216: A Powerful Strategy To Conquer Inconsistency
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes we think we can out-smart ourselves. We think that with enough willpower, grit & determination, we can out-smart ourselves. I don't think that's too effective.
I want to help you work WITH yourself, not against yourself. In today's episode, I want to help you conquer inconsistency and self-sabotage but helping you understand why we so often give in and what we can do to be more strategic in our approach.
Today is all about how your subconscious works. In short, it will always look to avoid pain and seek pleasure. This is simply part of how we are wired for survival.
This can work powerfully in our favor or staunchly against us, depending on what we do and how we think.
Unfortunately, most people have, through years of failed diets and giving up on themselves, associated far more pain with the achievement of their goals than pleasure. Today, we're changing that.
Making some straight-forward adjustments to how you think about your goal can accelerate your progress and improve your life!
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Conquer Inconsistency
One of the first strategies I talk about in today's episode is identifying your existing pleasure & pain associations. First, establish your goal. Then, free associate all the painful or negative words, thoughts & feelings associated with the achievement of that goal. Then, free associate all of the positive words, thoughts & feelings associated with the achievement of that goal.
Then identify the opposite of your goal and go through the same process - create a list of all the positive and negative associations you have with whatever is opposite your goal.
Intentionally build the list of pleasurable associations related to the achievement & pursuit of your goal.
"You can't change what's going on around you until you start changing what's going on within you" ~ Zig Ziglar
Don't be a part of the problem, be a part of the solution.
Focus as much of your energy as possible on what you can do to make the achievement of your goal positive, exciting and fulfilling. Stop putting energy towards why it's hard, frustrating or negative.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.7 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.3 | Hello my friends. Welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:29.8 | I am so glad you're here. I hope your day is going well and even if it's not, |
| 0:34.7 | you are here now and hopefully we can turn that around over the next few minutes that we will spend |
| 0:40.5 | today. And I am going to dive into a topic that I actually, I haven't talked about yet on the |
| 0:46.1 | podcast. I talk about it within my Breaking Barriers course, which is an online course on |
| 0:52.3 | overcoming self-limiting beliefs, destructive habits, like emotional eating, self-sabotage, |
| 0:56.7 | things like that. And I want to give you a sneak peek into one of the lessons related to how |
| 1:03.7 | we think because I am seeing this as a trend in the emails I have back and forth with you guys |
| 1:10.5 | within my fat loss fast tracks. And it's about whether we associate pain or pleasure with our |
| 1:19.4 | fat loss goals, our physique improvement goals or just the pursuit of goals in general. |
| 1:25.0 | I want to help you understand why these associations, these perspectives that we've chosen |
| 1:31.0 | matter so much. Why we're talking about this instead of nutrition or fitness. Your perspective |
| 1:38.8 | very well could be without you even knowing it, seriously holding you back, setting you up for |
| 1:44.9 | inconsistency, self-doubt and even self-sabotage. So I want to talk to you about these pleasure and |
| 1:50.5 | pain associations and then what you can do to remove this barrier so that you see more results. |
| 1:59.2 | What I go into in Breaking Barriers is how most of us associate more pain with the pursuit of our |
| 2:07.3 | goals, more negative things with the pursuit of our goals than we do pleasure. Most of us associate |
| 2:13.2 | things like missing out frustration, deprivation with the pursuit of our goals. When we talk about |
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