438: Maximizing Moments
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Lightning Strike: A Wake-Up Call to Live Fully
In our fast-paced lives, it's easy to let moments slip by unnoticed, overshadowed by distractions and the constant hum of to-do lists. However, as Tonya Leigh emphasizes in this episode, life doesn't need to be grand to feel fulfilling; it simply needs to be fully lived. The key to unlocking joy, clarity, and confidence lies in maximizing our moments.
Tonya shares a deeply personal story inspired by a frightening experience during a flight from Charlotte to Boston. While 15,000 to 20,000 feet in the air, an unexpected flash of light shook the plane, sending passengers into a panic. Tonya recounts her reaction of stillness amidst chaos, highlighting the importance of maximizing moments in life. She emphasizes that life doesn't need to be bigger to feel better; rather, it requires a fuller experience.
Join Tonya as she explores how to unlock more joy, clarity, and confidence in your everyday moments. Grab your tea or coffee and prepare for an enlightening discussion on living fully.
Talking Points:
00:43 - Tonya's Scary Flight Experience
03:23 - Realization of Life's Value
05:09 - What Really Matters
07:16 - How We Minimize Moments
09:53 - Deep Presence and Awareness
13:23 - Focusing on Lack vs. Appreciation
18:10 - Wealth and Maximizing Resources
22:28 - Investing in Inspiration
24:46 - Living in Gratitude
Quotes:
"It woke me up to what really, really matters."
"As long as I have my life, I have possibility."
"When you are present, you'll realize you're okay in this moment without all of the mental drama."
"The practice of appreciation will change your life."
"Focusing on what you already have and maximizing it will lead to discoveries and results that will expand your life."
"The best way to do that is to make here so full that you outgrow it."
"You don't need more time. You just need more aliveness in the time you already have."
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered why some moments feel magical while others slip by unnoticed in a blur of |
| 0:07.0 | to-dos and distractions? |
| 0:09.3 | The truth is, life doesn't need to be bigger to feel better. |
| 0:13.7 | It needs to be more fully lived. |
| 0:16.6 | When you learn how to truly maximize your moments, you unlock more joy, more clarity, |
| 0:22.8 | and confidence in your everyday. |
| 0:25.2 | So grab your coffee, take a breath, and let's dive in. |
| 0:31.3 | Welcome to the School of Self Image, where personal development meets style. |
| 0:36.4 | Here's your hostess, Master Life Coach, Tanya Lee. |
| 0:40.4 | Hello, hello, friends. Welcome to this episode. And let me just start out by saying, I am so |
| 0:47.5 | grateful and so happy to be recording this episode because it's about maximizing moments and it was inspired by |
| 0:58.7 | a very scary event that happened to me last week. So here's what happened. I was boarding a flight |
| 1:05.8 | from Charlotte to Boston and it was raining. It wasn't raining terribly. I didn't think anything of it. |
| 1:12.4 | I've taken off and much, much worse. And so we take off and we are about 20 minutes into our flight. |
| 1:19.3 | So I'm going to guess maybe we were 15, 20,000 feet in the air when suddenly out of nowhere. |
| 1:32.9 | This huge, it sounded like an explosion happens. And out of the corner of my eye, I see this flash of like red light. And then the plane shakes. And of course, |
| 1:39.7 | people were screaming. Now, I didn't scream because my body just shut down. I just became super still, |
| 1:46.4 | super silent, and I grabbed Fons's hand, and I'm thinking, this is it, this is it, we're going |
| 1:51.6 | down. We are going down. Now, my daughter was with us, but she was three rows behind us. |
| 1:58.1 | And so I turned to her to try to offer her some comfort, try to help her |
| 2:03.5 | in some way. But the reality is there was nothing I could do, nothing I could do. And so what ended up |
| 2:10.8 | happening is the plane just kept ascending. And every moment we stayed in the air, the happier I was for life itself. |
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