Consistency Over Intensity

Consistency Over Intensity: The Secret to Carving Your Own Path 💧🪨

What if real progress looks "slow"? In this raw Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jason and Jana Banana prove that showing up—even on three hours of sleep—is how you rewire your identity. Learn why a steady drop of water drills through rock while a flood just passes by. Move beyond the perfectionism doom loop and discover how micro-habits compound into massive results.

In this episode, you will learn to:

• The Water Drop Principle: Why rhythm beats force in personal development.
• Shorten the "Detour Gap": Catch yourself when you drift and return with the smallest possible step.
• Master Flexible Focus: Maintain a "soft gaze" to spot opportunities while staying centered.

Mindset Nuggets for Sustainable Momentum:

• Mental Dental: You can't save your smile by brushing once a month. Small daily action prevents stops "rust" and buildup. 
• Identity is an Echo: Showing up when you don't feel like it "votes" for your future self. 
• The "One Pass" Rule: If a goal feels heavy, shrink the task but keep the schedule. .
• Drops of Soul: A flood dazzles but fades; a drop transforms the stone. Let habits shape your spiritual curriculum. 

Stop waiting for the "perfect" moment. Hit play to start your "one pass" and begin Living Lucky® today!

• Self-help, personal development, consistency, mindset shift, habit building, life coaching.
• Consistency over intensity meaning, how to get back on track with habits, building a successful podcast through cadence, identity-based habits, overcoming burnout with micro-actions.
• "Why is consistency more important than intensity?" Intensity creates temporary excitement, but consistency builds identity and trust with yourself. Like water dripping on a rock, small repeated actions carve permanent change, whereas intense bursts often lead to burnout and "doom loops" of inconsistency.
• "How do I get back on my routine after a setback?" Use the "Detour Gap" method. Acknowledge the slip without shame, then immediately re-enter your routine with the smallest possible action (e.g., a "one-pass" workout or two minutes of journaling) to restore your rhythm within 24 hours.

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*Previously Recorded

Chapters

• 0:00 From Doom Loop To Living Lucky
• 0:25 Consistency Over Intensity Defined
• 1:04 Focus Without Losing Perspective
• 1:50 Sleep Deprivation And Real Life Mess
• 3:17 Teeth, Rust, And Tiny Daily Actions
• 4:24 Water Drop On Rock Metaphor
• 6:01 Routines, Identity, And Awareness
• 7:00 Falling Off The Wagon And Return
• 8:40 Water Skiing Wins Through Showing Up
• 10:42 Podcast Growth Via Consistency
• 11:40 Final Takeaway And CTA

Transcript

From Doom Loop To Living Lucky

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®.

Jason Shelfer 0:14

Good morning.

Jana Shelfer 0:15

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

Jason Shelfer 0:18

You are too.

Jana Shelfer 0:19

We're talking about consistency today.

Consistency Over Intensity Defined

Jason Shelfer 0:22

Consistency over intensity.

Jana Shelfer 0:25

We heard a speech on Monday evening by Mr. Mr. Sally. We'll just call him that.

Jason Shelfer 0:31

Rob.

Jana Shelfer 0:32

And one of his points or one of his wisdom nuggets was consistency over intensity.

Jason Shelfer 0:40

Yes.

Jana Shelfer 0:41

Consistency over intensity. And I'm telling you, consistency, I feel like that is the winning formula.

Jason Shelfer 0:49

Yeah, I would say the only place that that doesn't apply, and correct me if I'm wrong, if you're listening out there and you can think of multiple references is sex. Oh.

unknown 0:58

Ah.

Jason Shelfer 1:00

Let's get intense.

Jana Shelfer 1:03

What were you going to say?

Jason Shelfer 1:04

So I was going to say intensity of focus is so, but you still need the consistency. But the intensity of focus while you're being consistent in your pursuit is key. I don't know what you're saying. I think you need to have intense focus.

Speaker 1 1:21

Okay.

Jason Shelfer 1:22

But then here I am saying it out loud, and I feel like, well, intense focus in the middle, but soft gaze on the outside, because if we're intensely focused on thinking that this is the exact way to get there or the exact way to do something, we miss the possibilities of different routes. And sometimes we fail. So I think we go back again to consistency is the key.

Sleep Deprivation And Real Life Mess

Jana Shelfer 1:44

You were telling me that you recently saw a meme about a drop of water on a rock.

Jason Shelfer 1:50

Yes. Well, we we see and we see this in nature, you know? It's like everywhere we go, we see where if a drop of water hits a rock, so we're not going to see that everywhere, but a drop of water hits a rock over years.

Jana Shelfer 2:04

Can you tell we haven't gotten much sleep last night? Our dogs had diarrhea for three days.

Jason Shelfer 2:10

It's killing me.

Jana Shelfer 2:12

We took her to the vet yesterday and she literally had to get shaved. This whole side of her fur had to get shaved off because she has surface allergies on her skin, and poor girl is just itching and licking them to death.

