If You're Always Busy, You Might Be Running From Yourself | Dan Martell

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Dan Martell built a system to buy back his time, then discovered he had no idea what to do with himself once he had it. This is the story of a coach daring him to spend five days alone with no phone, no agenda, and no plan, and what happened on day three in the woods.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:12.2	When was the moment that you actually started to love yourself?
0:20.4	That was a good question.
0:22.0	Do you remember?
0:25.1	Because I'm assuming it didn't happen overnight, you know, after you're throwing bullets
0:29.5	in the field and taking them out of the rifle, it probably wasn't in your early 20s.
0:34.9	And I know you in your late 20s when you're driven to achieve and get exits and make millions
0:40.4	and improve because I was in that space as well.
0:43.8	But when was the moment you actually said, I like myself and I love myself?
0:49.8	It's like, I'll be honest with you, man, I don't think I love myself 100% today.
0:58.3	Sitting here.
1:00.2	And when I say that, 100% of the time.
1:04.6	Because I, I, you see what I'm saying?
1:07.0	Like, I had.
1:08.2	I hear you.
1:08.8	Yeah.
1:09.0	So.
1:09.6	On a scale of 1 to 10. 10 yeah how much do you love yourself
1:13.1	eight strong okay but that's I look at that as loving your no no and and I'll tell you so
1:19.3	I think we have to define what that means for me it's I love me without anything else that's that's let's talk about that
1:31.3	I love life without my job without the resources without the money without the
1:37.9	following in the brand dude I love my life without my kids that's a. So, so like my definition of a 10 is can I be
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