Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Meeting Your Future Self: Futurecasting🤗

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 51

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Discover the extraordinary journey that begins with a simple yet profound question: What if you could meet your future self face-to-face? In this engaging and transformative podcast, we delve deep into the heart of personal growth, self-discovery, and the incredible power of human potential.

🚀 Embrace Your Best Self 

Life often challenges us with negativity, self-doubt, and hurdles. "Living Lucky" is your sanctuary for turning these obstacles into stepping stones for success. We're here to guide you through the process of rewriting your self-narrative, infusing your life with joy, and taking pride in the magnificent future that awaits you.

🙌 Real Talk About Transformation 

We don't sugar-coat the path to personal growth. Drawing from our own experiences, we engage in candid conversations about the obstacles that naturally arise when you set out to bridge the gap between your present and future self. But don't worry, we've got practical advice to help you overcome these challenges and maintain the momentum.

🌸 The Power of Gratitude and Letting Go 

Discover the profound impact of gratitude on your transformation journey. Learn the art of 'letting go' and how to navigate the latency periods that come with transitions. These are the secrets to creating a brighter future for yourself.

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At "Living Lucky," our mission is simple: to inspire you to embark on your own adventure towards meeting your future self. We firmly believe that an amazing future life is waiting for each of you, and it's just a matter of claiming it. 🌠

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Have a story to share? Want to tell us what your future self looks like and what incredible things you're doing? Want help? Reach out to us at admin@startlivinglucky.com.  We can't wait to hear from you!

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*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start living lucky.

Speaker 2:

Good morning, I'm Jenna.

Speaker 1:

I'm Jason and we are living lucky. We're meeting our future selves today. How exciting is that.

Speaker 2:

Hey, good looking, how'd you?

Speaker 1:

got cookin'. That's what I'd say to my future self. What would you say?

Speaker 2:

I would say finally.

Speaker 1:

Finally.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I've been looking for you everywhere. I'm so glad to meet you.

Speaker 1:

Really, would you say, I am so proud of you.

Speaker 2:

I'm so glad to be here.

Speaker 1:

I'm glad to be you.

Speaker 2:

Right, aren't you glad I made it.

Speaker 1:

Aren't you glad to be me, is it? I'm glad to be you, or are you glad to be me?

Speaker 2:

I'm glad to be you. So I do believe that there is a future, an amazing future life that is waiting for everyone out there. It's just waiting for you to find it Okay, and all you have to do is imagine it and know what it looks like, know what it feels like, know what it what it smells like, tastes like, like everything in it, and then you have to just start being it and traveling to it.

Speaker 1:

Well, I actually do this every morning and I don't know if you know this about me. Do you know?

Speaker 2:

this about me? I think I do Really yeah.

Speaker 1:

I have this like little exercise that I do in my mind and I literally, when I wake up, I say how would my future self feel right now? And my future self is really the best version of me that I can possibly imagine. And then I think, okay, well, what kind of thoughts would my future self have? What kind of feelings would my future self have? What kind of actions would my future self take? What would my future self want to wear? What would my future self want to say? How would my future self, what kind of energy would my future self want to bring today? And then I put myself in that state, yeah. And then I say, okay, let's go meditate. That's what I do.

Speaker 2:

Yeah I say, let's go meet that future self. But isn't that funny that I mean the fact that I need to do that every morning is See, I think it's exciting, okay, like I really do, because then one day, and if you're in that habit, so one day you're going to be that future self, and if you have a habit of doing that, then you just keep becoming the future you and it's like you're continually growing into this amazing, wonderful, powerful person.

Speaker 1:

It's a chore, though. I'm just going to be transparent.

Speaker 2:

See, I just think it's exciting.

Speaker 1:

Okay, but I'm going to say, well, good for you, good for you, karen.

Speaker 2:

No offense, karen, write me a letter, karen.

