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by Elizabeth Benton
Why are we so stressed and overwhelmed? Why do we have clear & compelling goals but fail to reach them? How can we want to change so desperately yet make choices that keep us from that change? Because we keep focusing on the habits we want instead of building the skill of consistency that allows us to achieve them. Consistency is a skill. It's a superpower. It isn't one-size-fits all. It unlocks any door and makes every goal achievable. A more effective, realistic approach starts here.
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- 5 days ago16 min
1452: 1. The Jenga Test: How to Tell Your Consistency Is About to Fall
Your consistency usually starts falling apart days before you notice, and it almost always starts with something small you stop doing. In this episode: the Jenga demonstration from my Boston training, how to spot your earliest signs of a wobble, the one question to ask before you give yourself a pass, and how to find the few things that rebuild everything else.Insights to SaveI collect insights like these in my Insight Library, so the right one is there when I need it. If you're collecting them too, here are a few from this episode to add to yours:Nothing falling apart doesn't mean nothing happened.The same excuse costs more when your tower already has holes in it.Before you give yourself a pass, ask: how strong is the base right now?Your wobble almost always starts with something small you stop doing.Not knowing the data doesn't change the reality. It just makes it easier to ignore.You don't need 20 things to go back to. You need your big three.Protect the woman you want to be.Read the article version of this episode, and get a new piece every week on following through when you have a very convincing reason not to, on my Substack
- 1 weeks ago13 min
1451: The Most Valuable Tool I Use for Behavior Change
There's a trap keeping a lot of us from what we want, and most of us walked into it again this week.It goes like this. We're not where we want to be. With our health, our money, our marriage, our kids. And we think, "I just need someone to tell me the thing. This book is going to be the one. This is what's going to make it click."So we read the book. We get the freebie. We take the course. We sign up for the webinar. We follow one more person who seems to have it figured out.And we're constantly in this learning loop, because we believe we just haven't gotten the piece of information that makes it click yet.We don't have an information problem. We have a retention and access problem. Insight Library solves it. Save 50% off your first year with code LAUNCH through Oct 31.
- 1 weeks ago19 min
1450: Started Over a Hundred Times? The 3 Checks Before Your Next Plan
The most helpful thing I ever told a client was to eat nine pieces of Halloween candy.For weeks she’d promised herself “none,” and for weeks it hadn’t worked once. Nine worked right away. Less than 10 days later, she wasn’t eating the candy at all. In this episode, I break down why, and what makes the next plan different from the last hundred.In this episode:Why the plan you know you should follow and the plan you’re willing to follow can be miles apartThe question I use to find the version I’ll actually do, and the day I used it after butchering chickens, a sick babysitter and no food until 3 p.m.Why “I must not want it enough” is the wrong explanationHow to tell whether an excuse is about this moment or part of a patternThe three checks to run before you start over againRead the free written version on Substack: https://elizabethbentonthompson.substack.com/p/started-over-a-hundred-times-heresIf you want to go deeper:3 Strategies for When You Know What to Do but Still Aren’t Doing It: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1340-3-strategies-for-when-you-know-what-to-do-but/id954984769?i=1000724349837How to Shut Down Excuses in the Moment, Even When They Feel True: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1337-how-to-shut-down-excuses-in-the-moment-even-when/id954984769?i=1000723192258Consistency Vault Part 2: Dial Down: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1378-consistency-vault-part-2-dial-down/id954984769?i=1000744777319Follow me on Substack: https://substack.com/@elizabethbentonthompson
- 2 weeks ago23 min
1449: How I Get Out of Overwhelm in Under a Minute: The Fix No One Taught You
How I Get Out of Overwhelm in Under a Minute: The Fix No One Taught YouMost of the overwhelm you’ll feel this week will come from trying to solve things it isn’t time to solve yet.After I wrote about this on Substack, a lot of you asked me to go deeper, so in this episode I do. You’ll hear:Why the amount on your plate matters a lot less than you thinkWhat a text about our empty egg box taught me about mental managementThe simple decision tree I use to get out of overwhelm in under a minuteWhy overwhelm shows up at night, and after a great course or conferenceWhat to do when it really is the right time and it still feels like too muchOne thing to try in the next 24 hoursRead the free article this episode came from: elizabethbentonthompson.substack.comBuild My Coach: For less than the cost of a single coaching session, get three personal coaches in your pocket, built by me and personalized to you, ready to coach you through the decisions that are actually shaping your life, 24/7. $97 until November 1. elizabethbenton.com/buildmycoach
- 3 weeks ago20 min
1448: The Four Traps That Keep You Repeating the Same Struggles
If you can tell me what time tomorrow you're most likely to struggle, you already have what you need to stop it.Most of us know exactly when we fall off. The dinner we didn't plan. The workout that gets pushed until the day is gone. The afternoon that starts overwhelmed and scattered. We know what to do, we know we're not doing it, and we even know why. And still, we keep getting caught off guard, the same way so many of us get caught off guard by Christmas every December.Elizabeth walks through the four traps that keep us repeating the same struggles:Believing that wanting to do better is enough. Wanting to do better has never once changed a behavior.Planning the home run. The plan you're proudest of is often the one you're least likely to follow, and the one question to ask about every plan you make.Waiting for certainty. Certainty is something you earn by deciding. Waiting won't give you any."I don't have time." Most of us have never actually done the math.Then she shows you how to look at your next 48 hours, find the struggle that's already waiting for you, and decide what you'll do before you get there.If you'd like help seeing the patterns you can't see on your own, Build My Coach gives you three personal coaches in your pocket, built by Elizabeth and personalized to you, for less than the cost of a single coaching session. Today is the last day to get the Personal Insight Library bonus when you join:Join Build My Coach. 10/12 is the last day to get the Personal Insight Library Training for free with your purchase!
