1296: Hard Isn’t the Headline—How to Reorient and Stay Anchored When Life Gets Chaotic

Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

Money, Self-improvement, Inspiration, Transformation, Motivation, Affirmations, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Selfhelp, Weightloss, Education, Loseweight, Goals, Nutrition

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We all have moments where everything feels hard—parenting, food choices, work, motivation. But what if the real problem isn’t the hard?

What if it’s the headline we keep writing about it?

In this episode, we’re talking about how your internal headlines, orientation, and daily anchors shape your progress—or your struggle.

Because it’s not just about effort. It’s about direction.
And if you’re not tethered to the right things, you will drift.

💥 In this episode, I’ll show you:

Why “this is hard” might be the most disempowering headline you can carry
How to reorient yourself toward the person you want to become (instead of defaulting to the person you’ve practiced being)
The powerful metaphor of the barn rope in a snowstorm—and why you need a tether too
How to rewrite your mental headlines to pursue results, not relief

🔁 Core Themes:

📰 1. Hard Doesn’t Have to Be the Headline

If you always lead with “this sucks” or “this is hard,” you’re subconsciously anchoring yourself to the need for relief. That’s why you check out, scroll, snack, or quit. But hard doesn’t have to define your day—or your identity.

🧭 2. Reorient Before You React

Most of us aren’t stuck—we’re just disoriented. We say we want change but keep facing the direction of comfort, distraction, or fear. Progress starts with a pivot. Reorientation is a practice—not a one-time fix.

🪢 3. Tether Yourself to Prevent Drift

Life is a blizzard. Without an intentional tether, you’ll get lost. Whether it’s a weekly check-in, a journaling habit, or a goal review—you need something to hold onto when you’re steps away from quitting.

✨ Quotes Worth Repeating:

“When hard is the headline, we start subconsciously looking for relief instead of results.”

“You don’t need to try harder. You need to reorient.”

“The tether keeps you from drifting when the storm rolls in.”

🧰 Resources Mentioned:

📘 Fat Loss, Simplified – 2025 E-Book: Includes mindset and strategy tools that expand on this episode.
🧭 The Consistency Course: Your full framework for staying anchored, even when life feels chaotic.
📺 YouTube Channel: Free videos and deeper dives beyond the podcast.

💬 Join the Conversation:

What’s your current headline? Are you oriented toward possibility, or stuck staring at the past?
DM me on Instagram @elizabethbenton or reply to this episode to share your story. Let’s keep the conversation going.

Transcript

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0:00.0	If you want to be more consistent, you're in the right place. I'm Elizabeth Benton. Welcome to
0:07.1	Consistent, a podcast by Primal Potential that is for all of you who feel frustrated by your lack of
0:13.3	progress or overwhelmed by all the change that you want to make in your life. Here, we stop frantically
0:20.5	chasing new habits and start
0:22.6	strategically building a structure of consistency. Let's get into it.
0:28.7	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.
0:33.2	Thanks so much for spending some of your time with me. I really appreciate it. I really do
0:37.4	consider this our show. And I am here to help you and support you. Thanks so much for spending some of your time with me. I really appreciate it. I really do consider
0:37.7	this our show. And I am here to help you and support you. And I just love the time that we get to
0:44.1	spend together. Today I want to talk about the way that we craft headlines about our own lives
0:52.4	and our own circumstances, how that influences the progress
0:57.2	that we can make or our likelihood to not make progress at all and stay in the struggle.
1:02.5	Like if you had to create a headline for your role as a parent, what would the headline be?
1:07.8	If you had to create a headline for your health, what would it be?
1:10.8	Because my guess is that a lot of you are like, the headline is starts but never finishes.
1:15.2	The headline is, kind of sucks, right? The headline would not be all that positive. But here's the
1:21.6	deal. First, we need to get on the same page that headlines really matter. If you think about a news
1:27.2	story, the headline shapes everything
1:31.6	that you read or perceive afterwards, right? If you see headlines about an economic crash,
1:38.8	that absolutely filters how you receive any and all of the information that comes afterwards in that moment,
1:45.5	but also days and weeks and months later. If you read a headline that paints somebody in a negative
1:51.9	light, you better believe that that impacts your perception in that moment and also moving forward
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