Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast and welcome back to our consistency

365 series I am Elizabeth Benton.

I had a conversation with one of my clients the other day and she said, well good news

is I've kind of started over and she went on to explain that she had been doing really

well and then something came up she was out of her routine for a few days and so she started

over and once she finished telling me her update we had a really great conversation about

this notion of starting over which is entirely a figment of our imaginations.

We literally see our pursuits eating well, working out anything, being consistent in anything

as having a designated starting point and we have to return to that starting point and

begin again if things don't go according to plan but here's still things are not going

to go according to plan.

Even if you are crushing it, even if you are thriving and you're doing so well and you're

thrilled with your progress things are still not going to go according to plan.

I've done full episodes on this before but I just knew it needed to live in this consistency

series that we're doing here because it's all about the things that get in the way of our execution

and this story of I need to start over is a big thing in the way of consistency.

The way that I've described it on the podcast before is like this.

Imagine you and I go to the track because we are going to do a workout and we decide we are

going to pick a pace and we're going to jog and stay on that pace but I get distracted or I get

a little winded and I fall off that pace. So I go back to the beginning and I start again because you

know I didn't stay on the pace. That is such a different approach than just realizing you're not

on the pace and picking up the pace without going back to the beginning. It's a wildly different

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