I know this might offend you, but you're not actually working hard.

Even if you're putting in 14 hours a day, seven days a week, like I was when I was building my first company, that's not hard work. That's just work. Now, you might be asking yourself a question, what's hard work? It's not doing the thing you already know how to do. And it's the kind of hard work that's allowed me to go from broke 17 year old to a multi-millionaire

today. So I'm going to share with you what it actually means to work hard.

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

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Martel Method.com. Why am I not working hard? You're probably not working hard because you're

scared that you're going to have to sacrifice the things you enjoy doing, which is watching TV,

hanging out with friends, playing video games, scrolling on social media, lazing around. Those things will have to go. People ask me all the time. It's like, what have you done to be successful? It's actually what I don't do. I don't sit around and do nothing. I don't smoke vapes. I don't gamble. I don't watch sports. I don't watch the news. I don't do a lot of stuff that create the space for me to actually win. Most people don't want to work hard because it means actually killing off those things that are distracting them. The way I think about it is make a list of all the things that you say, I'm not willing to sacrifice. Those are the reasons why you will not win at the level that you want to if you have

big ambitions for your life. Don't tell me you have crazy big dreams of being mega wealthy

and then act small. Those things do not correlate. That's why people are scared to work hard.

Or they might have worked hard in the past and it burnt them out because they didn't have

the right psychology to deal with that level of stress.

Maybe they were under stress because they were working on something that they didn't even want to do.

See, when I'm pursuing a goal that I'm after my mission, my crusade, then it doesn't feel hard.

It doesn't feel like work.

It feels like I'm building the building blocks to actually achieve.

So don't allow past moments where you felt the pressure to stop you from stepping up again today.

Tell me something about hard workers that 99% of people don't know.

99% of people wouldn't know that the hardest workers I know just do it when nobody's

looking.

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