Past, Present, Future: Time Traveling for Personal Mastery
Dec 08, 2023Season 5Episode 69
Jana and Jason Shelfer
Join Jason and Jana in a whimsical and insightful episode of "Living Lucky with Jason and Jana Banana," as they celebrate National Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. This episode is a delightful blend of nostalgia, humor, and deep reflection. Dive into a fun banter about iconic time-travel movies like 'Quantum Leap' and 'Back to the Future,' and laugh along as they discuss the cyclical nature of fashion trends, from mom jeans to twist beads.
But there's more than just nostalgia here. Jason and Jana take a profound turn, using the concept of time travel as a mental exercise for envisioning personal growth and overcoming self-limiting beliefs. Imagine meeting your future self – what would you learn, and how would it shape your present? They explore this thought-provoking scenario, discussing its potential to inspire and challenge our current perspectives.
This episode isn't just about looking back or forward; it's about understanding and shaping the present. Whether you're a fan of time-travel fiction or seeking inspiration for personal development, this podcast offers a unique blend of entertainment and wisdom. Tune in to "Living Lucky with Jason and Jana Banana" for an engaging journey through time, packed with laughs, insights, and serious reflection. Embark on this time-travel adventure and join us in making a quantum leap in life!
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Out of these 2 titles, which one was better? Let me know at Admin@StartLivingLucky.com "Past, Present, Future: Time Traveling for Personal Mastery" or "Time-Travel Therapy: Meeting Your Future, Healing Your Past"
!!! SEND US A MESSAGE: Are you ready to unlock your path to a more inspired life where you're Living Lucky®? Email me directly and let's chart your course toward realizing your dreams and creating a life that fills you with daily inspiration. Email Jason Shelfer HERE
The 4 pillars of Living Lucky Believe in yourself Believe in the people around you Believe in your circumstances and Believe that God is working through you, for you, and always conspiring in your favor.
Join Jason and Jana in a whimsical and insightful episode of "Living Lucky with Jason and Jana Banana," as they celebrate National Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. This episode is a delightful blend of nostalgia, humor, and deep reflection. Dive into a fun banter about iconic time-travel movies like 'Quantum Leap' and 'Back to the Future,' and laugh along as they discuss the cyclical nature of fashion trends, from mom jeans to twist beads.
But there's more than just nostalgia here. Jason and Jana take a profound turn, using the concept of time travel as a mental exercise for envisioning personal growth and overcoming self-limiting beliefs. Imagine meeting your future self – what would you learn, and how would it shape your present? They explore this thought-provoking scenario, discussing its potential to inspire and challenge our current perspectives.
This episode isn't just about looking back or forward; it's about understanding and shaping the present. Whether you're a fan of time-travel fiction or seeking inspiration for personal development, this podcast offers a unique blend of entertainment and wisdom. Tune in to "Living Lucky with Jason and Jana Banana" for an engaging journey through time, packed with laughs, insights, and serious reflection. Embark on this time-travel adventure and join us in making a quantum leap in life!
Living Lucky, Jana Shelfer, Jason Shelfer, Living Lucky Podcast, Time Travel, Personal Growth, Nostalgia, Quantum Leap, Back to the Future, Self-Improvement, Motivational Podcast, Life Lessons, Self-Discovery, Future Self, Mindfulness, Inspirational Stories, Retro Fashion, Mental Exercise, Overcoming Limiting Beliefs, Visioning Future, Self-Help Podcast, Positive Mindset, Life Planning, Personal Development Journey
Out of these 2 titles, which one was better? Let me know at Admin@StartLivingLucky.com "Past, Present, Future: Time Traveling for Personal Mastery" or "Time-Travel Therapy: Meeting Your Future, Healing Your Past"
!!! SEND US A MESSAGE: Are you ready to unlock your path to a more inspired life where you're Living Lucky®? Email me directly and let's chart your course toward realizing your dreams and creating a life that fills you with daily inspiration. Email Jason Shelfer HERE
The 4 pillars of Living Lucky Believe in yourself Believe in the people around you Believe in your circumstances and Believe that God is working through you, for you, and always conspiring in your favor.
