Hello everybody welcome back to the primal potential podcast I am Elizabeth Benton

thanks so much for joining me today the other day inside the consistency course we had a really important discussion around the difference between

discipline and will power.

And while we could absolutely go to the dictionary and talk about the actual definitions of these words, it really doesn't matter.

What matters is how you define it and if your definition is serving you. So many times I have clients who say I hate the idea of

discipline. In fact one of my clients said this very very recently I'll read you exactly

what she said she She said, I've never liked the word discipline.

I think it's because I look at it like the military.

She said, I'm an Air Force brat.

And you just have to follow the rules. So it really doesn't matter what the technical definition of discipline is. What matters is what you have made it mean and a lot of folks are struggling because

they are relying on willpower or they think that discipline is a dirty word and they resist any attempts at

creating discipline in their life or programs that rely on discipline and I believe that without discipline we're just setting ourselves up for a tremendous amount of difficulty.

The way that this started I want to share with you how this conversation initiated.

Somebody messaged me and said,

I'm loving, listening to you,

read Chasing Cupcakes on the podcast.

This is my fourth time through the book,

and I don't typically reread stuff unless I'm really hooked into something useful.

It was a life changer for me when I came across it several years ago.

She said in today's podcast reading of chapter one,

you discuss how ineffective it is to rely on willpower

and trying to white knuckle your way through change.

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