Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Election 2024

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 7 • Episode 68

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Unlock the key to transforming your reality by tuning into our latest episode where we explore the fascinating dynamics of perception and perspective, especially during the tumultuous election week. Ever wondered how a simple shift in viewpoint can change your life? We promise that by the end of this discussion, you'll have a new understanding of how to tackle setbacks and find motivation for success. Using the metaphor of a baseball game, we stress that whether you're celebrating victories or learning from losses, you're on a path to greater achievements. We invite you to rethink political differences and realize that, ultimately, we're all striving for the same universal goals such as health, wealth, and happiness.

Our conversation doesn't stop there. Dive into the concept of self-creation, where your thoughts and feelings are the architects of your world. Discover the immense power in choosing your reactions to life’s events and how it can lead to a life brimming with self-created luck and positivity. Learn to recognize the opportunities around you and create a life that resonates with your deepest desires. By embracing the idea of "living lucky," we encourage you to reshape your perspective and, ultimately, your life. Join us on this inspiring journey to understand the profound impact of perception on reality, and leave with the tools to craft a future aligned with your aspirations.
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  • What is Living Lucky®?
    Living Lucky® is a mindset philosophy that focuses on embracing life with optimism, transforming challenges into growth opportunities, and creating self-made success through positive thinking.
  • How can perception impact your reality?
    Perception shapes reality by influencing our thoughts, feelings, and actions. By shifting perspective, we can turn setbacks into growth opportunities and build a more positive future.
  • How do I turn setbacks into success?
    To turn setbacks into success, reframe challenges as learning experiences, stay motivated, and use each obstacle as fuel to move forward with resilience.

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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

Jason Shelfer:

, I'm Jason

Jana Shelfer:

and we are Living Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer:

You are too.

Jana Shelfer:

It's election week. Is that going to be at the inauguration? Are you the trumpet player?

Jana Shelfer:

It's my inauguration. There's electricity in the air, there is energy all around us, and you have to be under a rock if you don't feel it. Every time we turn on the news, every time we open any kind of social media, any kind of internet you drive out in your neighborhood, you see signs. You go down the road and people are campaigning.

Jason Shelfer:

You see the stickers on people's shirts that said I vetoed.

Jana Shelfer:

And with that there's always two sides, at least two sides. There's usually more of how you can perceive what is happening.

Jason Shelfer:

I'm a winner or I'm a loser.

Jana Shelfer:

Now let's just put this in easy terms. Let's put this in a baseball game. I mean, baseball has been happening too, but let's put it in a baseball game. I mean baseball has been happening too, but let's put it in a baseball game. There's a winner and there is someone who doesn't win. Now, how do we perceive those circumstances For the person that doesn't win? How do they use that energy to benefit them? Because there's usually a there's a couple different paths that that person can take. They can either say I'm quitting baseball yeah, life sucks, life sucks.

Jana Shelfer:

I'm never gonna win I'm never gonna be good enough.

Jana Shelfer:

Baseball has not been good to me they start forming this story in their head, a narrative of why they lost. It usually has to do with blame, shame, embarrassment, not feeling like they did their part, guilt in a way. There's a lot of lower vibrations that you can go into when you lose. Or there are those select few that say you know what? This only motivates me to get out and work harder for next year. And let's look at the data and let's pivot, let's find what is the piece so that next year I can come and I can win.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and what they don't typically do because I'm not saying it hasn't happened, but what they don't typically do is go fight the other team at the end of the game.

Jana Shelfer:

I see where you want to take this.

Jason Shelfer:

I see what you are anticipating, there are a lot of people, I think, that are feeling if one party wins and my party loses, then the world is going to come crashing down. All these bad things are going to happen.

Jana Shelfer:

But what they're not realizing is we're all on the same team. There really isn't a winner and a loser, even though the media wants us to perceive it that way.

Jason Shelfer:

They want us to catastrophize it.

Jana Shelfer:

They want us to perceive that the Democrats and Republicans, they are at war with each other, which is not the case. The case is we are all on the same team and the goal is to function as a better team.

Jason Shelfer:

We all want to be healthier, wealthier and happier. I think that's what most people are looking for, and you can find that really in a lot of the policies of any party any party out there because I think that most people go into the presidency wanting to create a better life for the country.

Jana Shelfer:

So what we're really talking about today is perception. It is perception of everything, and it really is about the story you tell yourself Any circumstance that happens. So, whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, you can take any issue and you can say well, we want it this way because we see life this way, we see the world, our worldview is this way and so we want this policy. However, that exact same policy can still serve you.

Jason Shelfer:

And one of the other things is just like in any type of like, in any type of disagreement or argument, we can point out, like if we rush into that conversation pointing out what's wrong, it's going to just pour fuel on a fire and get people planting their feet. But if we look at, okay, well, what, what is happening, that's right, what is great and kind of compliment well, what is happening, that's right, what is great, and kind of compliment and build on that, then both parties or everyone starts coming together and building a better foundation.

Jana Shelfer:

I like to use a glass, a glass that has water to the halfway point, and there's some people that say, oh, this glass is half full. There's other people that look at it and say this glass is half empty. Well, the truth is, the glass is.

Jason Shelfer:

Completely full.

Jana Shelfer:

Both of them are right. Both of them are right. Both of them are right. It is all in how we perceive it.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and I look at the glass and say it's full halfway with water and full halfway with air.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, so there we go, and everyone is right it is just all about the story that we tell ourselves and how we see the world. So I guess what I'm trying to say is there are no negative outcomes in this it really is perspective and perception.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes, oh, so big.

Jana Shelfer:

Is that?

