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Chasing Excellence

Benchmark: 10 Habits to Stop Having

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.8 β€’ 2.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this throwback to 2018, we're rebroadcasting an episode all about the habits we have that we should finally kill - including hitting the snooze button, yelling at people in traffic, and using your phone while you eat.

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πŸ‘‰πŸΌ Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain.

πŸ‘‰πŸΌ Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, you chasers of excellence, Patrick here.

0:04.2

We are back with our benchmark series, which is when I go through the archives of the

0:09.4

show and I go back to the way back and find some of the big keystone episodes that we

0:15.9

put out in the early days of the podcast just to make sure that you've had a chance to

0:21.4

listen to them.

0:22.4

With this one, we are going back to May 2018 to an episode that we called 10 Habits You

0:30.0

Should Stop Having and Re-listening to this reminded me that I need to stop looking at

0:36.4

my email first thing in the morning.

0:39.0

So I hope that if this is the second time you've heard it, this will serve as a good reminder

0:43.6

and if this is the first time you've heard it, 10 new things to pay attention to, to

0:49.2

stop doing to pursue excellence, to make yourself better.

0:54.5

I will stop with this now and let's get into the show including the old school intro.

1:00.7

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

1:05.0

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

1:12.8

Okay, hello Ben, hello Patrick, welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence.

1:21.6

Today, I've collected a list of things and the list of things are things that I've heard

1:27.0

you say or seen you say various places of things not to do.

1:31.5

So instead of like a top 10, do these things and your life will be better, you talk often

1:37.4

about things that you shouldn't do, right?

1:40.5

So I've collected, we've got 10 of them, so I'm going to walk you through each one and

1:44.0

then we'll kind of talk about why one thing and sort of where that came from.

1:49.1

Yeah, I think I like this.

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