Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

Welcome back to this episode in our consistency 365 series.

This is a little bit different in that I'm going to be doing a full regular episode on this topic tomorrow,

which is episode 1089 and airs on the 15th.

But I wanted to have a consistency 365 episode on this because it is so important.

And I wanted you to have a very short form version of the message that we will expand on in episode 1089.

I will tell the whole story in 1089, but the very abbreviated version is this.

I've been reading a book on raising kids.

How to talk. So little kids will listen. You've probably heard of the title. How to talk so kids will listen.

But this one's about little kids, two to seven.

And I was struck by one of the primary premises in the book.

And that is when kids are in a heightened emotional state, it's very hard for them to make good decisions.

So if kids are really angry, it's tough for them to make the choice that you want them to make,

that they would have a much easier time making if they weren't really angry.

And it struck me, and that's why I decided to do a full episode on it that will air tomorrow in 1089,

that we often have similar expectations for ourselves.

Thinking that great decisions are going to come from poor thinking or not thinking or heightened emotion.

What I see oftentimes in my clients is that they are expecting to perform the way they want to perform

when they are really angry or they're really overwhelmed or they're really stressed out.

They are thinking that they should be able to make an excellent decision when they're not thinking

excellently about a situation or they're not thinking at all.

They're expecting quality decisions to come from thoughts that are not quality.

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