I was at church this past weekend and we were talking about mental toughness and the

pastor was telling a story about when he shattered his leg and he had surgery with rods and pins and screws and

the doctor said to him every day I'm gonna need you to bear all your weight on this broken leg as it heals and it's going to be hard, it's going to suck, it's going to be painful.

But what you need to know is that your leg has the best chance of healing

when you put pressure on it. The same thing is true with us. We heal, we grow, we make progress most when we put

some pressure on ourselves. Let me explain.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

This is our Consistency 365 series and I'm your host Elizabeth Benton. This series is many episodes just a few minutes

that air between our full-length Monday and Saturday episodes because what I

want to do with you is help you establish a habit of saying

hey there's something I can do every day. Even if I have a crazy work day even if my

kids are out of school for the summer even if I'm on vacation there is something I can do today and I'm

going to do it. Instead of finding reasons every day that you can't do something that you

won't do something, that you won't do something, that tomorrow holds some

promise that today doesn't. There's something you can do every day and I want you to do

it. I loved this story that my pastor told about how he had to put the full pressure on his

leg in order for it to heal and if he babied it and he avoided that discomfort because it was painful, he wouldn't heal.

There's a lot that we can learn from that.

And there's a lot that we can learn from that and there's a lot that we can practice to capitalize on that principle.

If you try to avoid discomfort, you're not going to grow. You need to lean into it. You can approach every day saying

hey how can I push myself a little bit today? How can I step outside my comfort zone

a little bit today? What's something difficult or

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