Jason Shelfer 2:30

Yeah. So I think about the lack of sleep I've had, which I've is nothing compared to what Tater's going through. I know.

Jana Shelfer 2:37

And here's the deal uh I don't even know like what I'm looking at right now. My eyes aren't talk about focus. My eyes are not even focused.

Jason Shelfer 2:47

We're not meant to live on three hours of sleep.

Jana Shelfer 2:51

And then every time we got up, I was like, you know what? There's a reason that we don't have children. There's a reason that the universe source did not give us children. And it's because neither one of us can function. We can't even have a conversation without 10 hours of sleep.

Teeth, Rust, And Tiny Daily Actions

Jason Shelfer 3:12

That's a I would love to get 10 hours of sleep. I might do that on our next vacation.

Jana Shelfer 3:17

All right, we're talking about consistency. And you know, one of the best examples is brushing your teeth.

Jason Shelfer 3:25

You know, I love brushing those rocks in your mouth.

Jana Shelfer 3:28

I love to go get my teeth cleaned at the dentist. I don't always like going to the dentist, but I do love having gone. I love having my teeth cleaned in past tense.

Jason Shelfer 3:38

Well, we so most people do it twice a year. We do it three or four times a year because it's so nice.

Jana Shelfer 3:44

Because if I do it more often, then the scariness gets smaller. Right? The monster gets smaller and it's consistency. However, the hygienist will be the first to say you can't just brush your teeth once every three months, Shanna.

Jason Shelfer 4:00

You can't brush them for an hour every three months. Or once a month.

Jana Shelfer 4:04

Yeah, you can't just have a professional deep cleaning every three months and get away with not taking care of your teeth.

Jason Shelfer 4:10

Right. It's a consistent effort to stop the buildup. This is how rust works.

Jana Shelfer 4:15

Yes. And that's where you were talking about the meme of a water drop on a rock will do nothing if it just happens.

Jason Shelfer 4:24

You throw a thousand gallons of water at a rock and the rock is there when the water's done. It might have moved a little bit, but if you drop a drop of water on that rock consistently, it will put a hole all the way through the rock.

Jana Shelfer 4:38

Over time.

Jason Shelfer 4:39

Yes.

Jana Shelfer 4:40

And we all are a bunch of rocks. And we all are being molded and shaped into the room.

Jason Shelfer 4:47

And what we do consistently.

Jana Shelfer 4:49

Yes.

Jason Shelfer 4:49

And what we allow to come into our ecosystem consistently and how we act consistently.

Jana Shelfer 4:57

The people we are around, the habits that we form, whether they are good or bad.

Jason Shelfer 5:03

Our identity is built up of what we think we do consistently.

Jana Shelfer 5:08

The thoughts, the feelings. You know, I was watching, I don't know, something. I don't I don't even remember what I'm watching because it wasn't that.

Jason Shelfer 5:19

So we know some things that it's not, but you are watching something.

Jana Shelfer 5:23

I don't really enjoy watching porn. I'm just gonna be real with you. I never have. In fact, someone was saying I need to watch that that new show about the hockey players.

Jason Shelfer 5:34

Because he was on Saturday Night Live.

Jana Shelfer 5:35

Yeah, and and I'm like, you know, I don't I don't really need to see that.

Jason Shelfer 5:43

50 Shades of What?

Jana Shelfer 5:45

Yeah. Anyway, I was watching something and I've just lost my train of thought.

Jason Shelfer 5:52

Yeah. Well, it had to do with consistency in some way.

Jana Shelfer 5:55

Yes.

Routines, Identity, And Awareness

Jason Shelfer 5:56

But it's everything we do, identity-wise, our actions. What most people will find right now is they're getting out of bed every morning and they're consistently doing the exact same things every day. You know? So they say, I'm a person that does this. Yes. And they're a lot of that oftentimes like for me was a survival mechanism because I learned all like, what am I supposed to do? What do I need to do? And so supposed to and need are survival things. It's supposed to what would I love to be doing? What is my soul calling me to do? So there's a there's recognizing the consistency, but then also saying, what are the what are the things that I I can do in this so that I'm creating the the my reality and the world that I want and and how things I think they could be if it was in my like the dreams that I have about how life could be.

Falling Off The Wagon And Return

Jana Shelfer 6:54

You know, you said creating reality, and it just brought in a thought to my head. Dr. Joe Dispenza, who's been a huge mentor, coach, impact for Jason and I, he says many times, you know, we go through life and we start this path, right? And then all of a sudden we we're human. So we fall off the wagon or we go back to our old patterns or or we stop doing the things that make us feel so good, which for me are meditating and journaling and exercising and eating right, those things.

Jason Shelfer 7:32

Yes. The things that we've identified as part of our routine or things that we want to do consistently because it it helps us. Yes. And we just stop doing it because something else comes in and gets in the way.

