1306: Do the Work or Wish You Had

Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

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

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This is your wake-up call.
Not because you’re lazy. Not because you’re broken.
But because you’re stuck in patterns that are keeping you from the life you say you want.

In this episode, we’re cutting through the noise with a direct, no-fluff pep talk for the days you’re tempted to quit, coast, or wait for “later.” Whether you’re in a funk, making excuses, or just need a reminder of what’s at stake — this is for you.

You’ll hear about:

Why your comfort zone is costing you more than you think
The brutal truth about giving yourself “a pass”
The mindset that makes success inevitable
How every excuse is a vote for the life you don’t want
Why change won’t happen until you decide it’s non-negotiable

If you keep putting it off, you’re not just delaying the life you want — you’re building regret. You’re either going to do the work, or you’re going to wish you had.

🎧 Listen when you need:

A kickstart after falling off track
A mindset reset on a low-motivation day
A reminder of why your future depends on today’s choices

Want to work with me inside The Consistency Course? Learn more and start now right here!

Tag me on Instagram @elizabethbenton and tell me your favorite moment or biggest takeaway — I want to hear what hit home for you.

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1:05.5	conditions apply. If you want to be more consistent, you're in the right place.
1:12.0	I'm Elizabeth Benton.
1:13.3	Welcome to Consistent, a podcast by Primal Potential that is for all of you who feel frustrated
1:19.3	by your lack of progress or overwhelmed by all the change that you want to make in your life.
1:25.4	Here, we stop frantically chasing new habits and start
1:29.6	strategically building a structure of consistency. Let's get into it. Hello, everybody. Welcome
1:38.5	back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. Don't let my tone of voice fool you. This episode packs a punch.
1:48.0	Let me be, let me just be clear right off the bat. Sometimes we just need a little bit of a kick in the
1:53.3	tail. Sometimes we need to hear it straight because it's easy to continue to coddle ourselves and give ourselves pass after pass,
2:03.1	after pass, after pass. And I'm all for life happens. I mean, I didn't need a kick in the
2:10.5	pants after my daughter died or while my twins were in the NICU for months. There's a time
2:16.6	and a place, right? And so if you're in a
2:19.6	hard, dark season, it's not the season for a kick in the pants. But if you're in the season of
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