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The Living Lucky® Formula: From Music Teacher to Movement Maker

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 10 • Episode 13

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The Sheila Effect: How One Person’s Alignment Is Changing an Entire Community

Is luck random, or a rhythm you can master? In this episode of Living Lucky®, we celebrate Sheila’s six-year transformation from retired teacher to community orchestra founder. Her journey is a masterclass in personal development, proving that when you align your mindset, God and the universe provide the resources—from donated buildings to new instruments.

Learn how "tending your internal garden" with consistency and gratitude turns a default life into a designed one.

In this episode, you will learn to:

  • Identify Soul Goals: Distinguish what your spirit craves from what your ego seeks for approval.
  • Master the Garden Metaphor: Plant, nourish, and weed your life while trusting the timing.
  • Harness Proof of Concept: See how internal shifts in confidence are leading indicators of external success.

Mindset Nuggets for Lasting Transformation:

  • Naming is Claiming: Speaking your truth gives the universe a target. Opportunity follows intention. (Believe in your circumstances).
  • Internal Mirrors External: Physical and health transformations reflect inner clarity. (Believe in yourself).
  • Luck is a Formula: It’s a mix of belief, alignment, and "Thank you, more please" gratitude. (Believe in the people around you).
  • Patience is Power: The fastest path is often the most faithful. Stop rushing the bloom. (Believe in a higher power).

 Mindset shift, manifest dreams, life coaching, positive thinking, soul goals, Mindset, Manifestation, Purpose, Community, Gratitude, Success Stories, Goal Setting, Living Lucky

How can I turn my dreams into reality? Success begins by naming goals clearly to activate the Reticular Activating System (RAS). By combining daily action with a gratitude-first mindset, you turn "luck" into a predictable practice.

What is the difference between ego goals and soul goals? Ego goals seek status or approval. Soul goals align with your core values, leaving you energized. When you pursue soul goals, the universe often provides the necessary resources and opportunities.

Stop waiting for luck to find you. Hit play to start creating it and begin Living Lucky® today!

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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®. Good morning. I'm Jana. I'm Jason. And we are Living Lucky®. You are too. Today I'm so excited because we are doing a tribute to one of our longtime listeners, dedicated to livinLiving Lucky® lucky.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, she's a full embodiment of the whole process of what we've been doing for the last six years.

Jana Shelfer:

She's been with us since the beginning. And if you have been listening to our podcast, a lot of times her name will come up. If you join us live for coffee on on Facebook.

Jason Shelfer:

She doesn't miss one.

Jana Shelfer:

She is there. She's been so dedicated. We're talking about Sheila.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah. And so one of the things that really impresses me is sometimes we get caught up in the learning or in the in the listening to someone, trying to figure out how to how to do the things. Yes. And Sheila is is very good about taking what she gets, processing it, and then going out and acting on it and creating.

Jana Shelfer:

She applies. She takes action.

Jason Shelfer:

Creating her reality.

Jana Shelfer:

So last night I got a text from Sheila saying, So I'm doing it. And it was almost one of those, I'm jumping off the cliff. I'm ready to fly. I'm doing a thing. And I it felt to me almost like, I don't know, kind of like a bird saying, you could do it, you could, you know. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like we were the the mama and papa bird going, you got this.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and it's and it's just making those little incremental pivots. It's making those, uh, it's just saying, what is it that I do want?

Jana Shelfer:

She texts me and says, so I have started a community band.

Jason Shelfer:

So cool, so fun.

Jana Shelfer:

And it is the young American orchestra band in Geor band in Georgia. I am so proud of her because if you could see all of the milestones and milestones that Sheila has accomplished over the last six years. Now, it has taken six years, but the fact that we see such I mean, she's blooming. She is blooming.

Jason Shelfer:

I remember first meeting Sheila, like face to face, like in person. Yes. And she was one of the very first people to put a dream on the camper. The the Living Lucky® dream camper. Yes. It was before it really became the Living Lucky® dream camper. It was an idea.

Jana Shelfer:

Which we may be getting rid of the camera. I know we're gonna it is time to move on, I think.

Jason Shelfer:

But I feel like it's time to make space. Uh, and the campers lived its life. It has been so awesome. It kind of got us started, but Sheila was one of the very first dreams, like in the first three dreams. Sheila and her daughters. And her dream was to, she had retired as a as a teacher, as a music teacher. She had a she was looking for what's next, a modest pension, but she had these dreams that were bigger than the pension. Yes. Right.

