Look For The NEWNESS

Look For The Newness: Reset Your Energetic Thermostat with Micro-Adventures 🧭

Is your daily routine draining your spark? Stuck in the sameness of Monday?

This self-help playbook uses a simple Australian micro-adventure (a hidden alley, jasmine-scented courtyard) to teach you how to escape habituation and revive creative drive.

Learn to raise your energetic thermostat and overcome the "wall of tired" without a vacation:

• The Habituation Trap: Routines dull attention, leading to a "low power" emotional setting.
• The Inner Whisper: Honor your soul's signal for newness instead of ignoring it for convenience.
• The Energetic Thermostat: A mindset concept to intentionally nudge your energy baseline higher with new input.

Luck stops feeling random when you act lucky.

Actionable Takeaways for Sparking Joy:

• Mindset is Multiplier: Feel lucky, act lucky, lucky things happen. Living Lucky is a state of mind.
• Habituation Dulls: When novelty fades, your energetic thermostat runs low. Fan the flame by seeking new experiences.
• Reset Your Thermostat: Choose to increase it with consistent new input (new route, new coffee shop).
• The Five-Minute Push Rule: Overcome the wall of tiredness (Action generates energy). Push for five minutes before quitting.
• Micro-Adventures: Small, daily micro-adventures nudge your energetic dial higher; your nervous system reads them as possibility.
• The Upward Cycle: Set your frame, add new input, capture the lift, repeat. This beats the doom loop and builds the upward success cycle.

Hit play, try one new thing today!

• How to reset your energetic thermostat.
• Escaping habituation and boredom in daily life.
• The value of micro-adventures for creative drive.
• Why we ignore the inner whisper for change.
• "What is the energetic thermostat concept in personal development?"
• "How does habituation affect energy and mood?"
• "What are micro-adventures and how can I start them?"
• "What is the five-minute push rule for overcoming tiredness?"
• "How does novelty revive focus and gratitude?"

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Transcript

From Doom Loop To Lucky Mindset

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.

Live From Mowalla: Small-Town Vibes

Jana Shelfer 0:15

I'm Jana. I'm Jason. And we are live from Mowalla, Australia.

Jason Shelfer 0:21

And we are Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer 0:23

Yeah, that is. I do feel so lucky, don't you? Lucky is the state of mind, and when you feel that way, you just create more of it.

Jason Shelfer 0:32

That's right. When you feel lucky, you act lucky, and when you act lucky, you can't do it. Lucky things happen for you.

Jana Shelfer 0:38

You are lucky.

Jason Shelfer 0:39

Yes, 100%.

Jana Shelfer 0:41

Let me just tell you about a lucky little gem we came across yesterday. Right? We went out exploring in this little town of some people call it Mowayla.

Jason Shelfer 0:52

I call it Mowala.

Jana Shelfer 0:53

And it's it's very quaint. There's there's not a lot here. There's a lot of flies. I'll give it that.

Jason Shelfer 0:59

There's a ton of flies.

Jana Shelfer 1:01

You'll be talking to someone, and all of a sudden, like four flies will land on their face, and you're like, should I swap those? Should I literally just swap them on the face?

Jason Shelfer 1:09

You're like waiting for them. Like, are you gonna get them? Or do you want me to get them? What's the etiquette here?

Jana Shelfer 1:14

And then there's the little second grader inside me that says, you know what? Every time a fly lands, it pukes on you.

Jason Shelfer 1:20

Oh, I think it's laying eggs. Like that's like it's laying little baby flies. Oh no, I've got like this morbidity of it. Like I would rather think it's puking on you.

The Fly Situation And Laughter

Jana Shelfer 1:29

Let's move moving on. Moving on. We went exploring into this little town and we were looking for something to eat. And we went to two places that were closed. They often close their restaurants at two o'clock for some reason. I guess a small town. And take a little afternoon.

Jason Shelfer 1:48

It's like it's very much like Belleville, Kansas or Quincy, Florida, where I grew up. It's it's one of these small towns that when the lunch crowd comes through, once they're gone, it's pretty much open.

