What Will You Do With Your One Wild and Precious Life?

What Will You Do With Your One Wild and Precious Life?

In this solo episode of A Beautiful Fix, Tracy Hill explores a powerful question that gets at the heart of purpose, self‑prioritization, and intentional living. Inspired by a line from poet Mary Oliver — “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Tracy reflects on what it truly means to choose yourself, face the fear of judgment, and live with more authenticity in 2026 and beyond. Building on her 2026 theme of bringing selfish back and letting go of other people’s opinions, Tracy breaks down this quote and offers gentle encouragement to rethink success, reclaim personal agency, and create a life that feels meaningful. This episode is perfect for listeners interested in intentional living, self‑care and self‑prioritization, overcoming fear of others’ opinions, and discovering purpose in everyday choices.

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 A Beautiful Fix

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Welcome to a Beautiful Fix. I'm Tracy Hill. Each week we'll dive into the latest thought, Jim recharging and reconnecting with what lights you up and makes you feel alive. Let's discover your next beautiful fix together.

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So it's our second solo of the year, and, uh, we're staying with the theme I declared in episode 51. I'm bringing selfish back. I'm not, I'm not playing guys. I'm bringing selfish back. And when I say I, we, we are, I'm still on that kick. I'm still choosing me and I'm encouraging you to all do the same, but it's not always easy.

If I'm being honest, it's not always easy, especially when you care what people think or even when you say you don't. And recently I was reading Mel Robbins new book, the Let Them Theory. Yeah, I know. I'm a little late to the game. Um, I, I got her book, uh, for Christmas from my, um, son and I've been, you know, slowly digging into it.

And I love Mel Robbins, um, all of her books, but. There's a whole chapter, it's actually a section of the book dedicated to fearing other people's opinions. And as much as I wanna pretend that I'm past all of that, I'm not that fear, it still lingers, it's still here, it still shapes what I say, what I post and what I don't do.

I try not to let it, but I, you know, I like being honest with you guys and um, it's definitely something that plays in my mind. But she, she has a chapter and that the start of the chapter, she shared a quote, um, from Mary Oliver. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

It's one of those quotes that, you know, you've probably seen it before. Um. And I read it and I thought, okay, and I'm, you know, I'm a highlighter. I'm the type of person with my book. I've got my little flags, I've got my highlighter in hand. And I read it and I went through it and I thought, wow. And I started to keep going and it just, I kind of stopped and I went back to it and I just thought, this is really powerful.

It's almost so simple that it makes you dismiss it or just move on, but. Today, I just wanna sit with it a little bit. Let's, let's break this down. Let's just really sit with it, not, not from like a, just a simple inspirational quote, but almost as a challenge. Okay? So let's break it down.

What is it you plan to do? I wanna focus on that word plan, not hope, not, wish, not someday. Plan. What would it look like to actually plan your life around what matters to you instead of trying to fit what matters to you around to everyone else? I'm not even a planner. I'm not that, that is not me. I, I don't like to plan my life.

I don't like to have things planned out. I'm just not built that way. Um, but I love this idea. Because plan is very intentional. It's saying if you don't plan your life, then someone else is right. If you don't sit down and say, here's what's important to me, then life's just gonna happen to you. Life's just gonna dump a bunch of stuff on you.

I love my planning friends, the ones that, that take the time to plan their, their day, their week. Their month, their year, and they can tell you, I'm going on this fabulous vacation at the end of the year. I'm like, how? How do you do that? Like, I'm so in the moment, I'm very impromptu, but man, I'm envious of that because I look up and maybe I went on a vacation, maybe I didn't because I didn't plan.

So what is it you plan to do? But let's go back now. What is it you plan to do with your one? Let's, let's sit with that word one, not infinite. It's not interchangeable, it's not do over able. This is it guys. This is it. It's your one shot. It makes me think of that song by Eminem. If you had just one shot, would you take it?

It it gives me chills. I love that song so much from his movie because of that. Very thought. If you had just one shot, would you take it? Or your one body? I mean, we only get this body and it's, it's really should be treated as a temple. I try to explain this to myself. Every time I'm reaching for a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, I'm like, Tracy, is this treating your body like a temple?

But you know, sometimes you just have to enjoy life. But yes, so you get one shot, you get one body, your one timeline. Now, I don't know what you believe. Some people believe that we come back, we do this life over and over and over again until we get it right, whatever the case is. Even if you do come back, which I don't, I'm, I'm good.

I'm, I'm complete. I don't, I don't need to come back and do this again. As much fun as it's been. But even if you do come back, it's not gonna be in the same timeline. It's not gonna be. At this particular time in the world, it's not going to be with your same set of friends, you know, your same family.

Everyone may be playing different roles. Whatever it is you believe in, the circumstances will be different. So this is your one timeline of living this particular life. And so the next word I wanted to just sit with was the word wild. What is it you plan to do with your one? Wild? Yes, wild, unpredictable, passionate, creative, messy, not something you can control and not something you're supposed to tame.

I. I don't live my life wild. I never have. But if I'm being honest, inside that little wild spirit is there. It always has been. You know? But life teaches you to tame it, right? You're being a bit much, that's not what you know, how you do it. Let's just bring it down, but. This idea of a wild life, not tamed, just free.

You think of a beautiful black stallion, free running along the coastline. It's one of the most beautiful images. Wild. It also makes me think of my hair. My hair is the perfect analogy for my life. So we all know I'm at level 56. Just hit that in December, and I've only recently started wearing my hair natural since I probably turned 50.

Maybe my late forties. I started to wear my hair natural. How ridiculous is that? That doesn't even make sense. The first years of my life. My hair was so thick and so curly and so long, and just you couldn't tame it. So we would just, my mom and I would just make sure that it was buttoned up nicely in two braids.

I always had grew up wearing two braids or one long, uh, French braid. Always trying to tame it, always trying to hold it down. And then when I got to the age where I wanted to start wearing my hair down, we started to put chemicals in it. I wanted to relax it, take out some of the frizz again, make it behave, and then I started adding heat to it.

My whole existence, my whole relationship with my hair was making it behave, taming it, getting it to act right. And now I embrace my hair. I absolutely love seeing that it is the way it is. It represents my life so beautifully. It is saying, listen, take it or leave it. It is what it is. My hair is never the same, um, same way twice, never.

It has a mind of its own. When I wake up, it tells me how we're, how we're gonna look. I have no control over this, and I love that. And that's what I'm talking about when I say this word wild. Just letting go, letting it be what it is. Embracing life in all of its messiness. And the last part of that quote is the word precious.

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? And when I read that word, precious, I maybe, I don't think this was Mary's, um, the author's intention to, to consider that in a fragile way. I see that word in a sacred way. This life is sacred. It is valuable just because it's yours, even when it's imperfect or even when.

You may feel behind or off course, right? So what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life and getting back to, um, to males, let them theory. You may be familiar with it. Her whole thing is let them, if someone is doing something to you or they're not doing what you need them to let them, it helps you kind of relax into the moment and not try to control it.

Not get all caught up in it, just let them. But then what I didn't realize is there's a second part to this. Let them theory and it is, let me, let me disappoint someone. Let me say no. Let me take a break. Let me do what's best for me, even if it doesn't make sense to anyone else. Let me solve this.

That's bringing selfish back and it's a kind of selfish that just says, I wanna feel alive. I wanna feel like I'm living my life. Not managing everyone else's version of it. So here's my question for you. What are you going to do with your one wild and precious life? Right? What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

What's one small selfish choice you could make this week to honor it? Just one.

Let me know what comes up for you. And until next time, keep getting high on life. One beautiful fix at a time.

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