Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence.

My name is Patrick Cummings and as always I am here with Ben Bergeron

every week on the show. We dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life of

better health and increased fulfillment. We answer your questions about the five

factors of health dive deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies

and frameworks to help us chase. What truly matters, thank you so much for tuning

into the show. How you doing Ben? I'm doing good, Patrick. Good.

I want to start, you may have noticed I have my phone here and it's for a very

specific reason because I usually don't have it out. We usually don't have it.

Are you hearing? Have a period. But I pulled it up. It's actually the first time I've ever seen your phone.

This is a true story. I've never seen your phone. It's true. I know idea that you had a clear case.

I hate the clear case but I actually thought it did not fit you.

I would prefer not to buy it. Yes, I would prefer not to have a case but

these are stupid expensive little computers and I have small children. So it's at some point. You just got to play the game.

But I'm doing specifically. We had a listener Rick. This is just maybe laugh and I wanted to share it.

He said hello. He sent me a message. I was just going to be listening to a bunch to chasing excellence.

How do I get you to stop saying unpack and bend to stop saying 100% love the show?

This may be laugh so hard. One because I do say that a lot. And like as soon as he says like,

yeah, thank you for calling me out on it. But mostly I wanted to I laughed at this because it was a wonderful

criticism sandwich that we haven't talked about in a long time. And I was like, he nailed it. He's like,

been listening to a bunch. Nice thing to hear. Stop doing that thing that's annoying, criticism.

And then love the show. Nice thing again. I was like, perfect. If somebody wants to, if somebody's going to point something out to me,

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