Achieving Hard to Measure Goals
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Chasing objective, easy-to-measure goals are one thing. But chasing subjective, hard-to-measure ones are another thing altogether. So, how do we get started making progress on things like improving our empathy or being a better spouse? That’s what we’re diving into this week.
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📍 How to training when your CrossFit gym cancels your favorite class 📍 Why the goal of mindset shouldn’t be indifference, but a lack of judgment 📍 How to wrangle life admin tasks that can feel endless 📍 Why trust is so important to build as a leader 📍 Who we would add to our apocalypse team
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📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.
📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding. Find him on Instagram.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Cummings |
| 0:08.5 | and as always I am joined by Ben Bergeron. After week here on the show we dedicate some |
| 0:13.3 | time to exploring how we can live a life of better health and increased fulfillment. |
| 0:16.8 | We answer your questions about the five factors of health that I've deep on living a life |
| 0:20.3 | of excellence and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what truly |
| 0:23.9 | matters. Thank you so much for joining us this week. How have you been? |
| 0:27.6 | I'm doing great. Thanks Patrick. We are we were just joking a little bit. We are we are not in |
| 0:33.3 | the same room. We are recording remotely for this week which we have not done for quite a while. |
| 0:38.5 | It's it's kind of funny. I just realized I was writing a note and as I write my cameras |
| 0:44.0 | your camera jumps back and forth. Yeah so people that are listening have no idea I'm talking about |
| 0:48.0 | but but there was not an earthquake across New England is what was that? Correct. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:53.0 | We're going remote. Yeah. We may do we may be doing this as we get into the summer because |
| 0:58.0 | summer gets super busy with family and kids and and vacations and not what not but we'll see how it goes. |
| 1:04.5 | Before we get into this actually like the funny thing. So I mentioned this to you when we |
| 1:09.2 | are chatting last week not on the podcast that I for the first time in forever and I feel like |
| 1:14.6 | this is like you're just like prerequisites. I'm reading Tim Ferriss's for our work week. |
| 1:19.1 | You did mention that yes and it's great because the whole premise is basically like how to |
| 1:24.4 | convince your boss to work remotely. Yes. That's like the whole thing. It's like the that's the |
| 1:29.5 | big part of it. It's like it's I mean great. It's a big part. It's not the book but it's a big big part |
| 1:34.5 | and that's just for most people is not a challenge anymore. It's just the accepted norm. |
| 1:39.0 | It's why it's kind of weird. How do you feel about the remote work now? We haven't talked about |
| 1:42.3 | in a while like as a as a person who who has a team and I hate it like where are you lent you |
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