How To Stop Wasting Your Time & Money On Things That Don’t Matter - Dan Martell - #831

About this episode

Dan Martell is an entrepreneur, investor, and author. The saying “money can’t buy time” is often used to emphasise the importance of not wasting your days. But what if there was a way to actually buy back your time. What if using your money well actually can liberate your life? Expect to learn what "the bigger it gets, the harder it gets" means in business, why so many successful people suffer with more chaos rather than less as they grow, Dan's framework for outsourcing all the stuff you don't want to do in life, what the buyback principle is, what it means to run your family like a business, how to work out what things you need to let go of and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Timestamps: (00:00) Does Business Get Harder With Growth? (09:40) Why Successful People Suffer With Being Too Busy (13:31) How to Buy Back Your Time (23:11) Can You Make Business Fun? (29:44) How to Avoid Being Deep in the Weeds (34:48) Overcoming the Need to Contribute (42:57) Knowing When You Need to Change (48:17) Tactics to Focus Your Time Better (58:20) Dan’s Inbox Management Process (01:11:04) Pains of Beginning to Manage More Staff (01:26:29) Being Comfortable With Letting Go More (01:34:26) The Peril of Success (01:46:19) How to Hire the Right Talent (01:58:38) Run Your Personal Life Like a Business (02:06:40) Personal Growth Velocity (02:16:25) Regaining Agency Over Emotions (02:26:24) Lessons Learned from Rory Sutherland (02:33:14) Where to Find Dan Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices