Wake up guys, there's a real scenario we could be up through this through all of 2021.

That's a real scenario.

And now when you go that we have that paradigm and that view of what we're going to do,

anything short of that is actually a success. When you go it's okay, we'll be done by Christmas

and we're not broken heart.

We are here because we know the outcomes in our lives are within our control.

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. That chasing excellence is how we grab hold

of what is possible. Our mission is to live on the run. Always chasing. Never stop.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of chasing excellence. How are you Ben?

Good. Thank you Patrick. How are you doing?

I'm doing just fine. I'm doing just fine. We are obviously still in our remote edition of the

podcast. For anybody who may be as stumbled into the show within the last six months, usually we

do we did this in the first, we did this in the same room for about the first three years.

For obvious reasons that ceased to be like March, April, somewhere in that range.

And so I started thinking about when the lockdown started happening when the pandemic started

getting serious, at least here in the States, we did a couple episodes talking about what's

going on. We did an episode about in some ways that this is what we've been training for,

this kind of unknown and unknowable. And then we got back into the regular flow of conversations,

regular kinds of episodes. And I was thinking about recently that it might be interesting to

just do a check-in. You and I just kind of do in a check-in to see, I think we're about six months

into this lockdown, into this, you know, what everybody's calling the new normal. And so I wanted to

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