I'm going to show you the eight simple habits anyone can build to turn your painful problems into a puzzle you enjoy solving.

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.

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Starting with habit number one, start on hard mode. You hear people say building momentum with

easy wins. F*** easy wins. I'm all about going hard. When I'm creating, when I'm writing, when I'm strategizing, when I'm thinking of the biggest problems in my life, I do it first thing in the morning because I want to be creating connected to my creator. And all I know is that the more I build the muscle of starting with the hardest thing, it also builds my confidence. Because confidence is build when we keep the commitments we make to ourselves in private. And anytime people kind of mean they say like, oh, I don't feel

very confident about myself, I always say it's because you're not keeping the promises you made

to yourself when nobody else is watching. We often commit to the big project because that's fun,

that's exciting, and that's easy. But the game is one on the daily discipline of doing the hard thing first,

not putting it off to when you feel in the mood or you feel it's going to be easier.

Start in hard mode.

But that's not where hard mode stops because it's not always the work that's holding us back.

It's the energy and focus we bring to it.

And that's where habit number two comes

in. Workout every day. Small problems feel massive when you have low energy. When you're not

feeling good about yourself, every little thing feels like a mountain. They also feel massive when you're

constantly live in your comfort zone, when you're doing the thing that feels safe. See, a lot of

people see me today and don't

realize that not that long ago, I was a little chubby and my whole life I struggled with my weight. I weighed 265 pounds when I was younger and I just went up and down and up and down. And for a long time, it was this yo-yo. And I always had an excuse. And then I eventually said, no, I'm going to do the hard thing and I'm going to get way outside my comfort zone and I decided to get visible

abs and had an excuse. And then I eventually said, no, I'm going to do the hard thing and I'm going to get

way outside my comfort zone. And I decided to get visible abs in 90 days. It was crazy. But I got

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