Welcome to Season 9 of Productivity Paradox with Tanya Dalton, a podcast focused on using productivity, not just to do more, but to achieve what's most important to you.

Join Tanya as she kicks off the new year with a special season titled New Year True You.

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inkwellpress.com slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone.

Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 107.

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a little bit later in the episode. But let's go ahead and dive into today's episode because

last week, in our last episode, we talked about how you can't uncover what you're truly

passionate about, why you should pursue those passions and how to make time for them. So I really hope you've been

working on figuring out how to carve out some time for those things that really matter to you.

Now, as you know, all season we're talking about New Year, True You, really working towards

becoming that best version of yourself. But what if you don't know what that

looks like? Well, today, I've got you covered. We're talking about defining who you want to be.

We're going to talk about future thinking and how you can envision your future self to help you

define who you want to be and where

you want to go in life. We'll also be talking about some virtues and values, and I have a great

download to help you figure out who it is you want to be. Now, I know this could really be a

wide open topic. Who do you want to be? It's a big question.

I mean, many of us are not sure how to answer that. In fact, you might be thinking, okay,

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