Hello and welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. If you have ever made a

plan that you genuinely believed would work and you felt excited about it and you felt committed to

the goal, the goal mattered to you, and then watched yourself not follow through. This episode's for you.

And that pattern has very little to do with the plan.

And it has a lot to do with a core pattern in your life that you haven't addressed yet.

And it has a lot to do with a need for defense that you probably haven't realized exists.

See, most people, when they have this long-held pattern of creating a plan and not following

through or like doing well for a little while and then falling off a cliff, they think the problem

is either motivation or the details of the plan or that they don't want

it enough. But if you have a core pattern that is eroding your follow through and you either

don't know it or you don't address it, it's going to follow you into every single plan that you

make. And that's what we are talking about today.

We're talking about that moment where things start to slip. This is a time of year, at least

where I live. I live in the United States, and so March is where we're starting to think that

like spring is around the corner.

And I'm starting to look at my bins of spring summer clothes and thinking about packing up my

sweaters and the corduroys and all of the winter, winter gear of a of a New England gal.

And we start thinking about like being at the beach or wearing our bathing

suit. Or for a lot of people that I've talked to, they're feeling the effects of the fact that

maybe part of the way they got through the winter was overspending. And it was something to do when

there wasn't as much to do because the days were shorter and there wasn't as

much sunlight and the weather was kind of gross and so you're maybe feeling that pressure of like,

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