1328: It’s Supposed to Be Hard (And That’s the Point)

CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

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

5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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🔥 Episode Summary:

We live in a world where nearly everything has gotten easier—instant access, on-demand answers, next-day delivery. And while that’s convenient, it’s come at a cost: we’ve lost our tolerance—and even our appreciation—for doing hard things.

In this episode, Elizabeth explores how we’ve subtly begun to expect ease, resent effort, and resist anything that feels difficult. But what if hard isn’t bad? What if it’s exactly what we need to grow, build pride, and take our lives to the next level?

This isn’t an anti-social media rant. It’s a call to build your capacity for effort—and to reclaim the power of doing hard things on purpose.

🧠 In This Episode:

Why expecting things to be easy is sabotaging your growth
How convenience culture is reshaping your mindset (and what to do about it)
The difference between “easier” and “better”
Practical ways to train yourself to embrace difficulty
How to rebuild pride in discipline, resilience, and follow-through

💪 Practical Takeaways:

Choose small inconveniences on purpose to build mental toughness
Finish something hard—especially when motivation is gone
Delay ease to build strength (mentally and emotionally)
Practice stillness and discomfort without distraction
Reframe struggle as a training ground—not a punishment

📣 Share This Episode If:

You feel like you're always searching for a new "hack" or "plan"
You’re tired of starting over every Monday
You’ve ever thought: “Why is this so hard for me when it seems so easy for everyone else?”

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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.
0:29.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.
0:34.4	Thanks so much for joining me today. We're going to talk about how it's
0:38.4	supposed to be hard. Pursuing your goals and living this life wasn't ever meant to be easy.
0:47.8	And somehow we have made hard this thing we resent and we try to avoid, right? Somewhere along the way. And we're going to talk
0:56.9	about why and how and all of that. Somewhere along the way, we started believing that progress and
1:01.4	growth and change should be easier than they actually are. And we started believing that if
1:05.0	something is hard, that is bad, that is wrong. And I want to challenge that today. First,
1:10.3	though, you might already be thinking
1:12.2	like, hard, hmm, Elizabeth, I feel like you've talked about this recently. I did an episode on how
1:17.0	hard doesn't have to be the headline. And then if hard is the headline, you're subconsciously
1:21.3	orienting yourself towards relief instead of results. I stand by that. I think that was episode
1:25.4	1294, 1296. Don't quote me on that.
1:28.5	But the reason that that is true, the reason that if you lead with like, oh, this is so hard,
1:33.9	you're orienting yourself towards relief and not results is because of the fact that so many
1:38.6	of us think we don't want it to be hard. It shouldn't be hard. We want it to be easier.
1:44.1	And it's that part that I want to help you flip today.
1:49.0	Because hard isn't bad. Hard isn't the problem.
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