Your theory is getting in the way of your practice. You are intellectualizing the process of change.

And there's a really big difference between how you think about it and how it

actually works in reality in practice.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton.

This is our consistency 365 series, many episodes that air daily between our full length Monday and

Saturday episodes to help you slow down step out of autopilot and just

recognize small opportunities that exist every day that you can seize when you're

looking for them to make your life a little bit better to improve your habits just a

tiny bit instead of waking up and realizing another week went by and you didn't make any progress.

I was having a conversation with one of my clients in the consistency course and we go through this process

where we break down what done looks like, what the ideal looks like, and we break

it down into as many steps as possible.

And then we sort of chart a short term plan based on those small steps.

And she said, it just seems like I wouldn't be doing enough

starting out. It seems like if I did more I would move faster. And I told her that she was intellectualizing change and

there's a very big difference between what it looks like and what we think

about it and how that actually translates into action.

And the example that I gave her was,

if we have, you've heard me talk about these two theoretical ladders, right?

So we have two 10-foot ladders against the same building and one of the ladders has three

rungs and the other ladder has 30 rungs. If we intellectualize what we're thinking

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