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Don't Just "Get Through" The Day

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 9 • Episode 39

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Stop "Getting Through" the Day: How to Grow FROM Your Holiday Stress 🎄

Stop Surviving the Holidays: The Jim Rohn Mindset Shift 🎄

Stop "just getting through" and start getting FROM the day. 🚀

On a 30-hour "Windshield University" road trip, we unpacked a life-changing Jim Rohn insight: Reframing holiday stress as a harvest. This self-help playbook moves you from survival mode to intentional presence, turning friction—like untangling lights or family quirks—into memory-making.

Learn to master your mindset:

  • The Jim Rohn Pivot: Trade endurance for engagement by asking, "What can I get from this?"
  • Curiosity Over Control: Switch your brain from threat mode to learning mode.
  • Gratitude Harvest: Discover how to find concrete "goods" in every task.

Actionable Nuggets for Presence & Peace:

  • Endurance to Engagement: Stop counting minutes; start counting insights. Shift your mantra from "I have to" to "What does this offer me?"
  • Curiosity is the Cure: When family tension rises, ask: "What’s funny here?" Curiosity lowers anxiety and creates space for positive thinking.
  • The Gratitude Harvest: Hunt for specific wins—the smell of cinnamon or a solved snag. (Believe in your circumstances).
  • 4 Power Questions to Re-center Fast:
    1. What is the day offering me?
    2. What is this teaching me?
    3. What’s great here that I haven’t noticed?
    4. How lucky am I to experience this?
  • Micro-Rituals: Lock in the shift with one deep breath before opening any door.

Stop postponing peace until the dishes are done. Hit play and start harvesting meaning while life is happening!


How to shift from survival mode to presence, mindset tools for a calmer Christmas, overcoming holiday anxiety, practical gratitude exercises, Windshield University learning.

  • "How can I lower holiday stress with a mindset shift?"
  • "What did Jim Rohn mean by 'get from the day'?"
  • "How do I deal with difficult family dynamics during the holidays?"
  • "What are the best questions to ask to stay present?"
  • "How do I turn a to-do list into a moment of meaning?"

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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:

We are in Kansas for Christmas. It's already the holiday season.

Jason Shelfer:

There's no place like home.

Jana Shelfer:

Like literally, we went from being sick to getting on the road and starting a new journey.

Jason Shelfer:

So it's a 30-hour trip to 10 hours of sickness to a 15-hour drive.

Jana Shelfer:

Which, by the way, is one of our favorite things to do. And the reason is because we get to listen to audiobooks and we get to learn from the great.

Jason Shelfer:

So good. It's like Windshield University.

Jana Shelfer:

It is. In fact, we should coin that phrase.

Jason Shelfer:

I think it's already been coined. I don't think that that's something I came up with.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay. Well, we were lucky enough to listen to Jim Rohn on this past 30-hour trip that we've taken. And it it feels like 30 hours is kind of our trip time.

Jason Shelfer:

Well, yeah, because we we we broke it into two legs because we had a stopover in Atlanta with the Shepherd Center and And with Bill and Kathy, our good friends. So it's um so it was a nice little breakup. And then also it gave us opportunity to digest some of the stuff that we heard on the way to Atlanta, and then also pick up and and really take in some new material on the way to Kansas.

Jana Shelfer:

So Jim Rohn, who is one of our favorite teachers, he is famously known as Tony Robbins' mentor. Yeah. And one thing that he said that really caught both Jason and I in one of his books is it's don't just get through the day.

Jason Shelfer:

Don't just get through.

Jana Shelfer:

From the day. Grow from the day.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, because I think one of the biggest things is there's there's so many people with this talk track or this, they hear their subconscious voice inside them, and they and they hear them say, I just need to get through today.

Jana Shelfer:

Especially right now, which people don't often voice it, but it is the holiday season, and there's a lot of things that need to get done.

Jason Shelfer:

Well, stress comes up, anxiety, all the there's a lot of planning, and you know what your plan is.

Jana Shelfer:

And even family dynamics, uh, we get it, we get it, and there's a lot of I just gotta get through the day.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and sometimes we can have these great plans and we can achieve these great plans. However, as we're doing it, we are just going through the motions because we have these plans that we constantly we we currently know how to achieve. Does that make sense? So we have our Christmas shopping list, our our dinner list, our food shopping list, we have the people that we need to see. So we have this list of checkbox shift list.

Jana Shelfer:

That's always uh my stress.

Jason Shelfer:

We have this list of check boxes that we need to go through.

Jana Shelfer:

Uh-huh.

Jason Shelfer:

And we'll find this during that we get to go through. Yes. But we'll we'll find this, and this is something that happens on a daily basis that we have a list of items that we have to do, our to-do list.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes.

