Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast and our special consistency

365 series. I hope you're having an amazing day today. I was having a conversation with

one of my clients the other day. And sometimes I just get right to the direct feedback.

And I always try to do it with empathy because I've been in dark places and I've made

poor choices and I've put my health and my goals on a back burner for excuses that were

pretty lame. So I get it. And at the same time, I think sometimes we just need people

to speak frankly to us to snap us out of a pattern of telling stories, telling stories

that don't serve. When you have what you perceive to be an obstacle come up in your life,

I don't have time to do this or I got injured or my circumstances change or I'm just in

a funk. I don't want to. I'm in a bad mood. Whether you have excuses or you have solutions

depends entirely on how you carry on the conversation with yourself. So whether you end up with

a solution or whether you end up with an excuse is determined by how you carry on the conversation

with yourself. So let's say today you committed to working out and you have a plan for when you're

going to work out, but you got home late and then your kids needed you for something and you're

feeling a little tired and your knee is sore. Whether you come up with a solution or an excuse

depends entirely on how that conversation goes. If the conversation goes like I don't have time

today and my knee is kind of bothering me, so I probably shouldn't do anything. I can do it

tomorrow no big deal. That conversation is the reason for your excuse. Or if you end up with a

solution, I don't have as much time as I thought that I would have and my knee is bothering me,

so maybe what I'll do instead is a circuit of upper body stuff in the living room because my

kid needs me nearby. If you come up with a solution instead of an excuse, it's entirely because

of how that conversation went. Today I have a bunch of work that I want to get done, but also

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