Speaker 1:

All right, I'm going to be a little more vulnerable right now and I'm going to tell you that it sounds great and it sounds awesome and it sounds like how I want to be every day, and I wish that it just came naturally to me. However, it is a chore for me. It is a chore, and each and every day, I do struggle with where I'm at right now and where I want to be.

Speaker 2:

See, I just don't. I just know that I'm excited to meet my future self, because I know I'm not doing everything my future self is doing. I'm just trying to get there, okay. But I'm not beating myself up that I'm not everything, that my future self is all the time, because I know that I fall short. Where I wake up is not where I'm going to be, okay. But I do try to get into that emotional state Like I know that I'm not going to go jump on a business's private jet today and fly somewhere to train a thousand people, but my future self is doing that. I do know that I'm going to be on a stage today training 250 people.

Speaker 1:

Yes, you are you are in about 20 minutes, Right so.

Speaker 2:

I can live in that, knowing that my future self is on a private jet that's being paid for by a company to find me somewhere to do that. That is true and that's exciting to me. Knowing that my today self is getting on a zoom call, being paid for by a company to train 250 people all over the world all over the world.

Speaker 2:

Speaking all different languages, I can still be in the energy of my future self, in the state of my future self, and that excitement and that energy and feeling that and knowing that I'm still going to be meeting my future self sometime in the near future and excited about the what I'm doing today on that zoom call, does that make sense?

Speaker 1:

Well, of course it makes sense.

Speaker 2:

And I don't have to beat myself up, knowing that I'm not my future self yet, but I'm still traveling to meet that future self and that future self is going to be going. Good job on that zoom call, because that zoom call was one of the steps getting you here.

Speaker 1:

I see what you're saying and I commend you and I think that's awesome. I also think that, in reality, what, what you're not connecting is where people are right now and the fact of the matter is is that's where people want to be, is where you're, where this, the place that you're at right now, that's where people are trying to get and there's a, there is a disconnect of the reality. Is, sometimes we wake up and we have this little thought loop that says I should get up right now.

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 1:

I really should go exercise. I really should start my morning routine. I know that I would feel better if I just get up. The alarm went off. I am just laying here. Why am I laying here? I agree, and then we were four years ago.

Speaker 2:

I was doing that. I was doing that exact thing four years ago. Right, I was hitting this news button. I was saying, holy crap, I got to have to go to work. I don't want to go to the office, I don't want to do this. I was not even saying I should do things. I was saying I don't want to do this, I don't want to do the things that I'm doing.

Speaker 1:

Which is why you have the confidence that your even more future self is waiting for you, because you can look back and say, okay, look, how far I've come.

Speaker 2:

Yes, a lot of times we get stuck in this hypnotic rhythm of doing things that we don't want to do because we're so out of align with our souls. We've fallen into that trap of chasing things that don't matter and chasing things that are so far out of alignment, trying to find happiness, or not even trying to find happiness, but just being numb to life, just being completely numb to life.

Speaker 1:

So what advice do you have for the person that has not seen the success yet, the person that has not seen the proof yet?

Speaker 2:

I would say that there is proof, if you have. I would say that people give you proof. If you look for proof, it's in gratitude, it's looking for gratitude. It's what you did for me. It's writing down what you're thankful for every single day. You made me write it in a journal every day, not repeating for a long time, and I was like I don't, it's a process. It is a process. And then it was identifying the things that I wanted to do, things that brought me joy, and when you said let go, let go of the things that you think you have to hold on to and do what you love, and I fought it and I fought it. And then I said this is what's given me purpose. And I, and then you said it's okay, let go and do it. Do it gives you purpose, and but do it all in.

Speaker 1:

That is so key to go all in. There is a latency period, though. And I feel like that is where people don't quite understand is that when you're in the middle of a transition or in the middle of a change or any kind of adapting, there is this latency period, or even manifesting, there's this latency period where we decide, okay, I'm going to make a change, and we go all in like you said, she's like a kick in the nuts.

Speaker 1:

And, yes, we decide to go all in. We start making these changes and we don't see the proof or the results that we expect or that we want to see.