*Previously Recorded
Speaker 1:
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 Janna, I'm Jason and we are living lucky Today is National Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day.
Speaker 2:
How fun is that? Where?
Speaker 1:
do they come up with these days?
Speaker 3:
Somebody's sitting in a room on a chalkboard just writing them out.
Speaker 2:
And they're saying have we come up with this yet?
Speaker 3:
And today is Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day.
Speaker 2:
They probably watched that movie, the Time Traveler's.
Speaker 3:
Wife Quantum leap Back to the future. Oh, I don't know anymore.
Speaker 2:
What about, um, oh yeah, quantum Running.
Speaker 3:
Man, I think was one.
Speaker 2:
Really Wasn't running.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 2:
Wait, did you watch Quantum Leap when you were?
Speaker 3:
Oh yeah, I was a big fan.
Speaker 2:
Oh, I did too.
Speaker 3:
It's funny that we're back to quantum now. I know Like that was back in the 90s or 80s and now we're back there and we're back talking about quantum physics and stuff.
Speaker 2:
Because trends repeat themselves. My parents used to say you know what I used to wear? That when I was younger, and I was like no, you didn't.
Speaker 3:
Look at me in my mom jeans.
Speaker 2:
I remember I went through this phase where I had twist beads and my mom was like I had twist beads when I was young.
Speaker 3:
I had twist beads in the 60s. Free love baby, Now you did it. And they All, the boys, gave me twist beads.
Speaker 2:
Stop, you made it naughty, you just took it to a place where hey, it's your mom. That's even worse.
Speaker 1:
Shuffer that's just that's temple.
Speaker 2:
Oh, anyway, they would say you know, hold on to that jean jacket, Because you know what it's going to come back in style one day, just like Elvis. Like I'm going to hold on to something for 40 years and Elvis never came back in style.
Speaker 3:
You're right.
Speaker 2:
Did he?
Speaker 3:
Elvis has left the building.
Speaker 2:
Although he kind of did. He just got an Academy Award, did he really? Yeah, remember.
Speaker 3:
So if Elvis could pretend to be a time traveler, which he probably is traveling a time right now, yes, that's what we're talking about is pretend to be a time traveler.
Speaker 2:
So if you could travel to the future and meet your future self.
Speaker 3:
So this is one of those national days that I think that if you actually embrace it, it is a great exercise, because if you're having a hard time in life, if you feel like life isn't great, go meet your future self who is living like those days. You're living like the life that you want and the life that you dream of, and have coffee with them, like have that.
Speaker 2:
Well, here's the double-edged sword, though, because you're assuming that our future self is exactly where we want our future self to be.
Speaker 3:
Well, go to that future Like if you're a time traveler. Set the dial for that future.
Speaker 2:
Here's the thing, though, so many people are.
Speaker 3:
They can't envision that future.
Speaker 2:
You know the saying if you believe you can or believe you can't, you're right, it's what you believe. It's what you believe. And so many people try to close their eyes. They try to imagine their dreams or their future or where they want to be, and they can pretty much tell you exactly the obstacles they're going to face, because they can picture exactly where they think they're going to end up.
Speaker 3:
Where they think they're going to get stuck, where they think their ceiling is. So if you can.
Speaker 2:
They can pretty much tell you exactly what's going to happen.
Speaker 3:
It's like where they think their belief ends because they have this gate thrown out in their mind between where possible ends and impossible starts.
Speaker 2:
And they're not even doing it consciously. No, so it's not. They think it's almost. This is what.
Speaker 1:
I see, this is my true, this is what I picture in my mind.
Speaker 3:
Yeah. So maybe we go back in time, travel back in time. So if I'm a time traveler, I travel back in time, see where I might have gotten some of these beliefs and say, all right, who are some of the people that told me I couldn't? Where are some of the times where I didn't have the most success? But I made it here today. So I did actually make it through the trenches, I made it through the valleys and I did. I am here today, so I have had levels of success to get to today and now that I have recognized my peaks and known that I've gotten through the valleys, now where maybe I can have a clear review of a possible future, knowing that I've made it this far, not to just come this far.
