1340: 3 Strategies for When You Know What to Do but Still Aren’t Doing It

CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

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

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all said it: “I know what to do, I’m just not doing it.”

But here’s the truth: willpower and intention aren’t strategies. That’s why you can have the best plan in the world and still feel stuck.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing 3 fresh approaches that will change the way you think about follow-through — including:

Why discipline flows from identity (and how to rewrite yours in tiny, powerful ways).
What beans in my garden taught me about building reachable steps instead of impossible leaps.
How the Mary Poppins Effect can make consistency feel fun instead of like punishment.

This isn’t about trying harder. It’s about trying smarter, with strategies that actually work for real life.

👉 And if you’re ready to stop going in circles and finally get consistent, this is exactly what we work on inside The Consistency Course. With just 4 months left in the year, imagine what could be different if you stopped waiting and started today. Join us here: The Consistency Course.

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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.
0:29.3	Hello and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.
0:34.7	We talk a lot about what to do when you know what to do, but you aren't
0:40.6	doing it. But today I want to talk about three specific approaches that you can take if that's you.
0:49.6	Because a lot of times we'll tackle it in general, you know, here are some contributing factors and here
0:55.1	are some new ways to think about it. And it doesn't matter if you're like, hey, today's the
0:59.1	day I'm going to eat healthy and breakfast and lunch go great. And by dinner time, you're like,
1:02.9	I don't even care. I'll deal with it tomorrow. It doesn't matter if it's food or it's the way
1:07.7	you approach your budget and knowing what to do there but not doing it or your
1:11.6	fitness or your business or your home care.
1:17.4	Instead of just addressing this like, hmm, what are some general reasons that we show up this way
1:24.1	and how to change it?
1:25.2	I want to give you three very specific approaches that
1:27.9	come up a lot in my weekly conversations with the consistency course. But I want to caution you,
1:35.5	okay? Don't try to do all three. That's how we end up with like this watered down milk toast
1:42.3	effort. Instead, listen for the one that really resonates
1:47.4	most with you, the one that sort of pokes at you or feels like the biggest opportunity,
1:52.0	and really pour yourself into that. Now, some people will just crush it. Now that they have a specific approach, they know what to do,
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