And the Hello and welcome back to chasing excellence a show about chasing what

truly matters my name is Patrick Cummings as always I'm here with Ben Bergeron. How are you, Bob?

I'm doing good. It's springtime in New England, so. I know, nothing better. Don't want to be influenced by external factors,

but I'm weak and I am. Sun makes me happen.

I'm sitting next to an open window I can hear birds shirping.

I'm right there with you.

Welcome back everybody to the show.

This week we're going to do something a little bit different for us. This is kind of one of those things that I was

excited about playing with as we got into this new format as we started playing around with

slightly different episodes than we've done before.

A few episodes ago, a listener sent us a question and inside of that question was a quote from

Bruce Lee.

I'm just going to read it again real quick for folks to remind them.

Quote, don't speak negatively about yourself even as a joke.

Your body doesn't know the difference.

Words are energy and cast spells.

That's why they call it spelling.

Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.

What you're not changing, you're also choosing. We're not

going to talk about that quote anymore. We did talk about that a little bit

when it first came up but it didn't get me on a little bit of a Bruce Lee rabbit hole

and I ended up on YouTube watching some videos of him and from him not

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