3 Distractions Keeping You From Living With Passion (Fear of Uncertainty, Self-Doubt, & Comfort Seeking)
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The 3 Big Questions We're Answering:
1. What are the key distractions that prevent us from living with passion and purpose, and how can we overcome them?
2. How can we develop awareness of our true desires and align our actions with our values to achieve a fulfilling life?
3. In what ways can we break free from busyness and numbing behaviors to create meaningful habits that support our health and happiness?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show. I am Patrick here as always with Ben. Welcome, my friend. How are you? |
| 0:11.7 | Good. Good man. Good to see you. Summertime is here. We just chatted. Your kids are not yet on summer vacation, but mine are, which means every one of my routines has now been thrown out the door we have to we have to we have to talk about the reason that we did |
| 0:27.5 | not record we people don't know our secrets but last time we got together was it was it last oh no it's |
| 0:34.8 | two times the one before yeah we recording, and we were about maybe... |
| 0:40.2 | Four minutes. |
| 0:41.0 | Exactly, four minutes. |
| 0:41.9 | I was going to say eight. |
| 0:42.3 | Okay, four minutes into an episode. |
| 0:44.3 | And Patrick, like, it seems all of a sudden is, like, massively distracted. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm talking. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm talking. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm still talking. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm still talking. |
| 0:49.1 | I can tell he mutes, so distracted. And finally, he's like, I got to stop you. I got to stop you. |
| 0:56.3 | I kid you not. |
| 1:00.3 | My cat is stuck up in a tree. |
| 1:01.2 | Yes. |
| 1:02.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.9 | Long story short, it took you, how long? |
| 1:06.6 | Four hours? Three and a half hours. |
| 1:07.7 | Yeah, I'll give the very short version. |
| 1:09.2 | So my kids know, my youngest is five. |
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