Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. Hope you are having an amazing day so far today.

We are back for another episode in our consistency 365 series. We all know that consistency matters and it's important.

But we struggle with it when life happens. Whether that is a bad day, a long day, something throws your schedule or your plan through a loop.

We can expect those things to happen. Even though we're frustrated by them at times, we can expect that something will come up regularly.

Whether it is a change to the schedule or a change in how we feel and we no longer feel like doing the things we said we would do, we can expect that to happen. It's going to happen.

How do we respond to those things? What does it look like to show up and choose consistency especially when it doesn't feel easy or you don't want to or both?

One thing that has helped me a lot and something that I tap into as a tool very regularly is asking myself who I'm being in this moment, meaning am I making this decision as the version of me I want to be or am I making this decision as the version of me I don't want to be.

Last night's perfect example. My husband was at rugby practice and then he was going over to a friend's house for a bit. So I was solo with the three kids at a time of day that is not the easiest time of day to be solo with three kids under two.

And after I got Roman down and the girls were settled a little bit, I thought about having a glass of wine and a snack. I wasn't hungry. I don't turn to wine because I'm thirsty.

I just wanted to give myself something enjoyable because I was experiencing so much stress. I was experiencing just normal stress. Nothing crazy just irritation and overwhelm, overstimulation.

So I asked myself this is a practical tool I used in that moment. Who's making this decision? Is this the kind of decision that the version of me I want to be makes or is this the kind of decision that the version of me I'm trying to grow out of, choose out of makes.

The person that I want to be the person that I want to consistently show up as does not turn to food and alcohol when she is stressed. That is not the go to.

The go to could be meditation, could be reading a book, could be going to betterly though that option wasn't on the table at the time.

There are so many ways that the me I want to be can respond to those things, including just savoring the moment in all of its challenges and all of its difficulties and not feeling the need to escape from it.

But the version of me that says I need a drink. I just need to eat something. I don't even care. I don't want to be that me.

Now sometimes when I ask that question, my default response is I don't even care. I don't care. I don't care.

But that's not honest and that's not true because I really do care. I care a lot. I don't care isn't the truth. It's just this way that kicks in almost automatically when I don't want to do the work.

But I always regret not doing the work. If you want to be consistent, you have to be honest.

If you want to be consistent and we've talked about this so often in this series, you have to slow down your thinking and be more mature.

Now this doesn't happen because you say you want it to happen or because you're aware that it could happen, it is a practice.

The number one thing my poor clients and the consistency course hear me say this all the time, you have to become a better thinker.

And a huge part of that is being more honest and less dramatic.

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