Hello and welcome to Chasing Excellence.

Show about living a life of better health and increased fulfillment.

On Tuesdays we dropped full episodes where we answered your questions and dive deep

of what it means to chase what really matters.

On Fridays we do a quick set where we either dig through the show's archive for little

bits of wisdom worth resurfacing or we grab a snippet from another podcast we've been

on that we wanted to share.

This week we've got a clip from an episode we did in February of 2021.

The full episode was called Overcoming Excellence Fatigue.

Started with a question about how to better exist inside the gap that we all know, the

gap between where we are and where we want to be.

This was Ben's response.

You're not supposed to be awesome at this.

There's this big differentiation between pursuing betterment and pursuing perfection.

We are not pursuing perfection and if you hold yourself to that ideal you're going to

consistently, I will consistently come up short and I struggle with this for a few years

which it was like I'm trying to read this.

I'm trying to have these meetings.

I'm trying to have a mentorship group.

I'm trying to meditate and journal in the morning.

I'm trying to live a life true to my core values.

I'm trying to use the principles to guide my actions, decisions, behaviors.

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