1302: The Real Reason You’re Stuck: Pressure Screams, Priority Whispers

Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

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

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

You don’t need more time — you need fewer false fires.

If you constantly feel like there’s just not enough time, this episode will change the way you see your life — and your to-do list — forever.

Inside the Consistency Course, I hear it every day: “Life got busy. I meant to do XYZ. But the day got away from me.” And the problem isn’t laziness or lack of motivation — it’s the fact that we’ve confused pressure for priority.

We’ve been taught to answer to what’s loud, urgent, and externally expected. But that kind of pressure has nothing to do with what actually matters to us.

In today’s episode, I’ll show you exactly how to stop working in your life — and start working on it. You’ll walk away with tools to clarify your true priorities, protect your time, and reset your habits so they actually reflect what matters most to you.

🔑 In this episode, we’ll unpack:

Why pressure screams louder than priority — and how to stop answering it
The real difference between “need to” and “want to” — and why that distinction matters
Why working in your life is keeping you stuck (and how to start working on your life instead)
The simple perspective shift that reveals what’s really urgent — and what’s just noise
How to protect your most valuable time — even in a full, chaotic life

🧭 Ask yourself:

What are my top three true priorities right now?
Do my habits, calendar, and energy reflect those priorities — or not?
What needs to change so that they do?

📌 Quote to remember:

“You don’t need more time. You need fewer pressures disguised as priorities."
“Most people are working in their lives. Very few are working on them.”

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📘 Learn more about The Consistency Course
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📝 Get the free 20-question workbook at primalpotential.com/consistency-questions

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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.
0:30.9	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I think today's episode is going
0:37.4	to resonate with
0:38.5	just about everybody who hears it because we can all relate to feeling like we don't have
0:46.3	enough time for our priorities. And one of the things that my clients hear me say all the time
0:53.3	is that it's not that we need more time,
0:56.5	it's that we need fewer pressures disguised as priorities. Here's how this comes up almost every
1:05.0	single day inside the consistency course, because I'm always interacting one-on-one with people,
1:10.1	getting one-on-one check-ins from people,
1:12.1	and they'll say, like, I just, there's not enough time. And they're not saying it in a,
1:15.8	in a whiny way or a lazy way. These are capable, driven, accomplished individuals pulled in
1:22.7	a hundred directions, probably like you are, probably like I am. And the story goes like this, like life got busy
1:29.1	and the day got away from me. And I know I said I was going to do X, Y, and Z, but I didn't do it because I was
1:34.8	doing all of these other things. Here's what I want you to really key in on. In business, there's this
1:40.5	concept that you're either working in your business or you're working on your
1:44.4	business. And the reason that a lot of businesses fail is because they are so busy working
1:50.2	in their business that they decide they don't have time to work on their business. The time never
1:55.1	arises. And so their business falls apart because they were in the task management. They were
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