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The Compound Effect of Your First Hour

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 8 • Episode 73

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Unlock Your Day: The Compound Effect of Your First Hour

Ever felt your energy, focus, and productivity slowly vanish, like a melting ice cube? We understand! Our morning habits profoundly impact success and well-being.

Join Jason and Jana Shelfer on the Living Lucky® Podcast as we share our game-changing morning routine reset: the proven S.A.V.E.R.S. method from Hal Elrod's Miracle Morning. Reclaim your power, beyond mere discipline!

Discover The Compound Effect: small, positive choices compound into massive personal development; neglect leads to stagnation. Dedicating your first hour signals to your subconscious: "You are important!"

Learn the S.A.V.E.R.S. framework: Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise (10 mins!), Reading, and Scribing. Each 10-minute practice builds momentum, transforming your day and spinning "doom loops" into upward success cycles.

Ready to transform your mornings? Tune in for actionable self-help, mindset shifts, and positive thinking. Prioritize your first hour and start Living Lucky®!

Key Nuggets:

  • Ice Cube Effect: Subtle habit shifts have big impacts.
  • Compound Power: Daily choices fuel massive growth.
  • S.A.V.E.R.S.: Six 10-min practices for a powerful start.
  • Self-Priority: Your first hour signals self-worth.
  • Mindset Boost: SAVERS builds positivity and focus.
  • Doom Loop to Success Cycle: Routine shifts life trajectory.

Key Nuggets: Morning routine is key. Small choices compound. SAVERS method transforms. Prioritize yourself. Energy, focus, success.

Benefits of a morning routine for success. How to start a consistent morning routine? The compound effect of daily habits. Morning meditation for energy. Journaling for personal growth. How to increase daily productivity and focus? Best self-help routines for success. What is the Compound Effect? What does SAVERS stand for in The Miracle Morning? How can a morning routine improve my life? What are the benefits of daily meditation and journaling? How much time should I spend on a morning routine? Why is the first hour of your day important? How do small habits lead to big success?

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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. We refreshed our morning routine. How fun is that? And I have to tell you, it has brought me so much energy already. I love it and that's big.

Jason Shelfer:

Sometimes we just need to whip ourselves into shape right, and this comes after a week of really stagnation.

Jana Shelfer:

We get a little lackadaisical.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah.

Jana Shelfer:

And we've talked about this before. It's the law of habituation. You start getting into, you know, you think they're good habits, but then those habits start getting a little slack.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and sometimes we just let them go because we've been traveling, we've been doing ski competitions and it's like okay, so what if we don't do it for a morning? What if we don't do it for another morning? What if we're on the road for two or three mornings?

Jana Shelfer:

And then you fall off for two or three and it makes it harder and harder to get back and then you look back and it's been 10 days, 15 days a month without being on your routine.

Jason Shelfer:

Hello.

Jana Shelfer:

We think at the time oh you know what, it won't make that much of a difference. However, if you've ever read the book the Compound Effect, you realize that those little daily choices make all the difference, that just gave me goosebumps because I didn't actually equate it to the compound effect.

Jason Shelfer:

But I did say in my mind I was thinking oh, you know, nothing changed. So when we didn't do our routine, I was so in the flow of life. I was like nothing changed. I'm still good, everything is still working out. However, looking back, I realized it was just a slow roll down.

Jana Shelfer:

It really has been. And again, like we, we think we're doing the right things. But then, if we really stop and analyze it, my meditations have become so loose that I literally do them in bed now, and sometimes, if my body feels like going back to sleep in the middle of it, I just let my brain do that. That's not what my meditation is for.

Jason Shelfer:

It's almost like an ice cube melting in a refrigerator. You don't notice it until the ice cube's gone.

Jana Shelfer:

My gratitude journal has literally become hey, I'll just write down a note, or sometimes I'll just use that gratituding to my mind starts wandering and I start writing down what I'm going to do for the day.

Jason Shelfer:

Oh, the to-do list Right.

Jana Shelfer:

I'm like that's not gratituding.

Jason Shelfer:

I'm so thankful for these things to do.

Jana Shelfer:

See, and it's just because sometimes we need to go back and get disciplined again, right? We need to get a little strict.

Jason Shelfer:

And having the awareness around hey, what have I changed that I need to bring back and what are some of the things that I've been doing that I might need to let go of?

