Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. Hope

you are having an amazing day today. We are back for another episode in our consistency

365 series because we all know that consistency is what is required for us to make progress

toward our goals. And at the same time, it feels like every day serves up something that

we could use to justify inconsistency, to justify not being consistent. How do we get

better in those moments that feel so easy to use as an excuse? How do we overcome that

tendency to say, well, I'll start tomorrow. I'm too tired. It's been a bad day. This

one thing won't matter. And today I wanted to share with you a moment that I had at

a time of day that is my highest risk time for decisions that aren't aligned with who

and how I want to be. The time of day when I am most likely to negotiate for inconsistency.

And for me, that's in the evenings. Could be dinner time, could be just after dinner time,

oftentimes in the season of my life, it's after Roman has gone to bed. And I was packing.

It was probably 9.30 at night. I am not at my best at 9.30 at night. I am a morning person.

And I think for a lot of people, when you are tired, that is when you are at highest

risk. So this is what I consider the highest opportunity time, the highest opportunity time

to get reps in for the person I want to be, to get repetitions in for the me I want to

be. So I was up and I was packing. Specifically, I was packing plain snacks for Roman, airplane

snacks, you know, to keep them distracted and from running around or screaming and throwing

tantrums. And there were things that he hasn't seen before, things that I don't normally

keep around because I wanted them to be effective in getting his attention. And as I put them

in little baggies, I was putting whatever was left in the pantry. And I absolutely had

the thought of like, that looks good, no big deal. I haven't eaten in a while. I'm a

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