474: The 10-Minute Shift You Must Make Before the New Year
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
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Most women go into the new year trying to fix themselves: Fix their bodies. Fix their habits. Fix their homes. Fix their lives. All focused on this state of repairing what's "wrong".
But what if the breakthrough you're craving doesn't come from trying to change your "flaws" but from designing what's possible? The next version of you shouldn't be created through pressure, but through vision.
With this 10-minute practice, you can create the game-changing shift that will make your entire year feel different.
Here's what we cover:
• Why trying to "fix" yourself keeps you stuck, and how design creates real change
• The shift from self-repair culture to living from vision, creativity, and desire
• How embracing wabi-sabi turns imperfections into texture, depth, and beauty
• Why viewing your life as a magazine changes how you set goals and make decisions
• The difference between repair-based habits and design-based choices in everyday life
• How stepping into the role of editor-in-chief empowers you to create a year that feels like yours
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| 0:00.0 | Most women go into the New Year trying to fix themselves. We want to fix our bodies, our habits, |
| 0:06.9 | we want to fix our homes, we want to fix our lives. But what if the breakthrough that you're |
| 0:12.0 | craving doesn't come from fixing what's wrong, but from designing what's possible? In fact, |
| 0:18.2 | what if the next version of you isn't created through pressure, but through vision? |
| 0:23.1 | Well, give me 10 minutes and I'll share the shift that will make your entire year feel different. |
| 0:28.7 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:30.9 | Welcome to the School of Self Image, where our motto is simple. |
| 0:35.1 | Elevate your self-image, elevate your life. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Tanya Lee, your hostess, |
| 0:45.0 | and I'll guide you to become the woman who doesn't just dream bigger. She lives bigger. Let's dive in. |
| 0:52.7 | Hey friends, welcome to this episode. I want to start out by encouraging you to think about the feeling that you get when you are scrolling |
| 0:54.4 | through a magazine that you love. Maybe it's Vogue or L, architectural digest, or real simple, |
| 1:01.5 | but the images stop you in your tracks. It's the colors, the headlines, the intention. There's |
| 1:08.3 | this energetic rightness about it, a sense of creativity. Now, I want you to ask |
| 1:13.9 | yourself, when was the last time you looked at your own life that way as something beautiful that |
| 1:19.0 | you're designing instead of something broken that you're trying to repair? Because most women, |
| 1:24.1 | and I was one of them, we've been conditioned to approach our lives and ourselves in what I call self-repair culture. |
| 1:32.7 | We wake up every day scanning for flaws, looking for what's wrong. Maybe it's the weight we think we need to lose or the habits that we should fix or the kitchen we need to organize or maybe it's the career that you think you should have built by now or the habits that we should fix, or the kitchen we need to organize, or maybe it's the career |
| 1:45.2 | that you think you should have built by now, or the mistakes that you still beat yourself up over. |
| 1:50.5 | The lens is always what's wrong, what needs to be fixed, and where am I not enough? And listen, |
| 1:58.0 | I lived there for many years. Every January, I'd make the longest, harshest list of |
| 2:03.6 | everything wrong with me that I needed to fix. I needed to be more discipline, more organized, |
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