Why are we so stressed and overwhelmed? Why do we have clear & compelling goals but fail to reach them? How can we want to change so desperately yet make choices that keep us from that change? Because we keep focusing on the habits we want instead of building the skill of consistency that allows us to achieve them. Consistency is a skill. It's a superpower. It isn't one-size-fits all. It unlocks any door and makes every goal achievable. A more effective, realistic approach starts here.
What if every discretionary purchase became a choice between the thing and the money?
In this episode, I’m sharing a spending experiment I’ve started after realizing something simple and slightly painful:
Everything you see used to be money.
The clothes. The furniture. The random Amazon purchase. The thing you bought because it was on sale. The thing you barely use.
So now, before I buy something, I’m asking a differe...
Give me the ONE thing you’re sick of starting over with. Give me four weeks.
The Four-Week DEFENSE Build starts September 8, and I’m keeping this group intentionally small because this isn’t about spending four weeks learning DEFENSE.
It’s about implementing it around your specific problem, with my eyes on it with you.
Bring me the thing you know how to do, have probably done successfully many times, but someho...
What if the reason you keep starting over is because you’ve been focused on the wrong part of the problem?
For years, every time I stopped doing what I said I was going to do, I treated it like a starting problem.
When should I start again?
What should I do this time?
What’s the new plan?
Except starting was never the part I needed help with.
I needed to understand why I kept stopping.
This pattern showed up most painfully for...
You really did mean it when you made the plan.
You were motivated. The goal felt urgent. You were clear about what you wanted and what you were willing to do to get there.
But the person who makes the plan and the person who has to negotiate with that plan later often have very different priorities.
In this episode, we’re talking about what happens when the version of you who wants the long-term outcome runs into the version of ...
Tuesday, September 1st. 7pm Eastern. Two hours, live with me.
A comprehensive DEFENSE workshop to find your specific vulnerabilities: the exact places your follow-through breaks down, why it breaks there, and what to do about it. Plus the DEFENSE Master Playbook, eighty-plus pages, yours to keep.
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There was never a moment you decid...
What if the enemy's greatest weapon isn't pain... but comfort?
We've been taught to put ourselves first, protect our peace, and give ourselves what we want. While much of that started from a healthy place, I wonder if we've swung too far.
What if, in the pursuit of self-care, we've confused care with comfort?
In this episode, I explo...
Successful people ask for help. So why is it so hard to do?
A client of Amy Porterfield's said something that stopped me: though she was resistant to asking for help, staying stuck finally felt worse than asking.
Listen for the biggest change I've made in my business since we started in 2014. I'm excited and I hope you are!
Thanks for being here for the last 12 years! Here's to the next great chapter!
I'm being 100% serious: maybe you should throw away the word consistency entirely, and the pursuit of it, and in this episode I'm going to tell you exactly why this might be the breakthrough you didn't know you needed.
The August cohort of DEFENSE Foundations starts today. This is the last chance to join us. If this episode landed, elizabethbenton.com/defense. This is the final chance ever for pay what you...
In this episode I walk you through three real examples of what defense actually looks like — two from clients, one from my own life — and the single move underneath all three. You'll hear why the frozen-pizza night is never really about the pizza, how to stop freezing when "I should already know better" keeps you stuck, and the exact question ...
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Nothing has cost me more than the choices that felt completely reasonable.
When something is true, you don't question it. Why would you? And that is exactly how you end up doing all the right things for years and still not getting anywhere near where you actually want to go.
This one answers the question so many of you emailed after the last episode. How do you know when ...
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For four years I could have told you, honestly, every right thing I was doing with my health. Ate well. Ate protein. Didn't binge eat. Didn't drink. Worked ou...
An NFL quarterback's coach gives him one rule on game day. No phone. Not less phone. None. Because of what it does to him before he's even taken a snap: how he sees, how fast he sorts what matters from what doesn't, how much noise he carries onto the field.
Most of us start every day the exact way ...
I canceled my birthday party a few days before it happened. Everybody was invited. The childcare was booked. And I called the whole thing off.
Not because anything went wrong. Because I asked myself four questions, and by the time I...
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My kids planted zinnias, and then they stopped growing. They came through the dirt and just sat there, day after day, doing nothing. I was ready to take a chainsaw to a tree over it.
Last week the Supreme Court ruled seven to two in favor of Bayer-Monsanto, and it changes the rules for anyone who gardens, farms, or eats food grown in this country. Notice they did not go to the highest court in the land to prove Roundup is safe. They went to argue that even if it causes cancer, you are no longer allowed to sue them in your own state for failing to warn you.
In this episode I walk you al...
Don't miss this. This episode comes down on July 1.
The most expensive sentence I've ever said is "I'll start tomorrow." Not because I said it once, but because I said it every day for years, quietly, in the area of my life that mattered most. When I recently asked you on Instagram what keeps you from following through, more than half of you named the same thing I struggled with: procrastination.
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