Seeking Positive Discomfort

Stuck in a Comfort Rut? Embrace Change and start Living Lucky®!

Feeling like life's on autopilot? It's time to ditch the script and rewrite your story! In this episode of the Living Lucky® Podcast, Jason & Jana delve deep into the transformative power of change, guiding you to shed the fear and step into a world of possibility and potential.

What You'll Discover:

• The unexpected catalyst for change: How a health scare ignited a powerful journey of self-discovery (and how it can happen to you too!).
• From "change" to "adjustment": Discover simple reframing techniques that make change feel less daunting and more manageable.
• Be the architect of your evolution: Learn how to take charge and become proactive in shaping your own destiny.
• Discomfort as your guide: Uncover the hidden potential that lies just outside your comfort zone.
• Living Lucky® isn't about luck: It's about aligning your actions with your desires! Explore the concept of Living Lucky® and how deliberate choices can transform your life.
• From decision to transformation: Witness the incredible power of decisive action through a friend's inspiring weight loss story.
• Don't wait for serendipity, create it! Learn how to step out of your comfort zone and attract the right opportunities into your life.
• Living Lucky® is a crafted journey: Gain the tools to rewrite your life's narrative with intention and purpose.

This episode is your wake-up call to:

• Embrace change as a catalyst for growth, not a roadblock.
• Identify your deepest desires and align your actions for fulfillment.
• Stop waiting for luck and start creating your own serendipitous experiences.

Ready to ditch the status quo and rewrite the story of your life? Tune in and discover the power of Living Lucky® with Jason & Jana!

P.S. Don't forget to explore the treasure trove of resources at www.livinglucky.com for even more inspiration and guidance on your journey to a life of aligned intentions and fulfilled dreams!

Desire, Alignment, Decision Making, Comfort Zone, Discomfort, Potential, Serendipity, Intention, Purpose, Seeking Positive Discomfort, Embrace Change, Living Lucky, Stretch Zone, Discom

Transcript

Embracing Change for Growth and Success

Jana Shelfer 0:00

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®.

Jana Shelfer 0:19

You are too, because you're here with us. We appreciate that we're talking about change today. When it's time to change, you have to.

Jason Shelfer 0:30

It's time to rearrange Every time you say we're talking about change and I don't know why it's only when you say it, I think of Peter Brady from The Brady Bunch?

Jana Shelfer 0:42

Right, did you just hear that?

Jason Shelfer 0:43

Or Bobby Brady.

Jana Shelfer 0:44

No, it was Peter Peter's the one who his voice changed, and then they incorporated it into the song, so it actually sounded like it was supposed to be like that.

Jason Shelfer 0:56

Seasons change, it's a A lot of times changing your environment helps the change I mean. There's so much that goes into change.

Jana Shelfer 1:05

Well, we went out to dinner last night with a friend of mine from high school and he was here for a softball tournament. He's lost 55 pounds. We just saw him less than a year ago. He lost 55 pounds in three months and you know why he decided to change.

Jason Shelfer 1:29

Yeah, and it was changing his diet. Looking at.

Jana Shelfer 1:34

He just cut out sugar. Yeah and started working out so often.

Jason Shelfer 1:37

we know what we want and, honestly, we know what to do Like. We know how to be healthy. We know how to have a great relationship. We know how to get rich. We don't do what we know because we're resistant to the change.

Jana Shelfer 1:55

We're resistant to change. Change feels uncomfortable and change for some reason in our minds. Change sometimes is scary. Yeah, it's, the unknown is sometimes scary, but that is a limiting belief.

Jason Shelfer 2:14

Yeah, a lot of my clients like to just feel like when I call it, let's just make an adjustment, like if you just change it to adjustment.

Jana Shelfer 2:24

That words it's just even changes the meaning of it to people yeah, we're just gonna make an adjustment. We're gonna pivot slightly.

Jason Shelfer 2:33

Let's just pivot slightly, but you tell somebody let's make a change and all of a sudden they're like oh no, what's happening? I? Don't want to change If you go into your office in corporate America and they say, hey, we're gonna be making a few changes around here.

Jana Shelfer 2:51

Everyone gets so freaks out. They're like who are they gonna let go?

Jason Shelfer 2:55

Yeah, that means more work for me, or we're pivoting, we're making a couple small adjustments to maximize our effectiveness and our value. Isn't that funny?

Jana Shelfer 3:05

how? It's just a word. It is just a word, and yet so many times we associate change with pain, growing pains really.

Jason Shelfer 3:18

Yeah, and it's a change is good, like when you, when you would embrace change as a catalyst for growth, catalyst for expansion, catalyst for the possibilities. Then you get to start to look for ways to change and I think part of that is is just enjoying the awe and the inspiration around and seeing how change is happening and why it's so good. Yeah, a lot of times we focus on why like some changes that we don't like and we look okay at I don't that. Remember when things were like this. I don't like that.

Jana Shelfer 4:01

Where your focus goes is where your life will flow. And just in the word itself, when we say, ooh, change, we automatically start focusing on okay, how's this going to affect me? And we start thinking of the worst case scenario. So, again, if we can just start thinking of well, the last time I went through a change, I up leveled my life in every area If we can start thinking of the positives, putting our bookmark in the positives of the story, right, it's like we think about all these, um, all the negatives that have happened, quote unquote to us because of change, but we don't.

