Intentional: How to Finish What You Start with Chris Bailey
The 5 AM Miracle: Healthy Productivity for High Achievers
Jeff Sanders
4.7 • 777 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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I chat with Chris Bailey about his book, Intentional, and how we can finish the things we start.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the 5 a.m. Miracle, episode number 608. Intentional. How to finish what you start with Chris Bailey. |
| 0:12.9 | I am Jeff Sanders and you have reached the podcast that is dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast. |
| 0:19.4 | I am a keynote speaker and corporate trainer, and to learn more |
| 0:22.4 | about that, head over to jeffsanders.com slash speaking. Now, in the episode this week, I will speak |
| 0:29.4 | with Chris Bailey. Chris is an author and speaker who explores the science behind living a more |
| 0:35.2 | productive and intentional life. His books include the productivity |
| 0:39.2 | project, hyperfocus, and how to calm your mind. His latest is intentional, how to finish |
| 0:46.3 | what you start. Let's dig right in. All right, and we're back here on the 5 a.m. Miracle podcast, and I am back with our |
| 1:03.7 | amazing guest, Mr. Chris Bailey. Chris, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:07.6 | Buddy, it's been a few years. How have you been? |
| 1:10.7 | I've been good. I was looking back at the last time that we chatted here on the show. Buddy, it's been a few years. How have you been? I've been good. |
| 1:11.7 | I was looking back at the last time that we chatted here on the show, and it was 2018, |
| 1:17.0 | I believe, about six years ago, six and a half maybe. |
| 1:20.5 | It's been a while, and I feel like we have a lot in common. |
| 1:24.5 | When it comes to productivity, when it comes to maybe possibly career development or things that we work on, there's a lot of in common. When it comes to productivity, when it comes to, you know, maybe possibly |
| 1:27.8 | career development or things that we work on, there was a lot of inland common. And I would |
| 1:32.5 | like to know what you've been up to because I know that if you've flashed back six years, |
| 1:36.1 | like COVID has happened. Lots of things have changed in the world. So like what, what's your |
| 1:40.4 | story for the last six years or so? Oh, that's interesting. So I think we must have chatted around a book I wrote called Hyperfocus that came out around that time. |
| 1:50.7 | Yes, we did. |
| 1:51.4 | So we were probably chatting about then. |
| 1:53.5 | I remember we got coffee around your neck of the woods around that same time when I was in town for a couple talks. |
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