154: How To Make Small Choices Count
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
I used to talk myself into indulgences & exceptions by saying things like, "This one thing won't hurt" or "it doesn't make a difference." But the small choices can hurt and one thing does make a difference. In today's episode we're talking about how to make the small choices count.
One of the tough things about food choices is that they don't usually have immediate negative consequences but they do often have immediate positive consequences.
What do I mean?
Well, if you have a handful of M&Ms, your pants aren't immediately tighter but you do get an immediate sugar rush.
Imagine if our bodies responded to food the way Pinocchio's nose responded to lies. Whoa. Game changer, right?
Even though we can't see or feel immediate negative consequences, that doesn't mean they aren't there.
Today's episode is a short one but helps you see that nothing is without consequence, nothing is free and everything is either an investment in our health or costs us our health.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Menden. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.8 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.4 | Let's get started. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | I am Elizabeth Menden and today it's going to be a shorter, we'll call it a mini-sode, |
| 0:35.5 | right? |
| 0:36.5 | But I want to address something that has been coming across my inbox and I really believe |
| 0:41.4 | is an issue for most people, whether they're emailing me about it or not. |
| 0:46.8 | I want to talk about those small choices that feel insignificant, like they don't matter, |
| 0:54.0 | they feel inconsequential, but I want to talk about them because they are significant, |
| 1:00.8 | they do have consequences. |
| 1:03.9 | But how do we bring our attention to the moment when they feel so minor to understand that |
| 1:11.7 | the repeated small choices really are significant, really do matter, how can we tap into that |
| 1:19.4 | moment to train ourselves out of telling ourselves that it doesn't matter, it's not a big |
| 1:26.0 | deal, it won't move the needle. |
| 1:28.6 | I get a lot of emails from people who are struggling with the moment, right? |
| 1:34.2 | That time when you have to make a decision. |
| 1:38.4 | They so easily and effectively talk themselves into choices that afterwards they're like, |
| 1:45.1 | why did I do that? |
| 1:47.4 | And those little small choices that we so easily talk ourselves into, they can create a snowball |
| 1:53.7 | effect. |
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