What are you thinking about right now? Outside of my voice and this podcast, what do you

tend to think about? Is it helpful or harmful? Does it move you forward or keep you spinning

in circles? Is it positive and uplifting or negative and self-reinforcing? What you think about most of the time matters more than you could possibly imagine.

And the content of this episode possibly contains the greatest personal development lesson of them all.

This is the 5am Miracle, episode number 534.

You become what you think about most of the time.

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 grandest goals with extraordinary energy.

In the episode this week, I'll break down one of, if not the greatest personal development

lessons of them all, why your beliefs and thoughts are more powerful than you can

imagine, and how to change your thoughts, especially if you're caught in a spiral of negativity,

fear, and worst-case scenario thinking. Let's dig in.

So I'm going to date myself here, but I used to own a car with a CD player.

That's right.

I know, I'm a really old guy.

In fact, I used to own multiple cars that each had CD players.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So when I owned these cars, I had these CDs that I thought would exemplify and optimize the time I had in those cars. Initially, yeah, they were music CDs, my favorite

artists. Britney Spears, for example. That's not a joke, by the way. So I graduated from the pop

music of the 90s into personal growth CDs as I entered into my 20s and began to discover the power of personal developments and especially the power of what Brian Tracy calls a rolling university.

And so I would listen to Brian Tracy, Darren Hardy, Jim Rohn, Earl Nightingale,

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