Jana Shelfer 7:44

And according to him, he said the biggest thing is realizing and having the awareness that, oh, I need to get back on the wagon.

Jason Shelfer 7:54

Oh, I've gone down a rabbit hole.

Jana Shelfer 7:55

I've gone off a detour here, which Jason and I do. Listening to us talk, our conversations take little detours here and detours there.

Jason Shelfer 8:05

It happens all the time. Like Pete, everyone's doing it. It's finding out, okay, do I recognize when I'm doing it? And that's one of the things I love about us is we we hold each other accountable because we're we're we've identified where we're going and we've also said we're on the same team and we've stuck to that.

Jana Shelfer 8:22

So as long as we get back on the path, that is the most important thing. Another thing I want to add about consistency is you look at the things in our life that have really flourished, especially in this last year.

Water Skiing Wins Through Showing Up

Jason Shelfer 8:39

Yes.

Jana Shelfer 8:40

They are things that we have been doing consistently for a while. So the most obvious is our water skiing. We've had so many accolades about our water skiing, and it's because we consistently went out and hit the water. Not every day was great, not every day did I want to go out there. Some days it was cold, some days it was rainy, some days it was rough. Some days you're like, I only have two little things of gas. Right.

Jason Shelfer 9:10

Okay, well, we're let's just go and just do one pass.

Jana Shelfer 9:14

Yeah, just do one pass.

Jason Shelfer 9:16

Yeah, and two percent of gas in the boat is we did the math, that's like half a gallon. So, you know, and I'm the guy that wants to fill the boat up all the time. Just so everyone knows how painful that would be for someone. Think about a person that in their car won't let it get below half a tank. That's me.

Jana Shelfer 9:34

Yeah, you're obsessive completely.

Jason Shelfer 9:36

If I'm stopping, I'm getting gas.

Jana Shelfer 9:38

You are in fact, sometimes I'm like, oh my god, have we gone we gone 500 miles yet? You're like, nope, we just went an hour.

Jason Shelfer 9:46

I mean, we're getting gas. 550 miles.

Jana Shelfer 9:48

I think you just like it.

Jason Shelfer 9:50

I I want to be able to make those long stretches if I need to.

Jana Shelfer 9:54

Okay, so back on our path, yes. So but with skiing, as long as we would go out every day and just do something little. And sometimes it literally was, you know what? I'm gonna transfer the dock and I'm going to go down the steps, get in the water, pull me up, and pull me up. And some days I'm like, you know what? I'm not feeling it. I'm not feeling it. And and you would either say, Well, let's just do one pass, or okay, let's go back to the dock.

Jason Shelfer 10:22

Because we have gone, we have gone through those motions. It's almost like showing up at the gym.

Podcast Growth Via Consistency

Jana Shelfer 10:26

It's showing up at the gym, consistency over intensity. Same with our podcast. I mean, today, I'm gonna be real with you. I'm gonna get off uh when we hit stop, I'm gonna say, Well, that was a turd of a podcast. We couldn't form a fucking sentence to use my language. However, I will say that in the last two years, our podcast has flourished. Yep. And the reason is because we have been consistent.

Jason Shelfer 10:59

I think we've been consistent, and also we haven't tried to stand on top of a mountain and tell people this is this is the only way, this is the best way. It's I think people recognize because we've been consistent that everyone goes has their own.

Jana Shelfer 11:14

We have our ups and downs. We're all human.

Jason Shelfer 11:17

Everyone's learning through their own spiritual curriculum. And it's okay.

Final Takeaway And CTA

Jana Shelfer 11:20

Let's just wrap this up because if there is one nugget that I want everyone to walk away with, it is have the awareness, which is up to you. You have full power to be aware of your thoughts, full power to be aware of your feelings, full power to be aware of your actions, full power to be aware of your energy.

Jason Shelfer 11:43

Energy.

Jana Shelfer 11:44

And once you become aware and realize, you know what, maybe I'm not I'm not being the rock that's formed in the in the shape that I want, you have the power to say, okay, let's adjust, let's correct a little bit, let's correct, let's get back on track, let's be consistent.

Jason Shelfer 12:04

So big.

Jana Shelfer 12:05

And I don't know if we ever finished, but a a drop of water on a rock.

Jason Shelfer 12:10

Over years, we'll put a hole right through it or craft it to the water's specifications.

Jana Shelfer 12:18

And that is all we need to hear.

Jason Shelfer 12:22

Which who thinks a rock is going to transform the water? Because most of the time you drop a rock in the wit river, water goes around it. So the rivers that's intensity.

Jana Shelfer 12:33

Yes.

Jason Shelfer 12:34

You put one drop of water on a rock over years, the the water decides where it goes.

Jana Shelfer 12:40

Drop the mic. I'm going back to bed.

Jason Shelfer 12:43

There you go.

Jana Shelfer 12:44

Thanks for joining us. Keep Living Lucky®. Bye-bye.

Speaker 1 12:47

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