423: My 2025 Word of the Year
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Transform Your Year with Intentional Living
Choosing a "Word of the Year" is a powerful practice that can significantly enhance personal development and focus intentions throughout the year. This concept, as discussed in the podcast episode, revolves around selecting a single word that embodies the qualities and aspirations one wishes to cultivate in their life.
Host Tonya Leigh reflects on the transformative power of simplifying life to create more meaningful experiences. After feeling overwhelmed by a packed schedule and material possessions, she poses a pivotal question: "What if I could do less but better?" This introspection leads her to select a guiding word for the year that embodies elegance, intentionality, and refined living. Tonya shares her journey of unplugging from work during the holidays, highlighting the importance of renewal and self-care.
Join her as she explores the art of pursuing a beautiful life through intentional choices and a focus on quality over quantity.
Talking Points:
00:31 - The Transformative Question
02:09 - Reflecting on Last Year
03:03 - Choosing the Word of the Year
04:08 - Importance of Deep Reflection
07:07 - Turning Frustrations into Opportunities
08:02 - The Concept of Essentialism
10:10 - Greg McCowan's Book on Essentialism
12:08 - The Impact of Too Many Choices
15:00 - Behind the Scenes of a Successful Business
17:01 - Applying Essentialism to All Areas of Life
17:55 - Questions for Exploring Essentialism
Quotes:
"What if I could do less but better?"
"I made all of those decisions that led to me being in this moment with a lot of things to get done today."
"Last year's frustrations are this year's opportunities."
"It isn't about deprivation. It's about elevation. It's the art of elegant elimination."
"Luxury is different for all of us. It does not mean designer handbags. It's a feeling."
"There's something about this word that has convicted me at the deepest, deepest level."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like your life was bursting at the seams? |
| 0:04.1 | Like you had everything you thought you wanted, and yet something still felt missing. |
| 0:09.8 | Well, last year, I found myself staring at my calendar. |
| 0:13.9 | Every slot filled. |
| 0:15.5 | My phone was constantly pinging. |
| 0:17.9 | My closet was, well, a little full. |
| 0:24.7 | And yet, something just felt off. |
| 0:31.2 | And that's when a single question changed everything. I asked myself, what if I could do less, but better? And this led me to choose my 2025 word of the year, a tradition that I've been doing for over a decade. |
| 0:40.8 | And this word will not only transform how I live, but how I show up in the world. |
| 0:46.4 | And this word is one that I feel embodies elegance, intentionality, and the art of refined living. Today, I'm sharing this word and how it's going to |
| 0:57.7 | guide us as a community and creating a beautiful life by pursuing less, but better. Let's dive in. |
| 1:07.6 | Welcome to the School of Self-image, where personal development meets style. Here's your hostess |
| 1:13.8 | master life coach, Tanya Lee. Hello, my dear friends. Welcome to the podcast. I'm recording this after |
| 1:22.2 | being on vacation for almost two weeks, which I rarely do. And it felt so good to be implugged. |
| 1:31.0 | I told my team at the beginning of the year, I said, listen, one of my wishes for this year that I |
| 1:36.4 | want us to plan for is that I want to take Christmas off. And I say that year after year, |
| 1:42.7 | but typically the week after Christmas, I'm working low-key |
| 1:48.0 | behind the scenes because we're heading straight into a launch. But this year, I am so proud to say |
| 1:53.8 | we all did it successfully. We all completely unplugged. No one posted on Slack. And it was divine. I feel so renewed, so excited, |
| 2:07.2 | and so ready for this new year. One of the things that I did while it was on break was |
| 2:13.6 | spend a lot of time really thinking about last year, thinking about my biggest frustrations, |
| 2:20.0 | thinking about my successes, thinking about what I wish would have been different, how I wish I |
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