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

Thanks for joining me for another episode in the Consistency series. I wanted to kick off

today with a quote that I really love from Inky Johnson. And it says, how you view what

you do determines how you do what you do, how you view what you do determines how you

do what you do. So let's use a silly example of cleaning my kitchen. If I think of it as

not very important, it's no big deal, it's not a priority, I'm probably not going to

be very consistent, right? But if I view cleaning my kitchen as this easy thing I can do for myself to

reduce my stress, reduce my overwhelm, I love how great it feels to have a clean kitchen. When I

change how I view it, it changes how I do it. And this is really relevant when it comes to

consistency because so often that thing with which we want to be consistent, we view as a

problem, we view as a burden, we view as an annoyance. I have to work out, I really don't want to

work out, I hate working out. Well, if that is how you view it, it has a strong influence on how

you do it, if you do it, the excuses that you make, how easy it is to talk yourself out of a

commitment that you've made. So if you want to change how you do what you do, then change how you

view what you do. If you want to be consistent over the long term, it's going to be very challenging if

you continue to have this negative or burdened view of what you're doing. When I think about eating

clean, for the longest time, it just felt like such a sacrifice and I was missing out and it was

this thing that I should do, but I really didn't want to do it. And because of that view, I always

talked to myself out of it because everybody else was doing this one thing and it's a special

occasion and I don't want to miss out how I was viewing it was absolutely influencing how I was

doing it. And you can white knuckle your way through for a little while, but if fundamentally you don't

want to do it and you feel like it's a burden, you're not going to be in the game for very long. Now, I

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