Elevate Your Standards or Lower Your Vision

Redefining Wealth with Patrice Washington

Patrice Washington

Education:self-improvement, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Redefining Wealth LIVE. Join me for the transformational experience that will challenge the way you think about success, wealth, and well-being. Redefining Wealth LIVE is where purpose-driven individuals come together to gain clarity, alignment, and momentum in creating lives that truly reflect their values. If you’re ready to break free from default thinking and step into a more fulfilled, abundant life, don’t miss this event.✨ About This Season: The Anatomy of Alignment This season of Redefining Wealth is dedicated to unpacking what alignment really means — not as a buzzword, but as structure. We’re dissecting how misalignment impacts each of the Six Pillars of Wealth — FIT, PEOPLE, SPACE, FAITH, WORK, and MONEY — and what it truly costs when we tolerate what drains us. Each episode builds on the last. So subscribe and journey with us as we move from awakening… to redefining… to actualizing. Episode Summary In this solo episode, Patrice delivers a powerful reminder that at some point, every vision demands a decision: either elevate your standards or lower your vision. Fresh off the treadmill and reflecting on recurring themes inside her coaching community, Patrice unpacks the hidden tension that happens when the life you say you want no longer matches the standards you’re currently tolerating. Through honest storytelling and practical reflection, Patrice introduces the concept of the “Minimum Viable Standard” — the baseline level of support, peace, order, and alignment required for you to thrive. She explains how many people unknowingly lower their standards in relationships, environments, finances, and daily routines while still expecting to hold a bigger vision for their lives. Eventually, that disconnect creates frustration, exhaustion, and misalignment. Patrice also explores how inherited beliefs, scarcity mindsets, and even proximity to people with smaller thinking can quietly pull us away from our truth. Whether it’s your physical environment, financial habits, boundaries, or support systems, this episode challenges you to stop treating your needs like luxuries and start honoring what genuinely supports the version of you you’re becoming. Ultimately, this conversation is an invitation to stop shrinking your dreams to fit outdated standards. Because the life you desire requires a version of you who is willing to choose differently, think differently, and live differently — even when it feels uncomfortable to others. Questions to Ask Yourself:Where in my life have my standards quietly drifted away from my vision? Am I shrinking my dreams to stay comfortable, accepted, or familiar? What does my “Minimum Viable Standard” look like in each pillar of my life? What relationships, environments, or habits no longer support who I’m becoming? What would it look like to fully elevate my standards instead of lowering my vision? Want to Redefine Wealth for Yourself? Start Here: 🧭 Take the 2-Minute Pillar Quiz to identify which pillar needs your attention in this season: https://patricewashington.com/quiz 📱 Join the FREE Redefining Wealth App (community, book club, and weekly LIVE sessions with Patrice): https://patricewashington.com/redefining-wealth-app/ 💛 Explore Pillar Mastery: https://pillarmastery.com 🎓 Learn about The Institute for Redefining Wealth: https://redefiningwealth.institute/ Resources Mentioned: Redefining Wealth LIVE: www.redefiningwealthlive.com - where purpose-driven individuals come together to gain clarity, alignment, and momentum in creating lives that truly reflect their values. If you’re ready to break free from default thinking and step into a more fulfilled, abundant life, don’t miss this event.

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0:00.0	it is worth asking, what standard am I currently living at?
0:04.2	And does it actually match the life I say I want?
0:08.1	Because how long are you going to keep lowering the vision to meet the bar of these standards you're just accepting and tolerating? Welcome to Redefining Wealth, where wealth isn't just about money.
0:31.5	It's about authenticity, alignment, and abundance.
0:34.6	I'm your host, Patrice Washington, and we're here to help you protect your vision
0:38.4	and pursue the life you've truly been called to live. So let's dive in.
0:47.3	Welcome back. You're listening to the Redefining Weld podcast, and you know, if you see me with a cap on and no makeup that this is a fresh off the treadmill revelation it actually has been coming up on my coaching calls in my community over and over again and I felt like we just needed to talk about it on the podcast so welcome if you're brand new here here's need to know. Wealth is so much more than money and material possessions. This community believes in the original 12th century definition of wealth, which says it's all about the condition of well-being and happiness. So I teach, and I have been teaching for many years now, from the six pillars of wealth. And if you want to know what those pillars are,
1:27.5	I'm going to encourage you to go to Patricewashington.com slash six pillars, the number six pillars,
1:33.5	and grab the pillar cheat sheet. You'll hear me refer to different pillars from time to time.
1:38.7	And I want you to know that these are the parts of your life that are impacting your finances,
1:43.4	your dreams, your vision,
1:44.6	even when you're not thinking about it. So we want to be consciously and intentionally
1:49.3	thinking about it. So today's episode is, I'm just going to dive straight in. It is about
1:55.7	understanding that at some point, you're going to have to make a decision. You're either going to elevate your standards
2:02.7	or you're going to have to lower your vision. Because what I see happen for so many of us,
2:08.7	and what I've even had to check myself on more recently, is this little negotiation that we do,
2:15.9	where you want more, you say you see more for your life. You say you have a
2:21.0	big vision, right? This full colored vision that God is giving you, but then you defer back to your
2:28.7	old standards. Like the standards and the vision are not aligning. It's not catching up.
2:34.7	So instead of elevating how you live, how you choose, how you move, who you be in the world, to match the vision, you start shrinking the vision, adjusting the vision, having conversations with people who like to play small and talk small and be small so that you can stay more realistic
2:52.9	so that you could be more reasonable, more responsible, and you wanted to sound so noble.
2:59.9	You want it to sound so mature.
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