding an editor that you can collaborate with dude we're going today to self-publishing oncom like that's where I'm doing my book meet out which is the number one Community for book editors so when we're there I'll you a Chandler we're going to solve that right there and here's the crazy part A lot of people talk about it's who you know I would say it goes even further than that it's not who you know it's who knows you how would they know you because people will talk about you if you show up and you

do good if you invite them to a meal and you share your progress and things you've been up to they're going to be impressed they may mention you to somebody else that is the highest form of Leverage so the way I do it is I just ask my community when I go to a city who should I meet with send me some names tell me some people give me some ideas I'm always open to it and usually those recommendations are great there people that know me and incredible people to chat with which leads us to

rule number five which is intensely integrate I used to go to a city for one reason and what happen is over the years I got more and more people reaching out there was more Demand on my time and there's things I want to do there's new companies I want to start people I want to invest in or just things I want to experience with other people so what I do now is I integrate it intensely I did the Jet Set Mastermind people applied to come hang out with me on my Jet and fly around I

did team meetings and dinners people that are CEOs of my company I went and I hung out with them I did dinners I made sure I poured into them we did the SAS book signing and promo material shoot just in like a 15-minute window speaking at other events keynoting showing up and saying hi podcast opportunities even driving supercars when your work is part of your life's purpose every moment becomes meaningful like is time give a warm welcome to Dan Martell what up go let me tell you a 5-day period in my life recently okay I

got on my jet I flew to Florida uh hung out with John Maxwell the next day did Tony Robbins the next day hung out on memet's Private Island and then flew home I want you understand as a kid that grew up in monton New Brunswick Canada that that happened anyone one of those would have had my head explode that was one 5day window how does that happen you think I sat there with a to-do list G chart and I'm going to sit there do no dude this is spiritual this has nothing to do with that

that's what I'm saying you go on this journey to figure out who you are that's why goals are really important only to the degree that help you understand and guide you to figure out who you are if you do that work those magical opportunities will come to you and you will know that you're doing the work I'm always trying to integrate every aspect of my life so I can show up for people it does require people around you but it is one of the most productive things I do and that's how CEOs get more done

in a week than most get done in a year if you want to learn how to schedule your day like a CEO click the link and I'll see you on the other side