Set Standards, Not Goals
The Martell Method w/ Dan Martell
Dan Martell
4.9 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Most people set goals… and still miss them.
In this episode, I break down why standards, not goals, are what actually drive results, and how changing what you tolerate changes everything.
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| 0:00.0 | And I want to share with you the difference between goals and standards. |
| 0:05.8 | Oftentimes when I'm coaching founders, they, you know, and I ask them what their goals and |
| 0:09.6 | their dreams are that, you know, they can be very clear. They could say, well, I want to hit, |
| 0:13.1 | you know, 25 million in ARR. I want to, you know, get this physical shape. I want to find a partner |
| 0:19.1 | in my life that lights me up and and they can be |
| 0:21.5 | very descriptive about their goals. But the thing that I focus on with founders when I'm coaching |
| 0:28.8 | them privately, it's the standards because oftentimes what I've discovered is goals are easy to |
| 0:35.8 | define. What people lack is the standard that they hold themselves to, |
| 0:40.2 | the standards that they're going to change around that aspect of their life |
| 0:43.5 | that is then going to unlock that goal or that dream, right? |
| 0:48.1 | And I'm going to give you three specific ways to improve the standard around the goal |
| 0:52.8 | so that you can have the highest probability of knocking |
| 0:55.8 | them out of the park. Okay. So this, this is, and I've been doing this for years, you know, |
| 1:01.9 | I think when I was 24, I read good to great and they talk about these concepts of like |
| 1:09.1 | shooting bullets and then cannon balls and you know just the |
| 1:12.6 | habits and consistency and um when i was building my company spirit i did this deck it was like |
| 1:19.6 | year one six months in and i and i just set a vision for where i wanted to be in five years and |
| 1:25.2 | what i did though that was different is I asked myself, well, what would |
| 1:29.5 | the day or life of a CEO running that kind of company? What would it look like? How would I show up? |
| 1:35.2 | What skills would I have to learn? What habits would I have to implement so that I had the highest |
| 1:41.6 | chance of hitting that goal. |
| 1:44.8 | You know, I think at the time it was 25,000, 50 employees with four offices around the |
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