Feeling Stuck in "Depresh Mode"? Ignite Hope & Reclaim Your Spark with Living Lucky® ️ Is negativity sucking the joy out of your life? Do you find yourself stuck in a rut, yearning for the vibrant energy you once possessed? You're not alone. In this powerful episode of Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason & Jana Banana, we dive deep into the concept of "Depresh Mode" – a subtle, pervasive form of despair that can silently drag us down.
But fear not, fellow luck-seekers! This episode is your antidote to hopelessness. Join us as we explore the transformative power of hope: the key that unlocks personal growth, reignites passion, and propels you towards a brighter future. ✨
Here's what you'll discover:
Celebrating Growth: We commemorate our 75,000th download – a testament to the incredible community we've built together!
Breaking Free from "Depresh Mode": Dive into real-life experiences and practical strategies to combat negativity and cultivate a vibrant outlook.
The Magic of Fresh Eyes: Learn how fresh perspectives, like those experienced when hosting foreign exchange students, can reinvigorate your daily life.
Lessons from Legends: Draw inspiration from iconic figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger and discover how to create a future brimming with excitement and possibility.
The Power of Connection: Just like a resilient rubber band, strength comes from shared support. Learn how to harness the power of community and uplift others on their journey. ✨
Words Have Power: Discover the alchemy of language and how you can use your words to cultivate positivity and growth within yourself and those around you. ️
Live Lucky! Embrace the message of living lucky and spread good vibes throughout your community. Share this episode with someone who needs a dose of hope and remind them: they are not alone in their journey to living lucky! ✨
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*Previously Recorded
Jana Shelfer:
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.
Jason Shelfer:
I'm Jason.
Jana Shelfer:
And we are living lucky. I know you are too.
Jana Shelfer:
We just have to share real quickly. We celebrated our 75,000th download last week. I love it.
Jason Shelfer:
That's so fun.
Jana Shelfer:
We always say celebrate your wins. So we just wanted to thank everybody that is listening. We so appreciate you and this whole podcast has been a god thing because I literally, you know, turned I pressed record one day and said let's talk.
Jason Shelfer:
I know, and it's been so it's been fun just having the conversations.
Jana Shelfer:
And we did it mostly to connect with people. And then we were doing it live on Facebook and somebody said you really should put these on in podcast form.
Jason Shelfer:
Well, it felt like when everyone went back to work and stopped working from home and they couldn't join us live on Facebook. They're like we still want to be with you in the morning or listen and be there. Can you just put it in another format where I can listen to it in my car or listen to it somewhere else? And that's what we've done. We adapted.
Jana Shelfer:
We adapting is one of our superpowers.
Jason Shelfer:
Our specialties.
Jana Shelfer:
Yeah, we're talking about hope today. Hope Because I have been noticing depress. I'm gonna that's my new phrase depress.
Jason Shelfer:
That's half a word.
Jana Shelfer:
I've been noticing depress all around me. I don't want to say it out loud. I feel like it's almost a dirty word.
Jason Shelfer:
Do you want to call it depress mode?
Jana Shelfer:
Depress mode People are in. Is that why they named that band that?
Jason Shelfer:
It's not depress mode, oh what is? It Is it.
Jana Shelfer:
Yes it's depress mode Right.
Jason Shelfer:
Okay, maybe I'll have to look it up. I didn't know, that's what it was.
Jana Shelfer:
We sound old, we're like I can't remember. No, I've been noticing more and more people are silently depressed. And so we're going to call that depress mode. They're all in depress mode and I feel like the underlying root problem is that people are losing hope. They don't have hope in their souls. Their souls are not inspired. They're not. Dr Phil used to say you got to get excited about your life.
Jason Shelfer:
Wow, that's pretty cool.
Jana Shelfer:
And I feel like that's what's happening. People are not excited about their lives and they feel like you know what. I've experienced things. I know how this is going. I know how this is going and I don't know how to change it.
Jason Shelfer:
Well, and that's. I had a client yesterday, or it might have been the day before, but it was a. The thought of everything is the same, and this is how life is, so the not me of life just kind of built up. It's the same thing over and over and over again.
