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

This is our consistency 365 series mini-sodes that air in between our regular full-length

episodes on Mondays and Saturdays, where we address the things that stand in the way

of execution. When we know what to do, but getting ourselves to do it and do it regularly

is a whole other thing. I got a message from a client the other day and she said that

she was struggling with enthusiasm. I always talk about how enthusiasm is a superpower.

And when you can generate enthusiasm about what you are doing and you can do this, generate

enthusiasm by how you think about it, you are more likely to follow through. And she said,

I'm really having trouble feeling enthusiastic, generating enthusiasm about the things that

I need to do or the things that I said I would do. The steps in the process that are

going to get me where I want to go. And I said, well, here's the deal. You don't necessarily

need to feel enthusiastic about the process. You can generate that enthusiasm around the

outcome. And the example that I gave is I like to have my kitchen be as clean as possible

before I go to bed at night. And I do not feel enthusiastic about that process, about

washing the dishes, wiping down the counters, putting things away. But I do have genuine

enthusiasm and I manufacture it intentionally by way of how I think about it in terms

of the result. I truly love walking down the stairs, turning the corner into my living

room and seeing the kitchen clean. I enjoy waking up and coming down to a sink that is

empty and clean, two countertops that are clear to the coffee maker ready to go and

not needing to be cleaned up from yesterday's coffee before I can make today's. So you

don't have to necessarily generate that enthusiasm about the process, but you do need to generate

enthusiasm about the outcome and revisit that feeling often. The more that you can manufacture

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