Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Pumping Up Your Tires: How we Change our State and Give Ourselves a Lift

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 5 • Episode 43

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The Journey to Greatness: Lessons from a Paralympic Gold Medalist🥇
Ever felt like you’re stuck in a rut? Or perhaps you feel like you’re not making any progress in life. Well, we’ve been there, and we can assure you, it's not a pleasant feeling. Often, we fail to appreciate our own progress, and that’s why we've dedicated this whole episode to the concept of "pumping up your tires" - a metaphor for reminding ourselves of our past successes to inspire confidence and positivity. It's all about celebrating every win, big or small, and utilizing those achievements to fuel our courage and faith as we face new challenges.

We've got some personal stories to share, some of which got us teary-eyed and others that had us punching the air in triumph. We delve into the power of journaling as an instrument for self-reflection and the documentation of our victories. Also, we emphasize the importance of verbalizing our accomplishments, making them more tangible and empowering. And if you’re wondering what's next on our journey, we sprinkle in a little anticipation with a tease about our upcoming projects. So tune in, and let’s start 'pumping up those tires' together, appreciating how far we've come, and preparing for the journey ahead.

[03:00] - Introduction to "Pumping Up Your Tires"
[07:30] - Personal story of rediscovering one's identity
[12:00] - The importance of journaling and affirmations

"Boosting self-esteem through past accomplishments" 
"Rediscovering self-worth during personal transformation" 
"Harnessing the power of positive affirmations for growth" 
"Overcoming self-doubt by celebrating achievements" 
"Journaling as a tool for self-reflection and self-improvement" 
"Finding strength in past successes during challenging times" 
"Building self-confidence through self-affirmation" 
"Empowering yourself by acknowledging past victories" 
"Fostering resilience through remembering past accomplishments" 
"Inspiring self-belief through celebrating milestones

#Confidence #Identity #Achievements #Transformation #Affirmations #SelfReflection #SelfImprovement #SelfDoubt #Resilience #Belief #JanaShelfer #JasonShelfer #LivingLucky

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*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1:

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.

Speaker 2:

Good morning. I'm.

Speaker 1:

Jenna, I'm Jason and we are living lucky. That's right. We're talking about pumping up your tires.

Speaker 2:

Mmm, that's strong.

Speaker 1:

Sometimes you just need a little wind in your sail.

Speaker 2:

A little pick me up.

Speaker 1:

Yesterday we were taking a dance lesson and I literally felt like I was pushing through sand and all we did was pump up my tires and I had this new pep in my step, and sometimes we just need that in life.

Speaker 2:

You know I have my clients pump up their tires all the time.

Speaker 1:

Okay, I know that you, listening to this, are probably thinking what the heck are they talking about, so let me explain. Pumping up your tires is literally looking back in your life and remembering how great you are. It is remembering the awesome that lives inside you. It is polishing the gold that, for some reason, we tend to stash away and we forget that it is even inside us.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, absolutely, and part of my practice is journaling, and we all know that journaling is massively beneficial for us, but so few of us do it. So we know what to do, but we don't do what we know.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so let's stop right there. And if you're listening to this, you're going to want to get out a piece of paper and a pencil, because after you go through this process, you are going to have a new perspective on life. Not only will you have a new perspective, but your confidence is going to grow. You're going to have this new energy about you and you're going to remember that you are great, you were created for awesome, awesome and you have a purpose in this world. And you're going to look back at your life and you're going to go oh my gosh, how come I am sitting here stewing in all of the pain and suffering, when? Look how far I've come?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm stewing in a moment from last week, or I might be stewing in a moment from one week of my life and it could be a year later when, really, the compounding of the long years in my past, I've done so many wonderful great things. Look at everything I've done, but I've just kind of let them slide.

Speaker 1:

You know, I was listening to a podcast from the genius Tim Ferriss and he does a similar exercise. I believe he calls it the reverse bucket list.

Speaker 2:

Oh, that's good.

Speaker 1:

That's good too, but pump up your tires is better. I love.

