How to Reframe Your Perspective and Achieve True Happiness with Tessa Wilson

True happiness comes only by making others happy. Undeniably, life's circumstances are different for everyone. Some of us have advantages that others may not have. In contrast, others have experienced storms characterized by adverse events that have made success more challenging. However, we can still find happiness even amid our dreadful circumstances. We can find even the tiniest glimmer of joy hidden beneath every adversity. Hence, we can be confident that every adversity that shaped our determination and resilience produces growth within us.

Happiness can effectively motivate people to go after their goals and dreams. Unfortunately, many of us look for it in the wrong places assuming it can be reached when we buy expensive things and achieve personal success. Henceforth, we must recognize that happiness is not a solo quest and that we can obtain it when we learn to extend a helping hand to others and make an effort to contribute something meaningful to society. We must remember that true happiness doesn't come from merely accomplishing personal goals. Still, it grows when we start appreciating life's storms and blessings and seeking to support others to find value, purpose, and happiness.

Miss Tessa Wilson is a mother, social worker, business consultant, entrepreneur, director of Fit For Icons, Gifts For Icons and Ltd, and Founder of Fit For Icons Foundation. The Fit For Icons Foundation is a Non-Profit Business that's on a mission to level the global playing field in access to keyworker services in developing countries to create a world that Is kinder and fairer to all people on our planet. Their mission is to add value to the well-being of key workers in health, dentistry, education, and social care by championing, supporting, and advocating for people at every opportunity possible. The business goal of Tessa is to become rich in things money can't buy.

In this special episode with Tessa Wilson, we will learn about the life of a remarkable woman who encountered life in its most challenging phase as she grew up not having proper access to a person's everyday needs, including food, clothing, education, and a healthy home. Today's episode will encourage us to see life adversities as a channel of growth and determination to thrive despite every challenge. Be enthralled by the life of Tessa as she shares with us her journey to success and how she achieved true happiness through helping people in times of difficulties like the pandemic and also through appreciating and advocating for our modern-era icons– social care, dentistry, health, and education workers.

"Somewhere along the line, I've lost myself, and so I started filling my life with material things thinking that's going to make me happy, but it didn't." – Tessa Wilson

Topics Covered:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:00:35) Introducing our guest speaker, Miss Tessa Wilson.

(00:01:36) What is Fit for Icons company?

(00:02:18) Who are the icons of our times?

(00:04:16) How support and gratitude for healthcare workers fade away

(00:06:09) Don't call people heroes.

(00:08:18) How does an unwholesome political agenda pervert national health services that support public healthcare workers?

(00:10:20) The inability to pay medical bills

(00:12:02) The unbalanced equilibrium exists between the demand for and supply of healthcare services today.

(00:14:39) Background in Life: Who is Tessa Wilson?

(00:16:38) How does Tessa develop an inferiority complex?

(00:18:19) The fear of going back to an undesirable past situation

(00:19:24) A quest for a profession: The teenage life of Tessa Wilson

(00:20:59) Tessa's Journey in becoming a social worker

(00:23:26) When does target-driven behavior hinder innovation?

(00:24:13) You're never too old to do something new.

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(00:25:42) The peril of focusing on material things

(00:26:34) Birth of a new business in the time of the pandemic

(00:29:02) The aim is to give back to social workers' service and selflessness.

(00:31:04) Be successful and help others.

(00:32:01) The pandemic changed a lot of people.

(00:32:39) Fit for Icons Foundation

(00:34:52) Action is better than words and applause.

(00:36:49) Advocating for equal and equitable access to health and education services.

(00:38:11) Property Development and Finance Business

(00:40:19) Final TimeOut with Tessa Wilson: How would you encourage someone who feels inferior about his ability to move forward and accomplish great things?

(00:41:18) Positively reframing adversity.

(00:42:23) Valuable skills learned through adversity.

(00:43:57) Happy Sexy Millionaire by Stephen Bartlett

(00:45:17) Our journey is about ourselves.

(00:46:10) Money doesn't buy you happiness.

(00:46:47) Where to connect with Tessa Wilson

(00:47:12) Outro 

Key Takeaways:  

"Social care, dentistry, health, and education workers are the modern-day icons of our time, and we should be advocating for people to recognize that those ordinary people are absolute." – Tessa Wilson

"There's a lot of unhappiness from the public sector workers who are out striking because their pay has been eroded over so many years. The pay for their service is not in line with the inflation and cost of living rises." – Tessa Wilson

"We need to be more supportive to our modern-day icons, and we need to stop calling them heroes because that suggests that they have superpowers and super resilience." – Tessa Wilson

"One of the biggest financial disasters that precedes homelessness in the US is people being unable to pay their medical bills." – Tessa Wilson

"People cannot be expected to work twice as many hours and remain unaffected, unburnt out, or unstressed." – Tessa Wilson

"People are leaving in droves because they cannot continue in that same vein anymore." – Tessa Wilson

"Many times, we work in a bubble, and we can be ignorant to what's happening around us in the world." –Dr. Derrick Burgess

"I can cope with anything life throws at me, no matter what. And if something's difficult, it will not be difficult forever; I can move on from that." – Tessa Wilson

"My saving grace was I was bright, and I had some amazing teachers certainly in the early years who recognize that and nurtured that in me." – Tessa Wilson

"As a public sector service, your job is not to grow your business. You're looking to gatekeep and prevent people from accessing your service." – Tessa Wilson

"You're never too old to do something new." – Tessa Wilson

"It's ok if I'm successful, but it's not ok if everyone around me is suffering." – Tessa Wilson

“COVID changed a lot of people. It was why many of us stepped back and strived to live to our fullest potential." –Dr. Derrick Burgess

"One of the recognitions we give to our social care, health, and education workers is calling them heroes, but that's not doing anything practical for them. Words and clapping don't mean anything; actions do." – Tessa Wilson

"The beauty of entrepreneurship is finding answers to problems." –Dr. Derrick Burgess

"Adversity does not define who you are. It's not the totality of who you are." – Tessa Wilson

"Adversity gives you skills, experiences, and mindset that you can carry through life." – Tessa Wilson

"No one has ever said, on their deathbed, I wish I spent more time at the office." – Tessa Wilson

"You can be rich in different ways. Money doesn't buy you happiness." – Tessa Wilson

Connect with Tessa Wilson:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fitforicons

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fitforicons

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fitforicons/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fitforicons

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fitfor-icons-tessa-wilson/

Connect with Dr. Derrick Burgess:

Website: https://www.drderrickthesportsdr.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drderrickthesportsdr/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeOut.SportsDr

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derrick-burgess-72047b246/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHGDu1zT4K_X6PnYELu8weg

Email: thesportsdoctr@gmail.com

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