World Champion Moonshots

Rookie to World Champion in 1 Year: The Moonshot Mindset 

Start from zero knowledge and land a world title in one year? Yes. This self-help path proves mindset beats lack of experience.

The radical shift: converting vague hopes into a calendared system of milestones. This personal development playbook turns a Wildly Improbable Goal (WIG) into a repeatable success cycle.

You will learn the secrets to accelerated achievement:

• Rookie Curiosity, Rock Star Dedication: Fail forward by treating failure as data—the ultimate shortcut.
• The Calendar Contract: Dated checkpoints convert intention into action and build confidence from "receipts."
• Aim Huge, Let Go: The Moonshot Paradox of holding the dream while detaching from outcomes to protect your joy and focus on the craft.

Hear how community belief multiplied momentum for this incredible transformation.

Nuggets:

• WIG: Wildly Improbable Goal: Name your moonshot. If it's not ridiculous on day one, aim higher.
• The Calendar Contract: Your calendar is a contract with your future self. Milestones eliminate dread and inject purpose.
• Fail Forward Mindset: Show up like a rookie. Treat mistakes as information, not criticism.
• Share Your Goal Wisely: Share your fragile dream with your coach, journal, and calendar—not early skeptics.
• Gratitude as Resource: Daily gratitude fuels a virtuous loop of progress and community support (Believe in the people around you).
• Stack Sessions: Micro-commitments protect momentum. Confidence comes from the receipts of showing up (Believe in yourself).
• Moonshot Paradox: Hold the moonshot lightly; train the next rep tightly.

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• How to go from zero knowledge to expertise quickly. Turning vague hopes into dated commitments. The rookie curiosity mindset for success. How to use a calendar for goal achievement. Why detaching from outcomes increases performance. How to set and achieve a Wildly Improbable Goal (WIG). "What is a Wildly Improbable Goal (WIG)?" "How can I use a calendar to achieve my goals?" "What is the fail forwa

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*Previously Recorded

Chapters

• 0:00 From Negativity To Success Cycle
• 0:42 New To Competitive Water Skiing
• 2:08 Mindset, Goals, And Milestones
• 3:19 Failing Forward And Taking Feedback
• 3:43 The World Championship Win
• 5:00 Gratitude For The Community
• 6:12 Vision Boards And Moonshot Goals
• 8:14 Letting Go Of Results
• 9:40 From Improbable To Possible
• 11:05 Share The Goal And Show Up
• 11:49 Rookie Mindset, Rock Star Dedication
• 12:10 Train Through Setbacks

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. I'm Jana. I'm Jason. And we are Living Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer: 0:19

You are too.

Jana Shelfer: 0:20

We are live from the Airport Hotel.

Jason Shelfer: 0:24

Park Royale in Melbourne, Australia.

Jana Shelfer: 0:27

Is it Melbourne or Melbourne?

Jason Shelfer: 0:29

Melbourne. Melbourne, mate.

Jana Shelfer: 0:31

Depends who you ask, right?

Jason Shelfer: 0:33

That is for sure here.

Jana Shelfer: 0:35

Never underestimate the power of the mind.

Jason Shelfer: 0:40

So, so true.

Jana Shelfer: 0:42

One year ago, I mean, I'm talking November of 2024. Jason and I knew absolutely nothing about water skiing.

Jason Shelfer: 0:51

Nothing about competitive water skiing.

Jana Shelfer: 0:53

We had played around recreationally. I would get behind the boat. Jason would drive his boat, and we literally would see how high we could jump over the wakes. Right. That was our water skiing experience. Hang on. I mean, that it was hang on behind the boat. And then we, I was Googling one day. We went to an adaptive ski competition. I've told this story many times. You can go to one of our past podcasts to hear it, maybe past 10 podcasts to hear it.

Jason Shelfer: 1:24

Right. Well, we've been in the in it deeply for the last couple of weeks.

Jana Shelfer: 1:28

And that year, I literally bought a year-round calendar and I started making goals. And I said, if I want to compete, I need to have these tricks by the end of this month. I need to be able to do this slalom course by the end of this month. I need to enter competitions by the end of this month. And we just started setting milestones.

Jason Shelfer: 1:54

Exactly. So perfectly said, because we don't have to know about everything about the sport or anything about competitive skiing. We were already experts in mindset and goal accomplishment, a goal achievement.

Jana Shelfer: 2:10

There's a lot to that though, because we showed up with an open mind, ready to learn. And we just started asking the right questions, networking with the right people along the way. And something weird happens. When you start showing up for yourself, when you really start putting in the work, the universe has this way of helping you out.