Jason Shelfer:

And we will constantly do them kind of by rote. Like just quote unquote going through the motions. And that is getting through the day.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes. It's almost like a survival mode, is what you're saying. We we I know people say you gotta enjoy the holidays, but for many people, even if they don't voice it, there's an internal, I just gotta get through this.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and I'll survive, I'll, I'll be happy, or I'll take that big breath of relief when it's over.

Jana Shelfer:

Or at once the turkey's on the table.

Jason Shelfer:

When the timer goes off.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah. So if we Once people open their gifts and they're happy. Once people see the tree and and say, Oh my gosh, this is beautiful.

Jason Shelfer:

And and sometimes we don't even take in a lot of that um those accolades and and those rewards that are given.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah, because we're still just waiting for that moment where we can breathe.

Jason Shelfer:

And we're thinking of it.

Jana Shelfer:

We gotta clean the table and get the dishes done, then we can breathe.

Jason Shelfer:

So this don't just get through the day, get from the day. To me, it meant reach into your gratitude bucket or reach out there and say, what can I be so grateful for? It's almost like bring you into that present moment and give me, like, let me just kind of pick from the day these little nuggets that I get to invest in my soul and in my spirits and in my emotions and in my intellect and in my wherever for a better tomorrow and a better moment in the present.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, so let me just kind of summarize this. So, what I'm hearing you say, at least for Jason and I, sometimes there is this secret little voice inside around the holiday daytime where I just gotta get through this. It's holiday stress, is what it is.

Jason Shelfer:

And I think people live in this all the ever all year long. Like, because it's we it's but especially around the holidays. Everything is exacerbated in the holidays, I think.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes, and so instead of just going through it in survival mode, what you're saying is these little moments is part of the beauty.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes, and even even some of the tougher moments, there's something beautiful and wonderful to be grateful for in that. And when we can grab hold of that, it's almost like taking a piece of fruit from the gratitude tree and taking a big juicy bite of it.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah, like there goes Uncle Charlie, always you know, in his curmudgeon mode. And there's something that's almost comical and beautiful about it.

Jason Shelfer:

What is the what is the humor in this? Well, it and Uncle Charlie's with us, you know? Like it's how how great is that? How grateful that we have what kind of memories are being made? So it's like pull the good from it, not pull that pinpoint in what might be causing a little anxiety or causing a little bit of that um unease.

Jana Shelfer:

Because this anxiety is really just a facade that we've created inside our own work. And on the other side, and it's different for every person.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes, and on the other side of that unease, there's a there's like this beauty of wonderment and wonderfulness in what's causing it. And that that might seem a little weird, but it's like there is a shadow side to uneasiness that if you start, it's if you start looking for what's good about it, you'll ease the uneasiness and you'll start actually all those things that made you uneasy before will make you like really just feel like life, life is giving you all the goods, like untangling those Christmas lights.

Jana Shelfer:

Oh my gosh, how many times have we done that? Right, and it's almost just stopping, taking a breath, and saying, This is what's so great about the holidays, yes.

Jason Shelfer:

This is this is part of the most wonderful process here. And when it's done, we're gonna have these beautiful lights, and it's like this, and make it a fun part instead of a stressful part. And it's about the story that we're telling ourselves.

Jana Shelfer:

So it's just changing your perception. Yeah. So instead of going through the holidays in survival mode, what you're saying is stop, breathe. Yes, and purposely, intentionally, look for the the good, the gratitude.

Jason Shelfer:

And so if you hear that thought track that says, I just need to get through today, yes, change it to what might I be able to get from today?

Jana Shelfer:

What might I and it and you're not saying get from like it's not like a greed or a hoarding or anything like that.

Jason Shelfer:

It's like what might the day be offering for me?

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah, what is it offering? I like that, I like those that wording better. Yeah.

Jason Shelfer:

So what is the day of me? That's the cinema.

Jana Shelfer:

What is this this experience that I'm going through? What is the uh opportunity here?

Jason Shelfer:

What is the which goes back to the things we talk about for the last couple years on this podcast?

Jana Shelfer:

What is this teaching me?

Jason Shelfer:

What is this teaching me? What's what's great about this? What why why am I so lucky to be able to experience this?

Jana Shelfer:

How lucky am I?

Jason Shelfer:

Yes.

Jana Shelfer:

It comes down to that every time. Every time. Every time. How lucky am I?

Jason Shelfer:

Absolutely 100%.

Jana Shelfer:

To have a curmudgeon, Uncle Charlie. I love it. Thank you, Jason. And thank you, Jim Rowe.

Jason Shelfer:

And we love you, Uncle Charlie.

Jana Shelfer:

Thanks for joining us.

Jason Shelfer:

Keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer:

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

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