Speaker 2:

Pump up your tires, because it's really apropos for what, for who we are.

Speaker 1:

Pump up your tires.

Speaker 2:

Pump up your tires, Diss diss.

Speaker 1:

There's a song that we just haven't worked it out yet Pump up the volume.

Speaker 2:

Pump up the volume. That's where I was going with it, I know, I know that's where I was going.

Speaker 1:

We're on the same page. All right, here's the exercise.

Speaker 2:

Jason, walk us through this so what I have my clients do is, in the beginning, the very front couple of pages of their journal, write down the biggest 10 moments in their lives where they felt the most love, the most powerful, the most successful, and then, before they like, right when they get up every morning or before they go into the next presentation or the next sales call, or the next moment where I'm glist and the next moment that they have to step forward in confidence or step forward with courage. If they read through that list, they kind of have this, this belt of ammunition that they's anchoring, yeah, that they can go in and say you know what?

Speaker 2:

I've done great things, I am powerful, I am successful.

Speaker 1:

I can do this, because I've done it before. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's almost like People read the Bible, live in that kind of reminder of who they are, instead of what society or what the people that are telling them you're not enough, you're all these things. So it's a way to remind yourself that you have done great things, you will do great things again and you can step forward and encourage and faith.

Speaker 1:

It's a way to get into state. Absolutely, I believe that. So it's not only writing down your brag list, it's almost like your resume of fabulousness.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and if you're going to go walk into an interview which life kind of is an interview, each next new experience is an interview for who you're becoming, and you're going to be asked that question well, who are you to become? This?

Speaker 1:

And when you read but here's the thing. So when you are writing down this list of oh my gosh, I've done this and I've been here and I've met these people and I've had these conversations and I've had these experiences and I've gone through this and I face this adversity and I made it through, it's like wow, this is a resume of everything that I have literally accomplished, accomplished, been through, and it's a celebration. So it's coming at it from the other side of the coin and when you do that, you need to attach an emotion.

Speaker 1:

Yes, feel it again, of not feeling the pain, but feeling the pride. Yes, you need to feel the pride of yes, I can do this. I did it. That is why I'm here and that is why I am in the situation I'm in today.

Speaker 2:

I am the freaking hero of my own story. I am a hero and writing it down and reading it over and over again is the affirmation because that is your truth. A lot of times we live in this truth of the wound, but the truth is in the success because you're here today.

Speaker 1:

So I'm just going to be very, very vulnerable right now. If you go to my YouTube channel, there's a playlist and it's called my transformation playlist and it literally was. As I was going through my transformation, I started making these videos. Now, the thing about these videos is most people don't document as they're going through the transformation, because it's a hard one.

Speaker 2:

Transformations are hard. They're painful. You're digging up a lot of things that you're working through.

Speaker 1:

Most people document the aftermath when they're standing on top of the mountain and saying look what I've been through, Look at this flag.

Speaker 2:

I'm planting.

Speaker 1:

But I started documenting as I was going through it and there's one video in particular where Jason and I started working out again and we started exercising and during the workout I started crying.

Speaker 2:

Ugly cry.

Speaker 1:

Ugly, boohoo, almost hyperventilation cry. And I remember you saying what's wrong and the video camera was going the entire time. And I remember you saying what's wrong and I said I just remembered that I am a Paralympic gold medalist. I just remembered that I'm an athlete and I haven't been acting like an athlete. I forgot my identity. I forgot how powerful, I am. That I am an athlete. I forgot the strength and the.

Speaker 2:

Discipline and the determination.

