Hey, it's Jeff Sanders, and this episode is going to be a little bit different.

I have a rather unique story for me to share this week, and I want to approach this from a slightly different format here on the podcast.

I tend to do the same episode every week, and that rhythm, that formula that you hear is both

rhythmic and familiar and high energy and well thought through. And then sometimes I just

need to smash it all to bits. Sometimes I need to take what I wrote and just not do it that way.

And that's how this episode has unfolded.

I did what I usually do, which is I put together a script and I wanted to bring that to you in a very specific, well-thought-through way.

And I recorded the first half of the episode and then I deleted it because I realized

it was just not authentic.

It wasn't genuine.

It wasn't real.

It wasn't good.

And if podcasting can be anything, it can be something very, very personal in ways that other mediums just can't.

And so that's my intention this week. I am going to read the script to a large degree, but I wanted to kind of throw this out there before the episode begins that if I sound like I'm going off script, I am. If I sound

like I'm on a tangent, I am. If the episode sounds weird, it is. That's just what this is going to be.

If you listen to the 5A Miracle Premium episodes, the ones that are the paid version of the show,

I have more that are sort of like this, but this is, I guess, in many ways, my attempt to break the mold for myself,

possibly for you as well. If you've caught yourself in a rhythm of life where at first it was a

habit and then it was a rut.

At first it was good and then it was bad.

And I think that sometimes good things can become bad if we kind of bury our heads in the sand

and then we don't ever look up and realize, hey, wait a minute, I'm going the wrong direction

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