Following A Hidden Alley Sign

Jana Shelfer 1:58

It's yep, closing up time. So we went to two places, they were closed, and then all of a sudden we're walking down the street and I see this alleyway, and there's this little sign that says homemade food and an arrow.

Jason Shelfer 2:12

Yeah. And I was like, Like a two and a half foot alley, not like an alley like you could drive a car down.

Jana Shelfer 2:16

I think maybe we should go this way. And he's like, Where? Because he literally couldn't see it. Totally missed it. A crack between two buildings.

Jason Shelfer 2:24

If you're standing too close to the wall, you're gonna miss it.

Jasmine, Art, And A Quiet Oasis

Jana Shelfer 2:27

So we gallop through this little alley, and literally my wheelchair barely fit. Like it was scraping on both sides. And I'm I'm thinking, what are we doing? If we get stuck, we're not gonna be able to go back. Yes, we're gonna have to literally back out the way we came because there's no turning around. We go through this little alleyway between the two buildings, and then all of a sudden we start seeing painted artwork, yes, and which just draws me in.

Jason Shelfer 2:57

Yeah, and a wall of jasmine, like this huge wall of jasmine that you could smell. And birds chirping. It was almost like I was waiting for Snow White to come skipping across the lawn.

Erin’s Kitchen And Personal Touch

Jana Shelfer 3:10

Me too. That's how it felt. And then, like as we kept going deeper and deeper in this rabbit hole, it just kept getting more and more beautiful, kind of magical, quaint and magical. And then we come around this corner and literally it was the cutest little area. I was so in awe of what we had found.

Jason Shelfer 3:35

It's too bad the food wasn't great.

Jana Shelfer 3:37

Oh, no, no, no. Stop.

Jason Shelfer 3:39

I was just kidding.

Jana Shelfer 3:40

Stop right there. I gotta tell you right now, the food was exceptional. It really was. And there was one little lady back there.

Jason Shelfer 3:50

Erin.

Jana Shelfer 3:50

Erin was her name, and literally, like she had this little menu that she had made, and then you would say, What are your smoothies like? And she was like, Well, I only have enough ingredients for one smoothie. So, like, it was very, very. I only have one, I only have enough ingredients. Okay, that's a little British there. Anyway, so it was just very personal. Don't you think it was very personal?

Jason Shelfer 4:17

It was almost like you've just gone to a friend's house and they've they're gonna make you whatever you want.

Jana Shelfer 4:23

But but in the grand scheme of things, we as we sat in this little backyard with our little birds chirping and the smell of jasmine and the painted wall of art.

Jason Shelfer 4:34

Yes.

Stillness, Gratitude, And Feeling Lucky

Routines, Discipline, And Nuance

Jana Shelfer 4:34

And I mean, they had like a little herb garden back there where they would get their little fresh herbs and she would go out there. Like I have the chicken tacos, and she goes out there and gets her little fresh herbs and puts them on my tacos. And we're having fresh brewed iced tea, which here I'm like, Can you put it on ice? And she looked at me like, Are you crazy? But okay, we'll do that. And as we sat back there, we were the only ones because it was three o'clock in the afternoon. I just felt like the world stopped. And I felt lucky. And the point that I want to make today is that sometimes in our everyday life, we get into routines, we get into habits. Now, don't get me wrong, routines and habits are good if you're working toward a goal or whatnot.

Seek Newness And Light Up The Soul

Jason Shelfer 5:27

But sometimes it's the discipline of those, it's picking the right routines, the right habits, and having the discipline to stay with those. But it's also, I hear what you're saying is it's finding that nuance of exploring. Where do we explore? Where do we find the newness in life? We need new experiences.

Jana Shelfer 5:47

We need to put ourselves in new environments. We need to put ourselves with new people, meeting new people and experiencing new things. And when you do, there's something inside your soul that just, or at least for me, there's something inside my soul that lights up. And I I woke up this morning feeling incredible to the point where I'm like, I gotta shower. I never say that. Like showering is like, okay, I got a shower. But today I was like, I gotta shower. I gotta blow dry my hand.

