Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton.

This is our consistency 365 series.

I think I surprised a client the other day when I said on a voice note to her, if you play

stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

I don't know if you've ever heard that before.

I've heard it a lot from parents who are talking about things they say to their kids, especially

teenage kids, young adult kids, hey man, you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

But I think it's a really powerful thing to keep in mind as it relates to our own behavior.

What are the stupid games you play?

It could be telling yourself, I'll do better tomorrow.

It's okay, I can have this today because starting tomorrow, I'm going to reel it in.

Or maybe the stupid game you play is when you say this one thing won't hurt, but you

know full well that that is a pattern that does hurt.

Name them.

Name the stupid games you play.

Because when you acknowledge and you bring into the light that that doesn't work, that

that's a stupid game, that it'll win you a stupid prize, you start to take away a little

bit of its power.

But if you don't ever evaluate it, if you don't ever see it for

what it truly is, if you don't call it out as a lie, you'll probably just roll with

it.

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