A Prescription For Success

Unleash Your Potential with the Prescription for Success

Do you constantly chase that "go-go-go" feeling, only to find yourself burnt out and depleted? You're not alone. In this episode of Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason Shelfer & Jana Banana Shelfer, we smash the myth that rest equals weakness, and reveal how intentional downtime can be the secret weapon to unlocking your full potential.

Here's what you'll discover to transform your relationship with rest:

• From Guilt to Gain: Ditch the anxiety of taking a break. Learn how to reframe rest as a prescription for success,just like Jana's experience with her scuba coach. Discover the science-backed benefits of rest for improved energy, sharper focus, and even a youthful glow.
• Beyond the Nap: Rest isn't just about pausing. We'll show you how to create a powerful recovery routine that fuels your mind, body, and spirit. Learn to silence the inner critic that whispers you should be "doing more," and unlock the true meaning of relaxation.
• Rest & Results: Jason and Jana debunk the myth that constant busyness equals productivity. Discover how rest allows you to align with your goals and become more effective in everything you do. Imagine achieving more with less effort, simply by prioritizing intentional rest.
• Unleash Your Inner Rock Star: We'll delve into the connection between rest and intellectual growth. Discover how downtime can spark creativity, boost problem-solving skills, and propel you towards those big dreams. Get ready to tap into your inner genius by embracing strategic rest periods.
• Building a Rest Revolution: You're not alone in your quest for a balanced life. Join our supportive Living Lucky® community. Share your struggles and triumphs with rest, and be inspired by others who are redefining success through balanced living.

Ready to ditch the hustle and unlock your full potential? Hit play and let's start Living Lucky® together!

P.S. Feeling overwhelmed by to-do lists? We'll share a powerful secret for scheduling "zero-task time"

Keywords: Rest, Recovery, Productivity, Success, Energy, Performance, Growth Mindset, Hustle Cult

Transcript

Rest and Recovery for 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 Shelfer and this is my husband, Jason Shelfer, and we are Living Lucky®. You are, too. Rest and recovery, R&R; Are you giving yourself rest and recovery and what is the feeling that you're attaching to it? Something happened to me over the last week and I want to share it with everyone because I feel like it has been such an aha moment for me, and that is I've told all of you that I'm doing this scuba gym right, this underwater walking Now. Last Monday I wasn't really feeling a hundred percent. We had just gotten back from our trip, I was feeling jet lagged and, in fact, I had a little bit of a cold and whatnot.

Jason Shelfer 1:03

Well, we had gone 100 miles an hour, I know. We'd gone 5,000 miles away from home, I know, and we just packed in as much as we could, as much talking, connecting, conferencing, speaking, performing, learning, all these things, and we didn't really give ourselves a time to break and relax. It was kind of a work vacation.

Jana Shelfer 1:28

Yes. And so my coach at the scuba gym. He says to me you realize that every time you come here, which is on Monday and Wednesdays, every time you go scuba walking, you need to schedule two hours of rest and recovery afterwards. Two hours, and then he really drilled in it. He was like that means, you go home, you lay on the couch, you lay in bed, you lay down, and not for one hour, but for two hours, give yourself permission, not for one hour, but for two hours Give yourself permission.

Jana Shelfer 2:05

And when he told me that it was almost like, oh my gosh, I have to do this in order for my body to recover and whatnot. All of a sudden, when I came home afterwards which I'm always exhausted after I go swimming anywhere, but especially after scuba gym I came home, I ate, I changed my clothes and I got on the couch, and giving myself permission to rest and recover it put a whole different feeling to it. Sometimes, when I go on the couch, I feel guilty anxious.

Jason Shelfer 2:41

what's not getting done? What's?

Jana Shelfer 2:42

what am I missing out? Missing out? What am I? What could I be doing right now? But because it was an order from a coach, it felt like wait a minute. I am, this is what I am this is to be doing right now. This is good for me and I enjoyed every second of it at a different level. So the reason that I want your body, I'm sure responded to it in a different level.

Jason Shelfer 3:03

So the reason that I want to, and your body, I'm sure, responded to it in a different level and actually I physically saw it. I physically saw your legs and your feet and your face.

Jana Shelfer 3:14

And emotionally energetically.

Jason Shelfer 3:17

You woke up the next day and you looked younger, you looked more energetic.

Jana Shelfer 3:21

I mean, it's just one of those things. I looked sexier.

Jason Shelfer 3:24

Sexier hotter. I was like we're not even getting out of bed today.

Jana Shelfer 3:30

And we've often talked about scheduling zero task time, but I experienced it in a different way when it was given to me as an order, like in order for you to maximize all of the work and effort that you have just put in in the last two hours underwater, you need to go home now and give yourself two hours to do nothing.

Jason Shelfer 3:53

It's part of the prescription.

Jana Shelfer 3:55

It is.

Jason Shelfer 3:56

Yeah, and a lot of times we can give ourselves these to-do lists or these tasks and we don't put the meaning and the why and the and the what does it mean behind it.

Jana Shelfer 4:08

And, like I said, I've often talked about scheduling zero task time, but the underlying belief, I'm not sure that I accepted it fully accepted it fully that I I'm going to give myself permission.

