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Chasing Excellence

Our 5 Factors Year in Review: Mindset, Sleep, & Connection (Part 2)

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

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

4.8 β€’ 2.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The three factors that get deprioritized most often - mindset, sleep, and connection - are the ones that quietly determine everything else.

In Part 2 of our Year in Review, we tackle why winning your morning actually starts the night before, how to build emotional resilience by returning to center faster, and why deepening friendships as an adult requires the same intentionality you'd give to training.

We explore what it means to make health your organizing principle in a culture where the default path leads to dysfunction, and why 70-80% of people now live with at least one chronic disease.

You'll learn the daily practices that keep us grounded - from check-in questions to Sunday brain dumps - and why connection through service strengthens relationships more than grand gestures ever could. Being healthy today isn't about optimization - it's about swimming against the current just enough to not drift downstream.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we dive into the episode, quick reminder, the Chase Tracker app is now available exclusively

0:05.2

for Chase Club members.

0:07.5

It's the easiest way to track your five factors of health and stay consistent with what

0:11.6

matters.

0:12.6

Join us, chasingexcellance.mail.

0:15.0

All right, let's get into it.

0:20.5

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to the show. I'm here. Quick solo introduction. If you tuned in last

0:29.5

week, of course, you know that Ben and I are in the midst of a two-part conversation,

0:34.8

reviewing our five factors. We look back on the year and we're talking about

0:40.7

the things we changed, the things we added, the things that evolved, and the reasons why across

0:46.6

our training, our mindset practices, our nutrition, our sleep habits, and our attempts at connection.

0:56.3

Last week, Ben and I tackled training and nutrition.

1:00.0

This time around, we have sleeping and thinking and connecting.

1:05.8

And again, if you listened last week, you know that this was a slightly unplanned two-part episode.

1:12.1

And so this episode, we're just jumping right into the middle.

1:16.1

So apologies for any abrupt starts.

1:19.8

But if you haven't listened to last week, I hope you do.

1:23.0

You don't need to to listen to this one, but they do work nicely in tandem.

1:28.4

All right, without any further ado, let's go.

1:31.4

We went through training and eating.

1:33.6

Let's keep on rolling.

1:34.5

Let's talk about sleep.

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