Jason Shelfer:
I've experienced that before I've told you there now I have a definition of life and I either like it, I don't like it, and that's just how it is. And when you lose a vision for the future, like a compelling, exciting vision for the future, where you're growing into kind of new spaces, new sky, new, new, this an area you haven't been in, the curiosity. So when once you put the label of life is this, then there's no curiosity of what can't, what else can it be you?
Jana Shelfer:
know it. I'm so glad you brought that up, because when people ask what was it like to have foreign exchange students, it was like having a fresh set of eyes in the environment that we are so habitually familiar to. So when someone from Indonesia comes to live with us and all of a sudden they see the fireworks out the back door and they think, oh my gosh, disney world is only however many miles away. And then they start seeing things for the first time. They I mean the diner that we go to every Sunday.
Jana Shelfer:
They go there like oh my god, this French toast is so good just driving into the neighborhood.
Jason Shelfer:
I mean how?
Jana Shelfer:
many times do you drive into your?
Jason Shelfer:
own neighborhood and the first time you drove into it you're like, yes, I want to live here. Then the hundredth time you drive in here, you're like, oh, just want to get to the house and get inside.
Jana Shelfer:
yes, like after seven, after we've lived here now seven years, and I literally think that I'm like oh my gosh, why does this gate take so long? The house so far in the back and why did we pick the house in the back? I think that I'm like why can't we just pick the first time? Like, even when Carol or Julia especially when I have to go to the bathroom walked into the front front door.
Jason Shelfer:
It's like the piano, the art on the wall. They see it with fresh Text on the wall.
Jana Shelfer:
Oh my gosh. Okay, so I watched along these lines. I watched this documentary, I watched tons of documentaries that's like my favorite genre but I watched one about Arnold Schwarzenegger and he said that one of his secrets to success was that he moved to Hollywood or to California and for him, everything was fun and awesome and so exciting and new and fresh, whereas everyone around him was starting to say, oh, california is going in the dumps.
Jana Shelfer:
It's hard here. Yeah, they were focused on all of the. You know the cost of living is so high and we get rejected so much and and it's getting dirty and the Politicians are are making these, you know, radical decisions. But he came in and he was like, oh my gosh, it's the best place in the world. There's movies being made and there's yeah.
Jana Shelfer:
It was horrible.
Jana Shelfer:
That was almost as good as my doctor film. It was like Arnold from Charlotte's Web. So it kind of goes back to what are you focused on and and? Ok. So how do you get that newness, how do you get that hope, how do you get that inspired feeling?
Jason Shelfer:
From. What I like to do is I like to look at my past and look at what my accomplishments are, because a lot of times we forget what we've done. It's almost so, even just in a day. We forget about what we've done and we focus on what we've done. We forget about what we've done and we focus on what we haven't. So, in life, a lot of times we, for longer periods of time, we, we don't focus on all the the accomplishments, all the excitement, all the fun, the good emotions we focus on what went wrong.
Jason Shelfer:
Dig in, because there's little tiny pit holes that trap our energy in it. On what went wrong, what we didn't get done, what we missed out on and we put our flag, or a little pinpoint in that. If we can go back and just which path are you going to take?
Jana Shelfer:
Which path are you going to take? It goes down to the road diverges in two paths. Which one are you going to take?
Jason Shelfer:
And the funny thing is they're both true, like both happened, but we keep repeating and ruminating and telling ourselves the hard truth instead of the good truth and the fun and empowering truth. Well, here's the thing.
Jana Shelfer:
Every circumstance has a positive and a negative, just depending on how you look at it.
Jason Shelfer:
Focus.
Jana Shelfer:
And so it goes to your focus and what you're even talking about a little deeper, your perception of it, your perception. And again, once we realize it's just a circumstance, I get to choose how I want to remember this, how I want to store it in my brain, how bright I want to make the memory book.
Jason Shelfer:
Correct, yeah. And then what words are we using to tell the stories Like? Are they empowering words? Are they disempowering words? And then, what words are we using to describe our future?
