570: Drama Queen - How Drama is Slowing Your Progress
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Whether you think you're a drama queen or you're sure you're not, you MUST listen to today's podcast! Drama is draining and every single one of us has room for improvment in our creation of and response to drama. Drama takes the form of assumptions, gossip, worry, rumination over the past and so much more. In case you're still convinced that you're not a drama queen, let's take a minute to get on the same page.
Cy Wakeman defines drama as emotional waste and describes drama as mentally wasteful thought processes and unproductive behaviors that keep you from your potential.
Drama includes:
- Lack of ownership, accountability or committment
- Blaming circumstances or other people for your lack of results
- Arguing with circumstances that are non-negotiable
- Resistance to change
- Spreading gossip
- Projecting (and believing) made up stories instead of focusing on facts
- Defensiveness to feedback
- Dealing with hurt feelings
Questions for the Drama Queen:
Is this mine or someone else's?
Am I doing something productive about it?
Is this my business or someone else's business?
Am I trying to control someone else's thoughts or behaviors?
What actually happened without my story?
What do I know for sure?
What's my part in this?
What are my ideas for resolving the issue?
Am I grounded in reality?
What am I doing today to resolve this?
Other powerful ideas from "No Ego" and today's episode:
"Venting is your ego's way of avoiding self-reflection."
"Your ego is brilliant at finding insult where none is intended."
Drama is draining!
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Resources:
Join the Primal Potential Facebook group
Learn more about the 12 Weeks to Transformation
Check out No Ego by Cy Wakeman
Previous book club episodes:
Episode 540: Younger by Dr. Sara Gottfried
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:07.0 | Primal Potential is about you. |
| 0:09.5 | Your ability to change is not defined by yesterday and doesn't need to wait until tomorrow. |
| 0:15.9 | Your transformation is now. |
| 0:19.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:20.8 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. |
| 0:25.8 | I am Elizabeth Benton. |
| 0:28.4 | Today is going to be an awesome episode. |
| 0:33.3 | I get excited about every episode but today we're talking about how drama is holding you |
| 0:40.8 | back and how to have less drama in your own thoughts. |
| 0:46.0 | Certainly, also in your interactions with other people but it is drama in our own thoughts. |
| 0:52.4 | The things that we invent, that we assume that are really getting in the way of our health, |
| 0:59.7 | our progress and our happiness. |
| 1:02.6 | And this is especially true of the drama you don't even realize you are creating. |
| 1:10.1 | I know that this is going to be a really great tool for you to move to the next level |
| 1:15.4 | of progress, of consistency, of motivation and of connection with yourself and with other |
| 1:21.0 | people. |
| 1:22.7 | Before we get into that, I have gotten at least 12, 15 emails in the last three days about |
| 1:30.7 | Peelie Nuts. |
| 1:32.3 | I mentioned them a couple weeks ago on the podcast because Thrive Market made them available. |
| 1:38.0 | They hadn't previously been available. |
| 1:40.0 | Peelie Nuts, P-I-L-I, and now they're out of stock. |
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