Motivation

May 21

How To Scale Your Company Without Bankrupting Your Marriage

By Dan Martell | Life Hacks, Motivation, Personal | 5 Comments

When I was 28 I came home to find my fiance crying in the kitchen holding her engagement ring letting me know it was over.

The truth is… I was a horrible partner.

I unapologetically worked 100 hours a week using the justification that I was doing it all for her and our life ahead of us.

It was complete *bullshit*.

No one had asked me to sacrifice those hours… and if I was being honest, I knew it was just my way of escaping the fact that I felt a lot of “lacking” in my life.

Even though that moment shook me to my core, I learned a long time ago that rock bottom is a beautiful place to start.

So I went on a journey… Read More

Feb 12

8 Steps to Achieving Success in Life

By Dan Martell | Life Hacks, Motivation, Personal | One Comment

Want to know one habit ultra-successful people have in common?

They read.

A lot.

In fact, when Warren Buffett was asked about the key to his success, he pointed to a stack of books and said:

“Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”

It’s why you’ll find a bookshelf or library in most wealthy people’s homes… reading is a leading indicator of success. Read More

Nov 06

Everything In My Power

By Dan Martell | Motivation, Personal, Speaking | 6 Comments

When I was 8 years old I was diagnosed with ADHD, and for most of my childhood I felt broken.

Taking Ritalin everyday to help me “be normal” left me with a super low self-esteem and many bouts with depression, that almost ended in me taking my life in a drug crazed high speed chase.

Three things saved my life… Read More

Apr 17

Being a Great Entrepreneur & Present Parent: How To Have Both

By Dan Martell | Motivation, Personal, Productivity | 7 Comments

In my early 20’s I was a workaholic.

It took a toll on my health, my relationships and my business…

… although I didn’t know it at the time.

Even though the financial outcome of that work ethic resulted in the acquisition of my company Spheric at 28 years old…

… I wouldn’t do it again.

It was stupid. Read More

Jan 02

It’s Not The Founder, It’s The Leadership Strategy That Matters

By Dan Martell | Leadership, Motivation, Strategy | No Comments

Even though he almost fired me after 2 weeks…

… my leadership style came from a guy named Darcy.

I was 21 years old, and just got a contract position with a company in Fort McMurray, Alberta working on the tech team at Syncrude.

Somehow I was hired even though the people reporting to me were 10 years older.

Darcy gave me 2 weeks to “figure it out.” Read More

Dec 26

5 Lessons Learned After 100+ Videos on YouTube

By Dan Martell | Motivation, Personal, Productivity | 12 Comments

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!

(and I’m wearing my party shirt today!)

It’s also the 100th episode of my YouTube business channel?!

Crazy, right?…

… both fell on the same day!

You think it’s a sign? You betcha!

So, today is a special video 🙂

Over the past 100 weeks I’ve published a video every Monday with insights and strategies to live a bigger life, and grow a bigger business.

Honestly, at first I was worried I’d run out of things to say… Read More

Dec 19

Grow Your Business Using The Growth Guide Principles

By Dan Martell | Growth Engine, Motivation, Strategy | 4 Comments

Scared of growing your business?

Totally cool with business as usual?

Don’t want to get “too rich?”…

… well let me tell you a couple of stories.

One day I was talking to my buddy Matt and he was like,

“Hey man, I love all the stuff you’re sharing, but is it okay if I just keep my business the same size? Do I really need to want to grow?”

My answer: Read More

Dec 12

5 Ways To Improve The Quality Of Your Entrepreneurial Life

By Dan Martell | Leadership, Motivation, Personal | No Comments

Do you want to improve the quality of your life?

I know that’s a big question … but hear me out.

Last week I shared a killer strategy for overcoming MAJOR challenges in your business.

Today I want to dig deeper and share some important areas that I think could serve you even further.

A few weeks ago I had an entrepreneur I coach go through some major challenges because she had to fire a key employee.

It weighed down on her for weeks as she planned the transition.

No matter how many times we walked through the process, she continued to lose sleep over the fact that in a few days she’d have to let this person go.

What would they say? Would they get angry? Blame her leadership? Etc. Read More

Dec 05

7 Steps To Getting Through Difficult Business Challenges

By Dan Martell | Motivation, Personal, Strategy | No Comments

Imagine this…

Our startup Flowtown was exploding, we’ve got thousands of customers, we’re growing at 30%+ month over month and we decide to raise our next round of funding.

We start meeting with VC’s doing the Sand Hill Road shuffle, and they’re going great.

Then one day as we sit in the parking lot of one of Silicon Valley’s biggest firms, we get an email from someone on our team telling us we should read the cover of the New York Times.

It turns out there’s an expose on how certain Facebook Apps are using users data to sell to advertising networks.

Why did this matter to us?

Well, we relied heavily on Facebook’s data to help our users discover which social networks their customers were spending time on, online.

Due to a handful of nefarious apps, it looked like Facebook might have to shut down their API that allowed our secret sauce to work.

So we did what any founder would do… Read More

Nov 28

5 Ways To Protect Your Confidence As An Entrepreneur

By Dan Martell | Motivation, Personal, Startups | 9 Comments

Over the years I’ve had some pinch-me-is-this-really-happening kinds of moments.

From spending a week with Richard Branson, to having Mitch Kapor (inventor of Lotus Notes / spreadsheet) invest in my company, Flowtown.

One of those moments happened in 2009 when somehow we got introduced to Gail, the CEO of ConstantContact – the FIRST publicly traded SaaS (Software as a Service) company in the world.

We met at our offices and she started asking questions about the product, how we came up with it, where we were at, etc..

… then she smiled and she said something I’ll never forget. Read More