1336: The Toxic Fantasy of Doing It “Right”

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

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Your ego will demand a 10… when a consistent 3 would’ve changed your life.

We glorify the grind. We chase the ideal. We obsess over the best way, the most extreme plan, the perfect strategy — and in doing so, we reject the one thing that actually works: consistency at a realistic level.

This episode is a deep dive into the lie that’s been holding you back — the toxic fantasy that you have to “do it right” or not at all. It’s the all-or-nothing trap, dressed up in perfectionism and powered by ego. And it’s keeping you sick, stuck, and afraid.

You think you need a total overhaul.
You think you need discipline, intensity, a fresh start on Monday.
You don’t.

You need to make peace with a 3.
You need to build a life you want to stay in.
Because the perfect plan you can't stick with will never compete with the “good enough” one you do daily.

In this episode:

Why your standards might be the reason you're not making progress
How perfectionism is just a prettier form of procrastination
The hidden ego in “not enough” thinking
What actually builds momentum (and why you're probably skipping it)

This is a call-out — and an invitation.

You don’t need a 10.
You need to stop waiting for one.

👉🏼 If this resonates…

But you want help implementing a plan you want to stay on, consider working with me in The Consistency Course!

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. Welcome
0:31.6	back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton, and I think I might kick your butt a little bit today.
0:39.7	In the most loving way and to be fair, I'm kicking my own butt too. Truly, truly,
0:45.1	this came from me kind of kicking my own tail and then I thought, I need to share this with
0:51.8	everybody else. Everybody else needs a little tail kick every once in a while also.
0:57.5	Here's what happened.
0:59.2	There's this guy on social media.
1:01.4	His name's Jason Kalipa.
1:02.9	He used to be a CrossFit athlete.
1:04.8	Now he's an older guy.
1:06.7	I mean, not older, older is probably my age, but older than the CrossFit athletes.
1:10.8	And he's still really into fitness and he's still really fit.
1:14.9	And he very recently changed his messaging on social media where he's talking to dads.
1:20.4	He's talking to dads and basically saying like, hey, if you're not physically fit, you're not doing all you can to take care of
1:32.1	your family.
1:32.9	And he's saying if you're not physically capable of protecting your family in a crisis,
1:36.7	you're a liability.
1:37.4	Now, don't come at me if you're like, some dads don't have legs.
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