Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast and our consistency 365

series. I'm Elizabeth Benton. Hope you're having a great day so far. I wanted to share

with you today this anecdote about the Buddha. It goes like this, the Buddha was once asked,

what is the difference between I like you and I love you. He answered, when you like

a flower, you pluck it. When you love a flower, you water it daily. One who understands

this understands life. Now, I'm a practical gal. I like to turn things that make me pause

or I find interesting. I like to make sure that I can turn them into action. So here's

how I want you to do this with me today. What would it look like? If just for today,

you treated yourself like a flower you want to nurture. Just for today, what specifically

would that look like? If you were this thing that you wanted to nurture and care for and

make grow and preserve and protect, what would that look like in your choices? Translated

to your actions and inactions, what would that look like? And I really want to challenge

you not to just think this through as I'm talking about it. I want you to sit down and

brainstorm a list. brainstorm a list of things that if you were really nurturing yourself,

taking impeccable care of yourself, supporting your growth, what would be the things that you

do when you don't do? Just for today. What if just for today, you didn't look at your

choices in terms of discipline and willpower, restriction or deprivation and instead,

you were really trying to just take great care of yourself. What would that look like?

Now if you just think about this, it's not going to have nearly as much power or impact

as if you sit down and you brainstorm that list because the more specific you are, the

closer you move to a solution and it's a lot easier to take action when we are specific

than for just kind of thinking in generality. So take the time, embrace that challenge,

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