226: Slow Down To Go Faster
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
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🗓️ 3 September 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, we actually hold ourselves back in our attempt to make rapid progress.
More often than not, we have to slow down to go faster.
In today's podcast, I'm talking about how doing less, focusing on fewer things and slowing down your thoughts can actually accelerate your progress towards your goals.
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Slow Down To Go Faster
In today's episode, we're covering how to take a step back, simplify, and create a baseline to avoid frustration, and achieve your goals.
You want results NOW. Trust me, I've been there. You hit the ground running and you are doing EVERYTHING you can think of to get to your end goal. But are you doing too much, too soon? Are you considering the sustainability of your actions? Do your intentions match your actions? And are your actions consistent?
Does our motivation exceed our training?
Often times, we create false fantasy plans in our head that do not reflect the reality of our actions. We set a baseline so high that it may not be doable at our current training and commitment level. The fantasy plans and inability to stick to these crazy expectations lead very quickly to frustration, which can easily turn into quitting altogether.
Breaking the cycle
Breaking free is about doing less. I really believe that you can achieve MORE when you do LESS. The key is separating the fantasy plans from reality.You must build a base that you can obtain, and grow from there. Your base will help you break free from food obsession and yo-yo dieting.
Revisit the 80/20 Rule
The 80/20 Rule is simply 80% of your results stem from just 20% of the things you do, the actions you take. Focus your energy on the 20% of actions that are truly effective and ditch the 80% that doesn't.
Turn off the thought faucet
It is so hard to slow down when our minds are moving at 100 miles per hour. When you catch yourself bouncing all over the place in your thoughts, slow down and focus on RIGHT NOW.
Don't create big plans that you can't execute that then create feelings of failure. Instead, pick one thing to focus on each week. After the week has ended evaluate your progress on that one thing. Take those evaluations and go from there making one change for the next week. These changes will become habits that you can sustain and create a healthy lifestyle that reaches your end goals.
Resources
Episode 221: Turn Off the Thought Faucet
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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. |
| 0:21.2 | Let's get started. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. |
| 0:28.3 | I am Elizabeth Benton and I'm super glad that you are back again today for another episode where |
| 0:35.9 | I want to share with you about a topic that came up recently. I have the great opportunity to record |
| 0:42.8 | a couple of episodes for my good friend Ella's podcast on air with Ella and while the two topics |
| 0:48.9 | that we tackled were very different from each other, there was a common thread between them. |
| 0:55.6 | And this common thread is a common problem that I see often, that she sees often, that she and I |
| 1:02.0 | have both struggled with in our own lives and it's where people with good intentions, great intentions |
| 1:09.7 | are getting in their own way and I've decided to kind of share my thoughts in a little bit more |
| 1:15.0 | detail about it today and this problem that I want to dive into with you is being in a race for |
| 1:25.1 | results. Trying to do too much too soon without giving thought to whether or not it's sustainable |
| 1:33.3 | because all that matters is results, right? And I understand this because I lived it. |
| 1:40.0 | I felt desperate for results and I would do anything but here's what's not being said in that, |
| 1:49.9 | okay? If you are somebody who is thinking right now I'll do anything to lose the way. |
| 1:54.8 | I'll do anything to have the body that I want to be as healthy as I want to be. I want to pause |
| 2:02.0 | and I want to tell you what's completely dishonest about what I just said. I said that I was desperate |
| 2:09.4 | and I would do anything but it wasn't really true. That was a story I was telling myself and not only |
| 2:16.1 | did I tell myself that story, I told anybody that would listen that story like no, no, no, you don't |
| 2:19.6 | understand. I will do anything to lose this weight but my effort, my work didn't really reflect |
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