Jason Shelfer: 2:39

So my first thought when you started on that talk track was that we were willing to fail forward or fail and not take it personally. Does that make sense? Because a lot of times we'll try something and we will fail, but we will be like, I'm not good enough, or I can't, those types of things. But when we we gave ourselves that grace of knowing we didn't know.

Jana Shelfer: 3:02

Yes.

Jason Shelfer: 3:03

So it was like, well, we know we don't know, so let's just go.

Jana Shelfer: 3:06

And then when people would help us or tell us things that could definitely get us further in our journey, we were open to the feedback.

Jason Shelfer: 3:16

Help us. Yeah. And we're like, yeah, we're welcome to any feedback. Please help us. And okay, we'll try that. Because we didn't know what not to try. So we're like, and we didn't know what wouldn't work. So let's just try that. And if it if it works for us, great. If it doesn't work for us, we'll say, okay, that didn't work for me. Should I try it again or should I try something else? You know, kind of like just it was like it, it was like an open buffet of wonderment.

Jana Shelfer: 3:42

It was. We're saying this kind of in past tense because yesterday I won the world championship.

Jason Shelfer: 3:50

Yes, you are you are the the world championship female skier.

Jana Shelfer: 3:54

Which still I am in disgrace. I know it blows your mind.

Jason Shelfer: 3:57

I every time I talk about it, I get teary-eyed.

Jana Shelfer: 4:00

The last 24 hours have been literally almost like a hazy dream. And I I'm just now starting to realize, oh my gosh, yesterday we not only skied in two events, but then we had a banquet and we celebrated and we packed our skis and we returned the van to the rental. Welcome at three o'clock in the morning. We're at the airport right now getting ready to get on another flight to go on vacation.

Jason Shelfer: 4:25

Yes.

Jana Shelfer: 4:26

Like it's all just been a whirlwind.

Jason Shelfer: 4:28

It's exciting. It is a whirlwind. We're gonna have some fun. We're gonna keep having fun. And not to wag our own tail.

Jana Shelfer: 4:36

Why not? But we we've been talking about it. And we have realized how far we've come, and we didn't do this alone. We've had the help of Bill and Kathy Furbish, our training partners, Raquel Benson, Todd Hubs, even Blake.

Jason Shelfer: 4:55

You know, you can't, there's no way to name them all. I mean, we could go all the way down to Thomas Roth, our neighbor, you know, right? I mean that if has helped us. He showed up when I couldn't get your equipment to the course or to the competition.

Jana Shelfer: 5:06

Community at Ski Fluid, Kiwi, which is Kyle Eid. I mean, all of these people have helped us in some sort of way.

Jason Shelfer: 5:15

At this past competition, Fion, you know, it's like you there's so many people in the community to name that you can't name them. It's almost impossible. I mean, we could. It's just like a gratitude journal. You could go on forever.

Jana Shelfer: 5:29

That is true. You could literally go on forever, but it's a it's but when you open up your awareness, you realize that when you do start putting out your goals and dreams, and I caution you don't put them out too early because you know, a year ago, when if I would have said I want to be the world champion, oh Jan, don't shoot too high. Right? No, I think I would have gotten poopoo.

Jason Shelfer: 5:51

Rivers and the lakes that you're used to. Exactly. Don't go chasing waterfalls.

Jana Shelfer: 5:59

And yet, as we have made progress, then it feels like we just keep kind of stating our dream a little bigger, a little bigger, even though between us and anyone listening to this podcast, I have had vision boards literally writing out, I want to do my 720s every single time. I want to do smoother turns, one-handed turns, I want to compete at the world stage. I like I have these on my vision board.

Jason Shelfer: 6:31

I want to represent the United States in water skiing.

Jana Shelfer: 6:34

I had that I wanted I wanted to do 32 slalom, and that's what I did at this competition. I only got two buoys. I'd never done it before.

Jason Shelfer: 6:44

So the we started out this podcast, and I I'd mentioned that we didn't know anything about comp competitive water skiing, but we were experts in mindset and goal accomplishment or goal achievement, however you want to phrase that. And one of the things that I know is I wasn't sure. Like the I wasn't sure you would be world champion this go-round.

Jana Shelfer: 7:09

Because you have to let go of the result.

Jason Shelfer: 7:11

Yes.

Jana Shelfer: 7:11

We're not after a result, we were after the journey.

