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Rising Tide Energy

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 9 • Episode 14

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Rising Tide: Community Lifts You to Your Personal Best 🚀 (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Ever seen one person's win ignite a room? 🔥 That's the Rising Tide Mindset in action.

Despite chaos, wind, and rain, our adaptive ski camp saw personal bests daily. This self-help blueprint proves your environment and community dictate your performance, crushing the myth you need "perfect water" for greatness. Learn to swap the doom loop for contagious momentum and turn "never" into breakthrough success, just like Jana's journey to Team USA.

Key Nuggets for Contagious Confidence:

  • Rising Tide Principle: Optimism and excellence are team sports. Borrow courage from committed peers; progress becomes inevitable.
  • Environment Cues: Your people and places cue who you get to be (like "Boat You" vs. "Office You"). Choose environments where courage is the norm.
  • Adversity as a Lab: Chaos (bad water) didn't stall us; it became a lab that demolished the limiting belief that you need ideal circumstances.
  • "What If I Can?": Jana's "never" became three clean jumps. Exposure and shared belief turn a wall into a door.
  • Collaboration > Competition: Compete with your last best; collaborate with peers. One win lifts the whole "dock" through shared learning.
  • Momentum is Contagious: Progress is a magnet. Your breakthrough is proof for others; their success gives you permission to try harder.
  • Audit Your Input: To get courageous output, audit your environment's energy. Curate input that lifts your game.

Find your tribe and ride the tide to your personal development breakthrough. Stop waiting for perfect; start creating.

  • How to build contagious confidence in a team. How to overcome limiting beliefs with evidence. Collaboration over competition for skill growth. The psychological effect of community on success. How to achieve a personal best in bad conditions. What is the rising tide mindset? The difference between "Boat You" and "Office You". What is the best way to leverage community for personal best achievements? How does the 'rising tide mindset' impact individual performance? Is success more about environment or individual effort? How can I stop using 'perfect conditions' as an excuse? W

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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®.

Jason Shelfer:

You are too.

Jana Shelfer:

A rising tide lifts all ships. Oh yeah.

Jason Shelfer:

It makes me think of that. Is it Geico commercial with a boat you doesn't give a sh doesn't care about a brush?

Jana Shelfer:

You love that commercial.

Jason Shelfer:

Office U parts his hair on the right every day.

Jana Shelfer:

No, in fact, whenever that commercial comes on, you're like, can we rewind this? I want to watch that.

Jason Shelfer:

I do love that commercial.

Jana Shelfer:

Because we do act differently when we're it starts off.

Jason Shelfer:

Office U parts his hair on the right for every day for the last 15 years. Boat you? Boat U hasn't seen a brush in 15 days. I haven't seen a comb in all weekend.

Jana Shelfer:

Oh, I like the one where it's like Boat You doesn't wave at anyone. In fact, you snark.

Jason Shelfer:

Office U doesn't wave at anyone. Oh, yeah. Boat You waves at everyone.

Jana Shelfer:

Everyone. So I guess what are you saying? That we we're in an energy right now.

Jason Shelfer:

There's an energy. A rising tide lifts all ships. And there's a there's a positivity, there's a there's a momentum when you put yourself in the right environment, and and that can be at the office, that can be in your friend group, that can be anywhere in life.

Jana Shelfer:

Do you think it's the environment or the people that you surround yourself with?

Jason Shelfer:

Yes, and it's yes and yes and and it's and it's our responsibility to cultivate the people, cultivate the environment, like to be the farmers of our lives. We are farmers. Thank you. Just send the check, farmers. No, no, just send the check.

Jana Shelfer:

Now it sounds like we we watch too many commercials.

Jason Shelfer:

No, it sounds like we're trying to get some sponsors up in here. We're paying for this strip to Australia. And for the if you if this is your first podcast, listen. Uh Janaa is a team USA adaptive water ski world champion. She's going to Australia in 30 days.

Jana Shelfer:

And we are having a ski camp at our house right now with nine people all living here with us.

Jason Shelfer:

Skiing from morning until we're on our fifth day, sixth day, something like that. So we're a little bit loopy right now.

Jana Shelfer:

We are definitely loopy.

Jason Shelfer:

Just give it to us.

Jana Shelfer:

Plus, we stayed up a little too late. Too late.

Jason Shelfer:

We're we're up too early. We're up too late. We're hosting. We're skiing all day, every day.

Jana Shelfer:

We're eating and drinking foods and beverages that we don't normally uh consume.

Jason Shelfer:

We're celebrating, we're doing things we ha didn't know we could because we are in this energy of, well, what if you can? Greatness. What if you could do something new and different and exciting with your with your trick skiing? What if you could do something better and further? And people are hitting their personal best, they're hitting personal records.

Jana Shelfer:

Every single person.

Jason Shelfer:

Every person and every day. It's crazy.

