Stop Underestimating Yourself

Stop Underestimating Yourself: Jana's World Record Blueprint for Rapid Achievement! (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Ever felt limited by what you think is possible? On this inspiring Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jana Shelfer reveals her incredible 8-month journey from complete novice to USA water skiing team member and World Record Holder – shattering limiting beliefs about what's truly achievable!

This episode is a masterclass in personal development and self-help, packed with powerful "nuggets of wisdom":

• The Power of Intention: Discover how Jana's initial "what if" transformed into a world record through unwavering intention and consistent action, proving you can achieve extraordinary feats, even at age 50!
• Chunking Down Big Goals: Learn the strategic secret of breaking massive dreams into manageable monthly achievements, making the seemingly impossible, possible.
• Ask Better Questions: Instead of "This isn't working," adopt the game-changing question: "How can we make this work?" This mindset shift unlocks creative solutions and propels you forward through any obstacle.
• The Underestimated Year: Uncover the profound truth: "We overestimate what we can do in a day, but underestimate what we can do in a year." This principle explains how consistent effort over time leads to transformative results.
• Challenge the Universe: Learn Jana's unique practice of declaring her dream before achieving it (like Jim Carrey's famous check), programming her subconscious for success and challenging the universe to prove her right.

Whether you're pursuing a career change, learning a new skill, or tackling a long-held dream, this episode offers a clear blueprint for rapid achievement. It's about aligning your mindset with positive thinking, surrounding yourself with supportive people, and truly believing in your limitless potential.

Ready to stop underestimating yourself and start creating the life you crave? Tune in and Live Lucky® by turning your biggest dreams into reality!

Strategic goal setting for success.  How to break down big goals. Mindset for rapid transformation. Challenging limiting beliefs about age. Aligning thoughts and actions for success. How can I stop underestimating my potential? What is the power of intention in goal setting? How to break down big goals effectively? Why

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*Previously Recorded

Chapters

• 0:00 Creating a Life You Crave
• 1:05 From Dream to Reality
• 3:22 Asking Better Questions
• 5:24 Eight Months of Mastery
• 7:32 Underestimating What's Possible in a Year
• 9:23 Challenge the Universe to Surprise You

Transcript

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.

Jana Shelfer: 0:14

I'm.

Jana Shelfer: 0:15

Jana, I'm Jason and we are Living Lucky® you are too. I'm in the USA too. What you should have told me Did the.

Jason Shelfer: 0:22

USA team. You should have told me, I know.

Jana Shelfer: 0:26

I am telling you, a year ago this would have been complete If someone would have said Jana, in one year you're going to be on the US water skiing team and you're going to hold a world record.

Jason Shelfer: 0:38

Wake me up before you go, go.

Jana Shelfer: 0:44

Leave me hanging on like a yo-yo. I have started singing.

Jason Shelfer: 0:47

It's a dream it's a dream, so it's. It wasn't even on the radar, it like it was a thought in the far distance. Mate, what if it was a? What if it was definitely a? What if, like a year ago, it wasn't even on the, on the? It was more of a wtf if it wasn't a thought this is a child before the thought of conception. It's crazy because it was September when you competed in your first competition.

Jana Shelfer: 1:18

Which was on a whim. It was totally on a whim.

Jason Shelfer: 1:22

Then it was finding the right coach, Then it was the excitement of the journey and finding the right coaches finding the right people, a lot of crashes. A lot of crashes and I hate this sport.

Jana Shelfer: 1:35

I don't want to do this anymore. Why am I doing this?

Jason Shelfer: 1:38

This is dangerous.

Jana Shelfer: 1:39

Do you realize I've been sore for about eight months now.

Jason Shelfer: 1:45

I've literally been sore. When you do things you've never done, your muscles are going to be like what in the heck is going on here?

Jana Shelfer: 1:52

I've been living in my stretch though. What in the hell?

Jason Shelfer: 1:54

That's going to be my new word. What in the hell is going on here? What in the hell, oh my gosh, but we can't underestimate where we might go when we allow things to happen and when we show up regularly with the intention of going somewhere special.

Jana Shelfer: 2:13

I want to say. I got out my ski journal that I've been keeping and at the very beginning of the year I wrote in like big colorful markers you used a whole page. Yeah, I painted, I painted several pages and I painted 2025, USA World Team and then underneath it I said World Record Holder Jana Schaufer. It's almost like I made a certificate for myself.

Jason Shelfer: 2:41

It's kind of like Jim Carrey writing that $10 million check.

Jana Shelfer: 2:44

Which I need to do that next. There you go, anyway, it has all come to fruition. What else is crazy is then, at the end of January, we made goals, specific goals, where we chunked things down and said by February, I need to be doing a 360 in each way, I need to be doing a 540. I need to be doing a 720 by this time, and we just kept knocking off the goals.

Jason Shelfer: 3:13

This is progress on a road trip.

Jana Shelfer: 3:15

I mean, we were looking for competitions to enter. There were none. So I was like okay, what is the next solution to this problem? We started entering able-bodied competitions. Then there was a whole scoring issue and we had to reach out to people who we didn't even know who to reach out to. How can we make this happen? And we started asking questions. Instead of this isn't working, this isn't working. We just kept asking the question how can we make this work?

Jason Shelfer: 3:47

That's an incredible question to ask, because oftentimes in work environments, in home environments, we will say things like this isn't working, instead of asking the questions how might we make this work?

