Not everything that we do needs to be in service of some

arbitrary, undefined, and unguaranteed future state. We can have joy for the sake of joy and

fun and pleasure for this moment because this moment matters too.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here with Ben

Ben Bergeron. That's his actual name. 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 that was chased what truly matters.

Thank you so much for joining us. How are you, Mr. Bean, or Ben, or whatever, how have you been on your name?

Love and life, man. Good to see you as always. We've got this week, this episode, listen to questions about how to

snack better, starting a new career as a coach and knowing how hard to push kids in sports. Our workout will be a

chat about how to balance making wise decisions for our future and fun decisions for our present, and we'll wrap up the

episode with something new. We're going to give you guys permission. You may be seeking to do the thing you should be

doing warm up. We started this episode with your questions about the five factors of health, those few

fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance, vitality, and longevity. Those five factors, how we eat, how we

move, how we think, how we connect, and how we recover. All you ready, sir? Let's go. First questions. It's in the eat category and it's

from Aiden. He says, I've been working on improving my diet. I have no problem meal prepping clean food, but the biggest problem I see

are in snacking. Do you all snack? Do you have suggestions on snacks that lay more on the healthy or clean or super

clean side rather than the processed or sick side? Also are the things that you cook that are great midday snacks. Easiest way to snack well is

to not snack. It's just as human beings, we can go four or five or six. We could go 10 hours without eating,

without anything happening to our health, vitality, performance, or anything else. Not saying that you need to do that though, because you can

snack and you can snack on healthy things, but that's the first place I would start. I really like the way Aiden laid that out. He's

obviously listened to our show in terms of, hey, in terms of the ultra processed and the sick versus the semi processed and the

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