Jana Shelfer:

Like she won, she's building a Florida house.

Jason Shelfer:

Right, building a Florida house. She wanted to create a school for inner city kids or or youth in her area so that they could experience the magic of music.

Jana Shelfer:

And the minute she put that dream on the camper, guess what happens? Everything starts falling into place for her. It was and it has nothing to do with the camper. It has to do with awareness and asking the question.

Jason Shelfer:

It has to do with the way she was feeling about it. Like it felt possible. If like her particular activating system opened up, someone donated a building, uh-huh. And she then she had all these instruments, and then she started just getting students or or it was almost like she needed us to come and say, you know what, you have permission to dream big.

Jana Shelfer:

And I believe in you.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, and and there was other there were other things on that sticker, and those are coming. Like, it's all happening.

Jana Shelfer:

She wanted to travel, and since we have known her now in the last six years, and again, she has been so dedicated, so committed, and she listens to everything that Jason especially gives us. She gives us feedback.

Jason Shelfer:

I love the feedback.

Jana Shelfer:

And she has now traveled, she's gone to Alaska, she went to She went to New Orleans and met Luke or Bo Duke. Bo Duke.

Jason Shelfer:

From the Dixa Hazard.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes. Anyway, so I I just want for anyone listening today, I want to give this tribute to Sheila because she can serve as an inspiration to all of us. That if we just continue down the path, we will see results. And sometimes those results aren't quite what we imagined, or maybe you know, the universe, God has a different plan than what we God laughs at our plans. I know that's true. God laughs at our plans, and and when we get different results, then we still are grateful and we're just feedback. It is just feedback.

Jason Shelfer:

You talk about that in your TEDx. You said you said life doesn't always turn out the way you thought it would. Yes. Right. But what if you just change your perspective on what is happening and you'll realize that something bigger and better is on the way or right around the corner, or happened because of it. And it's really it's about that spin positive, the Living Lucky®, all the things that we've talked about over the last six years. And Sheila has so embodied all that that nothing is going wrong. It's a spiritual curriculum that she's everything is going right. Yes, everything is happening for me. How do I use what's happening for me to take that next big, bold, brave step?

Jana Shelfer:

The so we saw Sheila when we went to Australia. She volunteered to watch our dog. I mean, that's how close we've become with Sheila over the last six years. And thank you. Let me just tell you, six years ago, when we started Living Lucky, Sheila was a stranger. We did not know Sheila. So that is how um close we've become with her. And also, I mean, she's been in every single clubhouse group, every workshop that we've put on, every morning coffee. She listens to our podcast sometimes before we do. And she'll text me and say, Oh, you know what? I want to talk about your podcast. At any rate, so we have seen her grow, expand, evolve over the last six years. It has been tremendous, and I forgot where I was going with this.

Jason Shelfer:

You were probably gonna talk about how when we saw her in when we dropped Tater off before we went to Australia for a month, that she looked fantastic.

Jana Shelfer:

Oh my gosh, the best I've ever seen her.

Jason Shelfer:

And she's back to this high high school size. Not that I not that she was huge.

Jana Shelfer:

Not that I want to focus on exterior, but sometimes our exterior does reflect what's happening internally. She has lost 20 pounds, probably. I mean, she's down to her slim self.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, well, it's it's one of those things where we talk about when you when you feel good, you do good. Yes. And when you I a lot of times when we look good, we feel good, right? It is a good thing. That's why we put on these clothes to go out to present ourselves. And when we have that feeling of, I feel lucky, I feel on top of it, you know, I feel put together, quote unquote put together.

Jana Shelfer:

And she's doing great things. And what's next for her is she's gonna have to start swatting those men away.

Jason Shelfer:

That's right.

Jana Shelfer:

That's what's gonna happen. I can already feel this.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, get you get to be very choosy about the life you're getting when you are living the life you want.

Jana Shelfer:

One last thing I want to add while we're giving our tribute to Sheila, because we are just we're so proud. And again, it's almost like she's leaving the nest. She's not leaving, don't don't take the it that way.

Jason Shelfer:

She's taking the she's taking leaps.

Jana Shelfer:

She's taking the leap to fly to even higher destinations.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah.

Jana Shelfer:

And one thing I I wanted to add.

Jason Shelfer:

One thing is she doesn't, she doesn't rest on her laurels. Like there's a lot of times, and she she's and she's willing to take breaks, right?