Jason Shelfer 4:25

There's an undercurrent of knowing things still need to get done. Yes, and the fact is, there will always be things that need to get done, but if we can know how beneficial that rest and recovery is. I mean, if you ran an engine or a car nonstop all the time, it's going to just fall out, it is, it's going to burn up, the gears are going to catch the friction is going to be fall out Like it's just going to.

Jason Shelfer 4:49

It's going to burn up, it's going to. The gears are going to catch, the friction is going to be too much. But if you take care of it, if you oil it, if you just give it some time to rest and recover, yes, and that's the way of taking care of ourselves.

Jana Shelfer 5:03

And, and so it's almost like I valued myself over everything that needed to be done. Yeah, and I just wanted to share. That little tiny shift in perspective changed the whole outcome for me.

Jason Shelfer 5:23

Yeah, and there were physical results, yes, which was amazing, and sometimes we don't see that.

Jana Shelfer 5:30

No, I woke up the next day saying, oh my gosh, I'm ready, I'm ready to go, like, let's get on this.

Jason Shelfer 5:38

Because you didn't allow yourself to rest in the worry, the anxiety of the things not getting done. You actually took full advantage of the intentional rest and recovery.

Jana Shelfer 5:46

Yes, Because when you okay, so let's go there. When you are resting and recovering and, at the same time, feeling worry, anxiety and that you should could have to be doing something else, You're not allowing your. You're not only not allowing yourself to rest and recover, but you are draining energy. So then you, so big. So then you, after those two hours, you actually feel worse.

Jason Shelfer 6:16

Yeah, cause you feel like you've wasted time.

Jana Shelfer 6:20

It's like it's yeah.

Jason Shelfer 6:22

There's so many things in this, and I feel like this is going to lead into our next podcast, where we talk about different pathways to the feeling.

Jana Shelfer 6:32

Okay, yeah, I'll go there with you.

Jason Shelfer 6:34

Well, it's it's. It's wanting the feeling like it's wanting the, the rest and recovery, but not allowing us to be in it fully.

Jana Shelfer 6:44

I okay, Were you going to follow up with something? That you ended with the. Your sentence went up at the end, so I'm like there must be more.

Jason Shelfer 6:50

Well, because when we don't give ourselves full permission to feel the feeling of being in that rest and recovery, because we're carrying with us this anxiety and this feeling of things that need to get done, yes. We haven't taken the prescription.

Jana Shelfer 7:07

Yes, we haven't bought into it or believed it fully. Yeah, we haven't taken the prescription. Yes, we haven't bought into it or believed it fully. We haven't believed. It's all in what you believe. And there was something deep inside me that believed laying on the couch is lazy.

Jason Shelfer 7:22

That's the underlying belief and your coach brought in laying on the couch after this is part of the process that gets you to exactly where you want to be.

Jana Shelfer 7:34

Yes, I'm going to how you feel.

Jason Shelfer 7:58

I'm 100% there. It's all in how you feel and in life. How do you want to feel at the end of it? Because what you feel is going to dictate the story that you're telling.

Jana Shelfer 8:11

Yes, and here's the thing is that when you realize I can actually choose the feeling I want, which was a really hard journey for me to get to- Right. Because I would tell Jason Shelfer, I'm thinking positively, I'm thinking optimism, I'm thinking all of these wonderful dreamy, high energy thoughts.

Jason Shelfer 8:39

It's an intellectual thing.

Jana Shelfer 8:40

However, I would tell him deep down I feel exhausted.

Jason Shelfer 8:48

I don't feel it.

Jana Shelfer 8:49

I'm not feeling inspired.

Jason Shelfer 8:51

I'm thinking this, I'm writing it, my journal shows this, all the words are right. Why am I not feeling it? And it's when we get to, when we sit back and we get to choose that feeling and then get to move towards.

Jana Shelfer 9:06

And I feel like that's really hard for people. It was really hard for me. It was really hard because I would tell Jason Shelfer well, the reality is, this is how I feel and I already know that what I say after I am is what I am. However, there was this almost gaslighting myself in some deep form.

Jason Shelfer 9:29

It's just behind the curtain.

Jana Shelfer 9:31

And it's taken me a long time to really unpeel all of the layers, to realize well, why am I holding on to this feeling, when I know that I can choose this feeling and it came as simple as laying on the couch?

Jason Shelfer 9:54

Why am I holding on to the worry, the anxiety, the have tos, the should dos.

Incorporating Rest for Dream Achievement

Jana Shelfer 10:00

And it was because someone gave me permission. An outside person gave me not only permission, a prescription. This is how I get to my dreams. So there's something deep inside me that feels like being lazy is not the way to your dreams, and following the process is the way to your dreams. That really is what it came down to, but I had to go through a lot to get to that point.

Jason Shelfer 10:28

Yeah, and when we're growing towards our dreams, it's important to make rest and recovery part of the process, because it allows us to not only intellectually get there, but allows our bodies and our physical being to catch up with us in the knowing and in the beingness of it.

Jana Shelfer 10:50

So good, so good. I hope this helps someone out there and I hope I'm not alone in that. I have been stuck in this and if it has hit you or if it has struck you, please email us at.

Jason Shelfer 11:07

Jason@livinglucky. com or Jana@ livinglucky. com.

Jana Shelfer 11:10

We love to hear from you. Thanks for joining us.

Jason Shelfer 11:13

We'll keep Living Lucky®, bye-bye.

Jana Shelfer 11:16

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