Feeling unfulfilled and unsure how to seize the life you truly crave? You're not alone. But what if we told you there's a way to transform your aspirations into actionable steps and finally reach your full potential?
Join Jana and Jason in this episode of Living Lucky® Podcast, your empowering guide to turning dreams into reality. They'll be your captains, navigating you through the common pitfalls that keep us stuck and revealing the secrets to setting and achieving powerful goals.
Here are some golden nuggets you won't want to miss:
The DANGERS of having NO goals (or wimpy ones)! Discover why a lack of direction leaves you feeling unfulfilled and how societal pressures can clip your wings.
Unlock the power of CLEAR VISION. Learn how to craft goals that excite you and propel you out of bed each morning with a spark of passion.
Embrace the BORN-TO-WIN mindset. Zig Ziglar's wisdom shines through as Jana and Jason debunk the myth that we're conditioned to lose. You were born to win, and it's time to reclaim that power!
**Conquer the COMMITMENT MONSTER. They'll show you how to stay dedicated even on those groggy mornings when motivation hides. Small, consistent wins are the key to building momentum and keeping you moving forward.
**Celebrate your MINI-VICTORIES. Every step towards your goal is a win! Learn how to identify your milestones and celebrate your progress along the way.
This episode is packed with actionable strategies and inspiring insights to help you break free from the status quo and start living the life you deserve.
Ready to ditch the driftwood life and set sail towards your dreams? ⛵️
Listen to the full episode now and get ready to start 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®.
Jason Shelfer:
Good morning.
Jana Shelfer:
I'm Jana and this is my husband, Jason, and we are Living Lucky®. You are too. We're talking about goals today. Do you want to know why people fail at their goals? The top two reasons people fail at their goals.
Jason Shelfer:
This is Family Feud Top two reasons. One of them has to be because they don't write them down.
Jana Shelfer:
No, it's along those lines.
Jason Shelfer:
I guess that would have been my first guess Maybe because they don't think about them, they don't get clear ideas of them, or they're not specific.
Jana Shelfer:
I just heard a ding. Did you hear that ding? That's the universe signaling to me the universe was like Jason is right on it, you were all around it and, yes, I do feel like you extracted the zit. Number one is they don't have any.
Jason Shelfer:
Oh.
Jana Shelfer:
They don't have any goals, they're just out there on the hamster wheel running People are just out floating around and it's almost like a piece of driftwood going down the river.
Jason Shelfer:
That reminds me of when we took the camper around collecting dreams and so many people said I don't even have a dream. Nobody's asked me that before.
Jana Shelfer:
Nobody's ever asked me what my dream is. I have no idea. What do you mean?
Jason Shelfer:
How do you know what you want and they wonder why they're not happy, they're not fulfilled and they're just kind of chasing after this nothingness.
Jana Shelfer:
And another. You know along those lines I think a lot of people because I was just talking to an old friend of mine who I used to work with in radio and he's going through a life transition right now, and he said that in his new career it's not nearly as fulfilling as radio was. And I thought, well, why are you doing this new thing that you're doing? And of course he said, well, I need to make money. And it feels to me like sometimes we start taking a path because we feel like we have to, or we should, or we ought to the societal or it's the responsible thing to do it's gotta stop dreaming and start doing the uh, what's needed.
Jana Shelfer:
You know, I was in a mastermind this morning with Robin Banks, who has become my coach, and I just love his energy. But he shared a quote from Zig Ziglar and the quote was we are born to win.
Jason Shelfer:
And conditioned to lose.
Jana Shelfer:
And we are conditioned to lose. Let that soak in that hits kind of hard. Right. We are born to win. So when we're born, we know exactly where we're going in life. We know exactly what we want. Think about it If you're in, when you're a little baby, if you're hungry, what do you do? You?
Jason Shelfer:
get food, you cry until you get it. You cry until you get it, you scream until you get it, you scratch for it, you claw for it.
Jana Shelfer:
You know what you want and you get it. And even when you're a toddler, you know what you want and you usually get it. I mean, have you ever been in? The grocery store or the Walmart when they're like no, I want that toy, I want that toy.
Jason Shelfer:
I want it now. I want it, and we're not leaving here until I get it.
Jana Shelfer:
Right and usually the kid wins. Usually the kid wins. Usually the parents will say you know what? I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna fight this battle, I can't win this. I know that I can't win this. The kid knows what the kid wants.
Jason Shelfer:
Well, even the other part of that is like when we start walking or when we start trying to walk, we have a support system around us that is encouraging us to walk. And when we fall down, over and over and over again, we don't stop trying. Even if we fall down and hurt ourselves, bang our head, all these things, the people around us are rooting us on and encouraging us to keep going.
Jana Shelfer:
Okay, so what you're saying is In that instance.
Jason Shelfer:
And then when we talk about this dream that's far out there, then the crowd changes. They're like whoa they try to protect us.
Jana Shelfer:
Yes, yes, I see where you're coming from. So sometimes Jason sees the inverted argument that sometimes when we're listening, we're like where's he coming?
Jason Shelfer:
from with this? Where the hell is he coming from?
Jana Shelfer:
Where's he coming from. But what he's saying is that when we're little, when we're babies, we automatically have a cheering system until we start saying I'm going to grow up and be an astronaut, I'm going to grow up and I'm going to become president of the United States. And then it's the looks that we get on the faces of the people around us when they go Ooh, you might be setting your goals a little high.
