When the devil tempts you to quit, he's not going to tell you how much it costs.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton. This is our consistency

365 series mini episodes that air daily between our full-length Monday and Saturday

episodes to help you get out of autopilot

and be intentional about who and how you're trying to be, about the changes you're trying to create

and what you can do today to bring them about no matter what else is

going on in your life. You might call it the devil, we might call it past pattern.

Either way, when you consider quitting, you rarely consider what it is going to

cost you if you quit. When you consider whether quitting overall or quitting in a moment, you have to look at

what's the other side of this? It's not just, oh I'll have ice cream, it's no big deal,

this one thing won't hurt, I'll have ice cream. It's no big deal. This one thing won't hurt. I'll do better tomorrow.

There's another side of the equation. There's the how you feel an hour after the ice cream, how you feel when you wake up tomorrow

morning, how you feel when you continue this pattern, how much more difficult it

makes it to change. I love this reminder that when the devil tempts us to quit because

we're facing something that is more pleasurable in the moment, something that is less difficult in the moment,

he rarely comes and says, hey, this is what it's going to cost you.

But that doesn't make it any less real. It doesn't make it any more significant.

It's going to cost you something.

It's probably going to cost you a lot and a lot more than you think and a lot more than you're thinking of.

So let's take the time to do that mental exercise. What is it costing you when you make an excuse? What is it costing you when you say yes to that

indulgence again? When you skip that workout again? When you don't do the things

you said you would do today again. What is it costing you?

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