1 The 5 AM Miracle with Jeff Sanders #180: On Bravery and Professional Skydiving with Melanie Curtis December 5, 2016 Introduction [Play Double Stoker ] When faced with the scariest thing you could possibly imagine, how would you react? I know what I would do because I can clearly recall the scariest moment of my life and I froze like a deer in headlights. My guest this week is a certified expert in overcoming seemingly insurmountable fear. [Fade Out Music] This is The 5 AM Miracle - Episode #180: On Bravery and Professional Skydiving with Melanie Curtis [Intro Song]
2 Good morning and welcome to the 180th episode of The 5 AM Miracle. I am Jeff Sanders and this is THE podcast dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast. Every Monday morning my goal is to help you bounce out of bed with enthusiasm, create powerful lifelong habits, and tackle your grandest goals with extraordinary energy. Here on The 5 AM Miracle Podcast we discuss early mornings, and we dive deep into topics like healthy habits, personal development, and rockin productivity! This week I talk with one of the most energetic people you will ever meet about fear, skydiving, and becoming your best self. In the Tip of the Week segment I share a great TED Talk that should help to increase your daily happiness. But first, if you consider yourself a productivity junkie, then I think you re going to love my ebook, 10 Miracles. 10 Miracles is a short ebook that highlights my Top 10 Tools for Productivity Junkies. I personally use and LOVE all of these tools and I think you will too. To get your free copy of the ebook and audiobook,
3 visit 10Miracles.com. Now, let s begin with this week s feature segment! [Fade Music Up and Out] My guest today is a fierce coach, an intensely driven entrepreneur, and a comically authentic speaker and connector. She has jumped out of an airplane 10,000 times, worked professionally in the sport of skydiving for many years, founded her own company, and traveled the world challenging the model of mobile entrepreneurship. She extracts usable insight and hilarity in everything she writes and all content she creates. I am very honored to speak with Melanie Curtis here on The 5 AM Miracle Podcast. Welcome to the show Melanie! [Play Interview] [Fade In Spring in My
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6 measured to the exact quantities needed so there s no food waste. HelloFresh has a full-time registered dietician on staff who reviews each recipe to ensure it is nutritionally balanced. All delivered to your doorstep in a special insulated box for free. For $35 off your first week of deliveries, go to HelloFresh.com and enter code SANDERS when you subscribe. That s HelloFresh.com, code SANDERS. [Fade Out Music] This week s Tip is to add 1 happiness activity to your day. I recently watched a great TED Talk from Shawn Achor, a happiness researcher from Harvard University. This TED Talk is called, The Happy Secret to Better Work, and it is one of the Top 20 most viewed TED Talks. In the talk Shawn discusses how all of us can be happier with a few simple strategies. A few that he mentioned include journaling
7 every day about something wonderful that happened that day, sending thank you notes or emails to one person a day, and spending a few minutes a day in meditation to overcome the cultural adaptations to distractions and hyperactivity. There is a link in the show notes for this video, or you can just Google, The Happy Secret to Better Work. [Opening Night Music] Action Steps: #1 Visit MelanieCurtis.com to learn much more about today s amazing guest. As you just heard, Melanie is incredibly energetic and would make for a tremendous life coach. Once again, her website is MelanieCurtis.com. #2 Schedule your first Skydive! I know, that s an intense action step. From personal experience I can tell you, the only way to make yourself jump is to first schedule the appointment. Find a local airport and pay the money today. Invest in the experience and hold yourself
8 accountable to making it happen. Oh, and if you re thinking other people will join you in this crazy adventure -- they won t. I asked dozens of people to join me 3 years ago on my first jump and ZERO of them showed up on jump day. Sure, I had 7 people tell me yes when I asked them. But, ZERO of them actually paid the money and showed up. So, I jumped alone. That s what you should expect, but it s TOTALLY WORTH IT! So, schedule your first jump now! #3 Watch Shawn Achor s TED Talk on Happiness. This is a great 12-minute video that should give you plenty of insights into how to brighten your day. I recommend you pick just one of the strategies he discusses and commit to that one tiny habit for the next 7 days. After that, feel free to add just one more and see where it takes you. And, of course, there is a link for this video on the show notes page for this episode. [Fade In Music]
9 As always, if you would like to see the complete list of the links I mentioned in this episode, please visit the show notes page at JeffSanders.com/180, as in Episode 180. Finally, on the podcast next week I will be going back to the basics and discussing my top 7 daily healthy habits. Well, that's it for this episode of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast. Until next time remember, you have the power to change your life, and the fun begins bright and early. [Fade Music Up and Out]