Jason Shelfer: 7:14

The other part of that is even if like uh that was the that was my my ultimate goal, like my ultimate fantasy. Like that when they say shoot for the stars, shoot for the moon, and you'll land among the stars. Okay, so when they say shoot for the moon, that was my moon shot.

Jana Shelfer: 7:30

It was my moonshot.

Jason Shelfer: 7:31

So my moonshot at the beginning of the year was what if? Like my big what if was what if we I we could focus so intently on this that we could we could get Jana to be the world champions water skier. And it was this was a ridiculous what if at the time.

Jana Shelfer: 7:49

It was a wildly improbable goal, what we call a wig, a wildly improbable goal.

Jason Shelfer: 7:54

Because your first competition, you were doing the intercourse, I was last it was it was your first time ever doing the intercourse, and you did it at like 18 miles an hour.

Jana Shelfer: 8:03

I know.

Jason Shelfer: 8:04

Okay, and then there was no other like the trick score, can't even really wouldn't register on the Richter scale, you know, and there was no jump.

Jana Shelfer: 8:14

I know.

Jason Shelfer: 8:14

So there's two other events that have to go from pretty much zero to hero in a year. This is crazy that's so this was a very wildly improbable goal.

Jana Shelfer: 8:28

Yes.

Jason Shelfer: 8:29

And I just thought, okay, well, let's just throw this craziness out there, and something magical is gonna happen in between there. That was and because I know this. Yes, and this is how I've kind of always lived. And then here we are, because every now and then, no matter how you throw the dart, you're gonna hit a bullseye. Every now and then.

Jana Shelfer: 8:52

But we put the work in, and everything lined up, and that's just we I mean, we definitely had help along the way.

Jason Shelfer: 9:00

Yeah, because from not only people, communities, the universe, equipment, and we also continually lived in the Living Lucky® mindset where the more you believe and the more you really understand how amazing life works for you, everything kind of falls into this vortex of sucking into your um this power within you and behind you to push you towards your goals.

Jana Shelfer: 9:31

And I'm gonna just piggyback off of that a little bit because this morning I started asking imagine what we can accomplish when we put our minds to it. Like I texted Bill and Kathy, and I said, Hey, you know what? Let's start thinking.

Jason Shelfer: 9:49

Let's get crazy again.

Jana Shelfer: 9:51

What's next? Let's get crazy. Let's get crazy, let's go nuts, right?

Jason Shelfer: 9:56

Let's do it. Let's take some more people with us.

Jana Shelfer: 10:00

And I want to just throw this out to anyone that's listening. You may be at a point right now where you know nothing about a goal or a dream that you want to accomplish. Throw it out to the universe, and you don't have to tell people publicly what it is that you want, but you need to at least share it with a coach, like someone that you can trust.

Jason Shelfer: 10:26

You need to share it with your journal at a minimum.

Jana Shelfer: 10:28

At a minimum.

Jason Shelfer: 10:29

At a minimum, your journal.

Jana Shelfer: 10:31

Allow your soul to explain.

Jason Shelfer: 10:33

Remind yourself over and over and again what you're aiming for. Remind it share it with your calendar.

Jana Shelfer: 10:40

Share your calendar.

Jason Shelfer: 10:41

Share it with your journal, share it with your calendar, because if when it's on the calendar, it will start happening.

Jana Shelfer: 10:46

It does, and then you start believing into it. Yes. And you have to show up. That is the other part of this, is that I look back at our last year and we showed up even when it was freezing cold. Yeah, we showed up when I was going through menopause. We showed up when I felt fat or didn't fit into my bathing suit.

Jason Shelfer: 11:07

Even when my foot was killing me and didn't want to carry any equipment, my back hurt.

Jana Shelfer: 11:11

When I had inflammation. Do you remember all the time?

Jason Shelfer: 11:14

I went to the chiropractor for three weeks because I couldn't, I kept getting stuck.

Jana Shelfer: 11:19

Jason would get stuck in the bent over position. Our dog got to the point where she was like, you know what? I'm just gonna watch from the first of all, the dog. And then it was I'm gonna watch from the L and I.

Jason Shelfer: 11:30

I'm gonna watch from inside. I'll watch from the sliding glass door.

Jana Shelfer: 11:33

I'll just sit here in the window and watch this time. It's too cold out there.

Jason Shelfer: 11:36

That's right.

Jana Shelfer: 11:37

Anyway, put it out there wildly improbable goals, and then show up like a rookie. Show up, absorb the information you get, and don't be afraid to fail. Show up like a rookie with the dedication of a rock star. Oh we'll end on that. Thanks for joining us.

Jason Shelfer: 11:56

Keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer: 11:57

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