Hello and welcome back to the vault, this 10-part bingeable series. We're not just talking about

consistency. We are helping you build it from the ground up. I am Elizabeth Benton, host of the

Primal Potential Podcast. We've got almost 2,000 episodes over there. But one of the things that we

talk about again and again and again and again is the need to build this foundational

skill of consistency. So I wanted to put together this 10-part series to give you what you need

to do just that. And today we're diving into the difference between having a plan and being

prepared. So often we get the plan part down, but not the preparation part. We're going to be

talking about predictive power and how if something can be predicted, it can be prevented. And we're

going to be talking about the necessity of spotting yellow flags before they turn red. Let's get right into it. Okay, a lot of people think,

if I just had the right plan, then I'd be consistent. This wasn't the right plan for me.

This didn't work for me. And more often than not, that's not true. Plans are easy. Plans are clean.

Plans can work. But preparation, that is the force of follow-through. And we usually put way more

effort into our plans than our preparation. A plan is a decision. A plan is

intellectual. Preparation is a strategy and preparation requires action. See, a plan doesn't

require any action. A plan is just making decisions ahead of time. The plan says I'm going to the

gym four days a week.

Preparation says, all right, when? What happens when I'm tired? When my kid is sick, next Thursday,

when I have a late meeting, what's going on there? A plan says, I'm going to do all my meal prep on

Sunday. And preparation says, I've got the food, I've got the ingredients.

I know when I'm making the chicken.

I know what I'm doing with the sweet potatoes.

A plan without preparation is pretty worthless.

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