Your competition is your most important sounding excuses. Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton.

This is our Consistency 365 series.

These are many episodes that air between our full-length episodes, those drop on Mondays and

Saturdays, because we have to develop this habit, this unshakable, unwavering all-the-time habit of finding opportunities in every day, not the convenient

ones, every day to move the needle just a little bit.

To be a little closer to our goal at the end of the day

than we were at the beginning. I saw this quote from an account that goes by

light Watkins and I thought that it made such an important

point. Your competition is not your past, your competition is not other people, it's not you against your goals.

The thing that you are out to defeat,

the thing that you are out to overcome,

is the excuses in your life that sound the most important.

And in order to do that, you first have to know what they are.

So often we don't see them as excuses.

Maybe we see them as barriers, we see them as obstacles, but we think

that they're true and therefore they're not an excuse. But here's what I need you to know.

It doesn't have to be false or untrue to be an excuse.

In fact, the most effective excuses

are absolutely rooted in truth.

What are your most important sounding excuses? One of the ones for me that comes

to mind is I don't have time. I don't have enough time. I don't have enough work time. I don't have enough time because of my kids I don't have enough time to get this done to make this happen and so what I then have to work on most is either time management or and or the story of I don't have time.

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