Good morning and welcome to the 5 a.m. Miracle, episode number 609, why your new number one skill this year is skill development itself.

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 that, head out over to jeffsanders.com slash speaking.

Now, in the episode this week, I will break down why the best skill to develop now in this moment

is the skill of developing new skills,

how to make skill development a natural part of your daily life,

and why it's never too late to start something new or challenging.

Let's dig right in.

Let's dig right in.

So if you can't tell, I am not my usual peppy self.

I usually am on this podcast, primarily because I am recording this podcast much later at night.

I normally do.

This is the 5A miracle podcast, and people for 12 plus years now have always assumed that I record this podcast at 5 a.m.

Well, it's not a live radio show.

It's a podcast, which means I can record it whenever I want. You can listen to it, whatever you want. It's amazing how the asynchronous nature of this

works. So you do you, I'll do me, and it'll all work out just fine, except for when my schedule

doesn't work out for me and I have to do things at times I don't want to, which was making me think about this episode specifically because the episode is about skills.

And part of what developing new skills is all about is doing things you're not very good at or becoming better at doing things that you previously

weren't as good at. Part of what that challenge for me is in this moment is saying yes to a challenge

when I don't want to. A very small example of that is recording a podcast late at night when usually I would never be doing so.

I would be recording this usually early in the morning, not 5 a.m., more like 9 or 10 a.m.

Whenever my energy peaks and I feel like I can deliver the best possible content to you,

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