Feeling Stuck in a Rut? Reignite Your Dreams and Design Your Ideal Life with Vivid Visions!
Ever feel like your life is on autopilot, lacking the magic and excitement it once held? You're not alone. In this episode of Living Lucky® with Jason & Jana Banana, we'll guide you on a transformative journey to reclaim the power of your imagination and craft a vivid vision that propels you towards success and fulfillment.
Here's what you'll discover:
Harness the Magic of Childhood Imagination: Remember the boundless dreams you had as a kid? We'll show you how to tap back into that imaginative spark and use it to design the life you truly desire.
Ditch the Fairytale: Redefine "Happily Ever After": We challenge the vague notion of "happily ever after" and empower you to define what happiness means to YOU. Learn how to create a vision that adapts to life's inevitable changes, ensuring your journey is as dynamic as you are.
Embrace Change and Step Outside Your Comfort Zone: Growth often requires stepping outside our comfort zone. We'll show you why change is your friend, and how to navigate it with confidence.
Planning for Success: Your Disney World Roadmap to Life: Planning a trip to Disney World requires excitement, strategy, and a touch of flexibility. We'll illustrate how this same approach can be applied to your life goals, helping you transform potential frustration into a fulfilling experience.
Learn from the Journeys of Others: We all benefit from the experiences of those who have walked the path before us. Discover how learning from their successes and challenges can act as a roadmap, guiding you towards your own aspirations.
But wait, there's more! This episode is packed with actionable tips, inspiring stories, and practical strategies to help you:
Craft a clear and compelling vision for every stage of your life.
Overcome the fear of change and embrace its potential for growth.
Develop a plan that is adaptable and can evolve alongside your dreams.
Leverage the wisdom of others to navigate your unique journey.
Ready to ditch the status quo and design a life you love? Tune in to this episode of Living Lucky® and start living the life you've always imagined!
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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®.
Jason Shelfer:
I missed it. Good morning, I'm Jason.
Jana Shelfer:
We are Living Lucky®. Thanks for joining us. We're talking about vivid visions this morning. Thanks for joining us. We're talking about vivid visions this morning. Really, it's about living in your imagination, dreaming and scheming of what you want in your life, and we all did this, naturally, when we were little. Yeah, I even think Einstein said it first, when I think Einstein said it about everything first exists in the imagination. Yes, it all starts as a thought.
Jana Shelfer:
It all starts as a thought, and then we start thinking about what that thought would look like, feel like, smell like, sound like taste like what the whole experience would be like if it happened. Yes, and that's how you start using your imagination. And then that imagination starts to become a thing. We start creating it. We start creating with our actions. We create our reality. We create our reality. And here's what's so crazy is when we're little, we do this naturally. We do it by playing house. Who played house when they were?
Jason Shelfer:
little Playing house playing cops and robbers playing. I played a lot of Evil Knievel.
Jana Shelfer:
We would play princess. We would play astronaut, we would play.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah.
Jana Shelfer:
I mean, how many times did we play doctor?
Jason Shelfer:
Oh, wow.
Jana Shelfer:
Right. Oh my gosh, don't know what I'm doing, but I got a vivid imagination. Yeah, and what we were really doing is we were wanting to check out our private parts Vitals. Yes. Vitals with a V we wanted to make sure everybody was feeling pleasurable. That's what we were doing.
Jason Shelfer:
Let me make sure you got a pulse.
Jana Shelfer:
At any rate, we often I remember in high school we would dream and scheme about meeting the man of our dreams and we just wanted to fall in love and have him sweep us off our feet.
Jason Shelfer:
I almost feel like that's the whole theme behind Barbie. Right yeah, it's like Barbie meets Ken. They have the Barbie mansion, the Barbie car.
Jana Shelfer:
Yeah, they get married and they live happily ever after. There's always a happily ever after, but nobody ever stops and thinks well, what does that happily ever after really look and feel?
Jason Shelfer:
like I know it's so funny because the fairy tales all end at they lived happily ever after and there's no definition, or there might be some imagination around it, but we don't actually plan it for ourselves.
Jana Shelfer:
Nobody stops and thinks well, what happens when Barbie loses her job or Barbie goes bankrupt?
Jason Shelfer:
Or.
Jana Shelfer:
Barbie gets her leg cut off, or Barbie?
Jason Shelfer:
has a death in the family? What about Ken, when he stays out too late with his friends and doesn't call on time?
Jana Shelfer:
Yes, you know, like Mike Tyson says when you get punched in the face.
Jason Shelfer:
Everybody's got a plan. Until you get punched in the face, yeah.
Jana Shelfer:
And then we don't stop and make a new plan. That's really what it's about is making a new plan, a new vivid vision.
Jason Shelfer:
Yes, and just recognizing. Okay, what are these things in life? What does happily ever after look like? What does it feel like? Who are the people in this go to?
