Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Choreographing a Lucky Life: Stop Living Worried and Start Living Lucky®

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 52

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🌟 Dive into the transformative world of the Living Lucky® Podcast and say goodbye to 85% of your worries! Join Jana and Jason Shelfer on a journey to discover the incredible power of shifting focus from worry to incredible growth. 🚀 Embrace a refreshed mindset, redefine perceptions, and unearth the truth that most worries never materialize.

In the spirit of "Lucky Living®," this podcast is your ultimate guide to soaring above worries and embracing proactive action over the paralyzing grip of concerns. With personal anecdotes, you'll discover how experiences from powerful dance competitions illuminated the profound impact of choosing action over worry, revealing that merely 1% of worries hold true significance. It's time to take charge, act, and start living lucky!

In each episode, hosts Jana and Jason share profound insights lighting the way toward awareness. Today, emphasizing that the worries bogging us down often dissipate or are beyond our control. They echo the importance of shifting focus from worry to solutions, harnessing the energy needed for positive change. This delightful and engaging podcast is an uplifting journey to transform your perspectives and embrace a Living Lucky® mindset that's ready for life's opportunities.

The hosts, in their candid conversations, illustrate how worries affect our focus, with 85% of concerns never manifesting, 15% dwelling in the past, and only 1% of actual legitimate concern. Through actionable tips and personal experiences, this podcast is a beacon of hope, guiding listeners to let go of worry and embark on a path filled with solutions and proactive action.

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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. Good morning. I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are living lucky. We're talking about worry today.

Speaker 2:

Worry. Why do I make myself worry?

Speaker 1:

That's not the song I was thinking of?

Speaker 2:

What are you thinking of?

Speaker 1:

I was thinking of don't worry.

Speaker 2:

Be, happy. Don't worry, be happy now.

Speaker 1:

What did we just recently? We sang it differently. We were like don't happy, be worried, no, don't.

Speaker 2:

Don't happy be worry. Don't happy Because most people. Be worried.

Speaker 1:

Most people are don't happy, be worried.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, they're looking for happiness and they're worried that they're never going to get it.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so here's my situation. I've decided I'm just going to let go of the worry, because the more we worry guess what? The more we attract worry into our life. It's like the universe all years is. Oh, Jana must really like worrying, because that's all she does.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and to me worry is like a mouthful of mud. It just it clear, it clouds up everything. Have you ever had?

Speaker 1:

a mouthful of mud. Actually, I have Tell me when. We all want to know the situation in which Jason Adam will.

Speaker 2:

So I believe this was like an obstacle course or it was like football practice. It was something.

Speaker 1:

I was doing. It was like a tough mudder yeah.

Speaker 2:

I was doing some type of exercise outside and I took a header and got a mouthful of mud. But when you come up with a mouthful of mud, you can't articulate what you want to articulate. You're not thinking about like, and that's what worry does to your brain. It clouds the things that you need to be doing right now that are productive and moving you in the right direction. It just clouds everything up.

Speaker 1:

It puts you in the downward spiral.

Speaker 2:

It mucks you up.

Speaker 1:

Which we talk about all the time, and the more you're in that downward spiral, you just continuously go down, you just it becomes an exponential snowball. Yeah, and really In the wrong direction.

Speaker 2:

I think a lot of times when we're out of the present moment, we're in a state of, a lot of times in a state of worry, especially since the 80% of our mind is negative.

Speaker 1:

You start reverse manifesting is what happens. You start worrying about everything that's going to go wrong. You start worrying about everything that is not right.

Speaker 2:

Especially if you're not aware and you're not intentional about your thoughts, your feelings and your actions.

Speaker 1:

Oh, in fact I we did some research before we started this and we we found that 85% of what we worry about never even happened.

Speaker 2:

Right. So that's a lot of energy and brain power expressed and utilized for something that never even comes to fruition.

Speaker 1:

That's dirty worry.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I like it.

Speaker 1:

It's dirty, stinking worry.

Speaker 2:

Dirty worry, Let it go be happy.

Speaker 1:

It is dirty worry, put it in the laundry.

Speaker 2:

So what if we even just cut our worry by 50% or 20%? That would be a huge. That would change our energy. That changes a lot during the day.

Speaker 1:

That changes so much and then we show up differently, we have a whole different aura about us and we are communicating differently in every aspect of our lives.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you mentioned it earlier and you talk about it all the time is where your focus goes, energy flows. So if you're focused on worry, energy goes into the worry.

Speaker 1:

Well, here's the thing. You just nailed it right there, because when we are worried, we are focused on things we usually can't control.

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 1:

We are focused on things that have happened in the past. We are focused on things that may or may not happen in the future.

Speaker 2:

And 85% of those things are not going to happen.