Jana Shelfer: 4:01

I'm telling you you ask better questions in your life, you get better results, a better quality of life.

Jason Shelfer: 4:07

One of the things when we couldn't find the competitions also like. First of all, I love that you said, look, I'll go compete in an able-bodied competition, yes, but we created a competition ski camps like, and we got invited to ski camps or clinics where we could just get with peer groups and say let's go just practice together, let's go experiment together. And that was another form of intention, almost like um little pit stops along the way of saying what do you know that I might need to know?

Jason Shelfer: 4:40

or what do I know that you might need to know, but we didn't know much Like we were figuring it out day to day on the water in front of the house here.

Jana Shelfer: 4:48

Yes.

Jason Shelfer: 4:48

But looking at someone else going, oh I can see how that can get implemented and that was kind of the cool thing to watch happen organically.

Jana Shelfer: 4:57

Yes.

Jason Shelfer: 4:57

And putting the right people around us in the sphere of influence.

Jana Shelfer: 5:01

You're right. You know, Jason, it's almost like we have done eight months of mastery in this one endeavor and if you look at, I mean we've put a lot of energy, time, money, attention, don't get me wrong, we have poured ourselves into this. We have done the work, we've shown up. However, if you look at the results that we've gotten, that's pretty incredible.

Jason Shelfer: 5:32

Yeah, I would say most people start at a very young age to make a national team, like most people. This is like the Carolis, right, like you're going to start in for gymnastics those don't compare us to the Corollis.

Jana Shelfer: 5:49

Let's not go there. Bad analogy.

Jason Shelfer: 5:50

That's the first thing that came up from the documentaries that we watch and stuff which probably isn't the best, but people oftentimes start at in the able-bodied competitions we see the seven-year-olds, the nine-year-olds, the 12-year-olds that are starting young so that they could progress and grow through the sport. And you started at 50.

Jana Shelfer: 6:09

Let's not bring that up. I feel like you're arguing the wrong, I'm just saying intention.

Jason Shelfer: 6:14

In the last eight months you've made a national team and you've set a world record.

Jana Shelfer: 6:17

I have and I just want to tell people who are listening to this we overestimate what we can do in an hour. Who are listening to this? We overestimate what we can do in an hour. We definitely overestimate what we can do in a day. We even overestimate what we can do in a week. We make these darn to-do lists and we put sometimes I'll make a to-do list and put 20 items on it.

Jason Shelfer: 6:40

So true, me too.

Jana Shelfer: 6:41

And then, at the end of the week I almost feel like oh my gosh, I didn't.

Jason Shelfer: 6:45

And then we beat ourselves up for not getting a couple things done.

Jana Shelfer: 6:52

Yeah, I didn't even get a fourth of the way through this list and it starts making me feel like I'm not living up to my efficiency or my productivity, or-.

Jason Shelfer: 6:58

Worthiness.

Jana Shelfer: 6:59

Yes, like I have so much more potential to unveil and it's because of me and my time management that I'm not getting it done.

Jason Shelfer: 7:07

I'm not good enough.

Jana Shelfer: 7:09

However, when we look back at what we can do in a month or a year, that's we often underestimate.

Jason Shelfer: 7:21

That's magic and that's proven in this last eight months, like, that's like. I look at this last eight months and it's incredible, like, but it is credible because there was so much intention and I remember all the days that things didn't get completed. You know what I'm saying?

Jana Shelfer: 7:41

many days, where I would go to bed and I would say we didn't ski today.

Jason Shelfer: 7:45

Right. Because it just didn't fit in or the weather wasn't cooperating, or so many days where we could have said things went wrong, and I did say things didn't happen the way we hoped they would. Today, However, the progress was there. That is true, and the work, the intention stayed, the attention stayed and we got there. And or you got there, we got there as a team, like cause. Nothing happens in a vacuum.

Jana Shelfer: 8:12

Correct.

Jason Shelfer: 8:12

But it was just such an amazing, incredible journey and I'm so proud of you.

Jana Shelfer: 8:18

Thank you. I'm proud of us because it definitely has been a team effort. I know I've said that before.

Jason Shelfer: 8:24

Well, you're the one getting in the water when it's so cold, yeah, but you're the one putting up with my maybe not so positive attitude in those moments. I think this is an incredible thing. I'm excited about a trip to Australia. It's figuring out how to pay for it. It's going to be fun.

Jana Shelfer: 8:46

And I just want to say for anyone listening don't underestimate what you can do in a month, a quarter or a year. Think big, think big and then align your thoughts and your feelings and your actions towards that big dream, Because you may be surprised and challenge the universe to surprise you.

Jason Shelfer: 9:12

That's the other thing. That's really big. And write it down Like you wrote it down and said this is where I'm going and you kept looking at it and saying where am I going? This is where I'm going, Reminding your subconscious to look for the way.

Jana Shelfer: 9:24

Because often we look at the universe and we're like, see, you proved me right, but we say it in a negative connotation. You proved to me that I would be disappointed. You proved to me that my dreams aren't worthy.

Jason Shelfer: 9:40

Yeah, I can't get there.

Jana Shelfer: 9:41

So challenge the universe to prove you right and then put it out there and follow through, follow through so big Lay back and let it happen.

Jana Shelfer: 9:53

Let the magic happen.

Jason Shelfer: 9:55

So big Thanks for joining us. Keep Living Lucky® Bye-bye, let the magic happen. So bad Thanks for joining us. Keep Living Lucky®, bye-bye.

Jana Shelfer: 10:07

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