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School of Self-Image

371: My 2024 Word of the Year

School of Self-Image

Tonya Leigh

Self-improvement, Fashion & Beauty, Education, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What is Tonya's WOTY?  She has been selecting a word of the year for the past decade, finding it to be a transformative process. She firmly believes that merely setting goals and taking action is insufficient for creating lasting change. Instead, Tonya emphasizes the significance of personal growth and transformation in order to consistently approach things differently and achieve different outcomes. Having a word of the year serves as a guiding principle, providing direction and support.

However, Tonya faced difficulty in choosing a word of the year for 2024. Initially, she contemplated words like "power" and "integrity," but they didn't resonate with her. It was during a luncheon for the Good Friends organization that she witnessed a woman on stage who embodied qualities she deeply admired, such as power and integrity.

The word "royal" encapsulates the host's desired qualities of integrity, generosity, and elevating self-care. She explains that embodying royalty means radiating an energy filled with integrity, grace, compassion, and empathy. It entails adhering to moral principles and a code of ethics in both behavior and leadership. 

Tune in to discover how to aim toward treating yourself with the utmost care and refinement. 

 

 

 

Episode Breakdown:

00:33 Choosing a word of the year

02:14 One of the biggest mistakes that we make

06:09 My word of the year for 2024 is royal

08:24 Seeing yourself as someone of status

09:28 Lead with integrity

13:12 What is 'being royal'?

14:59 Being more generous in 2024

18:11 The Royal Treatment

19:39 My extraordinary goal

 

Quotes:

"My extraordinary goal this year is around leadership and my business and my team. I want to be a really royal leader."

"I don't believe in giving when you're doing it to get rid of guilt or to, you know, impress other people. I think that is the energy in which a lot of people sometimes give and then they start to feel resentful and it doesn't feel good."

"One of the traits that the woman who was on stage that revealed my word of the year to me showed me that I want more of this year is generosity."

"We are going to make mistakes, we are going to get it wrong sometimes. But the biggest mistake is in pretending you didn't make one."

"Because so often we discount ourselves, we shrink ourselves, we put ourselves down, we place other people above us."

 

Useful Resources:

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Transcript

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0:00.0

For the past 10 years, I have chosen a word of the year. And in this episode, I'm revealing what it is for

0:08.1

2024. And by the way, I looked up the word flitter and it is indeed a word. Wondering what I'm

0:16.2

talking about? Well, tune into this episode. Let's dive in.

0:28.8

Welcome to the School of Self Image, where personal development meets style. Here's your hostess, Master Life Coach, Tanya Lee. Hello, my friends. How are you all doing in the second week of the year? Are you still excited? Are you ready?

0:43.2

I want us to keep the intensity up the entire year because I know that feeling when you start a new

0:50.2

year to have all of these dreams and these goals and they start to just flitter. Is that a word?

0:57.2

Flitter away. I make up words. I'm going to have to look that one up to see if it actually exist.

1:03.8

I know flutter exists, but anyway, we don't want our goals and dreams to flitter. We want to keep them at the

1:10.4

forefront all year long.

1:13.2

And one of the ways that I do this is by choosing a word of the year.

1:19.7

I've been doing this for 10 years and it's such a powerful process.

1:23.6

In fact, if you're in the membership, this is what we're doing the whole month.

1:28.0

We are getting very intentional about our word of the year.

1:32.1

And there is a gorgeous workbook where I walk you through how to figure out what your word is.

1:37.8

And if you're not a member, we are open for enrollment right now.

1:42.6

You can go to school of selfimage.com forward slash join,

1:45.9

get yourself in the membership. I am holding the intention that every single member creates her

1:54.5

after story. And you'll learn more about the after story process when you join. I take you through the self-image method,

2:02.2

where you get really clear on what you want to create this year, and more importantly,

2:07.8

who you must become. And that's what the word of the year is all about. One of the biggest

2:15.5

mistakes that we make when we set goals is that we set a goal and we just

2:22.1

start taking a lot of action. And then the action starts to become harder and harder. And we find

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