317. Are You Living Your One Life by Default or Design? Here’s How to Know!

House of Joy- Christian Life Coaching

Dr. Edie Wadsworth

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Christianity, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Are you living by default—busy, scrolling, numb—or by design, awake and creating a life you love? In this episode I share why so many of us slip into “safe” (aka stagnant) living, how to recognize the signs of drifting, and the simple, daily choices that move you into creation mode. We’ll talk about thoughts, emotions, habits, legacy—and why raising your standards changes everything. Also: a little lake-lot story that proves bold moves bring big life. 😉 The sobering stat: why most people live on autopilot—and how not to be one of them Signs you’re drifting (and why “safe” is actually draining) Creation mode 101: think, feel, act on purpose Raising your standards: thoughts, emotions, habits, and worth How living “as if” collapses time and builds real confidence Legacy in real time: creating connection, meaning, and joy—today ✨ Design Your Life Workshop (Sept 24–26) + access to our Creating a Purposeful Home course for just $7. Join us via the link here! https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/design Cozy Earth — My favorite temperature-regulating bamboo* sheets. Try them risk-free with a 100-night trial + 10-year warranty. Use code HOJ for 40% off at https://tinyurl.com/HOJCozyEarth Check out the NIV Application Bible here https://tinyurl.com/HOJNIVAppBible and use code HOJ at checkout for an additional 10% off!! In this episode:Interested in advertising on this show? Learn more here! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16V_c91F1iIYNZOVvrEinrB9h2dsZq-kZFqYYEDQ4A60/edit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the podcast where you are invited for lighthearted conversations
0:05.6	about things that matter as you seek to live your most meaningful, beautiful, and joyful life.
0:11.0	I'm your host, Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and I hope you enjoy your stay here at the House of Joy.
0:16.6	Well, hi, dear ones. Welcome back to House of Joy. I am so honored always to have you here. Thank you for every time you listen, every time you share. I am so grateful. I'm Dr. Edie, by the way, if we haven't met, I'm so happy to meet you. We're going to talk today about living by default or design. Now, here is the sobering
0:38.5	truth. Lots of motivational speakers quote this number, but they say that 98% of people in the
0:46.6	world are living by default, that one to two percent of people are really on purpose creating
0:52.9	the life that they actually want to live. I find
0:55.8	that statistic sobering, but I think it might be accurate. I think default living to us looks
1:03.9	pretty normal, honestly. I think when we look around, we see most people who are doing it so that
1:08.7	it looks like the normal way to live. People are
1:11.3	staying busy, scrolling, keeping up appearances buried in our phones, doing all the things that
1:19.2	it looks like everybody else is doing. But I think for so many of us, what it really means is that
1:24.3	we're sleepwalking through this one amazing beautiful life that we have.
1:30.5	And I can remember a time when I was doing this and I am so thankful that I have learned
1:36.4	a more joyful, energetic way to live. And so I'm just going to keep talking about it.
1:47.0	Speaking of joyful, energetic way to live, you guys, we had the best weekend. I started out on Friday keeping my grandbabies. So if you're
1:52.3	new around here, I have three grandbabies and two of them live about an hour away and I keep them on
1:57.5	Fridays. My boys, Noah and Elijah. We had the best day.
2:01.5	Gramps came and hung out with us and we had so much fun.
2:06.7	And then Saturday, we, you guys, I did the craziest thing on Saturday.
2:13.1	Literally the craziest thing.
2:15.8	I live on a lake here in East Tennessee,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Edie Wadsworth, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Edie Wadsworth and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.