Jason Shelfer:

big. Yeah, if people could just grab hold of that. I think that takes a lot of the fire out of the fight and creates a how might I look at this differently? Is this 100% true, or is this just my perception or my perspective? And then, if it's just my perspective, then what else might be true?

Jana Shelfer:

And then if it's just my perspective, then what else might be true? And I also want to say is it's good to have both sides, it's good to have people that see the glasses half empty and see the glasses half full, or, in this case, have Democrats and Republicans, because they balance each other out and they keep our perspective closer to the truth.

Jason Shelfer:

That's needed.

Jana Shelfer:

It is needed. It is needed.

Jason Shelfer:

And we found I mean it's with all the disinformation it's finding that center, balance and truth is so it's healthier.

Jana Shelfer:

It's energy, and you often say the truth is often in the middle. Let me just put it this way If somebody comes out on a policy and they go way out to the end of the teeter-totter, Left or right? And they throw out something that is absolutely absurd and you think, well, I've never heard that before, I've never heard anyone go quite that far. The way the universe works is there's going to be an equal and opposite reaction. It is science.

Jason Shelfer:

For balancing.

Jana Shelfer:

It is science, and so someone on the other side is going to come out with an equally absurd policy, just to balance everyone out. Now, what's happened in the last? 15 years is we just keep pushing the envelope of how absurd we can get?

Jason Shelfer:

the outside boundaries instead of the middle.

Jana Shelfer:

And what's happening is that what will happen is, eventually, that teeter-totter is going to break and the absurdness is going to meet back in the middle. It's going to circle back around.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, it's going to get to where it just kind of bends reality back to the center, the center, the truth.

Jana Shelfer:

So right now we are living in kind of a weird spot, and there is electricity, there is energy, and people are even starting to prepare for what's going to happen next, because each side has planted fear, doubt and uncertainty, and so now people are starting to prepare. Well, guess what's going to happen? We are literally manifesting our reality. We are creating what's going to happen next going to happen next?

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and we see this multiple times throughout the news cycle. It's like saying don't think of the pink elephant. Well, immediately you're going to start thinking of the pink elephant. So when you start preparing for worst case scenario doomsday you're going to create that environment, that thought process in your mind and start finding those elements in the world that you live in.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes.

Jason Shelfer:

So then it's going to be like I told you this would happen.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes, you created it. We manifested it together by creating all of this doubt and fear.

Jason Shelfer:

You always find what we're looking for. Yes, you will always find what you're looking for.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes, you will always find what you're looking for. I mean, when people start saying that there's election fraud, that there's election discourse, that's exactly what's going to happen, because now we have created the, we put the thought and we've put the feeling with the thought so big, and then what comes next?

Jason Shelfer:

The action, the create, the action that makes the creation, because everything happens in the now and is created here, and then we kind of live into it.

Jana Shelfer:

Now, what people don't realize is they are creating in a downward spiral. They are creating in a downward spiral. What is so great about the realization of what's happening? If you zoom out and you go oh, life is but a dream and we are creating it. When you realize that, you think well, if we created in the downward direction, we can also create you can spin it positive and create in the upward direction, direction, yes.

Jana Shelfer:

And how do we do that? Thoughts, feelings and action. It is very complex. I understand this. I know this because I live it. I also know this from personal experience. I know this from personal experience in my own life. I In my own circumstances of life. I got halfway through my life and I started to perceive them as negative.

Jason Shelfer:

This is happening to me and you say it's complex.

Jana Shelfer:

And then one day I realized wait a minute, I'm the one creating this.

Jason Shelfer:

And that's where, when you realize, you're the one creating it, that's where you have this awareness of your own personal power and agency, and then you get to decide if I'm creating this, what would I like to create? One of the problems is is when we talk about people find what they're looking for. A lot of times we don't take the time to sit down and think what am I looking for? I just I know what I don't want, and so we're finding all these things that we don't want because we haven't clearly identified and labeled what we want, and that's what's happening with the news and the media, and the selection is.

Jana Shelfer:

It depends which news station you're listening to, but they are literally every single story, and it is designed like this of telling people what you don't want, because the news knows.

Jason Shelfer:

what the news wants is ratings and with you, want ratings. What do you do? You?

Jana Shelfer:

create fear uncertainty, chaos.

Jason Shelfer:

If you don't do this, if you don't have that, if you don't feel this way, and X happens, y is going to be a result, and so that generates exactly what the news wants, which is the ratings, and we're buying into it. Most of America is like shelling out their time, energy, money, resources to feed the ratings of the news cycle.

Jana Shelfer:

And both sides I mean when we talk specifically about the election both sides do this. They are literally a mirror reflection.

Jason Shelfer:

So we'll always find that mirror reflection if we look for it.

Jana Shelfer:

They are equal and opposite reactions happening to one another. So if you think one side is bad and the other side is good, they are literally doing the exact same thing, just depending on which side of the coin you are looking at. So big.

Jana Shelfer:

It is big right.

Jason Shelfer:

And I don't think it's such a huge thought that we can look at our feelings, our thoughts and our actions to realize that we're creating our reality. The situation, I think, is the awareness around how much agency we each have in our thoughts, feelings and actions, and the more you start realizing how much you are creating your own atmosphere, environment, life, world.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes.

Jason Shelfer:

Then each time you move up in that generative aspect of it, you realize, oh my gosh, this is a new door. I didn't even recognize.

Jana Shelfer:

What Jason is saying is the power is within us. The power is within us of how we react, how we create, how we react, and so, yes, there is election energy, there's electricity, there is so much happening around us, but the power is within you yes.

Jason Shelfer:

All right, so change your perception and perspective to where you're Living Lucky®, and Living Lucky® every day, because you're creating your own luck.

Jana Shelfer:

Thanks for joining us. Have a great day. Bye-bye, keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer:

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