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Chasing Excellence

#037: The Benefits of Negative Visualization

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Health, Education, Mindset, Crossfit, Wellness, Self-improvement, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we're talking about tactful conflict resolution, the benefits of talking through "If, Then" scenarios, & why thinking through what might go wrong is a great way to make things go right.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

He references a restaurant tour, a very, very successful restaurant tour, who the woman,

0:07.1

a woman that was dining at one of his really fine restaurants ordered salmon, eight about

0:11.6

half of it, didn't find out she didn't really like it and sent it back to the kitchen.

0:17.0

The kitchen's in a conundrum, like what do we do?

0:19.3

Do we charge her for this?

0:20.4

Do we like it?

0:21.5

So what they did was they doggy bagged it up, gave her the remaining charge for it and

0:26.9

for the replacement meal at Jordan.

0:29.0

And he was like, this is to go so against our culture, so against our ethics, so against

0:35.6

our, the way we want to operate.

0:39.1

So he created these scenarios, like it became the impetus for him to totally change the

0:44.6

way he trained his staff.

0:47.0

Everything became a if then scenario.

0:49.0

If this happens, this is how we handle it.

0:50.5

If this happens, this is how we handle it.

0:52.9

What confidence is has nothing to do with winning or the leaderboard.

0:57.1

What confidence is is knowing that you giving your best efforts is enough.

1:07.8

Today I wanted to sort of recreate something that I saw happen last week, most last week,

1:12.8

at the coaches meeting here at CIFINY.

1:15.0

It was the first time I had seen it.

1:17.2

I think it was maybe the first or second time you guys actually sort of run through this.

1:20.3

But I was really curious about it.

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