Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Cummings and as always

here with Ben Bergeron. Thank you for joining us this here week. How are you been?

This year week, doing good. Good. All right, my friend. We've got a question from Thomas today.

This is what he says. I've always been driven in the pursuit of goals while doing the inner work to

create fulfillment has been a daily focus going on 15 plus years. Now in my mid to late 30s, I'm starting to lose some of that

ambitious energy and it feels disorienting. I get that as life progresses as we experience loss

and mature, it's natural for that ambition to be dimmed down or at least be much less eye-focused

and much more we focused. At the same time, I believe we're

here to squeeze the juice out of the orange until there's nothing left. So my question,

how do I balance these two contradictory energies? Do I accept that there's more to life than realizing

goals, even if my identity hates the idea of that? Or do I seek out bigger, more challenging

goals to light that fire and never succumb to mediocrity?

My biggest fear is losing that spark, the life force, and that desire.

Wow. What was the name? Thomas. Thomas. Yeah. Great question. Obviously, somebody that's doing the

work to make sure that they're chasing, which really matters. He says he's been doing 15 years of

the inner work to make sure that he's creating fulfillment. It sounds. He says he's been doing 15 years of the inner work to make

sure that he's creating fulfillment. It sounds to me like he's achieved a lot of his life goals,

probably a lot sooner than he expected. And now it's a matter of this thing that I attached myself to

was I am the type of person that goes and does and creates and achieves

these things. And now that I've done this, what's on the other side of this? Because I don't have

that inner spark, life force vitality towards anything else. Yeah, it seems like this thing should be

more than about me. It's about the we. I don't

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