Jana Shelfer:
college. I'm going to get a job and make my own money so that I can pay my bills. I know a lot of us or where I grew up. That was the dream.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, and it's also get a great, amazing job.
Jana Shelfer:
Amazing job so that I can make High paying job, so that I can make my own money. Right, yes, did you have?
Jason Shelfer:
that, absolutely. I had that and I had it crystal clear in my head. The problem is is when I went into the workforce, I didn't start where I was hoping to start.
Jana Shelfer:
Oh, none of us did Trust me. I went to Disney and I was applying for executive jobs and they were like Honey, there's a greeter position open.
Jason Shelfer:
Right.
Jana Shelfer:
I was like greeter I went to college. You want?
Jason Shelfer:
me to be a greeter. Everybody's got to start somewhere, and that's one of those things where it didn't quite match up with my vivid vision. And what I did was I started saying, I started picking out what was wrong with the job.
Jana Shelfer:
Yeah, I understand that, I understand that, I understand that. I guess where I wanted to go with this conversation today is that many times, once we get that job, then it becomes stagnant because we reach the goal.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, we achieved it.
Jana Shelfer:
And we don't stop, and we don't redesign the plan, or we grow and we don't stop and say, okay, what's next?
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, so I see exactly where you're going. So we don't A say okay, this is where I am now and what is my new vivid vision for where I want to be.
Jana Shelfer:
Yes.
Jason Shelfer:
Because where I am now is just a space in time. It's just the job that I was able to get in the door. I'm good and saying this is good. It's not good enough. It's not what I'm expecting. Now, what's my vivid vision for the next move forward?
Jana Shelfer:
We oftentimes think it's the end goal. I'm going to get the job of my dreams.
Jason Shelfer:
So that.
Jana Shelfer:
And live happily ever after. And many times it's just a means goal, it's just a job to get me to my next phase in life. However, I see so many people who are in the stagnant phase of life because change is scary sometimes.
Jason Shelfer:
Change is scary, and change Because that involves new.
Jana Shelfer:
It involves growth, and we all know that sometimes growth can have growing pains, and growth can mean getting outside our comfort zone and growth can mean facing feelings that we sometimes don't want to face.
Jason Shelfer:
I'm hard pressed in the moment to think of a time where growth doesn't have growing pains, where you don't have the urge to go back into sameness or to comfort, go back into sameness or to comfort. And if someone out there listening right now can think of a time where growth doesn't produce that urge to go back into sameness or go back into the comfort zone, I would love to hear it, because it's not coming to me right now.
Jana Shelfer:
Well, I know sometimes excitement or adrenaline can mask the growing pain.
Jason Shelfer:
It creates a little momentum, it creates that energy to move you towards it.
Jana Shelfer:
It's like I am so excited right now that it doesn't matter what other feelings I'm feeling right now. I am just on a trajectory high that I can get through anything.
Jason Shelfer:
Yes, and when you hit resistance Right that I can get through anything yes, and when you hit resistance Right so I guess what I'm trying to talk about right now.
Jana Shelfer:
Jason, give me a little Coach Jason-ness. How do we, how do we first of all, how do we know when it's time to redesign the plan?
Jason Shelfer:
So I think the first thing is saying what do I want to feel, what is the experience that I want to be having in life, and am I living in that right now? And if no, then how do I start moving towards that? And then defining what that looks like a year out, three years out, five years out.
Jana Shelfer:
Here's a perfect example Jason and I I mean, we live in Orlando. Disney World is in our backyard. We have the Disney fireworks that go off and we see them every night at nine o'clock. Yep, We've been to Disney many, many, many, many times.
Jason Shelfer:
Lots of times.
Jana Shelfer:
Now, the last time we went to Disney we were like, oh, we'll just go and we'll just experience it, It'll be fun. I kid you, not Every attraction, every show that we wanted to see. We either got there 15 minutes too late or the line was so long was way too long, or it just felt like we were kind of. It was kind of drifting.
Jason Shelfer:
It was a mess we were.
Jana Shelfer:
We were drifting. We didn't get a map because we thought you know what? We've been here so many times, we know, we know all of the you know the lay of the land we know all of the rides, we know where everything is. No, we don't need a map. We literally said that as we walked in when the lady was like, do you need a map? We're like, oh no, I don't want to carry that around we know where everything is.
Jana Shelfer:
And what we didn't realize is that the parade times, all of the character times, all of the their specific start times like fast pass times and nowadays, yeah, with all the fast passes and everything, all of the different times, and I mean we needed a map. We needed a map and we needed to take time to sit and plan our day.
Jason Shelfer:
And we did it, and it was offered to us.
Jana Shelfer:
And here's the thing is, it was hot and it was crowded and by the time we navigated, the two of us getting around, all of these families, these tourists, these strangers, these strollers, these cranky kids, Missed showtimes. And, like I said, every time we wanted to see something, we would either be too late, too early, the line was too long, or they would say I'm sorry, the next one will be tomorrow at 8 o'clock, or this ride has been shut down for maintenance, or oh you know what?
