1354: If You're Always Last on Your List…

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

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever told yourself "I don't have time to take care of myself" because you're too busy taking care of everyone else — this one's for you.

Whether it's your kids, your job, your partner, aging parents, or your community — a lot of us are constantly pouring out… while running on empty.

In this episode, I'm sharing a concept from CrossFit — "core to extremity" — and how it changed the way I think about showing up for others. We're talking about where real strength comes from, what happens when we don't start at the center, and how taking care of yourself first is not selfish — it's strategic.

If you feel stretched thin or burned out, this might be the reframe you didn't know you needed.

🧠 What You'll Learn in This Episode:

What CrossFit taught me about power and strength — and how it applies to your life
The lie behind "I don't have time for myself"
What happens when you serve from depletion vs. strength
A new way to think about self-care (that's not bubble baths and yoga pants)
What I learned during one of the hardest seasons of my life — and how I show up differently now

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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.
0:29.4	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. Thanks so
0:35.7	much for joining me. Okay. if you are somebody who feels like
0:39.6	you always put yourself last, maybe you're a mom, maybe you're a caregiver, maybe you're a
0:45.3	volunteer or the boss or an employee who's always looking to like take care of everything at work
0:50.9	and then you don't have anything left to give yourself. Maybe you're all of the above.
0:54.2	I hear this all the time.
0:56.0	And I even recognize a lot of these patterns in my own thinking.
0:59.4	Like, I want to do all of these things.
1:01.4	But by the time I take care of everybody else, there's just nothing left for me.
1:04.7	There's no energy left.
1:05.7	There's no time left.
1:08.0	And while there are elements of truth in that, there's also elements of untruth in that, right?
1:14.9	We'll call this a perspective, not necessarily the way, the rock solid truth.
1:21.9	And so I want to introduce to you a concept that I learned, actually when I was getting my
1:26.7	CrossFit level one, that hopefully will start to help you break down this story so that it doesn't hold you back.
1:34.7	Because the truth of the matter is, you can use this forever to let yourself off the hook
1:39.2	and to be the scapegoat for you not being where you want to be or how you want to be or who you want to be.
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