What is the best habit to begin your day with?

What is the best and healthiest food in your diet?

What is the best work project for you to complete before all the others?

Knowing the best means having the ability to reprioritize your life

so that what matters most gets your attention before what matters least. This is the 5 a.m.

Miracle, episode number 567, best first, the single strategy that guarantees you do what you plan to do.

Good morning and welcome to the 5 a.m. Miracle. I am Jeff Sanders and this is the podcast, dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast. My goal is to help you bounce out of bed with enthusiasm, create powerful lifelong habits, and tackle your grandness goals with extraordinary energy. I am a keynote speaker and corporate trainer,

specializing in delivering high energy, interactive, and action-oriented presentations and

workshops, focused on productivity, wellness, and personal and professional growth. If you want to

learn more, head over to jeffsanders.com slash speaking.

Now, in the episode this week, I'll break down why the order of events is the difference maker when it comes to doing what matters, why we tend to procrastinate on the few things

we know are the best use of our time, and how to leverage the best first strategy to guarantee your future success.

Let's get to it.

If you have ever wondered how you could ever get it all done, you have probably stumbled upon the reality

that it never all will. The goal of productivity is not to do at all. It's to be effective and to

accomplish what matters, but not to do everything. With only 24 hours in a day and an

endless to-do list that could take 100 hundred lifetimes, how could we ever

squeeze it all in? Well, simple. We can't and we shouldn't try. What we should do is strategize

and prioritize. The answer to everything complicated is always simple. And the simple answer

to productivity challenges is always best first. This has been a

strategy at the core of the 5 a.m. Miracle since day one. Let's just back up real quick and

review what the 5 a.m. miracle actually is. The miracle is not waking up early. The miracle is

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