Jana Shelfer:
there's been some lightning at eight o'clock or this ride has been shut down for maintenance or oh you know what. There's been some lightning. That happened at one point. We waited in line and they were like oh, there's been some lightning. And so it just was a miserable day. I think we got two things in by the end of the day and a lot of walking and a lot of walking, we were exhausted.
Jana Shelfer:
And when lot of walking and a lot of walking Energy expended, we were exhausted. And when we got back to the car, I literally looked at him and I said this is why we don't come to Disney.
Jason Shelfer:
This is a waste.
Jana Shelfer:
This is why we never come here anymore, Because this was not necessarily a fun experience for me. I used to love Disney. I used to love it. It's the most magical place on earth. And then Jason said do you think it would have been better if we would have had a plan? And we both looked at each other and thought, yeah.
Jason Shelfer:
We do that so often in life and that's kind of one of the things where someone said success leaves breadcrumbs. Right, yes, and when people are doing it the way you want to do it and you know that they have the experience of having the experience you like right.
Jason Shelfer:
Then you follow them, you look at what they're doing, you learn from them and that's the roadmap, that's the directions that they're handing out at the front turnstile. That says this is the experience I want to have in life. This person has shown proven, they've proven that they're living that experience. Are they giving out a roadmap? Are they willing to share that information? Jana and Jason are saying yes, we're willing to share that information and that's what we should have done at Disney that day. That would have changed our experience of the whole thing. It totally would have changed.
Jana Shelfer:
In fact, we probably would have gotten into the car. We would have had a totally different conversation. In fact, it probably would have gone something like this that was so much fun. Why don't we come here more often?
Jason Shelfer:
Well, the funny thing is-.
Jana Shelfer:
We should get annual passes.
Jason Shelfer:
I've got goosebumps right now because the funny thing is walking out of the park. Yes, you could see the difference in the families that had the directions, had the roadmap, I know, and the families that didn't, because the families that didn't were exhausted their kids were cranky. Yeah, they were crying and screaming. I just want to go to the hotel. I just want to go back to the airbnb and sit in the pool like they did not. Why?
Jana Shelfer:
did you make us and?
Jason Shelfer:
other people are talking about this amazing experience that they had. I know so. How can, how can multiple families be in the same? I mean, I'm talking thousands, hundreds of thousands of people be in the same park having totally different experiences. And it's because some families had the directions. Some families said I'll take the time and plan out my experience and I'll have a vivid vision of what we want this day to look like and we will live into that.
Jana Shelfer:
Oh, it's so funny.
Jason Shelfer:
And it's crazy.
Jana Shelfer:
It's such a small, little, minor tweak, because so often we go through life thinking I've got this, it's so funny.
Jason Shelfer:
And it's crazy, it's such a small little minor tweak, because so often we go through life thinking I've got this, it's so true, and we just do what we think we know, but we get stagnant. I mean, like I said, we get stagnant.
Jana Shelfer:
And we think we already know Jason and I have been to Disney hundreds of times and yet we haven't been there in a while and things change. Things change and it's the same way with our goals, with our relationships, with our money, with our career, with our dreams, with our anything With what we find fun with our hobbies every area of our life. Things change. We find fun with our hobbies At every area of our life. Things change and if we don't stop and re-communicate, really recharge, so big.
Jana Shelfer:
But if we don't have those conversations, okay, let's have a new, vivid vision of what does this really look like? What do I want?
Jason Shelfer:
What are the most important things here? What do I?
Jana Shelfer:
want in life and what is really important to me.
Jason Shelfer:
So big Right, and then, once we have an idea, then we can start building the plan for it. It's like a GPS system. It says, okay, I want to go to point B on the map. I'm standing in point A, now what's the roadmap to it?
Jana Shelfer:
ah, I love it and we just lay out the path work for it yes, and whatever you do, you have to have one of those mickey ice cream oh, so good, although it doesn't change the whole experience. But if that's on your game plan, I saw a woman who sat in one of those, oh nice. I will never forget it no, it was right on her butt crack and she had a mickey, a mickey mouse cream like a brown. Yeah, it just was.
Jana Shelfer:
It was a really yeah, and I that vision that vivid vision is ingrained in my head forever and ever that's where you go.
Jason Shelfer:
Spend the 60 on the sweatshirt and tie it around your waist.
Jana Shelfer:
She was happily ever after.
Jason Shelfer:
Boom brought it back home All right.
Jana Shelfer:
Thank you, guys for joining us. Vivid Vision Come get your roadmap. Recreate your Vivid Vision. What do you want? What does it feel like? What does it look like? What does it sound like? What does it look like? What does it sound like? What does it taste like? What does it smell like? And what do you want to experience? What is that experience for you? Have a great day and keep Living Lucky®. Bye-bye. If the idea of Living Lucky® appeals to you, visit us at www. livinglucky. com.