Speaker 1:

And we are focused on worst case scenario. Things right the sky is falling and we're focused on things that are literally dependent on other people, so they're not even in our control, and the way to get over that hump is to say OK, instead of focusing on the problem, let's focus not only on the solution, but let's focus on what I can control.

Speaker 2:

No.

Speaker 1:

Let's focus on what I can do.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and just let go of the worry, because even when you're focused on the things from the past that have happened and that may have hurt you or may have left you with that wound or the bruise, whatever those things you've made it through. So even in a worst case scenario, we went over that really, really fast.

Speaker 1:

And you said and just let go of the worry. Well, it's easier said than done, true, and we just went over three things. So A, we have to focus on the solutions. So it literally is taking your awareness and it is saying OK, I'm going to stop focusing on everything that can go wrong, or I'm going to stop focusing on the problems, or I'm going to stop focusing on what I can't do and I'm going to start changing my awareness. I'm going to pay attention. Awareness is just where you are putting your attention.

Speaker 2:

And sometimes, like Tony Robbins even talks about sometimes, just shifting your body two millimeters, or shifting your body 10 degrees can be that signal to your brain that, hey, I'm changing my focus right now, I'm changing my awareness from where it was to something new that I want to focus on. So say, ok, I recognize that I'm focused on worry right now. Turn your body towards the sun. Jana wears a plant in her hair, I do that reminds her that she's A constantly, ever, always growing, and then also to reach for the sun, reach for the light, reach for that growth potential within herself. So if you need to focus on or change your focus from that the darkness or the worry or something that's holding you back, just shift yourself in a different direction and find out where the sun is, find out where your energy center is, so you can turn and focus in that direction.

Speaker 1:

The reason we're even talking about this today is, as you all know, we have this big dance competition Coming up in a couple days.

Speaker 2:

Dance demonstration that's coming up At the National Dance Competition.

Speaker 1:

Can you even believe that this is happening?

Speaker 2:

No, it's like. It's almost like one of those big out of the blue waves that just kind of takes over, because that's when you know it's God.

Speaker 1:

That's when you know it's a God thing Is when it comes out of the blue. That's when you know that this is a synchronicity, this is a bigger energy that is making all of this happen. Because, seriously, six months ago, if you would have told me, yeah, you're going to be dancing in the National Dance Competition, I would have said four months ago, I had never even had a dance lesson. Like literally, this is just way too miraculous to even believe it. But believe it because it's happening.

Speaker 2:

Wasn't even a thought in my mind.

Speaker 1:

However, last night Jason's dance shirt arrived. Now we've talked about the costumes and it's been a big, a big.

Speaker 2:

I don't even know what the word is. It's just been a debacle.

Speaker 1:

I think, debacle.

Speaker 2:

It's been a process.

Speaker 1:

Or maybe a cuddle skunk, did I just make that up A cuddle skunk.

Speaker 2:

yes, sometimes what she feels like at night she's cuddling a skunk. That's a Freudian slip right there. You now know the backside of the story. No pun intended.

Speaker 1:

Boo. At any rate, jason's dance shirt arrived. It's the wrong color of red.

Speaker 2:

Now for all you who knew there were this many shades of red.

Speaker 1:

There's so many shades of red. If you've ever read the book 30 Shades of Gray, what's?

Speaker 2:

the book. Yeah, that's it. I'm glad you've read it. You should read the one I read. It had 50 different shades.

Speaker 1:

Okay, cuddle skunk, I promise you.

Speaker 2:

I did read it. I did read it.

Speaker 1:

And yes, okay. So you know how many shades of gray there are. Well, there's even more shades of red.

Speaker 2:

And it's crazy. Go do your lipstick aisle to find out.

Speaker 1:

Because red can be. I mean you put just a little bit of blue in there and next thing you know you've got violet. You know it like can change. You know violet is a virtue and for anyone who's ever tried to go buy red lipstick you know you know that if you get just the wrong shade of red then next thing you know your teeth look kind of orangey. You know, so red can have.

Speaker 2:

It really brings out the red in your eyes.

Speaker 1:

Oh, did you just call me the devil.

Speaker 2:

No, you just said I haven't read eyes. It was me.

Speaker 1:

I was just being about myself, so you only have red eyes if you're like extremely tired.

Speaker 2:

Or if you have ocular rosacea.

Speaker 1:

Okay, that too. All right, I'll forgive you on this one Cuttle skunk. See why I call him that. That just came out of nowhere and I'm going to start calling him that.

Speaker 2:

She's going to live in it. I'm going to probably have a t-shirt with it soon, lucky you. I know.

Speaker 1:

At any rate, jason's shirt arrived. It's slightly the wrong color and we're days out from this performance and I thought, oh my gosh, what are we going to do? I immediately wanted to start worrying and then I thought you know what?

