Surround yourself with people who want to see you win. No drama, no complaining, no gossip, just good vibes and positivity.

If they are toxic, that doesn't fit into the prescription.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence.

My name is Patrick Cummings.

As always, I am joined by Ben Bergeron.

Every week on the show, we dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life of better health and increase fulfillment.

We answer your questions about the five factors of health, die deep on living a life of excellence

and explore the strategies and frameworks to help us chase, which really matters.

Thank you so much for joining us. How are you Ben?

Doing great. Really good, Pat. Thanks.

I'm excited about. I never called you, Patrick. I know.

That was my name pretty much until college and then I once you get to college you're like you can kind of

Reus reaffirm your identity and I just started having people call me Patrick

So it's been a while we We've got this episode. We've got

listener questions about taking concrete steps toward a weight loss goal, some

simple and effective recovery methods, and transferring what we do in the gym

to what we do outside the gym to what we do outside the gym.

Our workout, our main chat is this week will be a conversation on how to deal with folks who just don't

understand why we make the decisions we do and we will wrap up with another recommendation or round of recommendations, things we've been enjoying and would love folks to know more about.

Let's get right into it with our warm-up. We start each episode with your questions about the five factors of health, those few fundamental behaviors that most positively affect our performance, vitality and longevity. Five factors are how we eat, how we move, how we think, how we connect, and how we recover.

Just one more reminder, I'm going to keep reminding folks if you would like to get to the top of the

queue to get into a future episode with your questions, head to Chasing Excellence email.

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