How to Fall in Love with Something You Don't Want to Do
The 5 AM Miracle: Healthy Productivity for High Achievers
Jeff Sanders
4.7 • 777 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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I discuss how to overcome the hurdle of taking action when you don't feel like it.
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| 0:00.0 | We humans don't like change. We like things the way they are, and we fight to keep them that way. |
| 0:07.0 | We frequently choose the devil we know, the status quo. |
| 0:12.0 | If stepping into a better reality requires even a little effort, we often balk at the chance, because we risk our current level level of comfort and risk the possibility that we might fail, that the better future was not all that it seemed. |
| 0:28.7 | We often don't want to do things that are hard, things that require new knowledge, things that ask more of us than we are willing to give because the pain of growth |
| 0:39.4 | feels insurmountable or simply not worth the effort. We are not logical, and we don't even |
| 0:46.8 | pretend to be. We are emotional, and that emotion wins the day more often than we intend. We say we want a better life, but do we? Are we willing |
| 0:58.6 | to do what it takes? Are we willing to step into an unknown future and just see what happens? |
| 1:05.9 | Are we willing to risk losing even a small part of what we have already worked so hard to acquire. |
| 1:13.9 | Author Stephen Pressfield writes about resistance, an unseeable force that holds us back from doing |
| 1:20.7 | our work, from starting a new project, from crawling out of bed on time. We fight this resistance every day to just simply meet the mediocre bar of survival. |
| 1:33.3 | But is that enough? |
| 1:34.9 | Are we satisfied with average? |
| 1:37.6 | Are we okay with just being okay? |
| 1:41.0 | Or are we ready for something more? |
| 1:47.7 | Is there a version of our story that ends differently? |
| 1:56.5 | Can tomorrow actually be better than today? The episode this week is about love, or more specifically, |
| 2:02.8 | falling in love with the process of change, of doing hard things, of saying yes to a better tomorrow, knowing full well we will have to earn it by doing the work right now. |
| 2:11.6 | Good morning and welcome to the 5 a.m. Miracle, episode number 598. |
| 2:17.4 | How to fall in love with something you don't want to do. |
| 2:21.0 | I am Jeff Sanders, and you have reached the podcast that is dedicated to donating your day before breakfast. |
| 2:27.8 | I am a keynote speaker and corporate trainer, and to learn more about that, head over to jeffsanders.com |
| 2:34.0 | slash speaking. |
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