Wanting What You Have
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Go for it!
Welcome to today's episode of the 'School of Self-Image' Podcast with host and self-image coach, Tonya Leigh, where personal development meets style. This a go-to podcast for women who desire to transform their self-image so that they can create mind-blowing results in their lives.
How do you differentiate success from happiness? This happens to be the question I often get to ask myself lately. Your definition today might not be applicable tomorrow or in the next few days. As we try to live in the present, we tend to focus on short-term goals or wants.
Let me break this cycle today by sharing my thoughts about 'wanting what you have.' Take time to pause and take a look at the things you already have. This will guide you to having that content and staying away from shiny little things around you.
Join me for another action-packed episode of living life with gratitude, appreciation, and just positive vibes. Wherever you are right now, I wish you a beautiful Thanksgiving, my gorgeous friends!
What I Cover In This Episode:
1:16 - The concept of 'wanting what you have'
3:20 - Delaying gratification: good or bad?
4:16 - How to live with appreciation
10:48 - My no-spend challenge: I will not buy anything for 6 months!
13:30 - How to practice gratitude
14:20 - Thinking about your future self
Quotes:
"You either have to choose to have big goals in order to be happy, or you have to choose to be happy with where you are right now."
"Nothing will ever be enough. It's always us chasing more, more and more."
"I would love to see gratitude be a lifestyle for all of us."
Useful Resources:
- FREE Download: Self-Image Manifesto
- The School of Self-Image
- Connect with Self-Image Coach Tonya Leigh:
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I've been thinking a lot about success and happiness lately, like, what is it? |
| 0:06.4 | How do we achieve it? And I found this quote by Del Carnegie where he says, success is getting what |
| 0:12.4 | you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. A lot of us are really good at going after what we want. |
| 0:21.6 | But are you really good at wanting what you get? Are you good at wanting what you have? |
| 0:28.4 | Because I believe that's where true joy and fulfillment lies. And that's what we're talking |
| 0:35.4 | about in today's episode. So let's dive in. Welcome to the School of Self-Image where personal |
| 0:41.7 | development meets style. Here's your hostess, master life coach, Tanya Lee. Hello, my gorgeous friends. |
| 0:49.6 | If you're listening to this the day it's released, it means you're listening to this the day before |
| 0:54.1 | Thanksgiving. I am at my dear friend Brooks's house. Her family, my family, friends, we're all |
| 1:02.8 | getting together. We're having like a friend's giving. And it's one of my favorite holidays. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm not sure what it is about Thanksgiving that I love so much. Maybe it's the turkey, but I don't |
| 1:15.0 | think that's it. Maybe it's the crisp air, the apple pie, the sweaters, the transition into winter, |
| 1:24.0 | but I just enjoy this day where we sit around, we feast, we watch football, and we give gratitude |
| 1:36.9 | for our lives and the people in our lives and the things in our lives. And while I would love to |
| 1:42.8 | see gratitude be a lifestyle for all of us, not something that we wait until once a year to express, |
| 1:50.4 | I do love having that day to remind us to stop and think about everything that we have |
| 1:58.3 | and how much we appreciate it. And so today I want to dedicate this episode to a concept that's |
| 2:06.8 | really helped me to have more joy in my life. And that concept is wanting what you have. |
| 2:15.0 | And Cheryl Crowe sang, soak up the song, she sings, it's not having what you want, it's wanting what |
| 2:21.5 | you've got. And I will tell you all the more I have actively wanted what I already have, the happier |
| 2:29.7 | I've become. One of the common questions that I get is how do you reconcile wanting more, |
| 2:38.8 | having all of these big goals and being satisfied with what you have? As if you have to choose |
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