Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

You Always Matter

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 8 • Episode 92

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You Always Matter: The Ripple Effect of Kindness & Your Unseen Impact!

Have you ever questioned if your small acts of kindness truly make a difference in the world? In this deeply moving Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jason and Jana Banana share a profound encounter that will forever change how you view your everyday actions.

Discover powerful "nuggets of wisdom" for your personal journey:

  • The Unseen Impact: Hear the incredible story of Barbara, who revealed how a simple driveway breakfast with Cinderella – five years ago – "saved her" during a dark time of job loss, restoring her belief in goodness and magic.
  • Energy Never Dies: Understand the scientific principle that the positive energy you put into the universe is never lost; it flows outward, creating a ripple effect of kindness that can return to you from unexpected sources, even years later.
  • How Do You Want to Matter?: Realize that you will matter, regardless. Your presence and actions inherently affect those around you. The powerful question becomes: What kind of impact do you choose to have?
  • The "Living Lucky® Lens": Experience how gratitude and acknowledgment can instantly shift your mindset, allowing you to see everyone and every situation through a lens of love, connection, and appreciation.

This episode is a powerful reminder to shed limiting beliefs about your significance. It's an invitation to recognize your inherent ability to inspire and uplift others. Learn how expressing gratitude, both to others and for the impact you've had, creates a virtuous cycle of positive energy.

Ready to understand your profound impact and proactively make a difference? Tune in to You Always Matter and join us on this journey of creating a life you crave by consciously contributing to the world, one heartfelt action at a time. 

The power of small acts of kindness. How to make a difference in the world. Understanding your impact on others. The ripple effect of positive actions.  Feelings of insignificance. How positive energy returns to you. Mindset shift for greater impact. Finding purpose through helping others. Do small acts of kindness make a difference? How does positive energy create a ripple effect? How can I understand my impact on others? What is the 'Living Lucky® lens'? Why is it important to know

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Believe in yourself
Believe in the people around you
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Believe that God is working through you, for you, and always conspiring in your favor.

*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®.

Jason Shelfer:

Good morning.

Jana Shelfer:

I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are Living Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer:

You are too.

Jana Shelfer:

On Saturday we went to a charity event to benefit Mustard Seed of Orlando. For any of you that have been following us for a while, it was the Real Radio Poker Tournament.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes, what a fun event.

Jana Shelfer:

It is the one time of the year that I attempt to learn how to play poker Right.

Jason Shelfer:

Watching YouTube videos the day of to learn, okay, what beats what, and how do we do this? How do we not look like fools Every?

Jana Shelfer:

single year I print out a little cheat sheet so that I know the poker hands, because sometimes I just bet if I have, you know, a jack, queen or king or ace.

Jason Shelfer:

Oh look, these cards are pretty Right.

Jana Shelfer:

Like I've got the royals. It's hearts I've got the royals, I love hearts, it's Royals, you can call me Queen Bee. Anyway, something happened while we were at the Real Radio Poker Tournament, and that is Barbara came over to us. And it meant a lot to me because what she said was during the pandemic. First of all, she was so excited to see us, I mean she lit up. She was like oh, janna, jason and I.

Jana Shelfer:

That in itself you just gave me goosebumps again because I just got to relive that moment and then she ran over to us and she hugged us and she said that she discovered us during the pandemic. She was stuck at home and so she was scrolling on social media and she came across Jana and Jason and go ahead.

Jason Shelfer:

Well, and she said we saved her. And it was the time we had breakfast out on our driveway and we had had Cinderella come and go around the neighborhood.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes To just bring joy to the neighbors and to us. Like we literally had pancakes out in the driveway, we just sat there and we were waiting for Cinderella to come.

Jason Shelfer:

Right.

Jana Shelfer:

And she believe it or not had just been laid off from Disney. And she said that that was the magical moment that literally saved her, and she just knew everything would be OK.

Jason Shelfer:

She said there is goodness in the world because when you get laid off like I've been laid off before, it was a long time ago, but I had that feeling of I'm the one that's not wanted, like it was very personal.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah.

Jason Shelfer:

And there were a lot of people laid off, but it was like you don't think that it's a like it's going to happen to you, or you think it might happen to you Until it? Does. But then when you get laid off, like I had this feeling, like this is a personal thing, not a business thing, like I'm the one, that's not enough and it was really a numbers thing.

Jana Shelfer:

Like I was, I was one of their most profitable, like I knew all these things about myself, but there's also that they don't understand everything I do for the company.

Jason Shelfer:

I have invested a hundred percent and there's an invisible workload, so it is literally a spreadsheet and numbers game for a business.

Jana Shelfer:

But you're right, we all tend to take it personally.

Jason Shelfer:

Because we take our jobs personally.

Jana Shelfer:

We do, it becomes our identity.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes, so she got laid off. There's, it becomes this I'm not enough and the world isn't going to give me back. What I give it Is that feeling. And she said you saved me. Like there's good in the world, there's beauty in the world, there's magic out there, there's magic. And it is true. My dreams weren't crushed, like my reality isn't cracked. And it was so beautiful. And I got goosebumps because a lot of times we will fool ourselves into thinking that things aren't possible. And when she told us that we saved her on something we did five years ago, it made me think okay, well, how do I want to show up every day? And I think about this a lot, because there were times when I thought, oh, you know what? I can keep being nice, I can keep being kind, I can keep doing for people, I can keep being the me that I want to be. But does it matter? It matters to me, right, so I'm going to have that. But will it matter to anyone else?