Jason Shelfer:
You're going to be president. You're a female. Ooh Ooh, you might be setting your goals a little high.
Jana Shelfer:
You're going to be president. You're a female Like because our parents are going. There's never been a female president and my baby doesn't know this, so my face is just trying to protect her right now.
Jason Shelfer:
That's impossible. Well, everything's impossible until it's not Until it's not.
Jana Shelfer:
So the number one reason why goals never get met is because we don't have any and we're not clear on those goals we just have. Oh yeah, well, you know we're just going through life.
Jason Shelfer:
I'll just shoot for something Right, or sometimes we try for too many things right. I heard someone say the other day that if you, that's me I have that problem. If you shoot for 10 targets, you're not going to hit any of them.
Jana Shelfer:
That's me.
Jason Shelfer:
Let's don't even go there, You're like you're hitting a sore subject, Shelford Stop.
Jana Shelfer:
The second reason of why people do not hit their goals is because they're too small.
Jason Shelfer:
There's not enough meaning or reason behind them.
Jana Shelfer:
And I face this all the time, because here's it's been a double-edged sword for me. Because it's been a double-edged sword for me Because it takes a really big, big goal to light me up and I tend to get overwhelmed very easily. So it takes a very big goal to light me up, light my spirit up, and yet I need to see success and results along the way in very incremental measurements.
Jason Shelfer:
That's big. So once we get that idea, the big, clear, vivid vision, then we need to just kind of put those little pinpoints in the map of saying, okay, well, what does success look like? How do I know that I'm making progress? And then, once I start seeing myself hit those little pinpoints, then I know that I've got momentum. Then I know that I can see the reverse gap and know, hey, I'm making progress and I can keep moving forward because I don't feel like I'm just wasting effort.
Jana Shelfer:
Chunk it down, Chunk it down into threes. A lot of times people will make big yearly goals and then they chunk it down to quarters. And then they chunk it down to monthly goals, weekly goals, daily goals.
Jason Shelfer:
sometimes hourly goals and small, consistent action leads to big, massive change.
Jana Shelfer:
And that's the other thing we have often talked about, our Indonesian saying.
Jason Shelfer:
Sedikit sedikit lama lama.
Jana Shelfer:
Sedikit sedikit lama lama bukit mahagjumah. There's two more parts to that saying that we forget.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, Carol, call us and let us know what that last part is. If you're from Indonesia, let us know.
Jana Shelfer:
It's like manje bukit, that's what it is, manje bukit. Something like that. And it means, little by little, the hill is behind you, the mountain is behind you, the hill becomes a mountain.
Jason Shelfer:
Yes.
Jana Shelfer:
We don't even know what we're talking about.
Jason Shelfer:
It's the theory of it's like a sandcastle A sandcastle. A sandcastle is built out of the tiniest frames of sand, sand by sand.
Jana Shelfer:
You know, there used to be a days of our lives.
Jason Shelfer:
Like sands of an hourglass. So are the days of our lives.
Jana Shelfer:
And that's exactly what we're talking about. It's one sand kernel at a time.
Jason Shelfer:
One sand grain at a time goes through the hourglass, and that each sand grain represents a second, represents a minute, represents an hour. So that's how it goes through life, every little piece. What is it? 1% better every day makes you 37 times better at the end of the year.
Jana Shelfer:
Which you know. When you first hear that, you're thinking wait, Jason, didn't get the math quite right on that, but think about that, Think about that. So 1% better every day. So if I'm 1% better today, then tomorrow I'm 1% better than that, than yesterday.
Jason Shelfer:
Which now? Now, I hate this math, but I'm 115% better than I was yesterday, so it's a compounding effect, is what it is 115?
Jana Shelfer:
Is it 115?
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, because if I was 100% today, I'm the best I can be today. But I increased how good I am today by 15% by 1%. By 1%, I'm sorry, by 1% there we go. But now I'm 100.01. And now I'm going to increase that. So over the year the compounding effect of that is going to be 37 times better 37 times, which I think we just said 37% earlier.
Jana Shelfer:
So don't get us on semantics.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, so I'm 37 times better.
Jana Shelfer:
There you go, read the book Atomic Habits and you can get all the statistics on that, or the compounding effect, both of them. Both of them have that exact same example. Ah, okay, so I just I feel like we learned a couple things today. What do you think? Yeah, first, Get clear on your goals.
Jason Shelfer:
Get clear on your goals and then make them worthwhile, because if they're not worthwhile, then they're not worth getting off the couch for.
Jana Shelfer:
Make your goals so exciting that when you wake up in the morning you think oh, I can't wait to get up.
Jason Shelfer:
I'm excited about the day. I want to get up in the morning.
Jason Shelfer:
Yes, I want to get up in the morning and you're going to take meaningful action towards them, even if that action is hard, because sometimes you're going to wake up in the morning and be like, ah, today is not the day. But if your goals have worthwhile meaning to them, then you're going to say you know what, even if it's hard, I'm going to take that action, so I'll move forward. And you're going to know what those little wins are, because you put the pinpoints in the map that show your progress and you're going to have that momentum going.
Jana Shelfer:
And lastly, zig Ziglar said it best we were born to be winners. Yes, we were born as winners. We are winners, we are winners, you are a winner, keep Living Lucky®. Bye-bye. If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at www. livinglucky. com.