I'm going to share with you the seven habits of millionaires that most people learn way too late.

These help me stop wasting life as a broke 24 year old and become a cash millionaire at age 27.

If you start today, they'll literally compound into millions. So let's dive into the seven habits

of millionaires. 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 bestselling book, Buy Back Your Time, is out now.

Grab a copy at buybackyourtime.com or at any of your preferred online retailers.

Starting with habit number one, talk to strangers. Everyone is one conversation away from achieving their dreams. You've probably heard this before. Your network is your net worth. But it's not just knowing people. See, a lot of folks make it a game of like, I know this person and I have this contact and I have this email. But you don't know them. And honestly, they don't want to help you. And that is the big thing. It's not who you know. It's will they support you when you reach out to them? And the only way you can even start a relationship is learning to talk to strangers, learning how to go from cold. I've never met you to warm. This person wants to help me in my life. To do this right,

you have to learn how to introduce yourself. It's the number one skill that I teach all young

men that I coach. So the format is this. You say, hi, my name is. Then I help. Then get desired

outcome. Then your unique process. For me, when I was building SaaS Academy, I would say,

hi, my name is Dan Martel. I helped software CEOs get growth in their business with our perfect exit

strategy. Then the person can lean in and ask you, well, how does that work? You can practice this

every day all day long. When you go into a retail store, ask the person, how late do you guys

stay open? It sounds so

trivial, but learning to ask a complete stranger a question, getting those anxious feelings out of the

way and just making it who you are, asking the waiter, how long they've been working there,

or what they would order if it was their birthday, those are all great ways that on a daily basis

you can build this muscle and overcome the

fear of talking to strangers. When I decided I wanted to go be on other people's podcasts, I sat down

and I sent personalized messages over 500 podcasts. I knew my goal was to just get reps. It was less

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