Jana Shelfer:

So we like to follow the savers method. This is from the book the Miracle Morning. Hal Elrod is the author. He's also a friend of Jason and myself, and what he did was he started to interview and research people that he thought were doing amazing things in the world, people who he thought were extraordinary, and he started finding patterns among these people. They all did similar things, and the top six things that these people had in common were he put them into a morning routine that takes one hour. So he found six things and each one takes 10 minutes. So it's easy to remember, it's easy to do no matter where you are, and it will make all the difference.

Jason Shelfer:

It really does. And one of the things is, a lot of times people will say, well, I don't have time for that, and if you don't have time for 10 minutes, that's a problem in itself. I'm going to say there needs to be more examination of what you're doing with your time. But the other part of that is we changed our lives back in 2015 or 16, where we started waking up at 4.30 in the morning, or you started waking up at four.

Jason Shelfer:

That's not my exact time zone, but you said I'm going to dress, I'm going to change my life and I'm going to start making a massive impact on what I'm doing, how I'm organizing my day and what I'm going to do.

Jana Shelfer:

Well, what's amazing is, if you take that first hour for yourself, so big it tells your soul that you are important.

Jason Shelfer:

That is monstrous.

Jana Shelfer:

And when you do something for yourself first thing in the morning before you check text messages. Emails Emails or start feeding the dog or doing things for other people, if you do things Scrolling on the garbage zone. For yourself. Then, all of a sudden, you tell yourself that you're important and there's no excuse. It's prioritizing.

Jason Shelfer:

It is it's self-care at its highest Of our dreams, our goals and all this stuff, and we fall into this mindless habitualization of nothingness.

Jana Shelfer:

So let me go over the six things that you do in this formula. It's called Lifesavers because Hal writes how these six things saved his life.

Jason Shelfer:

After a horrible car accident where he really should have died, Like that was, the prospectus was that he was going to die. And then the second after he was not going to die. It was like he's never going to walk again.

Jana Shelfer:

So the first one was an S? S for savers, and that is silence. To sit in silence for 10 minutes Now, for me that means meditation. I like to sit and meditate for 10 minutes. Unplug my mind. I just let my mind go into nothingness, go into the void, kind of listen to the universe. What is the universe telling me?

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and this has been around for thousands and thousands of years.

Jana Shelfer:

This goes back. We're not making this up.

Jason Shelfer:

Even in biblical teachings there's the be, still and know.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah, so the first S is silence, a affirmations. Sometimes we have to tell ourselves wonderful, beautiful things, compliment ourselves. Sometimes we need that positivity in our mind and we need to do it intentionally. For me, it's beautiful and bright. You're a radiant being of life. You're beautiful, you're bright, you're a radiant being of life, and I say that over and over to myself. That's something that I love to say.

Jason Shelfer:

It can even be like affirming how your day is going to be, affirming your confidence. It's all these things about. It's positivity. It's creating the energy within yourself that you're going to surround yourself with this shield of positivity and uplifting energy that's going to shield you and protect you and also kind of guard you from what might be coming at you during the day.

Jana Shelfer:

Now I like to incorporate little sing-song tunes, little cheers chants. I like to do incantations. For me it becomes almost like a tribal ceremony, almost like a summer camp. You know how you would sing songs and do cheers. For me it's like a little pep rally, for me.

Jason Shelfer:

That's huge Because it's an energy builder. It is, especially when you put it to song. That's a new rhythm, that's a new cadence to life.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes. And that's massive a new cadence to life. Yes, and that's massive. The third thing is a V visualization. Now, if I can sit and visualize what it is I want to accomplish that day, maybe it's a goal. This morning I literally visualized my slalom course on my ski competition coming up. I was visualizing getting around every single buoy and visualizing success.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, this is what all athletes do. All exceptional athletes will visualize the successful success, completion of whatever their routine is, whatever the game is or the play is Like. I visualize a successful meeting with clients.

Jana Shelfer:

I was just going to say it doesn't have to be an athletic endeavor, it can also be. I visualize a conversation going a particular way.

Jason Shelfer:

I visualize Even when I was in sales, I would visualize how the sales call goes, and it doesn't always go as you plan, but it gives you an intention that you can put attention towards.

