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Chasing Excellence

Building Financial Independence, Making Burpees Suck Less, Snap Judgements, & More

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The questions we’re answering this week:

📍 How can I increase my stamina for doing burpees during workouts?

📍 How can I avoid making snap judgments towards people?

📍 Should I wait until my baby can sleep longer stretches before getting back to CrossFit?

📍 How can I balance feeling unhappy with my career and wanting to make a change with being a financial provider for my family?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Creativity is not just do you do music or do you art. It's not just like that. It's are you able to

0:06.4

think outside the box? Are you able to solve problems? Are you able to actually create things?

0:13.0

But being a builder is a creative endeavor. It starts with curiosity. So I think curiosity is

0:18.6

it's a one ingredient I've always seen in terms of coaches that rise the ranks. Is they're curious?

0:23.3

They want to know more and they're more interested in learning more than like saving their own

0:28.4

egos. It's about that curiosity. Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence.

0:34.9

My name is Patrick Cummings. As always I am joined by Ben Bergeron. Every week here on the show

0:40.0

we dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life better health and increased fulfillment.

0:44.9

We answer your questions about the five factors of health that have deep

0:47.9

on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase what

0:52.7

truly matters. Thank you so much for joining us this week. How the heck are you Ben? I'm doing great.

0:58.3

Thanks Patrick. Good to see you. I'm a man. What we've got this week. Listen to questions about

1:02.8

getting better at burpees. Snap judgments and getting back to the gym when your baby is keeping you

1:09.0

up at nights and just to clarify that's not to get better at snap judgments. That was poor writing.

1:13.6

Two different things. Getting better at burpees and we're going to talk about snap judgments.

1:17.3

It's okay, somebody's curious. Our workout this week is going to be about balancing the need to do

1:21.0

work we like being the financial provider for our family and becoming financially independent

1:26.8

and our cool down. I'm going to have a little personal note. Shout out to my old man. So stay tuned

1:31.3

for that. Warm up. We start each episode with your questions about the five factors of health.

1:37.2

Those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance, vitality and longevity.

1:42.3

Those five factors are how we eat, how we move, how we think, how we connect and how we recover.

1:49.0

Ready to rock? Let's do it. First question is from Joseph. It's in our move category.

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