Feeling stuck? Want to unlock your potential and attract success? Join us on Living Lucky® Podcast as we explore the hidden connections between navigating the stock market and mastering life's challenges in "Options and a Naked Put"!
Transform setbacks into setups and turn market volatility into thriving opportunities. We'll show you how to break free from negativity, embrace new perspectives, and conquer your self-imposed limits.
Discover the power of options in every aspect of your life. Learn how to make choices that empower you and steer your destiny towards success.
Key takeaways:
Reframing Challenges: Life's setbacks are stepping stones, not roadblocks. Embrace the growth mindset to learn and adapt, building resilience for future success.
Cultivate a "Living Lucky®" Perspective: Choose a positive outlook and take control of your life. Replace passive hope with proactive action to achieve your goals. Living Lucky® goes beyond optimism, encouraging conscious effort and self-awareness to cultivate lasting happiness.
The Power of Options: Understand your options and make informed decisions to achieve your desired outcomes. This goes beyond financial literacy, emphasizing critical thinking and strategic decision-making in all areas of life.
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The 4 pillars of Living Lucky Believe in yourself Believe in the people around you Believe in your circumstances and Believe that God is working through you, for you, and always conspiring in your favor.
*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, and this is my husband, Jason, and we are living lucky. Thank you so much for being here. We are all living lucky.
Jason Shelfer:
Isn't that right Today?
Jana Shelfer:
we're talking about options Mostly because Jason and I have been sitting in a financial class for the last three days and learned things that I didn't even know I should be learning about.
Jason Shelfer:
So I was wondering are we going with just the options that we have in life or, if we're talking, financial options, but I guess they're kind of all the same.
Jana Shelfer:
You don't know what you don't know.
Jason Shelfer:
Right, I love it.
Jana Shelfer:
And we show up at this. It's for traders, it's for stock traders and we showed up to this conference starting on Friday morning. I learned so many things, mostly about options. I came from the old-school approach where you invest in the stock market and then you just hold it and you kind of just hope it goes up. You hope that the stocks go up.
Jason Shelfer:
Ride it out. The stock market always comes back and it always gains.
Jana Shelfer:
Yeah, it's a long-term approach.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, too big to fail. We're in it for the long haul. That's kind of what it is All the little stuff in the middle that you don't know anything about. Right. I spent the whole weekend talking to Mike and Hugh, my best friends from high school, and a third of that weekend we spent literally talking about stocks.
Jana Shelfer:
And did anyone mention options?
Jason Shelfer:
No, we didn't mention options, futures putts or the other things Putts and calls and cover calls and naked calls. I'm like oh my gosh, let's get naked. I've been called naked, but I've never had a naked call.
Jana Shelfer:
Oh, I have, or maybe you haven't and you just didn't know it from me.
Jason Shelfer:
probably I didn't pick up the sign. I got naked now.
Jana Shelfer:
I don't have any pants on.
Jason Shelfer:
I guess I've got options.
Jana Shelfer:
I'm like Donald Duck I walk around without pants.
Jason Shelfer:
I'm so glad you went Donald Duck, because I always reference porky pig and that wouldn't have gone over well, if you call me a pig, you're gonna be sleeping on the couch, mister.
Jana Shelfer:
Okay so, anyway, we learned about options, and what's so great about options is that it doesn't matter if the stock market is going up or if the stock market is going down or sideways. Or sideways or it's stagnant. You can make money in any direction, you just have to know the knowledge. And it's the same in life Circumstances happen, events happen, and they all everything in life has a positive and a negative. That's science.
Jason Shelfer:
It's protons, neutrons. How are you using it to work in your favor?
Jana Shelfer:
And what Jason and I like to do is okay, those things that we have labeled in our brains as negative circumstances. We like to reframe that and say okay, wait a minute. How is this working for you? Because, in our opinion, god is always working through you, for you and always in your favor, and sometimes these challenges that we face in life, or what in our heads we think are obstacles, are actually little gifts. They're little blessings to teach us something that we need in order to get to the next level of life.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, I'll go with the old cliche you think it's a setback, but it's a set up. It's a set up for that next step. How are you gonna grow? How are you gonna be resilient? Are you persistent enough and does it matter enough for you to take the next step, to get back up off the ground again?
Jana Shelfer:
Because we all have options. Yeah, the problem is is that sometimes something happens and we start feeling sorry for ourselves.
Jason Shelfer:
Well, or one thing that just came to my mind, is we start thinking life's going downhill or something's going downhill and instead of and then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, and instead of figuring out, okay, how's this working for me, what's this teaching me? We just pivot and turn somewhere else. It's kind of like in the old school trading mentality where you're like I'm just gonna buy the stock and just hope that it goes up. I'm gonna do my research on the company and we do that in life and just hope that they do well and the stock prices improve on that.
Jana Shelfer:
We all like Boom Boom, boom boom. I sound like emerald emerald bam boom, I know Batman comic but you just lit a light bulb in my head, because that's that's pretty much what people do, is things start going down on the dumps, they start heading toward this doom loop and they just sit and hope and wait and think. Well, you know what time Time will tell and eventually it's gonna start going back up.
