Break Free From Habitual Holds: Unpack Your Quirky Traditions & Financial Foibles on Living Lucky® Podcast
Have you ever wondered why you follow certain habits, even if they don't quite make sense? You're not alone! This episode of Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason & Jana dives headfirst into the hilarious and sometimes perplexing world of inherited rituals, from curiously cut pot roasts to questionable investment strategies.
Get ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery as we explore:
The Pitfalls of Blind Tradition: We'll take a humorous look at how seemingly harmless family customs, like a specific way of preparing a pot roast, can represent unexamined life patterns. Learn to question "why" behind your habits to see if they're truly serving you.
Unmasking Your Money Missteps: Jason and Jana share their own financial stumbles, highlighting the dangers of blindly following the herd mentality in investing. Gain valuable insights on how to approach your finances with more awareness and education.
The Power of Asking "Why?": We delve into the importance of questioning the status quo in all areas of life. Discover how asking insightful questions can unlock a world of possibilities and lead to positive change.
The Value of Community: Your questions and stories are the lifeblood of Living Lucky®! Jason and Jana express their gratitude for the vibrant exchange of ideas that keeps them (and you!) moving forward.
Living Lucky Every Day: We wrap up with a powerful call to action, urging you to embrace a "Live Lucky" mindset. This means challenging conventional wisdom, seeking continuous learning, and transforming your daily routines into a success cycle.
This episode is packed with humor, aha moments, and practical takeaways that will help you break free from limiting habits and cultivate a life filled with joy, prosperity, and a touch of whimsy.
Ready to live your luckiest life? Tune in today!
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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 and this is my husband, Jason, and we are Living Lucky®. Uou are too. We're talking about being a creature of habit. Oh, I've got habits, you sound like an old nun.
Jason Shelfer:
Hopefully some of them are good, isn't?
Jana Shelfer:
there a joke about an old nun and her her habits I don't think they were flying. That was sally sally struthers.
Jason Shelfer:
No, no, no, yes, yes, oh dear yes, yes.
Jana Shelfer:
Oh dear. I heard a story today about a pot roast.
Jason Shelfer:
Oh yes, I love some pot roasts.
Jana Shelfer:
This lady was talking on our Mastermind about making pot roasts and she said, yeah, that she always cuts it in half. And she never knew why she cut it in half to make a pot roast. But she always cut a pot roast in half before she put it in the oven. And then one day her daughter says mom, why do you cut it in half before you put it in the oven to bake? And she said well, I don't know, I'm going to call your grandma. So she called her grandma and she said or her mother, which is her daughter's grandma, and said why did you teach me to cut the pot roast in half?
Jason Shelfer:
I always cut the pot roast in half to bake it Before you put it in the oven or roast it.
Jana Shelfer:
And the grandmother said you know, I'm not sure why we do that. I'm going to have to ask your Aunt Ruby. So they called Aunt Ruby, who was in the nursing home, like 90 something years old, and and aunt ruby said well, you know, when I was a child, our oven was too small, so we cut the pot roast in half because it's it would only fit half the pot roast.
Jason Shelfer:
Because we could only fit half the pot roast so they limited the size of their pot roast because of the size of their oven.
Jana Shelfer:
It was a habit and how many times in life, how many situations in life do we do things not really knowing why we do it? We just do it because that's the way we were taught we were just raised, we just that's how we were raised. We inherited the way to do it we do it with religion all the time yes, we do it with religion all the time. That's the way I was taught to believe yeah, we were our money we do it with money.
Jana Shelfer:
That's the way I was taught at the stock market. I'm taking some classes on the stock market and they were like why would you buy a stock and hold it?
Jason Shelfer:
And I'm like well, you want to find a good company. That's a blue chip stock, and then you just get in it and you never look at it again and then 20 years later, you're going to have a very valuable stock portfolio.
Jana Shelfer:
You're going to have a big pot of money on your hands.
Jason Shelfer:
And let me just tell you about my GE stock that I've had for the last 30 years, Because it is just a turd. I'm just going to tell you right now that stock is a turd and I don't know where the stock certificate is, and if you don't have the stock certificate you can't do anything with it. But I do get my dollar and 11 cent check every couple of months, isn't that?
Jana Shelfer:
funny. Well, we're like. Well, Warren Buffett does it that way, right, Well, Warren. Buffett has billions of dollars so he can't get in and out of stocks very quickly. So he puts it in. He finds American Express and, yeah, he buys, and then he holds and because his influence and because of his past record, then America, or the whole world, is like oh, warren Buffett did it, so I'm going to do it. So of course he can-.
Jason Shelfer:
The value goes up because the demand just went up, because of who he is.
Jana Shelfer:
However, the rest of us that doesn't work and we've learned that because we are creatures of habit and we don't question why we do things. We just do it. How many times do you go to tie your shoe and you don't think about oh well, do I want to do a single loop or a double?
Jason Shelfer:
loop A double knot yeah.
Jana Shelfer:
Or do I want to do a square knot, or maybe a macrame Little knot that I learned, maybe one that we've learned on the ship or the sailboat?
Jason Shelfer:
Oh yeah.
Jana Shelfer:
You know you don't think about those, the sailor's knot. There's like 12 different ways you can tie your shoe, however.
