This is nine steps to get your shit together.

Welcome to the Martel Method.

I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million 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. Step one. Change your environment. You can't have a positive mindset in a negative environment. I don't care how great your mindset is. It's like being in a commercial grade freezer. If you're standing in that freezer and you think you have a positive mental attitude, no, you're going to be cold. But if I take

you out of that freezer and I put you under a heat lamp, you're going to warm up. You're human. Understand that you are built to be influenced by people around you. So how do we change your environment? Number one is you got to look at your friend group. See, a lot of people talk about you become the average of the five people he spent the most time with. Actually, that's not it. You become the average of the

five people you allow to influence you. The good news is, is you can allow yourself to be influenced by people online. Think of it as like who you give your power of opinion to. In legal, they call it the power of attorney. I think it is power of opinion. You can choose the people that you would allow to influence

you. You can think about those people and say, what would they do? What would the people that you

admire that have achieved the thing that you want to do? How would they assess your decisions?

So oftentimes, one of the fastest ways that you can just reset your environment is to move.

Change cities. Go to a new school. Take a new job. I know that

sounds crazy for a lot of you, but I've done it several times in my career. And every time it's

allowed me to reset who I wanted to become, not that there's anything wrong in who I was at my

core, but I knew if I wanted to go to another level, I had to be around people that were way higher and further along than me. I believe that my vibe attracts my tribe. So if my energy is good, I'm going to attract other good people. The problem is if you're the smartest person on your street, if you're the richest person on your street, you got to move streets. If you're the wealthiest person amongst your friend group, you got to find a new group of friends. If you're the big dog in your city, find a new city. Your container, where you live, communicates your identity to

everybody else and to yourself. And if you're not absolutely freaking proud around all the things

around you, then you got to upgrade your identity. You got to upgrade your friends.

Here's what I believe. Most people are scared to let go because they're worried that they won't find a new group of friends to hang out with. But you

won't have the time in your calendar to go even explore. You won't have the time if you don't start

saying no. Saying no to your current life allows you to say yes to your potential future,

which leads us directly into step two,

which is just fucking do it. There's a reason why it's a license plate on my car. A long time ago,

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