recording this right now i'm 44 years old but if i had to go back and give my 24 year old

self some advice on becoming successful even faster here's what i would say welcome to the martel

method i went from rehab at 17 to building a hundred million dollar empire and being a wall

street journal bestselling author in this podcast i'll show you exactly how to build a life

and business you don't grow to hate my best bestselling book, Buy Back Your Time, is out now. Grab a copy at buybackyourtime.com or at any of your preferred online retailers. Number one, true humility isn't about diminishing yourself. It's about elevating others. I meet people sometimes and I give them a compliment and they go, oh yeah, but I actually suck at this.

And I'm like, hmm, interesting. See, what they don't realize is diminishing themselves is not humility.

Say, thanks. I've been working on this because I got some great help from this person here.

That's actually more impressive and the right way to work through life because if you're always

talking down to yourself yourself then why would anybody

want to work up with you if you instead take that energy and shine it on other

people that's humility saying that you're not that good giving somebody an open

to criticize you is actually the opposite it's actually false humility and not a good

look number two a smooth sea never made a strong sailor.

Jim Rohn used to talk about it all the time.

You can't control the wind, but you can control how you set the sail.

A strong sailor understands how to set the sail.

Everything gets better when it goes through some level of adversity.

If you want to be better, don't wish the sea was smoother,

wish you were a better sailor. Number three, discipline can fix 80% of your problems. One of the most

unique things in this world right now is consistency. Watching somebody be consistent go to the gym

for 30, 40, 60, 90 days in a row, most people don't realize if you can just build that discipline muscle

and show up every day, it'll fix most of your problems. Number four, when people show you who they are,

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