162: (Part One) My 2020 Word of the Year + How to Choose Yours
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm talking about why I love choosing a word of the year and why it's such a great exercise. Then I'm sharing my exact process for picking out a word of the year (and sharing my 2020 word with you!). This practice should be done from a place of relaxation, openness, and with plenty of time – not a place of scarcity or reaction.
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| 0:00.0 | My friends, it is a new year, and do you know what that means? |
| 0:05.0 | It's time for us all to choose our word of the year. |
| 0:09.0 | Bonsieur, and welcome to the French Kiss Live podcast where personal development meets |
| 0:19.2 | style. I'm Tanya Lee certified master coach, and the hostess of this party, where we explore |
| 0:26.3 | how to live artfully and well. |
| 0:29.2 | Each week I'll be sharing inspiring stories, practical tips, and timeless wisdom on how to elevate the quality of your everyday and celebrate along the way. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's dive into today's episode. |
| 0:44.0 | Happy 2020, my friends. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't know about you, but I am so excited for not only a new year, |
| 0:52.0 | but a new decade. |
| 0:54.1 | The other day I was thinking about the Tanya of 2010. |
| 1:00.0 | And I'm a very different Tanya today. |
| 1:03.9 | And I love the idea of us constantly growing and evolving |
| 1:08.7 | and creating, because if we're not mindful, |
| 1:11.6 | we'll just keep repeating decade after decade in the same way. |
| 1:16.0 | I mean do you all know those people that when you see them and you ask them how's it going? |
| 1:22.0 | How have you been? What's been happening in your life? Their |
| 1:25.7 | answer is always the same, year after year after year. And not that there's anything |
| 1:31.4 | wrong with that, but I feel like people that listen to this podcast, you listen to it because you know deep down inside that the purpose of our lives are to grow and to evolve and to see what is possible in our lifetimes. |
| 1:46.5 | That's why I called it Fringe Kiss Life, like really just embracing life and seeing what you are capable of. I think that is the most |
| 1:55.6 | beautiful gift that you can give to yourself, to your family, to your friends and |
| 2:00.0 | to life itself. I will tell you 2019 was my best year yet and it wasn't that I |
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