Speaker 2:

It's like an. It's a pucker factor is what it is. It's like the. Oh crap, what have I done? It's the moment. It's the free fall. It's the. I've just jumped out of the plane. Please, god, let this parachute work.

Speaker 1:

It is, it is and the here's here's the thing about it. Because I've experienced this many, many, many times. In fact, I would still say I struggle with this. I still struggle with this. I feel like it's the free fall where the worst thing you can do is start listening to your doubt voice.

Speaker 2:

And and sometimes the people around you, because the people around you know you from before you started living in your purpose.

Speaker 1:

And they don't understand what your future self looks like, or what kind of change you're trying to make, or who you're becoming, or why. They don't understand the transition that's happening and also they find it a little bit threatening. Yeah, so I was talking, and when? When I say threatening, it means that when you're changing, it means that they're not.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so I was talking to the group of coaches that I work with on Mondays and Thursdays and I I love metaphors. So I was talking to them about this exact subject, because when you're going through this type of growth or this type of change, it's very, it's very transformative and the people around you. It's almost like you're a seed in the ground, yes, and you're finally growing out of the soil and seeing the light, and you're trying to peek back under the soil and tell everyone what's happening and how beautiful and warm the sun is and how nourishing the sun is. And you're saying, oh, my gosh, this is amazing. Please come up here and experience what this light and this warmth and this glow is all about. And you're saying, you're crazy, it's so nice down here and it's moist.

Speaker 1:

Why would I leave the shade? Yes, and it's dirty soil, it's dark and moist down here it's.

Speaker 2:

this is, this is what we're used to the protective darkness, the wind we're not getting blown by like there's no wind down here, it's, there's no friction.

Speaker 1:

Yes, we're not exposed to the elements, but we're up here going.

Speaker 2:

No, it's nice and warm and glowing and beautiful, and I can see from miles and you can soar and the wind is refreshing possibilities and and they're like no, it's stagnant and moist and still here, yes, and and no one understands and they say Please come back and be like we know you and and it's very hard.

Speaker 1:

It is so hard because sometimes and then we doubt.

Speaker 2:

We're like Is it better down there? I?

Speaker 1:

know, and then that's the worst because a hard when comes. That's the worst thing you can do, because then if you start going, if you start going back and forth, between worlds then you start using all your energy of Okay, am I this, am I that, am I this, am I that? And you can't fully embrace into one or the other.

Speaker 2:

And that and I tried that and it was crushing me and I wasn't, I wasn't flourishing in either, and I would submit that you cannot flourish where you're not in purpose.

Speaker 1:

That's so good, jason.

Speaker 2:

So good, yes, I and your in your future self is definitely in the light.

Speaker 1:

Always yeah, oh, some good stuff today. Good stuff, yes, I, I struggle with this, but, but I am always, always searching for my future self. In fact, sometimes I pretend that Miss Future Jana rings the doorbell and I'm like, oh, I wonder what she has to say.

Speaker 2:

Let me go.

Speaker 1:

Let me go meet her at the door and I sometimes can picture exactly what she's wearing and I picture her on the stage winning an Academy Award and I'm like an Academy Award.

Speaker 2:

And.

Speaker 1:

I picture her on Dancing with the Stars.

Speaker 2:

I picture her dancing with the Stars Get ready, Get ready for that one.

Speaker 1:

All right guys, thanks for joining us. What does your future self look like? Think about it. What kinds of thoughts does your future self have? What kinds of feelings does your future self and what is your future self willing to let go?

Speaker 2:

Yes.

Speaker 1:

I mean that's important to know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, send me an email on what your future self look like and doing, and send me an email at admin at startlivingluckycom.

Speaker 1:

And also, who does your future self surround themselves with? Did I get all the pronouns correct there?

Speaker 2:

I don't know.

Speaker 1:

Anyway, yeah, those are the questions to ponder today. Have a great day and we'll talk to you next time. Thanks for joining us, bye, bye. If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at startlivingluckycom.