- Oct 7, 202626 min
1447: Why the Best Advice You’ve Ever Heard Isn’t Helping You
Think about the best personal development book you’ve ever read. Now name the five most valuable things you learned from it.I can’t do it either.And that got me thinking about how much we’ve expected information to do for us. It’s not enough to learn something valuable. You have to remember it, access the right piece at the exact moment you need it, and know how to apply it to the situation you’re actually in.No wonder knowing what to do hasn’t been enough.In this episode, I’m sharing what I realized about the massive gap between learning something and actually being able to use it. I’ll show you how I’m using AI to close that gap, including the Personal Insight Library I built for myself, why EBGPT can sometimes answer a question better than I can, and a real example of how I used my Defense Coach to prepare for a week I knew would be hard.This is one of those ideas that changed the way I think about every book, course, podcast, coaching program, sermon, and insight I consume.Build My Coach gives you three highly personalized AI coaches for one payment of $97, with no subscription.And through October 12, you’ll also get my complete step-by-step tutorial for building your own Personal Insight Library free with your purchase.Access Build My Coach and secure your free Insight Library tutorial!
- Oct 5, 202623 min
1446: Never Lose a Life-Changing Insight Again
What if the most useful thing you’ve ever learned could actually find you when you needed it?Think about how many times you’ve read a book, listened to a podcast, sat through a sermon or heard something in a coaching conversation and thought:Oh my gosh. I need to remember that.Then real life happens.Six weeks later, you’re in the argument. Standing in the kitchen. Making the decision. Talking yourself out of the thing you said you wanted.And that incredible insight?Nowhere to be found.The insight existed. Access to the insight didn’t.That is the problem I’ve become obsessed with solving.For the last year and a half, I’ve been exploring what becomes possible when we stop using AI like a blank box that knows a lot of stuff and start deliberately training it on the information, frameworks, perspectives and context we actually want it to know.The result is something I genuinely believe can change the way we access coaching, perspective and even our own accumulated wisdom.It’s called Build My Coach, and today I’m finally showing you what I built.In this episode, we’re talking about why having great information is not the same as being able to use it, why we can spend years working hard on the wrong problem, what happens when you reach the edge of your own perspective, and why the moment you need coaching almost never happens to be the moment your coach is available.I’ll also show you what changed when I realized AI could do more than retrieve information. It could be trained to coach, and it could learn the person being coached.That led me to build three highly personalized AI coaches:Your Defense Coach, built to help in the moments when you’re talking yourself into the exception, excuse or choice that threatens to take you off course.Your Personalized Coach, built around your goals, patterns, history, circumstances and the way you need to be coached, with the ability to know you better the more you use it.EBGPT, giving you access to more than 13 years of my coaching, 2,000+ podcast episodes, programs, frameworks and body of work without requiring you to remember where I taught the thing you need.But while I was building all of this, I realized something:I wanted this for everything else I learn, too.I recently finished a marriage book filled with insights I desperately wanted to remember.Ask me right now for the most important ones.I can’t remember them.And I JUST read the book.So I started building something for myself that I’m now giving you as a launch bonus:BONUS: Build Your Personal Insight LibraryI’m going to show you how to create your own AI-powered library of the things you want available at your fingertips.The book that changed how you think about your marriage.The podcast that taught you something important about your career.The sermon you never wanted to forget.The course you paid for three years ago.Your own notes, realizations and insights.Not just stored somewhere. Accessible when you actually need them.The full step-by-step bonus training will be delivered October 12 and is included when you purchase Build My Coach during this launch.Get Build My Coach for $97Three highly personalized AI coaches.One payment of $97.No subscription.Plus Build Your Personal Insight Library during this launch.Get Build My Coach hereBuild My Coach for $97
- Sep 28, 202620 min
1445: Three Things I’d Probably Only Say After Two Margaritas
I usually try to say hard things gently. This episode is what happens when I stop softening them.I’m sharing three opinions I feel strongly about, even though they may make some people uncomfortable. We’re talking about the attention we keep giving to fear, the resources we leave unused, and one choice many people will deeply regret continuing to postpone.None of this is coming from a place of having it all figured out. I give myself these same lectures. But there comes a point when insight, frustration, and good intentions have to turn into action.Also mentioned in this episode: I recently answered member questions about time management, prioritization, following through, and managing the very real load of life over on Substack.Listen to the members-only Time Management Q&A here.Join me on Substack:https://substack.com/@elizabethbentonthompson
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