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All the Hacks with Chris Hutchins

Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Increase Productivity and Live the Life You Want with Dan Martell

All the Hacks with Chris Hutchins

Chris Hutchins

Business, Education, Investing, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Self-improvement

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

#98: Serial entrepreneur and best-selling author Dan Martell joins Chris to talk about buying back time. They discuss the value of adopting the right mindset, techniques for scheduling your time, tools to streamline processes, and changes you can make to reclaim your time and lead a more fulfilling life. Dan Martell (@danmartell) is a successful entrepreneur, investor, and best-selling author. He is also the managing partner of High Speed Ventures and the founder and CEO of SaaS Academy, the world's largest coaching program for high-performing founders of Software as a Service businesses. His new book is Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire. Full show notes at: https://allthehacks.com/buy-time-dan-martell Partner Deals DeleteMe: 20% off removing your personal info from the web Kubera: 14 day trial of the world's most modern wealth tracker for $1 Shopify: $1/month trial for the easiest e-commerce platform Vuori: 20% off the most comfortable performance apparel I've ever worn Gelt: Skip the waitlist on personalized tax guidance to maximize your wealth Selected Links From The Episode Dan Martell: Website | TikTok | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter Resources Mentioned: Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire All the Hacks Podcast: Managing Your Time to Get More Done with Laura Vanderkam Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters Coaching: SaaS Academy | EMyth Business Coach Task Manager/Operations: Superhuman | Motion | Notion | Trustworthy | 1Password Delivery Services: Instacart | Towne.io Service Platform: Taskrabbit Sleep/Activity Tracker: Oura Chris’s Recommendations: Pape Meat | ButcherBox Full Show Notes Introduction to Dan Martell (00:00) Saving time, freeing it up, and buying it back (02:16) Time and energy audit (05:55) Understanding how you work, honoring your calendar, and learning when to schedule energy-depleting tasks (09:27) Maximizing efficiency by breaking down calendar tasks into several mini-tasks (14:04) Google Docs, calendars, and to-do lists (17:42) Life vision & RPM (20:31) Color-coding calendar hacks (22:55) Mindset: Common objections people have about the idea of buying back time (23:25) Leveling up in business: Trading time for money, money for time, and eventually money for money (27:29) Reducing expectations (30:00) Helping people value their time (34:02) Practical examples of how to buy back time (39:34) Administrative Assistant/House Manager/Virtual Assistant (56:02) Creating a family playbook (1:01:52) Trustworthy: Family operating system (1:05:34) Creating a frustration list (1:08:55) Designing your perfect week (1:11:19) Seven pillars of life (1:15:03) Relationships: Lessons learned from hiring a family coach (1:18:23) Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire (1:24:30) Where to find Dan Martell (1:25:59) Connect with All the Hacks All the Hacks: Newsletter | Website | Facebook | Email Chris Hutchins: Twitter | Instagram | Website | LinkedIn

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another episode of All the Hacks, a show about upgrading your

0:05.9

life, money, and travel.

0:07.9

If you're new here, I'm Chris Hutchins, I'm a diehard optimizer who loves doing all

0:11.5

the research to help you get the best experience in life, and one of those things is managing

0:15.8

time.

0:16.8

And time management guru Laura Vandercam, who I've had on the show before, has a new book

0:21.0

called Tranquility by Tuesday, thought it was a good book that offered nine rules to

0:25.3

help people spend more time on what matters.

0:28.0

But there was one expression in the book that really stuck out with me.

0:31.0

We should all be time millionaires.

0:32.8

And that sounds great, even better than being a money millionaire maybe.

0:36.4

But how does it happen?

0:37.7

People can't just create more time in their day unlike money, so what's the secret?

0:41.6

And that's where today's guests can help.

0:43.3

His name's Dan Martel, he's a good long time friend of mine, and he has a new book about

0:47.2

just this.

0:48.2

It's called Buy Back Your Time, Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire.

0:53.6

In his years as a successful entrepreneur, after a rough childhood and a few run-ins with

0:57.8

the law, he built five companies, sold three of them, and currently run SaaS Academy.

1:03.2

The world's largest coaching program for founders of software as a service businesses.

1:07.7

But you don't have to have founded a business to apply these principles.

1:10.6

We're going to talk about why Buy Back Time has become his superpower, why mindset is

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