Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

YES Days

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 8 • Episode 30

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Say YES to Your Dream Life: Break Free from Sameness and Create Your Luck 

Are you stuck in a rut, living the same day over and over, yet hoping for a different outcome? In this episode of the Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason & Jana Banana, we're giving you the permission slip to break free from monotony and unlock a world of new opportunities by simply saying YES!

We're diving deep into the power of embracing new experiences and how it can transform your reality. Are you reflexively saying "no" to invitations, opportunities, and even joy? We'll show you how to shift your default setting and start creating the luck you've been searching for.

Here's what you'll discover:

  • The Power of "Yes": Breaking Free from Sameness: Learn how saying yes to new opportunities can disrupt your routine and create transformative change.
  • The "Yes Man" Effect: Unlock Your Potential: Discover how stepping outside your comfort zone can lead to unexpected growth and connection.
  • The Breakdown Before the Breakthrough: Embrace the Chaos: Understand that moments of discomfort are often a necessary step towards personal transformation.
  • The "Yes Week" Challenge: Discover Your High-Vibe Experiences: Learn how to experiment with saying yes and identify the activities that energize you.
  • The Neurochemistry of "Yes": Change Your Brain, Change Your Reality: Discover how new experiences trigger positive chemical changes in your brain.
  • Opportunities Are Everywhere: You Just Need to Be Available: Learn how to open yourself up to the abundance of opportunities that surround you.
  • From Habit to Happiness: Transform Your Daily Routine: Discover how small shifts in your daily habits can lead to significant changes in your life.

This episode is your invitation to break free from your comfort zone and embrace a life of adventure and possibility. 

Key Nuggets:

  • How to shift your default setting from "no" to "yes."
  • The importance of embracing discomfort for growth.
  • How to identify your "high-vibe" experiences.
  • The transformative power of new experiences on your brain.

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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, I'm Jason and we are Living Lucky®. You are, too. If you listen to this podcast, you know that we talk about creating your luck. Yes, which means you're in luck.

Jason Shelfer:

That's right, because we create our luck every single day, we create the world that we want to live in and we create our reality.

Jana Shelfer:

The more we talk about it. Ever since we started this podcast, it has been magical.

Jason Shelfer:

It's been exponential growth.

Jana Shelfer:

It has been magical. It's been exponential growth. I'm telling you, the more I sit and listen to us and I know that sounds a little narcissistic, but if I get in my car and listen to the Jana and Jason Living Lucky® podcast, I feel like I pick up new nuggets of information and, I kid you not, I start spotting opportunities. The right people come into my path at the right time, the right place and it feels like the universe is constantly working in my favor.

Jason Shelfer:

Amen. And it's true, I go back and listen as well, because there's so much to remember, there's so much that goes into creating your own reality, that it's nice to have little reminders, like little tick marks, like a CliffsNotes version that says, hey, check this out or remember this, because your soul knows all these things and we're very in tune with our emotions and our energy. So we are good at kind of staying in the guidelines, but it's nice to have a gentle reminder that says, hey, how are you thinking about this or what's your experience in this now that you're at a different level?

Jana Shelfer:

And people constantly are asking what's the recipe. What's the recipe? Well, we give it to you in snack size pieces.

Jason Shelfer:

I like a snack.

Jana Shelfer:

Every podcast, we give it to you in little nuggets, and today we're talking about being open to new opportunities.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, so many of us are stuck in sameness. We wake up every day and we may not know what we did, but we know what our week looks like, we know what our day is going to look like and it's just the same monotony day in, day out, which is why we often wake up and we go oh, it's just another manic. Monday it's time to make the donuts.

Jana Shelfer:

Right, yes, and when that's what our subconscious says, because we constantly. It's the law of habituation.

Jason Shelfer:

We get stuck. Yes, and the thing is we feel like we're doing everything we possibly can and we're wearing ourselves out, doing what we know, wondering what it is we're missing and hoping for a different result.

Jana Shelfer:

Here's the secret to that Just start saying yes to new things.

Jason Shelfer:

So big.

Jana Shelfer:

And I know that sounds so simple and so easy, but sometimes you know that movie-.

Jason Shelfer:

It's yes man with Jim Carrey yes, and then there's also yes Day with Jennifer Garner.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes, which is a very similar concept. It's just she starts saying yes to her kids, because how many times do we say no to our kids?

Jason Shelfer:

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. A lot of times. No is the first word a child learns.

Jana Shelfer:

I'm telling you, at my job, my boss started saying no to me before I even asked the question no no. Yes, and whether I was asking for a raise, a promotion, a new office a new desk?

Jason Shelfer:

no, no, Janna.

Jana Shelfer:

No, no, can I have a day off? No, no, no, can I get?

Jason Shelfer:

some more responsibility. No, no.

Jana Shelfer:

No, janna, no, Can I tell this joke?

Jason Shelfer:

No, just keep doing the same thing. But I have something. No.

Jana Shelfer:

No, but I wanted to tell you you look nice today.

Jason Shelfer:

No.

Jana Shelfer:

I mean, and he just was conditioned to say no.

Jason Shelfer:

So often we are conditioned. Think about when you walk into, like a technology store if you're not a tech person and you need to, you want to buy something a television, a VCR, a DVD, whatever it is and someone says, can I help you? No, I'm just looking. And someone says, can I help you? No, I'm just looking, like you want someone that says that will come alongside you and say, let me ask you a couple of questions about what your needs are. Like all the like. It's like we want the help, but we're like I don't want to be pressured into anything.

