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Elizabeth Benton discusses the consequences of seemingly reasonable choices and introduces strategies for personal defense against time running out.

Enrollment is open for the August DEFENSE cohort — and this is your last chance for pay-what-you-can pricing before the cart closes July 31. Grab your spot: elizabethbenton.com/defense/ Nothing has cost me more than the choices that felt completely reasonable. That's this whole episode. The choices that don't feel like choices — I'll start Monday, it's just this once, we only do this once a year. None of them feel like a weapon. That's exactly why they work. One of the best weapons we use against ourselves is holding the ball until time runs out. Not with big, dramatic failures — with tiny, reasonable-sounding concessions that each feel like no big deal, until you look up and it's been years. The business you never started. The health you could have had. The pictures of your kids that don't exist, because you kept hiding from the camera. Time running out isn't a buzzer. It's a year, then another one. It's the version of you that you keep almost becoming. And then I show you the way out — defense. These patterns are predictable, and anything you can predict, you can defend against. I walk you through exactly what playing defense looks like, using my own real plan for taking my…

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Host: Elizabeth Benton

Topics covered

• self-improvement
• time management
• decision making
• personal growth
• health
• defense strategies

Keywords

• choices
• time running out
• self-sabotage
• defense
• personal development
• health
• reasonable decisions

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Organizations: Primal Potential

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