Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.

This is our consistency 365 series. I want to help people break through via this series

from the cycle that is, well, I'm consistent sometimes. But then if the schedule changes

or I'm stressed at work or I get sick or there's a vacation or I'm not seeing results, the

wheels fall off the bus. That pattern is not only frustrating, it also erodes our confidence

and keeps us from living the kind of life that is possible for us as a result of consistency.

So I want to share perspectives that you can bring with you on those days where emotion

is high on those days where time is short on those days where you just don't want to do the work

and finally get consistent. I spent this past weekend or a lot of this past weekend watching

the East Region Semifinals for CrossFit and Big CrossFit fan and they had their one of their

semifinal weekends and I was listening to the commentators as one of the events was going on

and he was saying that for this particular event, one of the keys to doing well is choosing

rest before rest chooses you. Essentially, take a break in the movement before you're forced to,

right, because of muscle fatigue. If you get to the point where you're no longer being proactive

but you have to rest because you can't go on, it's going to take you longer to recover.

Choose rest before rest chooses you and I loved it immediately because I was like this is such a

big part of consistency that we do it not for the sake of some arbitrary goal, right, even if it's

a very important goal. We don't get consistent because we want to lose weight because we want to

look good in our genes. This is the way I like to think about it in a way that really inspires me.

Choose to take care of yourself before that chooses you. Choose to take care of yourself. Choose to

take care of your health before that chooses you. What does that look like? You get sick. Really sick.

Not just a cold, not just a headache, but we all know the kind of sick that requires that everything

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