One Simple Rule That Changed my Life Forever
The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell
Dan Martell
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🗓️ 6 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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20 years ago, I discovered a rule that changed everything, my work, my relationships, and my entire life.
It’s called the 95/5 Rule.
I first learned it from rubbing shoulders with billionaires, and I’ve used it ever since to go from burnout and broken relationships… to a dream life, private jet, beautiful family, and mentoring the next generation.
In this episode, I’ll break it down and show you how to apply it to your own life starting today.
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| 0:00.0 | 20 years ago, I came across a rule. |
| 0:02.0 | A rule that completely changed my life and worked forever. |
| 0:05.5 | It's called the 95-5 rule. |
| 0:07.5 | I first learned this rule rubbing shoulders with some of the most successful billionaires that you probably know. |
| 0:12.8 | And I've personally used this rule to go from burning out, working 100 hours a week, |
| 0:17.7 | and ruining all my relationships, to building my dream life, a beautiful family, |
| 0:22.1 | having access to resources like the plane and the cars, and mentoring hundreds of kids in my local |
| 0:27.2 | community. So with that being said, this is the 955 rule. Welcome to the Martel method. I went from |
| 0:33.1 | rehab at 17 to building a $100 million empire and being a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. |
| 0:38.9 | In this podcast, I'll show you exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to |
| 0:43.4 | hate. And make sure you don't miss anything by subscribing to my newsletter at martel method.com. |
| 0:48.5 | The 955 rule meets 95% of your results come from only 5% of your efforts. Think of it like your life is like a boat on the ocean and you're going along and you accidentally hit a rock and now all of a sudden you got water that's filling up the boat. Most people would run to the bucket and just start trying to bail it out. People that win in life, the 5% spend the time trying to figure out where the freaking hole is and try to plug it. |
| 1:11.5 | Years ago, I hired a marketer to come into a business. They was doing about 3 million a year. |
| 1:16.0 | And they were super talented and had all the right things to say. And everybody was super |
| 1:20.1 | excited about them hitting the ground running. And then six months later, we had to fire them. |
| 1:24.6 | Why? Because instead to stop and doing the deep analysis and |
| 1:28.5 | figuring out what was actually wrong, they just started getting busy doing things. They didn't |
| 1:33.8 | have the discipline to do the audit to figure out where the problems were and then the discipline |
| 1:39.2 | to focus on what to say no to so that they could actually move the needle. The 955 rule is like the 80-20 rule, the Pareto principle, but on steroids. |
| 1:48.8 | It essentially eliminates the illusion of productivity by saying, |
| 1:52.8 | what's the one thing that if you knock out of the park, |
| 1:55.8 | like a massive domino will just knock all the things down and get things moving. |
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