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

you're having a great day today. We are going to get right into another episode in our consistency

365 series. I was talking to a client the other day and she was expressing a challenge to

me, a struggle. And she said, I just don't know why I struggle. Sometimes I'm just not

in the mood to do it. I'm just not feeling it. I know what to do. But sometimes I'm just

not feeling it. Feeling it doesn't have to get a vote. You are giving it a vote. And for

as long as you do that, you're going to negotiate your way out of consistency. One of the things

that I used to feel and I've heard so many clients express to me, how can I be consistent

in these other areas of my life, but not consistent in how I take care of myself or how

I do this other thing? Well, my client pointed right to it when she said, sometimes I'm just

not feeling it. As though that's relevant. Just because you're making it relevant doesn't

mean it inherently is relevant or you have to. For example, are you consulting how you

feel about going to work every day when your alarm goes off? If you did, you probably

would show up maybe half the time, maybe less. If not feeling like it was relevant in your

decision of whether or not to go to work, you probably wouldn't have that job very often.

When we look at the areas where we are consistent, whether it's going to work or it's taking

care of your kids or it's showing up for somebody else, what you'll see is you do that

thing, whether you feel like it or not. I can't tell you the last time I felt like changing

a diaper or washing a bottle, I'm not sure I ever have. Maybe, maybe, probably not. But

how I feel like it, how I feel about it doesn't get a vote in those things. And if you

choose to give it a vote in your workout decisions or your food decisions, that is why you're

not consistent. I tell myself all the time and I wrote about this in Tools for the Trench

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