If it can start to shatter, it can start to sprout.

I remember when I wrote Tools for the Trenches,

I was inspired by spring because for me I had just gone through the hardest most horrific

thing in my life and as I was grieving, it was transitioning from winter to spring.

And so I could see around me all of these signs of rebirth and all of these signs of renewal and of hope.

And sometimes I don't think we consider enough that a seed has to shatter so that it can sprout.

Hey everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton we are winding down

our consistency 365 series these are many episodes that air between our full length

episodes on Mondays and Saturdays so that we all really take seriously

this habit of looking every day for opportunities to move the needle just a little bit.

There's something we can do every day. We're no longer waiting for when we can do all of the things and execute the perfect plan, but darn it, every day there's something we can do, and we're going to find it, and we're going to do it, and we're going to keep doing it every day.

I love this reminder that if it starts to shatter, it can start to sprout.

Sometimes we just get really down about setbacks.

And we get really down about hardship and we get really frustrated and feel defeated when we're in a hard season.

But the fact of the matter is,

there's examples all around us that prove that's when great things can happen, that sometimes

the breakdown is needed in order to have the breakthrough.

So I want you to think about where maybe you feel stuck

or maybe you feel like things are going in the wrong direction.

Maybe this is the soil for what you're about to grow into. Maybe this means that if you persist this time instead of giving up again, there's going to be tremendous growth.

Maybe that's what it means for you.

I think we have an active role in that. I think we have to create it. But the

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