1356: Rigging The Game Against Yourself (& How To Stop)

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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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A client recently said something that completely stopped me in my tracks:

"My mindset determines the choices I'm going to make. Don't decide from a shitty mindset — otherwise, I've rigged the game against myself."

Mic. Drop.

It immediately made me reflect — how often do we do this? How often do we unconsciously (or consciously) make it harder to follow through, succeed, or feel good?

In this episode, I'm sharing:

What it actually means to rig the game against yourself
How to recognize when you're doing it (with real client stories + examples)
What it looks like to rig it in your favor instead
The mindset shift from "positive" to helpful that changes everything
A journaling prompt to help you create your own breakthrough today

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.
0:29.4	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.
0:35.1	Thanks so much for joining me. A client of mine, one of my clients in the defense program where we drop the offense-only way
0:44.3	of going about creating change, where it's just about the plan and the program and the
0:48.9	protocol.
0:49.2	And instead, we really focus on defense, where things fall apart over and over, and how we get stronger
0:57.1	in those weak spots, how we have a personalized, individualized, iterative response to
1:03.8	those common friction points. And we were coming into, I think it was week seven, and this client of mine messaged me and she said something that I couldn't wait to share with you.
1:15.8	It was so good and so valuable.
1:20.6	She said, I'm realizing that my mindset determines the choices I'm going to make.
1:27.4	And so she said, I can't make a decision
1:30.3	from a shitty mindset. Otherwise, here's where it gets so powerful. She said, otherwise, I've rigged
1:37.7	the game against myself. She said, my mindset determines the choices I'm going to make,
1:43.6	so I can't make a decision
1:44.6	from a shitty mindset. Otherwise, I've rigged the game against myself. And it was such a great way
1:52.6	of saying it, like, hey, the way that we think is either fast-tracking us up to struggle and setback,
2:00.1	an excuse, an exception, or it's pushing us
2:04.9	along towards progress and follow-through and integrity.
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