M O N O T O N O U S... Change it up

Stuck in a Rut? Change something in the equation. 

Feeling like your days are on autopilot, with even your morning coffee failing to spark joy? You're not alone. But what if the key to reigniting your zest for life was as simple as a delicious treat?

In this episode of Living Lucky®, Jason & Jana Banana delve into the power of tiny, deliberate shifts to transform your life from "so-so" to spectacular. Here's a taste of what you'll discover:

• The Milkshake Moment: Discover how a seemingly insignificant change (like indulging in a cookies and cream milkshake!) can jolt you awake to the magic hidden in your everyday routine.
• Escape the Monotony Trap: Learn about the law of habituation and how it can steal the joy from once-cherished experiences. We'll show you how to break free and inject excitement back into your life.
• From Busy to Intentional: Feeling overwhelmed by the daily grind? We'll guide you on how to communicate with your desires and align your actions with your soul's purpose.
• Living Lucky® Isn't Luck: It's about gratitude, intentionality, and aligning with your divine design. Discover how to attract success, joy, and opportunities that resonate with your deepest self.
• Break Free and Embrace Serendipity: Learn how to invite "milkshake moments" into your life and transform your everyday into a canvas of possibility and delight.

This episode is your roadmap to ditching the mundane and crafting a life that feels truly lucky. Get ready to be inspired, empowered, and discover the magic that awaits when you embrace small changes with big results.

P.S. Ready to turn your life into a vortex of success and joy? Visit https://www.livinglucky.com or join the Living Lucky® community!

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Transcript

Creating a Life You Crave

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 Shelfer and this is my husband, Jason Shelfer, and we are Living Lucky®. You are too. I have a confession. All right, usher let's hear it.

Jana Shelfer 0:23

Did you just call me Usher?

Jason Shelfer 0:25

He's got confessions.

Jana Shelfer 0:26

Usher.

Jason Shelfer 0:27

Usher.

Jana Shelfer 0:32

Does he say his own name in that?

Jason Shelfer 0:33

song? Of course he does, he's, yeah.

Jana Shelfer 0:35

Oh, I'm going to start doing that when I go into a room. Jana, jana, jana, banana, she's living Lucky Woo-hoo. Okay, here's my confession. Yesterday I was starving. I was starving and Jason was on a coaching call with his 300 students. It was a long one too, and so I couldn't say excuse me, honey, I'm hungry, I'm starving.

Jason Shelfer 1:01

I don't want to get hangry on you.

Jana Shelfer 1:02

Are we planning on doing something for lunch?

Jason Shelfer 1:05

Yeah, and I have not been to the grocery store yet.

Jana Shelfer 1:07

Yes, which I mean I know I can go to the grocery store too, but this is usually Jason's territory. I like going to the grocery store, not only do you like it, but you're a little territorial about it.

Jason Shelfer 1:18

I am a little territorial.

Jana Shelfer 1:20

Like when we go to the grocery store, I feel like the little kid that's like tagging along like when we go to the grocery store.

Jason Shelfer 1:25

I feel like the little kid that's like tagging along, like is this the right bell pepper? I know, I feel like I have to ask for permission.

Jana Shelfer 1:29

I'm like do you care if I can get this and is this one. Okay, I'm like I I want to get some apples I want raspberries do these, look okay I do I feel like I have to like approve everything through you.

Jana Shelfer 1:44

So, anyway, I I'm like Tater, come on, let's just go sneak and we'll, we'll get lunch together. Now, of course, I felt a little lazy and I'm like I don't feel like putting my chair in the car, and you know, it's just a whole to do. So we hopped in the car, I left my chair in the garage and we go out to get lunch. So without a chair, I'm like we got to go through a drive-thru, right? So we went to Chick-fil-A. Now I have my go-to Chick-fil-A order.

Jason Shelfer 2:18

Oh, your go-to menu items.

Jana Shelfer 2:20

Which is usually nuggets, so that I can share with my dog.

Jason Shelfer 2:23

Yeah, that 50-50 diet.

Jana Shelfer 2:25

Yeah, it's like one for me, one for Tater, one for me, one for Tater.

Jason Shelfer 2:29

I know that Tater loves that menu item.

Jana Shelfer 2:31

Yes, it always tastes better when you share it with your dog. Here's the deal. I felt like spicing it up a little bit. There you go, so I ordered a milkshake.

Jason Shelfer 2:44

Did you get one for tater?

Jana Shelfer 2:46

no, dogs. Dogs can't have milkshakes, can they?

Jason Shelfer 2:51

I don't know. I bet they can, but I don't think it works out well for them anyway, here's the thing.