Jason Shelfer 4:44

a lot of times we don't remember all the positives that have happened for us because of the change, like creating the same change. Yeah, Creating the cell phone, um, creating cars, microwaves, fax machines. That made things easier to connect with people. There's so much change and this is just physical change, not personal change, but it's. It's incredible that so often we focus on oh, they're making a change at work. I'm going to get fired, I'm going to have more work to do.

Jana Shelfer 5:15

Our mind automatically goes to the negative to protect us. It's a human nature.

Jason Shelfer 5:20

To keep us comfortable.

Jana Shelfer 5:21

To keep us comfortable. Oh, that is so big because we don't like to be uncomfortable.

Jana Shelfer 5:29

No, that's and that's why.

Jana Shelfer 5:31

Change gets us just outside of our comfort zone, into that stretch zone.

Jason Shelfer 5:36

Yes, and I think that's why, like a lot of people, don't leave where they grew up. It's a um, I'm comfortable here. I understand the people are. I understand what's happening. These are the beliefs that I have. I'm going to stay here and I don't have to change Now. The world continues to change. So, if you're not changing you literally are being changed.

Jana Shelfer 6:01

Getting, yes, yeah.

Jason Shelfer 6:04

So you can either look for change and look for ways to change and be, uh like, a person of change, or you can be a person that is changed.

Jana Shelfer 6:14

Okay, here's the drinking game. How many times have we said change in this podcast?

Jason Shelfer 6:20

Please, god, don't do shots for every time we said change.

Jana Shelfer 6:24

You might be a little bit. You might be changed at the end of this.

Jason Shelfer 6:27

If you do that, you may need to change your drawers at the end of it.

Jana Shelfer 6:33

Oh dear, okay, so let's just talk about how we can adapt to change, how can we embrace it.

Jason Shelfer 6:45

You know one of the things when we had our camper in Trevor. Your our nephew yes put his dream on there was to seek Uncomfortableness or something like that. Yeah, what it was.

Jana Shelfer 7:00

Seek the uncomfortable. Yes, and when he did it, we both kind of thought, wow, that's an odd dream for a 20 year old.

Jason Shelfer 7:07

Right. It's like most people have put on oh, I want to be a millionaire, I want to be, I want to win the lottery, I want to world peace. But seek discomfort. Yes, because when you seek discomfort you get your open for change and you're open for the possibilities. And he's an engineer, so he's always looking for the way to make something better. Uh-huh, and it's not. It's like, okay, let's see what the purpose of this is, let's see how this works and what if it could be better? Like that question, what if? Is pretty powerful, because it will. It will lead you to look outside of the same, outside of the comfort, and looking what if? In an empowering way, not what if. What if everything goes to crap? You know that's looking inward and down.

Jana Shelfer 7:58

Because some people might say well, when you are always looking for the what if, then you're not content with the what is. And that's where I want to reiterate that we can always be grateful for what is Absolutely and we can still grow I mean what we appreciate, appreciate. So, if we start by being grateful for what, is yes, I just got goosebumps. Gooseies, follow your gooseies. Then we can also, with a growth mindset, start looking for okay, where, where's the where's?

Jason Shelfer 8:36

Potential.

Jana Shelfer 8:38

The possibility.

Jason Shelfer 8:39

Yeah, and that's where that, and then you get to be grateful for that as you take steps in faith.

Jana Shelfer 8:48

Let me just say one more thing, because we've kind of been all over the place. But when you make your not normal, the new normal, when you make your uncomfortable, the comfortable. That's where the trailblazers live, yes, and it's in that area that nobody else wants to go, which is why there's more opportunities there. There's more potential in that. It's like untapped potential, right, it's like a ring of untapped potential, because nobody wants to live where they're not comfortable.

Embracing Change for Living Lucky

Jason Shelfer 9:28

And you and what you do when you get out there, I think, is you kind of stoke your inner flame, you shine a little brighter and it draws more people to you. Now it can draw more people to you going. Oh, be careful. You know you're you're, you're risking too much or you're doing like you've fallen off the deep end. Yeah, they're trying to pull you back into safety, but what it does is it creates energy and it or it grabs that energy that's waiting for us out there.

Jana Shelfer 9:57

It's all about energy.

Jason Shelfer 9:58

It always comes back to energy, and I love it when you talk about how getting aligned like know your values, know like get aligned with what you truly want, like what your soul wants you to do, so you know you're going to get what your soul wants you to do. So when you are stepping out there, your your why overcomes your why nots?

Jana Shelfer 10:18

So it. It all comes down to your desires knowing your desires and then aligning that with your decisions. Like my friend, chad, who lost 55 pounds in three months, he decided deciding is to kill all other options. This is the way I'm going and then, if you align that with your divine design, it just starts falling into place. You start feeling lucky. Yeah, everything, the right people, the right opportunities. You find yourself in uncharted territory, but it is all working in your favor?

Jason Shelfer 10:53

Yeah, and you're not drawn to comfort, you're drawn to the possibility or the potential.

Jana Shelfer 10:59

Yes, I love it. We're going to end there. Thank you so much for this quick little, quick little recap on change when it's time to change.

Jason Shelfer 11:09

You've got to rearrange. Keep Living Lucky®. Bye, bye.

Jana Shelfer 11:15

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