Hit the process button before you hit the panic button.

Hey there, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I'm Elizabeth Benton. This is our consistency 365 series,

mini episodes that air between our regular full length episodes to help you touch base

with that drive for consistency every day so that life doesn't

get in the way so we don't start the week strong and fizzle out, get distracted, or drift from our goals and intentions.

I saw this quote from Emily Frizzella, hit the process button before you hit the panic

button, and I love it. I love it in every area of life. One of the

most powerful things we can do for the sake of consistency is practice being calm.

Not freaking out over every little thing, not being super reactive, not being over-emotional, and it's not that emotions are bad, I don't think that they're bad at all,

but when our behavior is dictated by our emotions, we tend to not be on the most valuable path for ourselves.

Hit the process button before you hit the panic button.

What does that look like? For everybody, it's going to be a little bit different,

but let's say I've shared with you guys a few times now that I, much to my surprise and I don't recommend it for most people,

I've been weighing myself every day as sort of an experiment on having my eyes wide open

and not being able to drift or disengage because I have this

daily touch point. Well if there are a series of of weeks where I'm not seeing change and I feel like hey I'm doing all of the things right I'm eating really clean

I'm working out I'm getting enough sleep I'm taking my supplements I'm doing all these things

Why isn't it working?

Hit the process button before you hit the panic button.

Instead of, what the heck, I don't get it, what's going on?

Step back and say, what do my processes look like? Do I have a process in place for a

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