Jason Shelfer:
But the more you focus on the doom, the more doom you create start heading downhill and if you pivot universes testing us if you know that what you're doing is something that is you're passionate about and it's part Of your dream. And then you pivot. You've basically just said, okay, I'm getting out of the market and I'm gonna go get into the market somewhere else and you're gonna start over again and you're gonna hit that same resistance point, that same shelf, and then you're gonna be like, oh, it's hard here, I'm gonna pivot again and you just find yourself in life always going down this road and stopping where that Resistance hits at your comfort level. Yeah, never learn to grow past it.
Jana Shelfer:
You never learn to peek over the fence and it's not until you lean in and say you know what I'm gonna face this, whatever you want to call it, whether it's a plateau, a demon, an obstacle a resistance, a pain point, something inside us. It may be an invisible, invisible paradigm. It's like wait a minute, why do I keep hitting this ceiling?
Jason Shelfer:
It's probably just a thought. That's what's crazy is, is it's probably just a thought in your subconscious mind somebody Throughout there.
Jason Shelfer:
One day you said I'm gonna subscribe to that thought, I'm gonna hold that thought as my own and I'm gonna call it a belief. And now I'm gonna start looking for the evidence that proves that. Oh my gosh, yes. And so you just now have this little bank, this safe deposit box of evidence, saying, yep, that's true, that's true, when you can literally just clean that box out and open the box of gold where you can look back and see all the success and all the places in life where it really wasn't true. You just weren't looking for it to be true and we don't know what.
Jason Shelfer:
We don't know I mean, we started like that.
Jana Shelfer:
So it's not until you sign up for a, a Conference, and you get there and all of a sudden your eyes are opened to new Possibilities and then you're living lucky and then next thing you know, you're like wow, and here here's the thing.
Jana Shelfer:
When you're exposed to new information, you can process it in a couple different ways. Now this room had 180 people in it. I guarantee you 125 of them at lunch would say things like if only I wouldn't know this when I was a Teenager only I had a little bit more money and could do something about this.
Jason Shelfer:
Why?
Jana Shelfer:
didn't. I know this five years ago. How come nobody has taught me this? Well, our particular activating system wasn't.
Jason Shelfer:
We weren't ready to learn it didn't even know to look for it.
Jana Shelfer:
We weren't ready to learn it.
Jason Shelfer:
timing is everything and and we have to get to a level in life when we not only ask for it, we want it, but our decisions lead us to the, the nuggets of gold and that's why it's so important to have one of your options Be that you have people that are way outside of your current level of thinking that you can go meet with and go have discussions with that are so found, so up leveled from you Like you're like, I don't have any business being in this room, because these people know more than I do, they make more than I do and they travel more than.
Jana Shelfer:
I do, or whatever.
Jason Shelfer:
So if you don't have that as one of your options, like you, that doorway to walk through somewhere, that something to set up immediately, because then you start hearing the things and seeing the things you didn't even know to look for. Yeah, because that's what the one percent do and the one percent of the one percent do. I want to be a one percenter.
Jana Shelfer:
I want to be the cream of the cream of the crop.
Jason Shelfer:
That's right, not just the cream of the crop. I don't want to be the cream of the crap.
Jana Shelfer:
I want to be the cream of the crop don't even put that out there Wait we want that up we're in the middle of the conference and the speaker accidentally uses the term excrement yeah, he was trying to use exponentially in increments. He and he kind of mixed excrement increments and he said excrement and, of course, the only person in the room out of a hundred and eighty people who who picks it up is my husband.
Jason Shelfer:
I'm gonna use that because if you're tired of getting excrement results, stop. You need to get. We want to help you get exponential results, not excrement results that you're used to back it up.
Jana Shelfer:
Shelter that's just a crappy phrase, at any rate. Options we all have options in life and it's how we perceive it and which way we choose to move forward.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, the other thing is you, sometimes you have to pay a premium for it and you don't always have to exercise your options, but having them and recognizing Freedom is freedom. Yes.
Jana Shelfer:
Options equals freedom, and it's it's in almost every area of life. We have the option. I mean, even in a relationship, we, you, have the option always to Go wherever you want to go.
Jason Shelfer:
And here's the thing because you have that freedom, you don't feel trapped and I also have the trust and trust is something that you build and I have the option also, every single moment, to look for the good. Look for the reasons why I love this relationship, or I can look for reasons why it's not working out options, options.
Jana Shelfer:
No matter what happens in life, there's always a positive, there's always a negative. It's how we perceive it.
Jason Shelfer:
And that's how we choose to move forward, because that's how the game is played. Keep living lucky in the game.
Jana Shelfer:
Thanks for joining us. Everybody, everybody we have we have listeners from eighty. It's almost ninety countries ninety countries it's eight hundred cities ninety countries and we're headed to Miami this weekend where we will be seeing a lot of those listeners. So thank you to the mind Valley community which has supported us beyond. Have a great day, bye, bye. If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at www. LivingL ucky. com.