How to Manage Your Time as a busy Entrepreneur
The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell
Dan Martell
4.9 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Most entrepreneurs think freedom means no schedule — I used to be one of them.
That belief cost me millions in missed opportunities, strained relationships, and wasted energy.
In this episode, I break down why your calendar is your most powerful asset, the exact rhythms and routines I use to get more done by 9 AM than most people do all day, and how to design your week so you can build wealth, stay healthy, and actually be present for the people who matter.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm going to talk about the failure in planning and why planning is something that you need to develop as an entrepreneur. |
| 0:08.3 | I know for myself when I go back to the Dan pre-kids, when I go back to the 26, 27, 27, 28 year old version of Dan, building my company, Spiric, moving to San Francisco, |
| 0:22.8 | starting my company Flowtown. |
| 0:25.7 | Literally, there was a 10-year window of where I refused to have a schedule. |
| 0:33.2 | No calendar. |
| 0:34.8 | I believe that I worked my butt off in life and the reward was no calendar. I believe that I worked my butt off in life and the reward was no calendar. |
| 0:41.3 | I didn't want to be anywhere at any specific time and that was a belief I had. And I'll tell you, |
| 0:49.6 | it costs me millions of dollars. And the reason why is because the lack of being willing to plan to have a vision for my |
| 0:59.5 | life to attack it the way I've learned since then missed, it caused so many missed opportunities, |
| 1:07.9 | missed opportunities in failing to approach my life from a place, |
| 1:14.1 | like wanting to live this like free, no schedule, no calendar, et cetera, life caused me |
| 1:20.5 | millions of dollars of lost opportunities because I wasn't able to connect with people. |
| 1:27.4 | I wasn't able to create structure. I wasn't able to connect with people. I wasn't able to create structure. |
| 1:29.4 | I wasn't able to refine and refocus. |
| 1:32.2 | I mean, when I hear people like Tim Ferriss and says, |
| 1:34.5 | look, at the end of his year, |
| 1:35.9 | he looks at everything he did in the previous 12 months |
| 1:38.4 | and then makes the decision of what things supported his life |
| 1:41.8 | and what things took away, |
| 1:43.8 | what things felt like energy suckers |
| 1:46.7 | etc and then iterate and move forward and that's been the new process for me is i use my calendar |
| 1:54.2 | to lock everything in and i do that because then i have the ability to go back and iterate and edit and review the flow. |
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