Jason Shelfer:

And it's so nice, like I don't, I say I don't need the accolades that you do but it feels so worthwhile when someone comes out of the blue, even five years later, you impacted my life. You change things for me.

Jana Shelfer:

That's how I feel when people come to me and say you inspire me. Come to me and say you inspire me, there's something that's like that's my life purpose. I'm literally. I think I was created on this earth. I think that my life experiences have led me to be the person that lets you believe anything is possible yes, inspired and right don't sit in your inspiration, go do in your inspiration maybe I don know, that's your.

Jason Shelfer:

That's my interpretation, not mine.

Jana Shelfer:

However, I just so. What you're saying is when people come to you and say you matter. Thank you I appreciate.

Jason Shelfer:

you mattered to me, me. I think it's a natural thing that we want to hear that. It's kind of like just telling someone thank you. I used to be so good at writing thank you notes.

Jana Shelfer:

I know what happened. I literally have a list of people. I would like to sit down and write thank you notes. I need to do that today.

Jason Shelfer:

I feel like I'm good at telling people. I know that I could be better. I need to do that today. I feel like I'm good at telling people. I know that I could be better. I know for a fact that I could be better Right. But this goes to the thing where we could all be better anywhere. We put a pin in it, right.

Jana Shelfer:

So there's always room for improvement, but finish your story about you used to be.

Jason Shelfer:

I used to write probably 25 to 50 thank you notes a week. Yeah.

Jana Shelfer:

You had your own stationery.

Jason Shelfer:

I know I had my own stationery. I had my desk set up so that it worked well and it wasn't like I was writing just a standard couple sentences. It was like a personal thank you note to people every week.

Jana Shelfer:

Maybe we need to do that. Maybe we need to literally sit down and just start writing messages of you matter. Thank you, I appreciate you, I see you, I hear you.

Jason Shelfer:

I need you. I think it could be fun. It might be a fun experiment just to go through our complete address list in our phones and start remembering a moment and saying, hey, you know what I remember this and it mattered, thank you you've got my wheels spinning because I'm literally like I have all those rocks in there.

Jana Shelfer:

Maybe we start making rocks.

Jason Shelfer:

Barbara kind of did that for us. It wasn't. It wasn't in a she inspired us written form, but it was in a very.

Jana Shelfer:

It was in a public forum and it was in the way she, you could tell, in the, the energy, the sparkle in her eye, that like you could see, like her, her emotions were welling up, like it was.

Jason Shelfer:

It was a an honest, sincere moment and it it was so genuine like it touched me in my soul it touched jason so much that he's like we got to go back to that poker tournament that's right we got, we got to be go there every year we we got to go hug Barbara. We got to get some. Barbara hugs some more.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, so what is the nugget that we're coming away with? I think the nugget is Maybe it felt so good for us to hear that we mattered to someone that maybe we should pay it forward.

Jason Shelfer:

I think there's two messages here. One is pay it forward. So always continue letting people know how they matter and then also decide how you want to matter. Because you do, you are regardless, like you will always matter. How do you want to matter? So that's the question that we can ask ourselves is how do I want to matter? And show up how you want to matter and then just let it be, let it be out there in the universe because it's happening. It may take five years for it to come back around, or 10. Yeah, but that it's the energy that you're putting out there and that energy is not going to be destroyed or changed. You have put that true matter energy out there. Someone is receiving it.

Jana Shelfer:

I just had an aha moment. I want to go back and listen to this again because I feel like I maybe needed to hear what you just said right there. Well, that's a science lesson Because we are putting out. It's almost like karma. We are putting out juju into the world, right, and it's like a domino effect. Eventually, that domino comes back to us.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, so, and I don't know the exact scientific term.

Jana Shelfer:

Even if it doesn't come back to us, then we have started the flow of, of that energy, of putting it into other people and then eventually someone else will put it into us. Yeah, Because we attract what we are.

Jason Shelfer:

The person that gave like it might not come back from the person that got that energy from us. Yeah, but that person is going to give it to someone else. It's just like the whole when you buy someone a meal at Starbucks or a coffee at Starbucks, or you buy someone's meal in the drive through line somewhere.

Jana Shelfer:

Right.

Jason Shelfer:

It starts getting paid forward, I mean it's, it's one of those, it's a weird. It's a weird phenomenon because that energy gets picked up.

Jana Shelfer:

You are so right. And sometimes it feels like I go through phases where I'm like I'm always the recipient, Like every time I go to Starbucks I'm getting a free tea. And then there's other times, other phases of life, where I'm like.

Jason Shelfer:

Why am I the one always starting this thing? Why am I?

Jana Shelfer:

always starting this.

Jason Shelfer:

Why am I the one hiding gift cards all the time?

Jana Shelfer:

So you're right. Oh, so this podcast in particular goes out to Barbara. Yes, thank you Barbara, we just want to say thank you, because you really made all the difference for us. We had a blast. I know that we would have had a blast at the poker tournament just seeing everybody, but the fact that Barbara came over and told us that it really made us warm and fuzzy. You truly touched my soul, which in turn, just made the whole night spectacular.

Jason Shelfer:

It amplified everything and I think also that encounter so early in the evening. It also opened up a different lens for the whole experience.

Jana Shelfer:

It really did. We started seeing everyone through this lens of love.

Jason Shelfer:

Am I right that Living Lucky® lens?

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah, the Living Lucky® lens. Thank you, Barbara.

Jason Shelfer:

And thanks for joining us. Keep Living Lucky®. And thanks for joining us.

Jana Shelfer:

Keep Living Lucky®. If the idea of Living Lucky® appeals to you, visit us at www. LivingLucky. com.

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