Jana Shelfer:
And let me just add this the reason that Jason is starting with the past is because that oftentimes is the stop stick of why people don't look to the future. Or when they do look to the future, they see a little doom and gloom yeah and it feels heavy. It's because they are comparing it to what they have already experienced.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, they're dragging the familiar past into an unfamiliar future and that color coats that unfamiliar future instead of bringing either showing up in the present and creating from fresh, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, or just creating a new past that's familiar of all the accomplishments and achievements and fun and excitement and saying, if I had it here, I can have it anywhere, I can create whatever I want. Yes, and having that vision for what is it that I want? And now I have something that I can start exploring, getting curious about and finding that road.
Jana Shelfer:
The problem is, those curiosity and those new, inspired feelings are unfamiliar to us. And so when we start to step into our new self, when we start becoming, when we start experiencing love and hope and excitement, there's something innate inside us that thinks oh my God, this isn't comfortable.
Jason Shelfer:
This is quote unquote different.
Jana Shelfer:
This is, this is making me feel weird, and I don't like feeling weird. And then so we fall back into our old patterns, sameness, our old sameness, because we're like Wait, it's almost like In a Lee. Subconsciously we are afraid of success, happiness, joy, love. So think of it, think about this.
Jason Shelfer:
What if you cultivated a group of friends and you went on this joy challenge or you went on this vision challenge, where you're like, okay, we're all going to create our visions. And now we have this. When we get uncomfortable, we can talk with our friends and lean in together. So when we get uncomfortable, we don't fall back into our sameness because our habitual instinct is to stay with the pack. Yes, and now we don't feel alone in that difference.
Jana Shelfer:
Okay, so you just brought up a whole nother thing, which we might have to turn into another podcast, because that is exactly we are afraid to be different. However, in order to make a change, in order to step into our future, we have to try something different. We have to try something different, right, absolutely. I mean, if we do the same things that we've always done, that we've always felt, that, we've always thought, that we've always acted on, then we're going to have the same results.
Jason Shelfer:
And if we want something different and we keep doing the same thing? That is the definition of insanity.
Jana Shelfer:
And the way I started this out is I look around and everyone is silently depressed. So if we try to be like everyone else, guess what we're going to be? Depression mode, depression mode. I want to make that into a band.
Jason Shelfer:
I want to keep living lucky.
Jana Shelfer:
I mean, think about that concert. Everyone is like I don't want to be here, I'd rather be home Move.
Jana Shelfer:
This is the same song.
Jason Shelfer:
It's the same song, different lyrics.
Jana Shelfer:
I know how this is going to end.
Jason Shelfer:
So I think that's probably so. It's been a like when we grew, like as we were growing, it wasn't like it was.
Jana Shelfer:
And we're always growing, so I don't want to put that in fast texts.
Jason Shelfer:
We're not done growing like, but we've gone on this intentional, like growth spurts, like pouring it in, like resources and everything.
Jana Shelfer:
There is growing pains along the way and it hasn't been easy, but we stuck to it.
Jason Shelfer:
We have, and I think part of that is that we had each other.
Jana Shelfer:
And when I agree, I agree wholeheartedly.
Jason Shelfer:
This is getting too uncomfortable, this is getting very tough. Um, and that's like. You've been a great accountability partner and life partner.
Jana Shelfer:
Oh, definitely. And likewise, and I feel I mean it's almost like we're mirrors, because I see you going through something growth wise and I feel like I am your rock in that moment, and then it it goes back and forth.
Jana Shelfer:
It goes back and forth. It's almost like two rubber bands that are climbing up a mountain. Because then I see, okay, you know what I'm experiencing these things. And and here's the other thing is I also notice that when I am experiencing these things, if I say them out loud or pour them on you, you will eventually experience them too.
Jason Shelfer:
Yes.
Jana Shelfer:
So we need to, we need to be careful about that.
Jason Shelfer:
So are we pouring out good like empowerment, are we? Pouring out disempowerment and disbelief.
Jana Shelfer:
And so that has helped me realize. Okay, you know what, when I'm feeling these things, let's transmute it inside here, because I what's it really telling me? I want Jason to experience growth and goodness and high vibrations. Hope, hope, hope is a high vibration and that's where we need to go and that's where I'm going to end.
Jason Shelfer:
And that's why we're living lucky.
Jana Shelfer:
I love it.
Jason Shelfer:
And you are too.
Jana Shelfer:
Thanks for joining us. We're all living lucky.
Jason Shelfer:
Share this one with a friend who needs it.
Jana Shelfer:
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