Hey there, Dan Martell here, serial entrepreneur, investor,
and creator of SaaS Academy.
In this video I'm going to share with you how to keep health
a priority as you travel.
And be sure to stay to the end, we're
going to share with you an exclusive download on the five
productivity hacks that I use.
And specifically the first one is my morning ritual.
Love to get you access to that.
So let's get into the strategies.
So first off, I want you to know that I do travel a lot.
Now, I'm super lucky and blessed,
so there's no complaints.
And many of the trips I take my family is with me.
So I've been able to create an integrated life around it.
But one of the biggest challenges, just for example,
in the last two months I've been to seven cities.
I did a five day event in Boston,
I went snowboarding, I went snow biking, I-- so I'm just
sharing that not to brag, although they
were incredible trips.
I went on a Disney cruise with my family,
I'm speaking in traffic and conversion summit in San Diego.
I share that because the challenges for me,
and maybe for you if you're a road warrior,
is that you have different circumstances or environments
that you're in.
And for me, what I've had to figure out,
because the last thing I want to do is have
my health have a negative consequence as I travel,
because I didn't want to not travel.
I love meeting people in person.
I love seeing new parts of the world with my family.
But I also want to make sure that I kept my habits going
while I was traveling.
So my rule, and what I'm going to share with you today,
are the five strategies that I do
to make sure, at a minimum, that I'm
maintaining the level of fitness in my life.
You know, I'm even competing in the cross fit
opens while I'm doing all of this,
and still running multimillion dollar companies.
So, in this video I'm going to show you
the five strategies that I've used to help
me keep this going on the road.
Number one, win your morning.
I think that yes breakfast, and the way you wake up,
and your rituals are all important,
but I just, for me, there's a few things that
need to happen in the morning.
One, you need to get super hydrated.
So sleep with at least half a liter of water next your bed
so when you wake up you can chug it and kick off your day.
And it just sets the tone for everything else.
The other one is your breakfast.
I know that people say breakfast is the most important meal
of the day.
I don't agree with the nutritional aspect.
I just think that if you make a great decision, and even more
important to make it easy, just bring it with you.
Get a shake.
Get a breakfast kind of--
I'm not going to recommend any specific products,
I'm not here to endorse anybody.
But just have these packs ready to go.
If you go on a trip for seven days,
it's just seven meals that you just
wake up, put it-- after you chug your water, drink it.
You get your breakfast, done.
But if you can't and you're ordering,
just make sure you have something healthy,
because that just sets the stage for the rest of the day.
Your morning-- morning people ask me,
like Dan, why do you have so much energy?
I'll tell you, because I don't eat crap.
Because I care more about being present, and active,
and energetic for you than having a crap breakfast.
So win your mornings, stay hydrated, get your body moving,
and eat something lean and mean right off the morning.
Number two, airport triggers.
So one of the things that I've learned
is that when I travel I don't drink enough water.
And usually that's when my body gets
dehydrated, that's when I make bad decisions around meals.
And what I would much rather do is just
get triggered so that when I'm in certain locations
that I stay hydrated.
And yes, look, I get it.
It costs me like $10, but here's my strategy.
As soon as I get into a new airport, I land in an airport,
I always go and get two bottles of water.
I chug one, and then I put one on my carry
on or in my laptop bag, and I drink it until the next flight.
For me that trigger is probably one
of the most important to just remind myself
to stay hydrated as I travel.
And the issue and the reason why I do the two bottles
is because I got to buy them once I get past security.
So it's really tough to travel with, obviously,
bottles of water.
Because they'll take them from you.
Or filling up your canteen, or whatever it is.
So just, you know, think about triggers.
Think about when I'm in this location,
I do this smart decision.
The other thing is, I like to buy eggs or beef jerky.
So I want some lean protein, I want
something that's going to fill me up,
or some fruit or vegetables.
And usually, again, I know I'm paying a premium,
but for me staying and keeping healthy
while I travel is more important than the dollars
it's going to cost me, because it's
going to have a way bigger impact
in the long term around my focus, my energy,
and my productivity.
So, build a trigger.
Airport equals two bottles of water and or some
raw boiled eggs, or some fruit or vegetables.