Jana Shelfer:

The one thing though that I really want to stress is that sometimes we want immediate results. Sometimes we want results now.

Jason Shelfer:

I want to finish this podcast and I want things to change immediately. Yeah, and they can internally.

Jana Shelfer:

That's the human nature in all of us. And it has exacerbated now with AI technology. Amazon. Yes. I mean, we want it now. If I have to wait more than uh a half of a second to get on the internet, I'm like, why is this so slow?

Jason Shelfer:

We gotta we gotta upgrade our service, right?

Jana Shelfer:

So most people want results now.

Jason Shelfer:

They want external results now when they could be getting those internal results immediately.

Jana Shelfer:

Well, I will say, Sheila, I mean, it has taken six years to see all of these flowers coming out of her. She's got flowers coming out of her ears, flowers coming out of her nose, flowers are everywhere.

Jason Shelfer:

She's been blooming and blossoming. She just continues to grow.

Jana Shelfer:

And you know what? Let's put this in garden terms because I know that Sheila likes to garden. She has been planting the seeds, she has been nourishing those seeds, pulling the weeds, killing the soil, pulling the weeds. She has seriously gone out and tended her garden. Yes.

Jason Shelfer:

And literally and metaphorically.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes. And now we are seeing the fruits of her labor. So this is just, we're like proud parents today.

Jason Shelfer:

One of the other things that I want to bring up is we talk a lot about when you're Living Lucky®, the right people, the right opportunities, everything kind of falls into place and you recognize that that everything's working for you in any way.

Jana Shelfer:

Because you're living in alignment. You are congruent with what your soul wants to create.

Jason Shelfer:

And we have to we have to identify what it is that our soul wants and make sure that we're we're we're far enough in the onion that we know it's our soul speaking, not our ego, not to prove something for someone else. And it wasn't long after she put that dream on the camper that she actually embodied the whole Living Lucky® philosophy. And I don't had we named it already? I think, yeah, we don't remember. But she she started embodying that feeling, and that's and literally the outside world started manifesting itself towards that with someone donating a building.

Jana Shelfer:

That luck is chance, however, it has so much to do with your beliefs, with the way you think, getting into gratitude for what comes your way.

Jason Shelfer:

Thank you more.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes, thank you more, please. Changing your perception about circumstances, worthiness. Luck is not random. Luck has a lot to do with connecting your soul with your source. That is that is really what it all comes down to. And we we try to talk about this without really saying it sometimes, but the universe is constantly communicating with us. We are source, we are God. God is living in all of us, and the more that we say what we want and move in that direction, believe it, surround ourselves with the right people. I mean, there's so many different steps, even the language we speak, yeah, the the inner voice that is deep within you, all of these things which we have been talking about on this podcast now for six years.

Jason Shelfer:

510 episodes, I think.

Jana Shelfer:

It all comes together into one beautiful recipe. We have seen it over and over and over. It creates a vortex in your life. And when people come and say, Well, what is the secret sauce? It's a lot of things all at once. And I mean, one kind of leads to the next.

Jason Shelfer:

Giving yourself the space to become the person who gets the things that your previous self wanted.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes. It's a beautiful process.

Jason Shelfer:

And we see that over. So Sheila, we're we're pointing out Sheila because she's a constant reminder, like always. And she's also been here from the beginning. But we've had thousands of people reach out and say, You know, you're not gonna believe what's happening in my life. We in a positive note, right?

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah, but so so many people have texted us, emailed us, even some that have worked with us. What has been so great for me is that the more that I see results in the people around us, the more that I know and have full confidence that we we are on to something here. We are helping.

Jason Shelfer:

When you see it, when it's working in our life, it is definitely worked in my life in other people's lives. It's a it's a proof of concept, right? Because sometimes we don't we don't believe until we see, and we just know, okay, we and we're trying to dissect what's what is the happening here? What is what is the what is that formula behind the the movement or formula behind the success? And uh oftentimes we're going, I I I feel like I'm close. I'm just missing that one thing.

Jana Shelfer:

Yes.

Jason Shelfer:

And and that's I love that you said it's it's not a it's not a quick fix. It's a it's a learning to become, because we've been taught to be something else oftentimes. Like we've been um conditioned to expect the worst, conditioned to to believe that something's not attainable, but if it's attainable for anyone, it's attainable for everyone.

Jana Shelfer:

Uh oh, so Sheila, we are so proud of you. 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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