Chase Challenge | Why You Need to Reverse Engineer Your Triggers
Chasing Excellence
Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
What if your triggers aren't random — they're a map back to yourself?
In this close-out episode, Patrick reflects on the 21-day trigger challenge with two reframes that change everything: the tug of war between wants and reality, and the difference between surface triggers (your mental dojo) and the serious ones rooted in your own history.
Learn why the fastest road to context-independent peace of mind runs through accepting reality — not fighting it — and why turning the spotlight on your triggers is the first step to responding instead of reacting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back. Good chase. Excellent. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm here |
| 0:11.5 | alone myself again. You may remember a month ago we kicked off our very first community 21 day |
| 0:18.5 | challenge. We did a 21-day trigger challenge. |
| 0:22.9 | And when we did that, I came on. |
| 0:26.1 | Did a little solo episode talking through some of the details of the challenge, |
| 0:30.8 | some of why I thought it was important. |
| 0:32.7 | And so to close the loop on that, now there were about a month from that kickoff. |
| 0:37.0 | I wanted to come back. |
| 0:38.9 | Just talk a little bit about my own reflections of the challenge as well as T-Up, the next |
| 0:45.8 | challenge, which we're going to do here in a couple weeks. I will talk about that right at the end. |
| 0:50.9 | So stay tuned for that. Before I jump into the specifics around the trigger challenge, |
| 0:57.3 | I would love to just invite you to join us over at or in the Chase Club. The Chase Club is our |
| 1:03.4 | premium membership where you get things like ad free episodes every week. You get full and free |
| 1:10.0 | access to our Chase Tracker app where these |
| 1:14.3 | challenges live, or at least a version of them live, as well as you get our new Friday Chase Club |
| 1:20.6 | chat club, which is where and when on Fridays I send out some additional ideas, some additional |
| 1:26.9 | context or content for us to think |
| 1:29.5 | about as we go through these challenges. |
| 1:32.9 | And it's been really fun for me to put those together. |
| 1:36.1 | So I send them out on Friday and then folks inside the Chase Club. |
| 1:39.7 | We talk about it. |
| 1:40.4 | We talk through it. |
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