The Law Of Habituation

Jason Shelfer 6:22

It's a new excitement. It's it's one of those things where when we get out of that law of habituation, it is the we find little hints of inspiration that we get to lean towards. Yes. And that's a beautiful thing. And a lot of times we will find that even in our everyday life. We'll hear that little whisper of, I wish that I had this, or we'll hear that whisper in our soul of I I I want more of that. Yes. You know, but we let it be a flicker in ourselves instead of lighting that flame when that flicker happens.

Honor The Inner Whisper

Jana Shelfer 6:53

Why do we we sometimes ignore that little voice because it's convenient to ignore it?

Jason Shelfer 6:59

Yeah, well, we act like it's like we're lazy. We act like it's a knock on the door from a solicitation. Yeah, we do. We're like, we want to lay on the couch, ignore the colour.

Jana Shelfer 7:07

And then we're like, why are you bothering me? I'm fine on the couch just watching Netflix.

Why We Slide Back To Sameness

Jason Shelfer 7:11

Yeah, we say, we'll get to that later. I'm doing something right now. And then what happens is we never come back to it. Like when people go on vacation, they recognize because that's new. That's something they they've gotten excited about, they've thought about it, and they say, Oh my gosh, I I'm waiting on this. And they get they get so much work done in the lead up to the vacation, and then they go on vacation and then they start having all this newness and excitement in their lives, and they're and their soul is saying, Thank you, I want more of this, and then they go back to sameness.

Jana Shelfer 7:46

Yes.

Jason Shelfer 7:46

And while they're on vacation, they're they're I guarantee you, their soul and their brain and their heart and everything is saying, I need more of this in my life on a regular basis. I need more of this in my life on a regular basis. However, when that first workday hits, when Monday morning rolls around, they go back to the same.

Jana Shelfer 8:04

So why why do we go back to the same? Because there was something inside me yesterday that literally said, I need more of this.

Accountability And Small Changes

Jason Shelfer 8:13

Yeah, I and it's just making that conscious decision. And sometimes you sometimes we need an accountability coach or accountability partner that says, How do we how do we just add a little bit of that today and tomorrow? And what are we doing to get out of our comfort zone? Or what are we doing to make a small change?

Jana Shelfer 8:32

I also want to say, I feel like there is this I mean, we can all come up with excuses, right?

Jason Shelfer 8:39

Oh, excuses.

Jana Shelfer 8:41

But for me, there's this wall of tiredness. Do you know what I'm saying? Like energy is probably my biggest vice of oh gosh, I don't know if I have the energy. However, when I pushed through that wall and said, you know what? I'm not going back to the room right now because if I go back to the room, I'm gonna lay down, go to bed, I'm gonna go explore. And I ended up having the best time. And you gained energy. I did.

Energetic Thermostat And Reset

Jason Shelfer 9:07

So think about that, because that's a lot of times what happens is when we are in that routine, our energy starts dissipating over time because we're so used to it.

Jana Shelfer 9:18

And then that becomes our norm.

Jason Shelfer 9:20

Yes, it's that emotional thermostat or that energetic thermostat of my battery is continues to run low and then it just gets lower and lower and lower and lower.

Jana Shelfer 9:30

Did you just coin that term energetic thermostat? I don't know.

Simple Ways To Fan The Flame

Jason Shelfer 9:34

I haven't I don't remember reading that anywhere, but I know that I emotional thermostat, if you have an emotional thermostat, we're we're bound to have an energetic thermostat, a love thermostat, a spiritual thermostat, spiritual thermostat, a fun thermostat. Everything has its norm and we tend to relax or rest into it. And how and how do we just increase it? Like how do we choose to fan the flame?

Jana Shelfer 10:01

Yes.

Jason Shelfer 10:03

And that's what we've done.

Invitation To Explore And Closing

Jana Shelfer 10:04

Okay, so I just want to say fan the flame today by exploring something new, whether that's a new hobby, whether that's meeting a new friend, whether that's visiting a new place or a new coffee shop or a new environment. Yeah. Explore, explore, get outside of your everyday norm. Yeah, take a different route to work. Or maybe just hop on a plane and come to Moela, Australia.

Jason Shelfer 10:33

Come on down, come on down, undone, Might.

Jana Shelfer 10:36

We'll see you here, Mike. That's right. Thanks for joining us.

Jason Shelfer 10:39

Keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer 10:40

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