Jana Shelfer:

I visualize money showing up in my mailbox. The fourth letter is E, and that's exercise. It doesn't have to be go to the gym and work out for an hour. It's 10 minutes, 10 minutes of exercise. It doesn't have to be go to the gym and work out for an hour, it's 10 minutes, 10 minutes of exercise.

Jason Shelfer:

Get your body moving, get your blood flowing, get your energy up, get that kinetic movement and flow going in your life.

Jana Shelfer:

Let's do a little jumping jack, let's do a push-up, that's the whole. I'm a live awake alert.

Jason Shelfer:

Enthusiastic, I say, it's singular, let's do a push-up, that's the whole, I'm alive, awake alert enthusiastic, I say it's singular. Let's do a jumping jack, a pushing up.

Jana Shelfer:

Let's do a push-up.

Jason Shelfer:

Right.

Jana Shelfer:

Let's go for a little trot around the pond. That's what I like to do.

Jason Shelfer:

That's why I really like that incantation or that little sing song I'm alive, awake, alert Enthusiastic because it comes with kind of a little calisthenic oh arm routine, yeah, and it's crazy and it's fun. It's very kindergarten-ish but it gets my energy up. It's exercise, it's movement, and you can do it while you're walking the dog around the pond. We also like to do our gratituding while we walk the dog around.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes, yes, I love that R is reading. Read for 10 minutes. You will be surprised what you learn If you read for 10 minutes every morning at the end of the week.

Jason Shelfer:

You may have a chapter, you may have more than a chapter, you may have a book under your belt and all of the knowledge that comes with that, yeah, and what's funny is so we're reading something that is like personal development, something that's going to make you better, and 15 or 14 minutes a day is 1% of your day. There's an old Japanese Kaizen that's like 1% better is more than most people are focused on throughout their day, and that compounding effect of 1% better every day is insane. So when you combine the savers method, all these little efforts, six of them is going to be incredible for the specific day is going to be incredible for the specific day, but over the compounding effect of a week, a month, a year, it's a life changer.

Jana Shelfer:

The last S because savers is plural. The last S is scribe. I love to journal. I love it. I make it into an artistic little fun thing for myself. I love to gratitude. I love to write down my thoughts. I love to write down my feelings. I love to try to describe them in pictures, words, color. I love to journal.

Jason Shelfer:

You are an amazing and incredible journaler, thank you. Journaling for me was a struggle. I used to like to journal, I used to like writing creative writing and I got discouraged when I was very young, so getting back into it was a little bit of a challenge for me. However, it has been a game changer once you got me started. Just gratituding, gratituding. Gratituding is simple Finding something to be grateful for and not repeating. That was a little bit of a challenge. However, it was the most worthwhile challenge that I've ever had in a journaling exercise.

Jana Shelfer:

I think scribing is I mean that's the word they use because it fits into the acronym. I think scribing is I mean that's the word they use because it fits into the acronym. However, for me that's been a sigh. That and meditation have been the two things that have really really taken my life to a different level.

Jason Shelfer:

And for me.

Jana Shelfer:

The scribing is just getting feelings out that I didn't even know I had. I didn't even know I was feeling, didn't even know I had, I didn't even know I was feeling. If you put it into a diary or something that is just you and the paper, for some reason it gets you out of your head and it allows you to release emotions and you think, wow, I didn't even realize that that was going on inside me. I knew I was feeling something, I was aware of that, but I didn't know exactly what.

Jason Shelfer:

I've got a theory on that because I had a conversation with a client a couple of weeks ago about it and I think because in our heads excuse me, we have this in our bodies we have this feeling and a word soup that's happening in our heads, but when we put it on paper it makes us articulate the thought and then we get to explore, or feeling. And then we get to explore it and say, OK, where might that have come from? Is this really what? Like, how did I get here from there? And then we get to say, OK, what might a new story be? Or where do I want to go from here, Like if I'm writing the book of my life, what's the next chapter going to look like? And then I get to say, and how does that feel?

Jana Shelfer:

And for some reason, when I scribe, it allows me to just let go of any thoughts at all.

Jason Shelfer:

Oh, that's pretty nice, that's good.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah, so again, let's recap S silence.

Jason Shelfer:

Silence A. Affirmations V, visualization E exercise R reading.

Jana Shelfer:

And.

Jason Shelfer:

S scribing.

Jana Shelfer:

Savers. It's a one-hour routine and it will change your life.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes.

Jana Shelfer:

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