The Three Key Priorities, w/ Jon Gilson

Chasing Excellence

Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings

Self-improvement, Crossfit, Holistic Health, Mindset, Selfimprovement, Education, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Goalsetting, Health, Attainability, Fitness

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

How do you set priorities when so many things feel important? That’s our question; we’ve got our friend Jon Gilson here to help answer it. Also, your questions about Zone 2 training, doing work we don’t hate, and outgrowing friends.

Learn more about Optimal Agency here.

Thanks to our sponsors this week: LMNT | Caldera+Lab | UCAN

EXPECT TO LEARN:

📍 What Zone 2 training is and whether CrossFitters need to prioritize it

📍 What to think about when balancing financial security and interesting work

📍 Why it’s important to consider your friend group over the course of a decade

📍 The problem with the Rocks analogy we so often hear

📍 Why Ben thinks we should all be using kitchen scissors more often

GET A QUESTION IN THE QUEUE:

Send Patrick a DM with your Five Factors questions!

ABOUT US:

📍 Ben Bergeron is a best-selling author, coach to 7 CrossFit Games champions, and founder of CompTrain. Find him on Instagram.

📍 Patrick Cummings is a long-time CrossFitter and podcaster. Find him on Instagram.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Chasing Excellence. My name is Patrick
0:05.1	Cummings and I was always I am joined this week by Ben Bergeron. We are also
0:09.4	joined by friend of the show John Gilson. Every week here on the show we
0:14.6	dedicate some time to exploring how we can live a life a better health and
0:17.8	increased fulfillment. We answer your questions about the five factors of health
0:21.4	that are deep on living a life of excellence and explore the strategies and
0:24.6	frameworks to help us chase what truly matters. Thank you so much for joining
0:28.9	us and thank you both for joining me today. How you guys doing? Doing good
0:33.9	path. Doing really good. Yeah. I'm excited about this. The two of you I
0:41.3	thought I was thinking about this prior to recording. I have not worked with
0:44.5	anybody more than the two of you. John you and I started again faster back in
0:50.4	again faster equipment back in 2005 2006 depending on when you want to kind of
0:55.6	count it. We did that out of our crappy little apartment in Brookline
1:00.2	Massachusetts and we grew it to something that I thought was really quite
1:04.5	special. Ben obviously you and I have been working together quite a bit since
1:08.3	again faster. This is really fun for me to have both of you on the both of you
1:12.2	on an episode. Beyond that just kind of like that split duality
1:16.4	from you there's there's John was a coach at CrossFit Boston was where I did
1:21.8	my first CrossFit workout like real CrossFit workout. I done them on my own
1:26.6	with Heather and stuff like that but that was the first affiliate I ever went to
1:30.2	and I can remember I mean we started back then it was like not like it is now
1:35.1	if you did CrossFit and you were within 60 miles you knew the other people you
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ben Bergeron & Patrick Cummings and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.