Jana Shelfer:

Is that it's almost like it's contagious. It is contagious. You know how people when you get the the flu, people are like, oh, it's contagious, stay away. Well, this is the opposite of that.

Jason Shelfer:

Oh, I almost had coffee come out of my nose.

Jana Shelfer:

This is contagious. You want to be a part of it. It's almost a magnet. Uh, you gotta get around it.

Jason Shelfer:

And what's funny is is we haven't had great conditions. We are not on a private ski lake.

Jana Shelfer:

No.

Jason Shelfer:

We are on a public lake.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes.

Jason Shelfer:

The weather has not cooperated.

Jana Shelfer:

We have rain delays at least four or five times a day.

Jason Shelfer:

And the wind has been gusting like 15 to 20 miles an hour.

Jana Shelfer:

More so than at normal, doesn't it? I know. It's almost like it's testing.

Jason Shelfer:

Well, I think it's Todd's fault. I think it's Tornado Todd's fault from Canada. So Canada, Todd's from the Canadian World Team, and he's come down, and poor Todd has not had a decent set yet. He's out there skiing in white caps. However, personal best because rising tides lift all ships. And we're seeing when we see what someone can do in the worst conditions possible, it makes us believe in ourselves. And we stop creating these excuses and we're like, oh, well, you know what? Maybe I'm just telling myself I have to have perfect water to ski.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah. And maybe what if that's a limiting belief?

Jason Shelfer:

What if I can just go ski and see what happens and score my best possible score? And that is a new theory. That's like a new possibility of greatness. And the time we can all just live into that.

Jana Shelfer:

You know, so I feel like let's let's just unpack this a little bit. When you see someone else doing what you thought, well, I can't do that. Or you imagine that's not possible.

Jason Shelfer:

Or you just didn't imagine being able to. Like you just didn't know it was available to you.

Jana Shelfer:

You think, well, wait a minute, that opens my eyes to new possibilities.

Jason Shelfer:

Hey, what if?

Jana Shelfer:

What if?

Jason Shelfer:

That's it's it's basically seeing a door appear where it used to be a wall.

Jana Shelfer:

You're right, Jason. You're right. It's that simple. That's why I so we had It's that simple and so complex all at the same time.

Jason Shelfer:

Right. And and if we talk about your journey through this whole thing, you s that you were in your first competition a year ago, and it was September. I know we're in October.

Jana Shelfer:

It was in October.

Jason Shelfer:

So I know there's some math people out there that are going, it wasn't exactly a year.

Jana Shelfer:

No, it was October. Yeah, but you're doing your math wrong.

Jason Shelfer:

Well, it wasn't exactly a year.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay.

Jason Shelfer:

Like some there's somebody out there going, it wasn't exactly a year, 365 days.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay.

Jason Shelfer:

Roundabout. Okay. And you have skied with the greatest.

Jana Shelfer:

I have.

Jason Shelfer:

You've skied with almost outside of like we've done five or six camps and and things like that, but you've skied with Able Body in Able Body competitions almost exclusively.

Jana Shelfer:

Which I didn't even realize I was skiing in those competitions with world.

Jason Shelfer:

World champions and world record holders and all this. So you exclusively throughout this year to prepare you to be on to make the world team and get on the go to Australia.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes.

Jason Shelfer:

And so you were seeing things that you opened doors where you thought may have been walls, or you didn't even know what a door could be. For example, jump.

Jana Shelfer:

When when I started one year ago, I literally said out loud, I will never do that.

Jason Shelfer:

Nope. Not for me.

Jana Shelfer:

Those people are bad.

Jason Shelfer:

You know, I value I value my body. I uh there's it's all these things.

Jana Shelfer:

And then I started seeing people do it, and I realized, oh, wait a minute, you can control some things, and it's it's about having faith in yourself.

Jason Shelfer:

Yep. And Monday afternoon in your abilities. Damn.

Jana Shelfer:

I did it.

Jason Shelfer:

You did it. Three perfect jumps in a row. In a row. That was crazy.

Jana Shelfer:

Oh my gosh.

Jason Shelfer:

Now you're a three-event qu three event queen.

Jana Shelfer:

So I guess the lesson that we're talking about today is find what you want to do in life and then surround yourself with people who are doing it.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah. And don't you don't have to compete. And I'm putting pair parentheses around compete. Just make it a collaboration where you're learning from, you're experiencing with and helping each other. And helping each other because just learn from each other. You know, it's a it's one of those things. We all have a way we can just kind of work towards this ultimate goal of where we want to be.

Jana Shelfer:

I love it. I think we should end on that.

Jason Shelfer:

Let's do it. Let's get out there and start Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer:

Thank you for joining us, all you ships out there. Let's rise with the tide.

Jason Shelfer:

I know it. We'll see you next time. Keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer:

Bye-bye. If the idea of Living Lucky® appeals to you, visit us at S LivingLucky.com.

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