365: Slow Growth
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, host Tonya Leigh discusses the concept of embracing the slow life and the tendency to rush toward our goals. She explores the idea that many of us believe that the future is better than the present, leading us to constantly strive for something more. Tonya also delves into the idea that we often try to outrun our own stories and seek validation and worthiness through accomplishments. Tune in to gain insights on how to slow down and find fulfillment in the present moment.
Episode details:
00:01:10 Embracing the slow life
00:06:05 Slow and sustainable growth
00:09:26 Extraordinary goals and personal growth
00:14:32 Slow growth and sustainable success
00:18:03 Self-image transformation
Quotes:
00:04:26 - "The real work is seeing yourself as worthy now and building from that place."
00:08:30 - "But I'm so afraid of failing. I'm so afraid of what my dad will think. I'm so afraid of not making money that I don't know how to stop."
00:10:19 - "But when you change your whole approach, when you change your mindset, when you make a declaration that you are going to enjoy your life and not postpone it until 'one day when', then a goal setting can become delicious."
00:14:39 - "It may look slow to the outside world, but you are like growing deep, deep roots underneath the surface that maybe people can't see, but it's going to be what allows you to have sustainable success."
00:17:09 - "I've tried both ways and I will take slow growth any day of the week."
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| 0:00.0 | It is that time my friend. One of our favorite events of the year is happening very soon. |
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| 0:38.0 | Welcome to the School of self-image where personal development meets style. |
| 0:47.0 | Here's your hostess Master Life Coach Tanya Lee. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello my beautiful friends. Let's just jump right into it today. I'm really |
| 0:57.6 | excited about this episode because I have a sneaky suspicion that this is going to be an episode that |
| 1:06.6 | resonates with so many of you. If I had to give a theme to the content that I've created this month, I would say that it's all |
| 1:17.5 | about embracing the slow life. |
| 1:22.4 | And a couple of weeks ago I did an episode called Savoring the Slow Life and I like to think that this episode is a beautiful sequel to that particular episode because one of the things that I often see and I have |
| 1:35.3 | personally experienced it myself is this hurry to get to our goals and I've been thinking a lot about why is that. And I said in the previous |
| 1:46.0 | episode it's because many of us think that over there is better than here. But |
| 1:50.8 | there's also this running that we are doing from our own lives because of the story in our head. |
| 1:58.0 | We are trying to outrun our own story and you can never do that because wherever you go that story still remains with you. |
| 2:07.2 | And oftentimes we are running and trying to go fast to prove our worth. We are trying to earn love. We are trying to earn respect. We are trying to earn |
| 2:21.1 | our place in the world. when we equate our worthiness with our achievements |
| 2:27.8 | we cannot go fast enough because underlying that there is this belief of I'm not good enough. |
| 2:34.9 | And until you change that belief, you're always going to be running to the next thing, |
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