Telling Ourselves Better Stories

We're unpacking what it actually looks like to prepare for a business we can't start yet - using the months before we have land, capital, or customers to test the real model instead of just dreaming about it.Drawing from a listener's question about building an organic-garden and teaching business from the ground up, we talk through why passion alone doesn't guarantee a sustainable business, and how running small, real experiments now beats waiting for someday.It's a conversation about grounding ambition in reality - building awareness of what the numbers actually say, intention around the specific tests worth running today, and action that turns a someday dream into something we can actually sustain, instead of one more good idea left to drift.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're exploring the mindset continuum - the spectrum that runs from a victim mindset through pessimist, optimist, and realist, all the way to a competitor's mindset.We dig into why the stories we tell ourselves shape how we experience hardship, and how becoming aware of which story we're telling is the first step toward moving up the continuum.By training ourselves to meet adversity like a competitor looking for a worthy challenge, we build the awareness, intention, and action that move us toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - and away from drift, dissatisfaction, and disease.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're breaking down zone 2 training - what it actually does physiologically, why elite endurance athletes build so much of their programming around it, and where it fits for the rest of us who aren't training for a marathon or an ultra.We're exploring the difference between what elite endurance athletes need and what builds real, well-rounded fitness for life - strength, mobility, speed, and the ability to move without pain - not just more time in an easy heart rate zone.By treating zone two as one tool among many rather than the whole plan, we build awareness of what actually serves our training, intention around using it wisely, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - instead of drifting toward whatever's trending.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're building a clear and compelling vision for our lives - pulling apart values, purpose, mission, and the one big audacious goal that ties them together.By getting specific about what we want our days to actually look like, not just what we want to have, we build awareness around what matters most to us, intention around the pieces that make a vision real, and action toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - instead of drifting into another year without a clear direction.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're exploring how to mentally survive an endurance challenge so long and grueling that it can swallow your identity before you even begin.By breaking a daunting event into a beginning, middle, and end - and leaning on simple mantras instead of staring down a finish line six hours away - we build awareness of what's actually happening in the moment, intention around pace and fueling, and the action to keep moving when doubt and drift creep in.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're exploring how our beliefs quietly set the ceiling on our actions - and why shifting what we believe is possible might matter more than any strategy we chase.By tracing our results back through our actions to the beliefs underneath them, we build awareness of what's actually driving our outcomes, intention around which beliefs deserve to be rewritten, and action that moves us toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - instead of drift, dissatisfaction, and disease.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're answering a listener's question about letting go of anger after being wronged, without slipping into a victim mindset that keeps us stuck in the past.By leaning on the awareness-intention-action framework and honestly asking ourselves whether we have a problem right now, we build the circle-of-control muscle that turns injustice into acceptance instead of resentment.We also carry that same reframe - right now, you're good - into training and everyday inconveniences, trading catastrophizing self-talk for the steady, present-focused thinking that fuels a life of health, happiness, and purpose.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're answering a listener's question about staying consistent with training during a temporary stretch of long commutes and packed days.Instead of forcing early wake-ups or risking sleep to hit normal training volume, we explore how to build awareness around what's actually controllable, intention around shorter, focused sessions, and action that still moves us toward a life of health, happiness, and purpose - even when the season makes consistency harder.The confidence to temporarily do less, done well, keeps us moving forward instead of drifting into giving up altogether.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're exploring how to replace vague dissatisfaction with real clarity - naming not just who we're becoming, but who we refuse to become, and the values that guide the thousands of small decisions in between.Writing it down turns awareness into direction: once vision, anti-vision, and values are on paper, every day gives us something to measure our choices against, instead of drifting toward a life we never consciously chose.We're building a practice that trades busyness and drift for intention and action, one small decision at a time, on the way to a life of health, happiness, and a heart that's on fire.Read the original essay here.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're digging into a listener question about why mobility and maintenance work is so easy to skip and so hard to prioritize.By treating joint and soft tissue care as something we fold into time we already have - not time we have to find - we build the awareness to spot missed opportunities, the intention to make mobility a daily default, and the action that keeps us moving well and out ahead of the drift, stiffness, and breakdown that come with neglect.Keep Going🐾 Start your Free Trial of the ChaseTracker App❤️‍🔥 Free Newsletter & the Chase ClubReach Out✋🏼 What questions do you have for us?💬 Got feedback? Send Patrick a DM.About the HostsPatrick Cummings is the author of two kids' books and has been building and making things inside the health and fitness world for two decades. Find him on Instagram.Ben Bergeron is the founder of CompTrain, a longtime gym owner and coach, and the author of the bestselling book, Chasing Excellence. Find him on Instagram.About the ShowChasing Excellence is a show dedicated to the daily pursuit of health, happiness, and living with our hearts on fire. Episodes drop Monday through Friday.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.