1331: Fix This First — or Your Goals Will Keep Falling Apart

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

🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Why Your Plan Keeps Failing & What to Do Instead

💥 Applications for “Defense” open Monday, exclusively to the waitlist.
We start the week of September 8th.
Only 20 spots.
This is not a public launch.

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Episode Summary:
You’ve got goals. Big ones. You’ve probably got a plan, too. Maybe even a brand-new one you’re excited about. But here’s the question no one’s asking:

Are you so focused on where the boat is going…that you’ve forgotten to fix the holes in the boat?

In this episode, Elizabeth breaks down why your best-laid plans keep breaking down, and why almost every plan, strategy, and program out there makes the same critical mistake: it’s all offense, no defense.

From real estate investments to upcoming vacations, she shares powerful, real-life examples that show you how a defensive strategy can change the game and why skipping it is costing you years of your life and progress.

If you’re tired of doing and undoing the same work, if you feel like you’ve been pursuing the same goal for years with nothing to show for it...this is the episode that explains why.

And it’s the introduction to something brand new.

In this episode, we cover:

The real estate story that sparked this whole conversation
Why we get excited about “the plan” and still fall apart
What a true defensive strategy looks like — in your actual life
Why most programs can’t teach this (but this one will)
The small-group opportunity opening for 20 women only

💥 Applications for “Defense” open Monday, exclusively to the waitlist.
We start the week of September 8th.
Only 20 spots.
This is not a public launch.

🎯 Join the waitlist here
(It’s the only way to be notified when applications open.)

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. Hello everybody and
0:30.9	welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. I've been looking forward to this
0:36.6	episode for a while now. And here's what I want you to do. I am Elizabeth Benton. I've been looking forward to this episode for a while now.
0:39.3	And here's what I want you to do. I want you to think about a goal that you are pursuing.
0:45.6	You might have seven. I probably have 17, maybe 27, maybe 47. Think of a goal that you are pursuing.
0:52.3	And I want you to imagine that the goal is a boat. The representation
0:58.1	of that goal is a boat. Everybody is obsessed with where they want the boat to go because
1:07.4	that feels good and that feels exciting that we get this surge of energy when we
1:11.5	think about where we want to go and how we're going to get there, right? It's almost like planning a vacation when we think about our goals. Like, I'm going to lose 50 pounds. I'm going to do it like this. I'm going to work out like this. I'm going to wake up at this time and I'm going to eat these things and I'm not going to eat these things and I'm going to have this budget and I'm to do this stuff.
1:09.0	Everybody's approach is where you not going to eat these things and I'm going to have this budget and I'm going to do this stuff.
1:34.1	Everybody's approach is where they want the boat to go and how the boat's going to get there.
1:42.7	And the reason that everybody isn't crushing their goals and that so many people feel like they've been working on this thing for so long,
1:45.0	but never really making progress or not sustaining it, never really arriving,
1:49.4	never putting it behind them, like, check next,
1:51.8	is because nobody is fixing the holes in the boat.
1:59.0	Right?
1:59.7	We spend all this time and energy focused on strategy.
2:04.5	But we're not asking, hey, but like what is going to mess us up?
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