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Hello everybody, welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast and our consistency 365 mini series.

I am Elizabeth Benton.

There is something that has been on my mind and it comes up so often when I work with clients who are frustrated.

When I work with clients who have big goals, but they're really struggling to execute.

They're they're feeling disappointed because they're letting themselves down, setting these complex frameworks and then struggling to execute.

And what I tell them is that the more rules you establish, generally the less likely you are to follow them.

And it's not to say that we should just fly by the seat of our pants because I do believe that discipline is freedom, but there's a lot to be said for simplicity.

The other thing about rules is that sometimes for some of us, and I consider myself part of this group, it can evoke this feeling of resistance and rebellion.

The inner toddler tries to say, oh yeah, you tell me I have to do it. We'll watch this. I'm not going to so I tend to prefer standards.

For example, I have a standard that just helps me avoid the very familiar feeling of regret or disappointment that if I'm going to have alcohol, I don't have sugar.

And if I'm going to have sugar like dessert cookies cake, I don't drink. That is a standard.

It does not mean that 1,000% of the time I execute that there are certainly circumstances where I have both, but on the whole that is my standard.

I do not have a ton of food rules. I have a very small number of standards. And by having this small number of standards like breakfast is always a fat loss meal, it doesn't matter if we're on vacation or anything like that, it is a fat loss friendly meal.

When we have fewer standards or rules or guidelines, whatever you want to call them, it is easier to focus. And when it's easier to focus, it's easier to execute.

The more rules that you establish, generally speaking, the less likely you are to follow them. And I think this is true with our kids too.

A lot of the times it comes down to our mental bandwidth, it's hard to keep them all in the forefront of our mind to be able to execute.

So consider this a reminder to keep it very simple. If you don't have any standards around your primary area of goals or what you're working toward, create a single standard.

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