Speaker 2:

I'm going to go to bed because it always works out, and I mean for real, and the most important thing about it to me is just the dance and the emotions involved in it.

Speaker 1:

If I worry about it, then guess what? I'm just going to create more worry, Right and worst case scenario we have slightly different red shirts. We're slightly different shades of red out there.

Speaker 2:

And I did take some action.

Speaker 1:

I did order two more shirts to see if I know we're going to get one of those flags on Amazon, because we have literally ordered so many things and we keep sending them back because we're like no, no no, look at how much we've ordered and we haven't sent back.

Speaker 2:

This could be a little small Amazon hub here.

Speaker 1:

Oh, my goodness, okay. So anyway, I just went to bed though last night, and I thought you know what. The last thing I'm going to do is worry about this. It will work itself out, and I feel like that was a very different decision than I normally take.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it was like a letting go and it was a, and I feel like you slept better.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I did not sleep well last night. I slept better. I think maybe I slept better because I didn't think you were worried about it. Maybe that's it, maybe so.

Speaker 2:

So because energy is contagious.

Speaker 1:

That is true. Okay, well, I'm glad I could help you sleep better.

Speaker 2:

You're very Thank you.

Speaker 1:

You're very welcome, so we have to let it go. So 85% of what we worry about never happens. 15% of the things that we worry about are things that have happened, but they're in our past and we cannot change them.

Speaker 2:

And we've already made it through them. That's true, that's the big thing is that we're worried about things, that if they happen again, we have proof that we can make it through it 4% of the things that we worry about Could be influenced by us.

Speaker 1:

Let me repeat that that means they are within our control.

Speaker 2:

That's me ordering the two new shirts exactly.

Speaker 1:

Just to see what happens instead of worrying, we can Take action, because there are things that we can do. So that is my, my number one tip instead of worry, why not take action?

Speaker 2:

Find the things, look for the things that you can control for the solution, for the solution, that's it, that's, that's the solution and take a baby step toward that solution.

Speaker 1:

Take action, take action. Don't sit there and and stew in dirty worry.

Speaker 2:

I think one of the things that really compounds worry is not communicating, so holding the worry to yourself, like when, like I knew immediately or I didn't know, but I said, hey, my shirt arrived, let's look at it. Yes so we were. That communication was open and as soon as we saw it you were like okay, that's, that's classy, it like it not just it isn't the wrong shade, it just it clashes, it did it clashed. So we need to start looking for that solution.

Speaker 1:

It was. Yours was a little rosy and mine is more bright red. Yeah mine is more F you read. Me read exactly how ever you want to look at it. And then 1% of the things that we worry about are actually real legitimate concerns. Yeah, only 1%. So if we cut our worry by 99%, thinking that only 1% of what we worry about is actually legitimate, that is a big aha moment.

Speaker 2:

Do you? So this just made me think of one thing that a lot of us have been really good about letting go of worry on, and it's in the 1%. That is a legitimate concern. Okay, that we're all gonna die, we all have an expiration date, but we don't worry about that, thinking that we have unlimited time to do the things that we want to do in life. So we we don't wake up to this awareness that we're talking about to let go of the worry earlier, to to spend more time looking for solutions instead of looking for problems.

Speaker 1:

I don't want to, I don't want to change the subject. I know I did you did and I don't want to. I don't want to stop stick you, but I I would disagree with you. I don't think everyone is afraid to die.

Speaker 2:

So I don't think we're afraid to die, I don't think we we give it enough credence and do the things that we want to do while we're here, and that's that's because a lot of times we just get caught up in a lot of these Traps like the worry trap, the dirty worry the dirty worry, the dirty worry I like that term, dirty worry.

Speaker 1:

Do your laundry on your worry I. I think that's gonna be my new little.

Speaker 2:

Clean up your mind. That's right. Get out that dirty worry.

Speaker 1:

That's right and it you know if, if all else fails, you may just be a slightly different shade of red and we'll still look awesome. Yes, I am curious how many shades of red?

Speaker 2:

Google, alexa how many shades of red more like AI?

Speaker 1:

All right, thanks for joining us. Let go of your worry. I know it's a lot Easier said than done, but it's a practice, yeah, and practice makes progress instead of what was our, instead of be worried and don't be happy be worry, don't happy.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, don't happy be worried.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, whatever we're mixing up the song by intentionally, let's, let's, let go of the worry and let's be happy. Amen because that's how we communicate with that's more fun. It is more fun, and what we feel is what we attract, hmm, and what we create.

Speaker 2:

Let's get it.

Speaker 1:

All right, have a great day. Thanks for joining us. Bye-bye, if the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at start. Living lucky comm.