Jana Shelfer 2:56

We had just watched this roast on on netflix about tom brady and and ron burgundy was talking about cookies and cream something. So, I ordered this cookies and cream milkshake. I have to tell you it was just enough to spice up my day.

Jason Shelfer 3:16

Fired you up, got you. It just, it was like, added a little flavor to the day it did.

Jana Shelfer 3:20

It added a little flavor. It added a little flavor to my entire day. Like I came home, I ended up hopping in my my group with my coach, robin Banks, which I love his name, and I just had so much energy and just that little change was just a pop, that's all I needed.

Jason Shelfer 3:44

A lot of times and I'm not going to recommend that we always go out and get a-.

Jana Shelfer 3:48

A milkshake, cookies and cream milkshake A bad example. It's not a bad example.

Jason Shelfer 3:53

I think what's the important part here is is a lot of us get in the routine of doing the same thing every single day.

Jana Shelfer 4:02

Same old, same old.

Jason Shelfer 4:04

Yeah, and then we end up with this so-so life. So same old, same old turns into so-so.

Jana Shelfer 4:10

You know, in third grade I had a spelling word monotonous.

Jason Shelfer 4:16

Oh.

Jana Shelfer 4:16

I don't even know if I could spell it to this day that just sounds dirty. I must say I remember my dad saying you know, we would go over my spelling words and they were, it was a vocabulary word and I remember him saying monotonous, what does that mean? And then he would go boring, Same old, same old, Like he would.

Jason Shelfer 4:43

He would get into this, he would act it out.

Jana Shelfer 4:45

He would act it out and he would get into this like this Monotone, monotone voice.

Jason Shelfer 4:51

Time to make the donuts.

Jana Shelfer 4:52

Yes, and I still remember him doing it, and my whole life. He would say how was your day? And I would go monotonous.

Jason Shelfer 5:01

Yeah, Same old same old yeah Same old, same old, yeah, and when we get into this same old, same old, monotonous, this routine, and what's horrible is oftentimes our days feel like this wild and chaotic hamster wheel that is boring and monotonous.

Jana Shelfer 5:25

Same old, same old master wheel that is boring and monotonous.

Jason Shelfer 5:29

So there's this dichotomy of busyness, chaotic and boring and monotonous, and the law of habituation, and then you end up with this so-so life that doesn't change or move.

Jana Shelfer 5:44

And you know, I have to ask why do we do that? And there's really only one reason why it's because we get busy, being busy yes. The doing, of doing and and not really taking time to get intentional with what we really want, not really taking time to communicate with our souls and saying my coach Robin Banks, he goes. What are you after?

Jason Shelfer 6:16

What are you after? Yeah, he's like he gets out of his Australian and gets into this. I don't even know what.

Jana Shelfer 6:23

He's African. Oh, african, sorry, he's from Africa, he's from South Africa.

Jason Shelfer 6:27

But they all speak Australian.

Jana Shelfer 6:28

Yes, well, he always does these accents, and so he says that when he went to order he went to this restaurant and the waiter I don't even know what accent he was trying- to.

Jason Shelfer 6:42

What do you have to?

Jana Shelfer 6:43

But the waiter was like, what do you have to? And so he orders something. And he said he was very clear, he knew exactly what the waiter was asking. But sometimes we just need to ask ourselves what do you have to?

Jason Shelfer 6:58

Well, you got to know what you want.

Jana Shelfer 7:00

What do you want?

Jason Shelfer 7:01

Because if you don't know what you want, you're just going to keep running around ordering what you don't want.

Jana Shelfer 7:05

And sometimes that's the problem is, we don't know what we want. However, our souls do know what we want. Our souls do know.

Jason Shelfer 7:17

And I love that you went and you actually added a little bit of flavor to your day.

Jana Shelfer 7:22

You do, I really do. You're not disappointed in me. Absolutely, I'm not disappointed.

Jason Shelfer 7:25

I was kind of scared to even admit that Because think of how one thing you have to add a new factor in the equation to change the outcome.

Jana Shelfer 7:35

I know, but sometimes I'm afraid that I'm going to be imperfect in front of you and that you're going to be disappointed in me.

Jason Shelfer 7:44

I'm imperfect all day long, like it's a I. Just I'm doing my best with what I have from where I am. I know, but you look better naked than I do To you, not to me. You look way better naked to me than I do to me. Just FYI.

Jana Shelfer 8:00

Here let's judge. Take off your clothes, that's right.

Jason Shelfer 8:03

You're already out of your pants, hey.

Jana Shelfer 8:06

You don't need to tell everyone.

