CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
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.
Episodes
There's a trap keeping a lot of us from what we want, and most of us walked into it again this week.
It goes like this. We're not where we want to be. With our health, our money, our marriage, our kids. And we think, "I just need someone to tell me the thing. This book is going to be the one. This is what's going to make it click."
So we read the book. We get the freebie. We take the course. We sign up for the webinar. We follow one ...
The most helpful thing I ever told a client was to eat nine pieces of Halloween candy.
For weeks she’d promised herself “none,” and for weeks it hadn’t worked once. Nine worked right away. Less than 10 days later, she wasn’t eating the candy at all. In this episode, I break down why, and what makes the next plan different from the last hundred.
In this episode:
- Why the plan you know you should follow ...
How I Get Out of Overwhelm in Under a Minute: The Fix No One Taught You
Most of the overwhelm you’ll feel this week will come from trying to solve things it isn’t time to solve yet.
After I wrote about this on Substack, a lot of you asked me to go deeper, so in this episode I do. You’ll hear:
- Why the amount on your plate matters a lot less than you think
- What a text about our empty egg box taught me about mental m...
If you can tell me what time tomorrow you're most likely to struggle, you already have what you need to stop it.
Most of us know exactly when we fall off. The dinner we didn't plan. The workout that gets pushed until the day is gone. The afternoon that starts overwhelmed and scattered. We know what to do, we know we're not doing it, and we even know why. And still, we keep getting caught off guard, the same way so many of us get cau...
Think about the best personal development book you’ve ever read. Now name the five most valuable things you learned from it.
I can’t do it either.
And that got me thinking about how much we’ve expected information to do for us. It’s not enough to learn something valuable. You have to remember it, access the right piece at the exact moment you need it, and know how to apply it to the situation you’re actu...
What if the most useful thing you’ve ever learned could actually find you when you needed it?
Think about how many times you’ve read a book, listened to a podcast, sat through a sermon or heard something in a coaching conversation and thought:
Oh my gosh. I need to remember that.
Then real life happens.
Six weeks later, you’re in the argument. Standing in the kitchen. Making the decision. Talking yourself out of the t...
I usually try to say hard things gently. This episode is what happens when I stop softening them.
I’m sharing three opinions I feel strongly about, even though they may make some people uncomfortable. We’re talking about the attention we keep giving to fear, the resources we leave unused, and one choice many people will deeply regret continuing to postpone.
None of this is coming from a place of having it all figured out....
In 100 days, it will be 2027. And in case that sounds like plenty of time, 2016 was ten years ago.
In this episode, I’m sharing the commitment I’ve made for the final 100 days of the year: to stop casually participating in the erosion of my own potential.
This isn’t another rigid challenge. I’ve identified four parts of my life I’m no longer willing to leave exposed: my space, my money, my body, and my j...
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 ...
Enrollment is open for the August DEFENSE cohort — and this is your last chance for pay-what-you-can pricing before the cart closes July 31. Grab your spot: elizabethbenton.com/defense/
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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