Speaker 2:
I hear what you're saying. We don't have to go too deep in the future. The problem that people are facing is that their present circumstances, where they are right now, is not where they want to be in their future, and it's not where their childhood self wanted them to be now. So, even if they go back to their past self, they are not feeling like life worked out the way they wanted it to.
Speaker 3:
So is that a case of where Einstein says the same level of thinking won't solve the problem that got you into the problem or that created the problem? So it's like maybe we need to open up those doors of different levels of thinking and open up our mind, expand our mind to new possibilities and new awareness of different ways things can be done, because we're stuck in our own sameness.
Speaker 2:
Possibly that could be a possibility.
Speaker 3:
Sometimes, when we get in a rut, all we see is the rut. This is the path, this is my life, this is how it's going to be, this is what I'm destined for, until someone comes along and says, hey, did you know that this is possible? Did you know you could make this adjustment? Have you ever thought of something like this? And you're like, holy crap, I have not thought of anything like that, because the people I hang around all say that you have to stay in the rut.
Speaker 2:
The problem is that when people continuously try new things, it's changing, it hurts. They try different options, open their mind and end up in the same circumstances. Predicament end up in the same situation. They start to lose.
Speaker 3:
A lot of times. I would say that a portion of that is going to be because we try new things. We also want to go back to our comfort zone, which is the people we know the way we were doing things. That's kind of back in that rut. That's where we started. It is the comfort zone. Stay in the room of the people that are achieving a little bit more, pushing us. We can stay in that zone of exploration and curiosity, Be okay with knowing it is going to be a trial and error, a little bit of failure. That's just part of the journey until we find our new success levels. Then we get to experience a new way.
Speaker 2:
Who would you go visit?
Speaker 3:
I think I would go visit myself, probably maybe 15 years from now, because then I'm gonna be in my mid-60s.
Speaker 2:
Oh, my God and I'm like, oh my God, that's so hard to believe.
Speaker 3:
So I never even thought of myself until we started talking about this podcast in my mid-60s. But I don't know why. It's like thinking about your own death, Like we don't think about dying unless we have a terminal illness or unless the doctor calls and says hey, I need to go over your results. I can't do it on the phone and I can't schedule you for the next two weeks and then for that two weeks do you think about the worst case scenarios for some reason? But you don't think about doing your will, doing all these things, but I've never thought about myself in my mid-60s.
Speaker 2:
Okay.
Speaker 3:
And I think I would wanna go sit down with myself in my mid-60s and say hey, I think I'm gonna hit some of these little potholes, some of these obstacles, because I know that I'm a person of habit and I'm a person of patterns. Can you give me some ideas and ways to avoid some of them? Or what are the tips for having resilience to get through and just have that conversation and let myself coach myself through it?
Speaker 2:
Wow, oh boy, that's hard for me to even think about.
Speaker 3:
It's a weird thing to even think about, but I think it's probably a good exercise, because I think I can do that just in my mind, imagining where I think I wanna be in 10 to 15 years. Because one thing I don't wanna be working as hard, I wanna be achieving more, and I would like to have a team of people doing a lot of the things that they're happy doing and me just doing the things that I love doing every day and contributing a lot more to the world.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I'm not doing that. Sorry, I'm not visiting myself in 15 years.
Speaker 2:
No, not going to do it, not going to do it. I actually never thought that I would be older than I always thought that I might make it around 35, but I never thought I would be older than that. So I'm way past my expiration date, to be honest with you. And yeah, so if I were to visit my future self, I might visit tomorrow.
Speaker 1:
Maybe the weekend, maybe the weekend.
Speaker 3:
Visit myself every Saturday morning.
Speaker 2:
That's as far as I'm going to go. What's up? I think the hardest thing if we want to make a change in any area of our life is to get up and do something different tomorrow. So I think that I would visit my future self over the weekend and maybe give her a little pep talk.
Speaker 3:
Oh, that's cool. Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2:
I like it too. Okay, so today we're celebrating National. Pretend You're a Time Traveler and that's what we have for today. Have a great one, Thanks for joining us and remember keep living, lucky We'll see you in the future, bye-bye.
Speaker 1:
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