Jason Shelfer:
Just tie, just send the bunny through the hole. We do it that way, because that's the way we were taught. So in business or in a in a private school, a lot of times they learn math the business way If I have two businesses, or if I have five businesses and I sell two businesses, I'm left with three businesses and a lot of profit. In school we learn if I have five apples and I lose two apples or I give away or.
Jason Shelfer:
I give away two apples, then I'm left with three apples. Like I've just lost, like that's a different math system, like it's so funny that how it's a different story a certain class of people just just sold two businesses and now they have a profit and they have like now they're worrying about taxes.
Jana Shelfer:
Still did a subtraction problem. It's still the exact same, exact same word equation they've learned something?
Jason Shelfer:
They've learned subtraction and all this, but they also learned how to make money. And how to make money, whereas in another public school system they learned oh, you just lost two apples, you just had a deficit, that's what you ended up with you irresponsible food wasting. But that's how we learn. And now what you need to do is go, get in the employment system so that you can make more apples, so that you can lose some more, but that's that's how we develop these habits.
Jason Shelfer:
You're gonna be hungry, that's right if you keep losing your apples, you're gonna stay hungry how do you like them? Apples, that's right. That might be where the saying came from american pie baby and we just accept it as okay.
Jana Shelfer:
This is the way it is, we don't question anything.
Jason Shelfer:
Part of that is so the saying is you don't know what you don't know, and what you don't know can keep you broke until someone brings it to your awareness.
Jana Shelfer:
Yes, and and it's the same with the pot roast. I mean, when the woman was literally telling this story, we all were like, oh my gosh, how many times in life do we do something like that?
Jason Shelfer:
And we don't even know why we're doing it.
Jana Shelfer:
We don't know why we do it that way.
Jason Shelfer:
We just do it that way. That's the way it's always been done, right? Yeah, isn't this the way, do you remember? You get into a different crowd of people and someone asks you a different question. It opens up a different way of thinking, and that's why it's so wonderful to have a coach or have someone to. It's beautiful when you move into a different room and that's why it's you're told that you become the five people that you hang around the most, that is true.
Jason Shelfer:
Because you develop the habits of those people, become the five people that you hang around the most. That is true. Because you develop the habits of those people, you learn the things that they're doing that is true.
Jana Shelfer:
And the mindset and the emotions, the emotional home you learn, the emotional home of the five people you're with.
Jason Shelfer:
And you will also rise to the level of the expectations of the people that you hang around the most.
Jana Shelfer:
That is true. That is true, which is why, when people tell me to lower my expectations, I'm like You're always like no, raise yours. I'm like. You raise your standards. That's right. Stop telling me that.
Jason Shelfer:
That's right, I'll go find new friends.
Jana Shelfer:
I will, I will, and if it's family that tells me that, I'll go find new family.
Jason Shelfer:
That's right and you did. That's me living in my false sense of security. That's me living in my false sense of security.
Jana Shelfer:
I'll take it though. So anyway, I just thought that was an interesting little tidbit. To maybe think and ponder today is where in our lives are we just becoming a creature of habit, and are those habits serving us?
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah, and is there a place where we can just up level and find a new room to be in, find a new experience, and somewhere where they're asking different questions? That's what I did when I went to my mastermind in Texas, and I found a new way of doing finances and a new way of investing.
Jason Shelfer:
I was like, oh my goodness, this is possible Like nobody ever told us no one told me that I thought that I had to invest this way and I was making a good return, a decent return. And when things are good, there's a lot of times there's no reason to change it, but then you don't know what else is available. That's the thing is, and when you're cutting the pot roast in half, you don't know like it's you're being fed.
Jana Shelfer:
You don't know that there's a better way. I mean in your head, you might rationalize it. Oh well, this is the way the middle gets cooked, or you know?
Jason Shelfer:
you never know. You don't know that there's a better way. In your oven you've got plenty of space in there.
Jana Shelfer:
You just trust that. Somebody taught me this for a reason.
Jason Shelfer:
That's the way it is and times change and you don't realize there are other ways to do it and you're like why does it look like? Why can someone else feed 20 people at their house and I'm still only feeding five? Or why am I still only feeding four? But there's other ways to do it and if you haven't expanded your horizon, expanded your sphere of influence, then you'll never know.
Jana Shelfer:
I guess the lesson from all this today is to raise our awareness, and we often come out of our conversations thinking it really comes down to the awareness.
Jason Shelfer:
Yeah.
Jana Shelfer:
Awareness and asking the right questions.
Jason Shelfer:
The quality of life comes down to the quality of questions that you ask, I think, and just having a different and having the wherewithal to know what questions to ask. So that is questions and awareness right there and just recognizing that we all are subject to to falling into the trap of our own sameness because we do it ourselves all the all the time.
Jana Shelfer:
And that's why we have our own coaches.
Jason Shelfer:
That's why we we like to get into these deep conversations and that's why we like having you with us, because you encourage us and you push us to get into a deeper level of understanding and a deeper level of conversation.
Jana Shelfer:
That is true, that is true, so thank you. Thank you for keeping us accountable. How much do we owe you?
Jason Shelfer:
That's right, send us more questions.
Jana Shelfer:
All right. Thanks for joining us. Have a great day.
Jason Shelfer:
And keep living lucky, all right.
Jana Shelfer:
Bye. Thanks for joining us. Have a great day and keep Living Lucky®. All right bye.