This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton.

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Your ability to change is not defined by yesterday and doesn't need to wait until tomorrow.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton, really pumped to share today's episode with you today.

You can probably hear this smile in my voice.

I had a conversation a while back with a listener who's in the Primal Potential Facebook group

and she felt like she had to be perfect in order to reach her goals and yet no day was

allowing for the perfect plan.

She was really clear on what she wanted to do but she felt like something got in the way

every single day.

And we had a powerful conversation around what I think of as the trap of the theoretical

ideal, the way that we want it to be the way we think it should go.

And sometimes we can get stuck on the idea of things rather than optimizing the reality

of things.

We can get stuck on the theoretical ideal, the way we hope it could go, the best case

scenario, and we attach to that instead of optimizing reality.

I don't know about you but it is rare, rare, exceedingly rare.

That my day goes according to plan.

Whether it is a meeting ran over or something got canceled or somebody shows up at the

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