Jason Shelfer 8:07

I thought you were confessing, I'm helping you confess.

Jana Shelfer 8:10

Oh my gosh my confessions are my confession okay, you don't need to confess mine.

Jason Shelfer 8:15

I was confessing another one.

Jana Shelfer 8:16

Okay, you know what I think it's only fair if I confess one of jason's confessions.

Jason Shelfer 8:20

I don't even know what's coming? That had me nervous. I was pinching a hole in the stool with my butt cheeks.

Jana Shelfer 8:27

I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do that.

Jason Shelfer 8:30

I thought it's okay, oh look there's a stain on the stool.

Jana Shelfer 8:33

I'm kidding.

Jana Shelfer 8:35

I'm kidding.

Jason Shelfer 8:37

And you don't do that very often. So that's like when we treat ourselves, we do want to treat ourselves well, but adding a new factor in the equation allows you to change the outcome. So you came back and you had a powerful experience with your coach. Then you had your energy healing. So you were able to show up differently because you changed something in the equation.

Jana Shelfer 8:56

Yeah, cookies and cream.

Jason Shelfer 8:57

Sometimes we need to add. Like we talk about, this often is sometimes we forget to add fun in.

Jana Shelfer 9:03

We do.

Jason Shelfer 9:04

And sometimes, like we, love laughing.

Jana Shelfer 9:06

Which is so crazy, because people look at us and go. You guys are so much fun.

Jason Shelfer 9:11

And we schedule it I just sounded like the waiter. Like how fun does it sound to schedule fun, but when we schedule it we have it.

Jana Shelfer 9:17

That is not fun. When you have to schedule it, it's like, oh my God, Jason, it's time to have fun right now.

Jason Shelfer 9:21

But then we get intentional. That's not fun. And then we have fun. Yeah, but it's making sure we do.

Jana Shelfer 9:34

I just said that with a huffy breath, yeah.

Jason Shelfer 9:37

I guess Monotonous, Same old, same old. I can already tell the SEO for this podcast is going to be off the charts with monotonous, same old, same old and boring over and over and over again.

Jana Shelfer 9:52

No, actually the real seller is going to be when Jana doesn't have her pants on.

Jason Shelfer 9:55

Yeah, so we're going to get an X-rated boring SEO search engine.

Jana Shelfer 10:00

With a poop stain on the stool.

Jason Shelfer 10:03

Yeah, I think the message here is change something up, make sure we're intentional and have the awareness around when you're in the same old, same old and in that law of habituation and expecting something different.

Jana Shelfer 10:22

And another thing to remember is sometimes we're just not aware. Again, we're just so busy of being on the hamster wheel of life. We're trying to get the kids fed, walk the dog, clean the house, go to the grocery store. I mean, part of this whole thing was that we haven't been to the grocery store.

Jana Shelfer 10:47

And I literally looked in the refrigerator.

Jana Shelfer 10:48

There was nothing to eat. I went into the pantry. I mean, even our dog has started going in and out of the pantry on her own.

Jason Shelfer 10:56

Just looking Like she does she's like where? Are the treats? There's like nothing in here. I think we've got four kiwis in the refrigerator.

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Jana Shelfer 11:02

Yeah, and those are all mushy. If you really like, poke at them, don't flip them over Right, because there's probably a little slime on the bottom, anyway. So I mean you get busy being busy and I guess we're just trying all of us at some level are just trying to survive and make it look easy.

Jason Shelfer 11:29

We're all in our own box and having an outside perspective on that is often very beneficial An outside, healthy perspective. That's why we have our coaches right. Oh yeah, and we get to say, okay, where can we add that touch of flavor, where can we add that slight enhancement that's going to move the needle, that starts getting us the results that we're looking for? Right, and that's a beautiful thing. So, spicing up the day, spicing up the week, spicing up the month, so we don't end up in monotonous.

Jason Shelfer 12:03

Same old, same old boring and we get to start Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer 12:09

That is right and, again, I know that we've talked about this in many, many other podcasts. But Living Lucky® is not just living by chance. It's literally taking your life by the wheel. It is creating the life that you want. It is living in gratitude, it is being intentional, it's knowing your desires, lining those up with your decisions and aligning with your divine design. And when you can get in that energy, then that's when all of the right people come into your stratosphere, all of the right circumstances, all of the right opportunities, and it feels like you are living lucky.

Jason Shelfer 12:54

It is a vortex of success and just greatness and fun oh.

Jana Shelfer 13:01

That's when you don't have to schedule it. That's right, that's when it just is. Have a great day and thank you Bye.

Jana Shelfer 13:12

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