082: How to Work with Ambition and Ease (8 Lessons Learned from the French)
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
How do I combine ambition with ease? This is a question I've been asking for almost a decade, experimenting with creating a mindset, along with inspired actions to create a life that is truly fulfilling. I don't think we were born to just work, pay bills and die. Yet, far too many people go through life, doing the same things day after day and wondering, "Where did my life go?" In this podcast, I turn to the French for inspiration on practical tips for living a passionate, driven life while not forgetting to enjoy it. And get an insider's view to learn the secrets of living the French lifestyle that are almost never talked about in my complimentary book, "An Insider's Guide to the French Way of Life" and learn how you can incorporate the best of the French way of life into yours. https://frenchkisslife.com/french
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the French Kiss Life podcast, all about living with more elegance, style, |
| 0:06.9 | and joie de vivre in your everyday life. I'm Tanya Lee, your hostess. Let's get started. Hello, my friends. |
| 0:28.5 | How have you been? |
| 0:30.3 | It feels like forever since I talked with you. |
| 0:33.5 | I think since I did my last podcast, I have been to Paris, spent almost a month there, |
| 0:40.4 | and now I'm back home. |
| 0:42.4 | And it's just full of so much gratitude and excitement about the future. |
| 0:49.8 | And I keep going back to Paris. |
| 0:51.8 | Even people often ask me, like, why Paris? |
| 0:53.7 | Like, it seems so cliche, right? |
| 0:56.0 | Woman goes to Paris and it changes her life. |
| 0:58.0 | But you know what? |
| 0:59.0 | It's true for me. |
| 1:00.0 | Paris really asked me to look at my life and what was important and what changes needed to be |
| 1:08.0 | in order for me to truly embody the woman I wanted to be |
| 1:12.7 | and to live the life that I wanted to live. And so today, I want to talk about one of the lessons |
| 1:19.5 | that I've learned from the French, and that's how to work with ambition and ease. Being a driven, |
| 1:26.7 | ambitious woman can be a huge blessing. And it can also feel |
| 1:31.8 | like a curse when you don't know how to manage your time and energy and life. I know because I was |
| 1:38.7 | exhausted trying to keep up with all the other moms and what they were doing, trying to impress my manager |
| 1:45.2 | in hopes of getting a promotion and always chasing the next thing. When I look back on that time in my |
| 1:53.0 | life, I realized that my drive was driven out of fear, a fear of not being enough, not having enough |
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