And if you're worried about not being able to go to a celebration that might go until 10-15 at night

for people that are close to you because it's going to affect your bedtime,

but yet you've slept over seven hours every other night that week, we got to lighten up.

We got to live our lives and recognize that living life is actually the purpose of life

and these routines and practices are there to make sure that we are in a place to do these things

so that we can have these amazing experience, we can connect with other people.

Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick Cummings

and I was always joined by Ben Bergeron. Every week here 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 to help us chase what truly matters.

Thank you so much as always for joining us. How are you Ben doing? Great. Patrick, thank you.

We are recording this obviously prior to, but this episode is going to come out during

the CrossFit Games and so can you please tell me what the first couple of workouts are?

Can you tell me a version of Helen? That's true, actually. We do know that. That just came out.

There we go. And so I wish the future Ben and the future Cole all the best this week

as you guys tackle the CrossFit Games. This week though, what we've got in this episode,

we've got listener questions about whether recovery drinks are necessary, the difference between

complaining and telling people what's up and any recommendations we may have for parenting books.

Our workout this week is going to be a conversation about what to do and people think that chasing

excellence is a selfish endeavor and to celebrate the CrossFit Games. We are going to run

down your top 10 favorite games events at least so far. And we can maybe revisit after this

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