How CEOs Schedule Their Day
The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell
Dan Martell
4.9 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
When I was building my company Spheric Technologies in 2003, my schedule was a MESS.
100-hour work weeks… Working until 2 a.m. and then back in meetings again at 7 a.m…
And 95% of my calendar was filled with work that drained my energy.
I HATED getting out of bed.
Nowadays, thanks to the strategies I want to share with you today, my life and business are totally different...
I run multiple 8-figure companies working just 7 hours on some weeks...
I get to spend most of my time doing what I love... coaching amazing founders.
And I explode out of bed, pumped full of energy to crush the day.
How did I get here?
Hard work.
But also, after years of grinding and crawling through the trenches…
I’ve discovered the secret to designing my calendar and life to be the most effective CEO and unlock painless growth.
So if you want to perform at a high level in every area of your life, then listen to this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Growth Stacking Podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | This is Dan Martell. |
| 0:08.5 | This is what my schedule looks like |
| 0:10.5 | as the CEO of a multi-million dollar company. |
| 0:12.7 | When I first started, it was hectic. |
| 0:14.7 | Then I had human alarm clocks. |
| 0:16.3 | I had my first son, Max, and then Noah. |
| 0:18.2 | And all of a sudden now, I couldn't stay up till two |
| 0:20.7 | in the morning to get |
| 0:21.4 | caught up. What I want to share with you is how I've designed my life and my calendar to be able to |
| 0:27.1 | be the most effective CEO for the people that report to me. The first thing is even though I have a |
| 0:32.1 | morning routine and that kind of ramps up my body and my mind so that I can focus, it's really |
| 0:36.7 | about getting the big rocks |
| 0:38.1 | moving forward. Your first 90 minutes of your day, minimum, should be focused on your number |
| 0:43.3 | one priority. The one thing, the leading domino, if you got that done, everything else in your |
| 0:50.0 | life would get easier. Typically, it's stuff around fundraising, business development, sales, |
| 0:55.8 | marketing, whatever area of your business has got a blockage right now. You should wake up and |
| 1:01.0 | should attack it violently 90 minutes every day. But my morning is really left pretty much until |
| 1:06.5 | noon for my creative work, for my output. What I don't do is I don't sit there on my phone and start getting into my inbox or looking at my WhatsApp. I get up, I execute it's planned the night before. I know exactly what I need to do. To move the business forward, I don't get distracted by a bunch of demands on my time. The second aspect about my calendar, if you looked at it, is that I don't |
| 1:27.5 | have white space. I don't have 15 minutes here. I don't have 30 minutes there. Everything is |
| 1:32.3 | allocated. So my assistant and I will sit down the week before and we'll look at the calendar |
| 1:36.8 | and if there is a 90 minute block or a 30 minute window or 15 minutes in between meetings, |
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