Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. Thanks for joining me for another mini episode in our consistency 365 series.

One of the big barriers to consistency is staying in a place of, I don't know, just throwing up your hands. I mean, I don't know what to do. I don't know what's wrong with me.

I was thinking about this the other day, I had an exchange with one of my clients and it got me thinking about when I first started my job in the supplement industry.

When I graduated from college, I worked for a hospital system and a few years after being with the hospital system, I moved into the supplement industry and I knew nothing about the supplement industry.

I applied for this job because this company was where my then boyfriend at the time worked, became my first husband and I thought it would be a cool shift and I wanted to work at the same place as he did because he really liked his job.

And I got the job and I remember getting the job and being like, I don't know anything about this. I don't know the first thing to do.

And when I went into the role, there wasn't a training program. It was just sort of you get thrown into the pool and you learn how to swim.

And while I very much had the sense of, I don't know anything. I didn't stay in that energy and just show up and sit there being like, I don't know what to do.

Gosh, I really don't know what to do because if I did that, I would be fired.

I went in and I learned and I studied and I asked questions and I tried and I was engaged in doing and I learned from doing.

But when it comes to things that are more personal where there aren't as many people involved, it can be very easy to sit and like, I don't know what's wrong with me.

I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know why I keep doing this and this exchange that I had with one of my clients, basically she said, I don't know what's wrong with me.

I don't get it. I sabotaged myself all the time and I replied and I said, tell me more.

Whatever this situation is specifically where you feel like you are sabotaging, tell me what tools you're working with.

What have you tried? What do you know that you could do to make a difference in what are you doing?

And so she listed out, you know, I'm drinking more water, I'm doing this, I'm doing that.

And she said, where I really struggle is planning and executing my meals.

But none of the things that she listed out had to do with setting her up for success in eating what she said she would eat.

So I said, all right, other than writing it down after it's done, what tools are you using for planning and executing your meals?

Have you broken it down into smaller pieces? What have you tried?

And she replied very honestly, which is so valuable, she said, I haven't.

You know, I could do these things and I have the time to do it and I have the resources but I haven't done it.

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