Have that every time you go in, even
if you're not hungry so that you always feel full and hydrated.
Number three, sweat every day.
Now, I don't know when this became a thing,
but if you follow me on Instagram,
it is something that I am ridiculously passionate about.
And I just believe there's no reason on a daily basis
that I can't get my sweat on.
So it doesn't matter if it's high intensity interval
training like orange theory, or I'm doing my cross fit workout,
or I'm doing a cross fit wide in my hotel room
like I did this morning.
I want to make sure that I sweat every day to just get
my body moving.
If I can, I'll do it in the morning.
Typically when I'm at home and I'm not on the road
I like to work out at lunch to kind
of reset for the afternoon.
But when I am traveling, first thing in the morning I'm
going to do some kind of movement.
So it could be running, a workout.
But my rule is that I think-- and people go,
you shouldn't work out every day.
I don't know about you, by I'm saying sweat every day.
You know, and some people-- you can do it active recovery.
OK, rowing.
You can go for a walk.
I don't care.
Just walk fast to get your sweat on.
But I think it's really important for your body
to feel that elevated heart beat and just
get you in the right rhythm.
So it's just part of the travel process
to make sure that I get my sweat on every day.
Number four, pre-order meals.
Now this is a bit of a life hack,
and I feel super lucky that I have somebody
that supports me in this.
But typically, when I travel, I have my assistant
look at any meetings that I have, lunches or dinners,
and look at their menu online and already make their decision
for me through that menu.
So I always do, typically, greens and protein.
So that way I just look at the calendar invite,
I can order it, and I don't do what's called menu surfing.
I don't know if you've ever done this where you sit down
and you open the menu and you're like, oh, that looks nice,
oh, that looks nice.
And you want to have a conversation with people.
Have you eaten here before?
What did you like?
Blah, blah, blah.
But at the end of the day, if you can just already make
that decision so you don't have decision fatigue,
it is going to allow you to stay like super focused.
Big thing I'm going to give you, is
ask them to put dressing on the side in all situations
pr circumstances, because you could actually technically
order something off the menu that sounds lean and mean,
but turns out to be not.
So always put dressing on the side,
and sometimes you might even want
to ask them to not cook with any oils, the protein,
because those are two things, especially in a salad, that
can ruin it from a lean and mean point of view.
So pre-order your meals before you show up to the restaurant.
Number five, get accountable to someone.
I think this is probably the most important for me.
I've always had coaches in different aspects
of my life, from my kite boarding coach,
to my snowboarding coach, to my business coach,
to my health coach.
And on the health side, I've got Nicole, who's my nutritionist.
Essentially, she monitors, because I
log in all of my food and my decisions,
and looks at, for me because I'm trying
to perform at the highest level, looks at the micro nutrients
to make sure I'm getting the right things.
Right, because I do measure and do full body scans around,
you know, lean muscle mass and body fat percentages.
We can actually adjust the nutrition
to have certain outcomes from a performance point of view.
Now I'm not asking you to get that, you know,
intense about monitoring and nutrition.
I'm just saying have somebody else
that you can be accountable to, maybe on a daily basis.
Where I use my fitness pal, I just log the food,
and you can invite somebody else to get access to that.
And it just makes it super easy for you to feel
like there's somebody else.
When we know the positive peer pressure
of somebody else involved in monitoring and making sure
that we're making right decisions,
it just changes the game for you, especially as you travel.
So five strategies to keep your health as a priority
while you're traveling.
Number one, win your morning.
Number two, use airport triggers.
Number three, sweat every day.
Number four, pre-order meals, no menu surfing.
And number, five, get accountable to somebody else.
So as I mentioned at the beginning,
I want to share with you an exclusive resource called
The Five Productivity Hacks that I put together.
You can click the link below to download that.
In there is kind of an overview of my morning ritual,
because for me that sets up my whole day
and gets me producing and productive.
So you can click the link to grab your copy today.
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And as per usual, I want to challenge
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and I'll see you next Monday.
You need to get the shot of the water,
and then I'm going to chug it.
And then I realize I'll probably spill
all over my shirt, probably not a good idea.