Infuse More Joy in Your Life with Tanya Dalton - Episode 231

Do you find joy in what you do every day? Or do you struggle to get through each day? Tanya Dalton is a best-selling author, speaker, and nationally recognized productivity expert. In this episode of Wingnut Social, Darla and Tanya talk about some of the concepts in her first book, “The Joy of Missing Out: Live More by Doing Less.” If you’re ready to infuse more joy into your existence, this is the episode for you!

What You’ll Hear On This Episode of Wingnut Social

• [0:46] Check out Build Lane custom furniture 
• [1:28] Learn more about Wingnut Social!
• [3:03] Check out Wingnut Premium for a 7-day free trial!
• [4:09] Mini news sesh: TikTok is testing a Stories feature
• [7:14] Learn more about Tanya Dalton
• [9:17] Does your business still give you joy?
• [14:39] When do you call it quits and pivot?
• [25:30] What “Loving what you do” looks like
• [27:28] Learn to live each day on purpose 
• [32:53] How to get your joy back
• [38:07] How to connect with Tanya Dalton
• [38:43] The What Up Wingnut Round
• [42:23] Blooper Reel!

Connect with Tanya Dalton

• Check out Tanya’s website
• The Intentional Advantage Podcast
• Tanya’s book: The Joy of Missing Out
• Connect on LinkedIn
• Follow on Instagram
• Tanya’s second book, “On Purpose: The Busy Woman’s Guide to an Extraordinary Life of Meaning and Success” is launching October 12th, 2021. Be sure to check it out!

Resources & People Mentioned

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• LuAnn Nigara’s Podcast

Does your business still give you joy?

Tanya points out that most people go into business because they’re passionate about it. But then you get bogged down by the behind-the-scenes things that are part of running the business. You lose sight of why you started in the first place. So what do you do? How do you find joy when you’re burned out? Tanya says to take a step back and assess, are you happy? Is this where you want to go? Tanya believes you can inject joy into your business by adding systems and structures that lighten your load. You have the power to choose how your life—and your business—is run.

Many business owners wear a lot of hats—and feel like they have to. You worry that something won’t get done to your standards. It ties into the idea of perfectionism. But guess what? There’s more than one way to do things. You have to relinquish control and delegate. You will get burned by team members and bad hires. You can use those times as learning lessons. It’s part of the journey of entrepreneurship. “That’s part of finding our way to what it is we really want. It’s when we stop doing what everybody else is doing.” You can define success on your own terms. You can define how your business is run. When you take that power and use it, the difference it can make in your life is incredible. 

When do you call it quits and pivot?

Tanya points out that moving on and pivoting is part of the evolution for many people. You start something because you think it’s what you want. Tanya’s first business was successful. Her husband quit his job to come work alongside her. The business paid her bills and fed her family. It was checking all of the boxes. But five years into it, she didn’t love the work. She spent a lot of sleepless nights staring at the ceiling, questioning, “Why am I doing this?” If you’re not happy, what’s the point?

That meant taking a step back and assessing her life. She closed her business and took the things she was passionate about and created Inkwell Press Productivity Co. She scaled her business to seven figures in 18 months because she was so passionate about it. 

What holds people back? They feel stuck because they’ve put so much time and effort into something that they’ve built. But Tanya emphasizes that you’re never stuck. You can always shift, change, and grow in the direction that you want to grow in. For Tanya, it meant starting over. It was a redefinition of success.

So how do you make a change? Do you take a blind leap of faith? Or engage in purposeful planning? Listen to hear what Tanya would do.

How to live each day on purpose 

People get bogged down by the idea of purpose. But Tanya believes that having a purpose is simply living bigger than today. It’s seeing who you want to be in the future and working toward that. It’s rising up to be the best version of you. You have to understand where you want to go and then work backward to map it out. What is