Once You Make Money, Upgrade These 7 Things ASAP
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What is the core premise of “upgrade these 7 things once you make money?”
Most finance content tells you what not to buy. Today, I'm gonna do the exact opposite because there are seven things that you should upgrade once you start making money. Now, normally, my advice would be to spend money to buy back your time, not stuff. I even wrote a whole book about it. But these seven upgrades take things to the next level. This is what the top 1% spend their money on. These things don't just save you time, they change how good life feels day to day. So let's get In it. Welcome to the Martel Method. I went from rehab at 17 to building a $100 million empire and being a Wall Street Journal best-selling author. In this podcast, I'll show you exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to hate.
My best-selling book, Buy Back Your Time, is out now. Grab a copy at buybackyourtime.com or at any of your preferred online retailers. The first thing on this list is something almost every finance guy would tell you not to buy, something completely useless. When I was 22, I was working 100 hours a week. I was this frenetic energy ball. And I thought that was my edge. My body honestly said stuff. I ended up getting sick. I got diagnosed with adrenaline fatigue. I even got shingles on my back that almost turned into a whole f moment. Luckily, my doctor caught it in time. I could not turn it off. And I thought that approach was the right way, but it was costing me my business, in my life, in my relationships.
And then I found some hobbies. Snowboarding, mountain biking, I fell in love with. Now wake surfing. It allowed me to disconnect from the work. And it turned out that it made me a better person. And surprise, surprise, it gave me more energy to actually do more output. Somebody smart Said this a long time ago, but you can't pour from an empty cup. And look, science backs this. A study published in social science and medicine tracked 19,000 adults over 50 over eight years. What they notice is that if they had a weekly hobby, their depression, if they had any, would dramatically drop over the next two years. All the top guys literally have hobbies. The mistake is most people think that hobbies drag us down or take from our time in the opposite.
It is true. And in the age of AI, this matters more than ever. One of my favorite books is called Die With Zero. Bill Perkins wrote a masterclass in how to think about this. He looks at money as a store of energy, which means nothing until you convert that energy into an actual experience. He calls this memory dividends. Money is useless unless it's used to purchase memories. And look, you don't want to wait for this.
Why should the first upgrade be a regular hobby or “fun‑first” activity?
This is the homework. Go back to when you were 12 or 13, before practical existed. What would that kid beg for today? Maybe you used to love going to the ski hill. Maybe you gotta go buy a ski pass. Just buy the small version and go do it this week. I like to use this model called the three F's, something fun that you can do frequently with friends. For example, fun, I love to wake surf. Frequently, I do it every day. Sometimes twice a day. And friends, I'm bringing my team members, new friends that I don't know that well on the boat. This right here will change everything. It will make your life more fun, which means you'll have more to give. The second upgrade might sound even worse. I want you to buy something that makes you lazy on purpose.
Decision fatigue is real and it drains everybody the exact same way. There's actually a study on parole judges. Imagine you're In front of this judge, and you're like wanting to get out early in the day, 65-70% chance he's gonna approve that you get out. Closer to lunch, the approval rate drops to nearly 0%. Then he takes lunch and he comes back, it shoots back up. That's crazy. Same cases, same judge, wildly different outcomes, purely based on his decision fatigue throughout the day. Making a decision is like burning little. battery packs in my brain. And the least amount of decisions I have means I have more battery juice to make big decisions. So I'm trying not to waste my battery packs in my brain on little things so that I have more juice for the big things.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the core premise of “upgrade these 7 things once you make money?”
0:00–2:26
2
Why should the first upgrade be a regular hobby or “fun‑first” activity?
2:26–8:28
3
How does buying yourself laziness (decision‑fatigue reduction) boost productivity?
8:28–12:50
4
Why is hiring an executive assistant or automating daily choices a game‑changer?
12:50–18:09
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