Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast and our consistency 365 mini

series. My name is Elizabeth Benton. Today I want to share with you an exchange I had

with one of my clients. I had posted a question that I love and this client of mine responded

and said, it's one of my favorites. She said, now I have to actually put it into practice

and then she said this. She said, I'm really great at nodding my head and thinking, that's

a great idea. But then I let it live there and die there a graveyard of good ideas. I always

talk about the idea graveyard, but what stood out to me here is the way that she claimed the past

pattern as the present. Not this is how it was, but this is how it is talking about the very

behavior she wants to change, the very behavior she does not want to continue. She said, I'm really

great at nodding my head and thinking, that's a great idea. But then I let it live there and die

there. That is an instruction. This is what I do. This is how it goes. That is a repetition of the

very thing she doesn't want to continue. That is a rehearsal of the very pattern she's trying to

change. It is an instruction when you say, this is what I do. Not this is what I've done before

and what I'm trying to do differently is XYZ. If you assert the past pattern as the present,

you are claiming it. You are choosing it. So I said, is this a past pattern? Or are you claiming

it as a present one? Because you just told yourself that that's the way things are now. It's only the

way things are now. If you choose it again today, I want to encourage you not to carry forth past

patterns as present declarations. How often do we do this? I'm such an all or nothing person.

You just told me that the way things have been is the way you choose for them to be right now.

Be very mindful of the language that you use, especially around things that you don't want to

continue because every repetition is a rehearsal and it is an instruction to yourself. This is the

kind of stuff that we work on daily inside the consistency course. So if you're feeling that

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