Good morning and welcome to the 5 a.m. Miracle, episode number 624.

Active all day.

How a standing desk changes your energy, mood, and productivity.

I am Jeff Sanders, and you have reached the podcast that is dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast.

I am a keynote speaker and corporate trainer.

To learn more about those options, head over to jeffsanders.com slash speaking.

Now, in the episode this week, I'll break down why I have used a standing desk for 18 years

and counting, why you should start standing now

and moving your body today, and how to get started with your first or best standing desk.

Let's get to it. Standing is amazing. And it's so simple. You know, a long time ago, people said that sitting was the new smoking, and then cell phones were the new sitting,

and there's just all kinds of ways to identify what the next and latest, greatest way is to

enhance your life or break a bad habit or become a new person.

And one thing that has been true forever and will be true forever is that the obvious

stuff is obvious. In other words, if you're not moving enough, moving your body more is

effective. It really is that simple. We know these things. The question is why don't we do them?

This is always the question about productivity

in general is usually not the information. It's the execution. That's the piece we're always missing.

We know what to do. We know to eat healthy food. We know to move our bodies more. We know we should

invest for the future and make smart choices and avoid

distraction. It's all great on paper, but we're human. We make mistakes. We have tendencies and we just

we want what we want in the moment. And oftentimes that does not correlate to a better future.

And we have to fight our own natural tendencies in order to become the kinds of people we actually want to become,

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