Speaker 1:

And everything that I put into winning that gold medal and how hard I worked and, yes, I deserve to wear that gold medal and wear that title and what I've really been doing in real life is laying on the couch feeling sorry for myself, and that is not how gold medal athletes. Thank you, act. And there was a disconnect and all of a sudden, I had this aha moment and so, by going back and Pumping up the tires. It was like yes, I remember who I am.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I Remember who I am because you had allowed that moment like one, a moment to kind of drag through, because if you ride on Low flat tires for too long, it affects the rest of the vehicle, so to speak the body, the mind, everything it's, it's those thoughts that we feed. So if you take, if you, if you give yourself that space, like Gandhi, martin Luther King Jr they're like when life gets really busy and chaotic, they take more time for meditation, they take more time for self-reflection, they take more time for prayer. So if we give ourselves that space to Self-reflect and then do it the right way and pump up the tires, yeah and not reflect in oh my gosh, I broke my leg.

Speaker 1:

I don't have a job. I've gained 30 pounds. I can barely transfer.

Speaker 2:

I'm not talking about. I feel so depressed.

Speaker 1:

My husband and my marriage is falling apart. My finances have taken a crap hole Like I was seriously living in. This life is happening to me and when I stopped and had that workout, all of a sudden I'm like I'm gonna. I'm a parallel three-time Paralympic gold medalist. Yeah and all of a sudden it just reminded me I Was created for greatness and a purpose. And that is not being narcissistic, that is not bragging, that is remembering who I am and then writing it out.

Speaker 2:

It's like speaking it out. So a lot of times we'll keep these things in our head and that's that's. Another thing that I've learned is Sometimes we just keep all these thoughts in our head and we never bring them out into the world. And Once you speak them out loud which you did on the YouTube video Mm-hmm and once my clients write them on a page and read them, and sometimes I'm like, okay, let's read them out loud to ourselves they become Affirmations and they get real. Because if they just bounce around in our heads, in our thoughts, then they just kind of echo around and they they kind of morph into other things or they just disappear and turn into Not really being true and we and we lock back on to the truth being something negative again.

Speaker 1:

I'm having such an aha moment right now. Even now, I want to say that as you go through transformation you, it's almost like an onion that starts to make you cry. That too.

Speaker 2:

That too should.

Speaker 1:

We'll make you cry a lot of it's almost like you shed a layer and then you shed another layer and you, you keep shedding.

Speaker 2:

I call that waking up to the next layer.

Speaker 1:

Yes, you keep waking up to the next and it's better and as you keep waking up to the next layer, you realize that inside there is gold and there's flavor, there's gold, there's gold in there and Gold. Just so you know, the only way that People know that gold is really gold is by putting it through fire. Hmm, and so in life, I think sometimes we have to sometimes go through the challenges and the difficulties to realize that there is gold inside. However, it is our job, it is our duty and it is our life purpose to remember that we are made of gold. We are made of gold because God lives within us. Amen.

Speaker 2:

I love it To pump up your tires and start living like lucky.

Speaker 1:

Pump up the tires. Okay, so, just to refresh your memory, get out a piece of paper, and we want you to, we challenge you to write down ten things.

Speaker 2:

Ten things, a list of ten things, ten moments in your life where you just felt just Extremely proud of yourself, extremely successful. These don't have to be huge accomplishments.

Speaker 1:

These can actually be just a deep time connection where you felt proud of yourself for Standing up. Maybe you felt brave in yeah, in saying something that wasn't popular. Maybe you felt brave or you had courage to befriend Someone when maybe they had betrayed you and you treated them with love. Maybe this was a moment where you, just you were just proud to be you. You were just proud to be you. Write those ten moments down, because sometimes we forget, we forget that we are awesome. We are awesome. Maybe it's just you forget it.

Speaker 2:

Maybe it's just that moment where you didn't feel like getting out of bed and you did.

Speaker 1:

Now you have made me cry because I've got that moment and you got out of bed.

Speaker 2:

I love you.

Speaker 1:

Okay, guys, thank you for shedding tears with us, thank you for laughing with us and thank you for listening to our our crazy, terrible songs. We know they're terrible, but we're working on.

Speaker 2:

We love them. They make us smile.

Speaker 1:

We make God smile. That's why he continues to give us inspiration. Pop up the tires. Pop up the tires. Lucky. Have a great day, guys, bye, bye. If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at startlivingluckycom.