Jason Shelfer:

So when we tell ourselves that we're going to if we just set the directive of I'm going to say yes to opportunities. I'm going to say yes when someone asks me to do something. I'm going to say yes when I have that feeling of I would like to do this, like, if you're moved to do something, make a move.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, I'm going to be very, very transparent here. Sometimes, when people ask the question hey, jana, are you free on Saturday afternoon? I hate that question. I hate that question.

Jason Shelfer:

What for? Because, yes, am I free to go pick up a check for a?

Jana Shelfer:

billion dollars, absolutely. What are they going to ask me to do? Am I free to go on a yacht?

Jason Shelfer:

somewhere, absolutely.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah, because I'm like, am I going to be voluntold to do something.

Jason Shelfer:

Am I free to move your furniture? No, yeah.

Jana Shelfer:

So I always have to like my wheels start turning. I'm like, oh gosh, I have to start coming up with an excuse.

Jason Shelfer:

At a certain age, you should be hiring someone to move your furniture.

Jana Shelfer:

I know. But some people can't but do you see how, all of a sudden, I immediately start coming up with an out yes, immediately start coming up with an out yes.

Jason Shelfer:

And what you're saying, jason, is that sometimes the lucky opportunities are just saying yes, well, and this is a huge breakthrough if you are stuck or if you are in that law of habituation where all your days, weeks, months are looking the same and you're hoping for a different result, this is an easy fix to just change the doing in there, and it's going to create connections. It's going to create new experiences, new things for you to work through in your mind. That's what experiences are. They're things that involve feelings, emotions, stories around them and connections, mostly with other people or the universe you know, and it gives you an opportunity to start exploring and finding out where those sparks of joy are that you might be missing.

Jana Shelfer:

Now I'm gonna give everyone a little pothole to look out for maybe a little challenge that you might be missing. Now I'm going to give everyone a little pothole to look out for maybe a little challenge that you might come upon when you start saying yes to things, just like in the movie yes man, or in the movie yes. Day sometimes things get a little chaotic things get a little chaotic.

Jason Shelfer:

Sometimes, things go a little south before you get the bounce, am I right, or am I right? Yeah, you have a breakdown before you have the breakthrough. Yes, yes, and that's going to happen.

Jana Shelfer:

And that's going to happen in your life too? Yes, because once you get into that uncomfortable zone, it feels uncomfortable.

Jason Shelfer:

And you're going to fail. You're doing new things. It's not going to be perfect and I don't want to call it failure.

Jana Shelfer:

I just want to call it. This is not where you want to be.

Jason Shelfer:

It's not your comfort area.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah.

Jason Shelfer:

Which growth happens just outside of your comfort area. And we're not saying do something that you know is inherently dangerous area. And we're not saying do something that you know is inherently dangerous. It's just do things that are going to create a new spark, new, different type of energy in your life and put you around different people, like we typically are, in our same friends, our same conversations, our same work. We're doing the same thing. We take the same path home every day. We go to work one way, we come back the same way and we do that every day, five days a week, six days a week.

Jana Shelfer:

So make a new choice.

Jason Shelfer:

Just yeah, make a new choice, do something different, say yes to a new opportunity, and what you'll find is that you will be in this opportunity or this experience, you're going to meet someone and that's going to lead to other things, and it doesn't have to, but if you want it to, that will lead you to newness and differentness and new results.

Jana Shelfer:

It may even just leading to you feeling differently. It may lead to different chemicals in your brain, different dopamine, different serotonin, to different chemicals in your brain different dopamine different serotonin, different physiological chemicals in your brain which make you feel different and give you a different motivation.

Jason Shelfer:

And a different awareness of life, of your own life and your experience of it, which will change your reality.

Jana Shelfer:

And it's such a subtle little thing. And again, you might not see a complete 180 shift immediately, but you might see a little difference, and sometimes a little difference is all we need, yeah.

Jason Shelfer:

And I would suggest, try it for a week, like you don't have to go forever because that will get exhausting, but try it for a week, like you don't have to go forever because that will get exhausting, but try it for a week. Give yourself some time off. Then reflect on it and say okay, what were the experiences? What were those opportunities I said yes to that were fun, exciting, in the high energy zones, the high vibrational zones.

Jana Shelfer:

I feel like we need to protect ourselves. I mean, don't be saying yes to things that are dangerous or things that are going to hurt you or anything.

Jason Shelfer:

Face tattoos. No, that's a no. That's just always a no In my book, you know does that make sense In Jason's book, in my book. For some people it's like oh yeah, let's do a face tattoo. That's a no for me. But a tattoo is not a no. But I hear you Use common sense.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes.

Jason Shelfer:

But also go back and reflect on things that gave you the energy, put you in the high vibrational frequencies and lean into that in your next round of the yes Day.

Jana Shelfer:

Change it up. If we want different results, let's do something different.

Jason Shelfer:

You have to be available for people and you have to be available for the opportunities, because the opportunities are everywhere. The opportunities truly are everywhere.

Jana Shelfer:

I love it. I love it. Thanks for joining us. Keep Living Lucky®. Bye-bye. If the idea of Living Lucky® appeals to you, visit us at www. LivingLucky. com.