#094: How to Control Outcomes
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
A listener question about our intro sequence triggers a conversation about control vs concern, reactions vs responses, and the moments right after something happens during which our choices make a world of difference.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Chasing Excellence. |
| 0:03.6 | We're gonna start today a little bit differently because the subject of today's episode is going to be related to |
| 0:09.6 | It's a question from a listener related to something inside of our little big intro |
| 0:16.2 | Music thingy so we want everybody to listen to that and then on the flip side of that we will discuss |
| 0:22.2 | What the listener or the question the listener |
| 0:25.2 | We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control |
| 0:30.2 | That taking absolute ownership of how we eat sleep train think and connect with each other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness |
| 0:38.4 | That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible |
| 0:42.6 | Our mission is to live on the run always chasing never stop |
| 0:49.5 | Okay, Ben, so here's the question from our listener |
| 0:52.8 | One of the main things I've learned from you in Ben show is that the only thing within my control is my effort |
| 0:58.0 | So therefore how are the outcomes also within my control? |
| 1:02.0 | So just a little recap the line he's talking about is we are here because we know that that the outcomes in our lives are within our control |
| 1:09.6 | So I just want to present that question to you first and see where we go |
| 1:13.2 | Okay, so this is I believe one of the most fundamental principles we need to understand in order to |
| 1:20.0 | Maximize our lives to ultimately end up on our deathbeds and looking back with complete satisfaction over the fulfillment |
| 1:27.8 | We've had in our lives. We must understand the distinction between the things that we can control and we can't and this is |
| 1:36.0 | Famous listening to this show for a little bit. This is so |
| 1:39.7 | beaten to a dead horse, but it is |
| 1:43.0 | something it's still |
| 1:45.1 | I don't think fully |
| 1:46.6 | Grasped and then executed upon we must understand these two things and we have to grab total |
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