I've met and spent over 100 hours with four billionaires. And one thing that's always struck me,

they've set their life up so it's impossible to fail. So I put together rules I've learned that you

can apply to do the same. 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. My bestselling book, Buy Back Your Time, is out now.

Grab a copy at buybackyourtime.com or at any of your preferred online retailers.

Rule number one, invest in your skill set, not your lifestyle. If you spend your time and money on

things, you'll never be able to spend your time and money on things,

you'll never be able to build your skills like a billionaire. And these are the highest leverage

skills you should learn first if you want to make it impossible to fail. Number one, sales.

Every billionaire has mastered this first. They learn the skill of persuading somebody to give them

money. It's not tricking them. It's not convincing them. It's not taking advantage of them. It's communicating value. Everything you want from hiring somebody, convincing a bank to give you money, a customer to buy is going to require you to learn how to sell, how to communicate, how to persuade somebody to part with their hard earned money. If you don't know how to do this, you're always going to be at the mercy of somebody you hire to be the salesperson. You're going to sit back, passively, like, I hope you can sell the thing I built. That's not how you move forward. You want to make it impossible to fail? Learn how to sell. There's actually new techniques like sell by chat that my team uses to make millions of dollars per year. If you actually want my full script, my team uses to

generate over two million a month, just go over to Instagram and message me the word script,

and I'll send you the full Google Doc on how they do it. Number two, networking. In 2008, I moved to

San Francisco, and for the first three weeks, I struggled. Nobody wanted to talk to me, and I realized

it was the way that I was answering this one question. So, what do you do? And my original response was, well, I just sold my company. I just moved here. And I actually don't know what I'm going to do. And I'll be honest, people would stop talking to me and turn around and talk to another person at a networking event or at a coffee shop. First, I just thought people were rude. And then on reflection, I got some advice

from one of my mentors.

And he said, it's because you don't tell people

how you can be a value to them.

All I shifted was this one thing is I went from,

new here, don't know what I'm gonna do,

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