Hello and welcome to Chasing Excellence, a show about living a life of better

health and increased fulfillment. On Tuesdays we drop full episodes, but we answer

your questions and dive deep. And what it means to chase what truly matters. On

Fridays we do a quick set, where we either dig through the show's archives for

little bits of wisdom or resurfacing, where we grab a snippet from another

podcast we've been on that we wanted to share. This week we're going back to

2019, specifically September of 2019, those innocent days of 2019 to an

episode we called How to Control Outcomes before we get into it, a shout out to

Sarah and Journey of a podcast called The Oat Life. They recently put something up

on Instagram about this episode many, many years later saying I didn't realize

how much we referenced this one specific episode on our podcast. Highly

recommend you give this episode a listen. So thank you to Sarah and Journey for

bubbling this episode back up. It may be go back and relisten to it to remind

myself of what it was all about the link to the full episode if you're interested

is in the show notes. We kicked it off by talking about the importance and the

struggle of focusing on what we control. So let's take it from there. Why do so

many people so often fail to realize this what you said at the beginning, which

is this fundamental truth. And as you're talking, I'm thinking about

stoicism is so very much fundamental and that's 2000 years old. And stoicism is

predicated on philosophy that's even older than that. Yeah. So clearly this is

something that most people most of the time struggle with. How have you gotten to

a place where it's so clear to you that this is the answer. Well it's clear to

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