Mindfulness Mode 199 Learn How To Know Yourself Better With 5 AM Miracle Author Jeff Sanders
Jeff Sanders is an author, keynote speaker, and founder of the Rockin’ Productivity Academy. Jeff is host of the 5 AM Miracle Podcast and author of a book of the same title. He’s a marathon runner, passionate raw vegan and all-round mindfulness kind of guy. Jeff has a degree in Theatre and Psychology and lives in Nashville Tennessee with his wife and their pet Pug, named Benny.
Contact Info- Website: www.JeffSanders.com
- Book:The 5 A.M. Miracle: Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast by Jeff Sanders
- Podcast: The 5 A.M. Miracle
- Dean Karnazes (Ultramarathon Runner)
- Mindfulness has made me less overtly emotional. Less angry and less extreme. If anything, it has emotional. It calms me down and allows me to be more rational.
- Breathing's a big part of [my mindfulness practice]. I think especially as an athlete and someone who likes to have a lot of good oxygen to live and to do things well. I find that also breathing a lot or breathing really intensely also calms me down and prepares me for an event; before a speaking engagement for example. I do a lot of breathing techniques to give my self-confidence a boost and to physically feel better.
- One of those breathing techniques is from Wim Hoff who is very famously known as The Iceman. I do a lot of intense breathing where you inhale more than you exhale over and over again, basically until you feel light-headed. You are kind of oxygen packing your body for a few minutes and it really does give you this strong sense of confidence and you feel very awake and alert. It's pretty cool.
- Book: The 5 A.M. Miracle: Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast by Jeff Sanders
- Book: Running With A Mind of Meditation by Sakyong Mipham
- App: Nozbe (A Task Management App based on David Allen's Getting Things Done System)
When I was younger, in elementary school aged 7 to 10, I was not quite confident as a kid yet. I was still trying to find out who I was.
For a lot of my years growing up, I viewed myself as a follower. I would find other people who I thought were a strong personality or someone who could hold their own and I would follow them around.
In the process of that, I got a hold of some fairly difficult friends or friends who were not genuine. They were bullies, and tough guys. I was a small, scrawny little kid and I didn't have a lot of self confidence. It wasn't bullying in the traditional sense, but it definitely was this sense that I felt inferior to them all the time and it took a long time before it wasn't the case any more.
For many years I was in this position of, I don't know who I am yet, so I'm just going to follow someone else until I figure it out eventually.