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Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this edition of our 3x3, I'm talking through some of the small things that CrossFit New England does well, how I think about building stronger relationships, and ways to make our lives simpler.

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👉🏼 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain.

👉🏼 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter, podcaster, and creator of Functional Branding.

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0:00.0	If it's 5.25 at night and I have 37 unread emails, but I also know that I want to get home to my family for family dinner.
0:10.1	Mm-hmm. That's not simple anymore.
0:12.9	Like that's a lot, that's a lot, there's a lot of layers of complexity into that.
0:16.0	Like what do I do?
0:17.8	And if you are able to prioritize ahead of time, how these things stack, well then you don't need to make that decision at that point.
0:26.5	So for me, it's always going to be, if it push comes to shove, if it's what begins to, it's family is going to come first.
0:33.5	Like it's just, it is.
0:35.5	So in that situation, I'm going to go home.
0:38.5	Similar to that is Heather's dad, my father-in-law got sick a while back.
0:45.5	And you know, I own a couple of businesses and I coach athletes, I have a lot of things to do and meetings today.
0:51.5	But because I have that set up ahead of time, I know the priority.
0:56.5	When he got sick, she called me in the car on my way to work and I just, without even, I just turned my car around.
1:03.5	And she's like, no, you got to go to work. I know you have this, this, this, this to do today.
1:06.5	And it was like, no, it's really easy, Heather, to do this.
1:10.5	That will be okay. I'll just do, I'll get everything covered, like as we are driving down, you know, it's Connecticut, the next state over.
1:16.5	So again, it makes it really simple to make some harder decisions.
1:21.5	If you make the decisions ahead of time by prioritizing.
1:24.5	We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control.
1:29.5	That taking absolute ownership of how we eat, sleep, train, think and connect with each other is how we'll optimize our health and happiness.
1:37.5	That chasing excellence is how we grab hold of what is possible.
1:41.5	Our mission is to live on the run.
1:43.5	Always chasing, never stop.
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