The Seven-Day Audit: High-Performance Habits in Real Time

If a stranger watched a movie of your last seven days, would they believe you’re serious about your goals? In this episode of the Living Lucky® Podcast, Jason and Jana Banana help you audit your "life movie" to turn limiting beliefs into high-performance momentum.

We explore the power of immersion weeks, the necessity of recovery, and how to stop the "not enough" loop. Learn to trade perfection for progress and align your daily scenes with the life you crave.

In this episode, you will learn to:

• Conduct a Life-Movie Audit: Objectively view your habits through a stranger's lens.
• Master Focus Tradeoffs: Why "immersion" seasons require strategic pauses on routine.
• Read Bio-Feedback: Use soreness and sleep as indicators of aligned effort.
• Anchor Your Identity: Use micro-wins to sustain your high-performance "streak."

Mindset Nuggets for Soul-Aligned Momentum:

• Credit Over Critique: Tally the boring actions that compound. (Believe in yourself)
• Rest is Work: Recovery is the workshop where growth happens. (Believe in your circumstances)
• Recognition Fuel: Highlight where others hit the bullseye. (Believe in the people around you)
• Reshoot Tomorrow: Didn't like today's scene? Reshoot one action tomorrow. (Believe in a higher power)

Stop overthinking the destination; master the journey. Hit play to audit your week and start Living Lucky® today!

Self-help, Personal Development, Life Coaching, Mindset Shift, Positive Thinking, Limiting Beliefs, High Performance Habits.  How to achieve your goals faster, mindset for consistency, overcoming self-criticism, immersion learning techniques, recovery and growth for athletes, building better relationships through recognition, daily micro-wins for success.

Q: How do I know if I am truly serious about my goals? A: Apply the "Life as a Movie" lens. Audit your last seven days as if a stranger were watching. Look for visible evidence of your commitment: the early starts, the focus on learning, and the protection of small streaks. If your actions demonstrate consistent effort, you are serious. If not, choose one "scene" or habit to reshoot tomorrow to regain momentum.

Transcript

From Doom Loop To Success Cycle

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.

Speaker 2 0:15

I'm Jana. I'm Jason.

Jana Shelfer 0:17

And we are Living Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer 0:18

You are too.

The Week-As-A-Movie Mindset

Jana Shelfer 0:19

Here's the meme for the day. If someone watched you for a week, would they believe you're serious about your goals?

Jason Shelfer 0:28

That's so good.

Jana Shelfer 0:29

Oh wow.

Jason Shelfer 0:32

Yeah. And I think that's one of the things that a lot of times we we wonder are we doing the things that we need to do to get to where we want to go?

Credit, Recovery, And Enoughness

Jana Shelfer 0:42

You know, that just really hit me because you have often said, Jana, look at your life like it's a movie. Look at your life like it's a movie. And when I read this meme, if someone watched you for a week, would they believe you're serious about your goals? I don't even care what anyone else thinks. I just pretend, what would Jana think? What would Jana think if she was watching Jana for a week?

Jason Shelfer 1:03

And sometimes we need to look back and recognize and give ourselves the credit, like say, what am I look back and say, what have I done that's that's getting me there?

Speaker 1:12

Yes.

Jason Shelfer 1:13

Because a lot of times we don't give ourselves the credit that we deserve.

Speaker 1:16

Yes.

Jason Shelfer 1:17

And so and and we we give ourselves a lot of grief over those times that we're resting, those times that we're recovering, those the downtime that we do need.

Jana Shelfer 1:26

Oh, yeah, because there's an over-critical monster that lives inside me.

Jason Shelfer 1:32

A lot of times because we're not at the pinnacle or we're not quote unquote there yet, yes, we judge ourselves so harshly for not doing enough.

Jana Shelfer 1:43

But where is there? I mean, really, we we we have other podcasts where we say it's not there that matters, it's the journey that matters.

Jason Shelfer 1:52

So it's that there is no there's no there there, right?

Jana Shelfer 1:55

Which I've never understood that saying when when in politics or no there.

Jason Shelfer 2:01

Yeah, they're always saying I hated that saying, but so it's there's a it's the journey, and it's saying, is am I making the journey? Am I doing the little important things along the path? Yeah, am I having the experience? Am I am I am I doing the things that matter?

Listening To The Body

Jana Shelfer 2:18

And you know what? I feel like my body tells me when I am doing the right things. For example, when this week we're having ski camp, and I'm I'm sore. And I don't want to admit that to anyone, but I am sore. And when I go to bed, I am sleeping better. Do you know what I'm saying?

Jason Shelfer 2:37

It's a good, it's that second level sore. It's like a good it's like, oh, I need this downtime. I need this, I need some recovery time.

Jana Shelfer 2:45

So I'm sleeping better and I'm also pooping better.

Jason Shelfer 2:48

I need to do that. Oh, okay.

unknown 2:50

Sorry.

Jana Shelfer 2:51

Not that we want to go there, but I I feel like this week I've been doing the things that I need to do to get me to where I want to go.

Jason Shelfer 3:01

You're you're a well-oiled machine right now.

Jana Shelfer 3:04

Well, I don't know about that. It's only the first first training game.

Immersion Week And Focus Tradeoffs

Jason Shelfer 3:10

We've been well, we've had so this week is an immersion week.

Jana Shelfer 3:13

Yes.

Jason Shelfer 3:13

So we've got people coming the all over from the country and from Canada, or from the continent, I should say.

Jana Shelfer 3:19

Right.

Jason Shelfer 3:20

That are here and we're skiing, and we're skiing a lot.

Jana Shelfer 3:24

Yeah.

Jason Shelfer 3:24

We're eating healthy.

Jana Shelfer 3:26

But you know, not a not too terribly much. I mean, we've only been doing two sets a day, but in between sets, then we're watching video, we're talking about it constantly.

Jason Shelfer 3:35

So it's the mindset, there's a lot of it's the mechanics, it's the doing, it's the the the nitty-gritty, you know, it's all of it.

Jana Shelfer 3:43

It would be a very boring movie if you were to watch it for a week, which is what our topic is today. If someone watched you for a week, if your movie, if your life was a movie for one week, would they believe you're serious about your goals? And when you first brought this question up to me, I actually my first inkling was to say, I'm about 65%, which is a D. D minus. And and again, that's the critical little monster that lives inside me. I should name her.

Jason Shelfer 4:23

Well, a lot of times we'll we'll we'll pick a week and we'll say, we'll pick a week that's not great, and we'll say, we'll say, well, not this week, and then we'll judge all the other weeks on that.

Jana Shelfer 4:33

Because I immediately went to the things that I didn't do this week. For example, we missed our Jason and I are in a a wealth abundance class. Uh yeah, mastermind that's and it's on Sundays, and we we missed this week.

Jason Shelfer 4:48

Yeah, we had five people in the house and we were skiing and we missed it because it's in the middle of the day.

Jana Shelfer 4:53

I just did a podcast about how I joined the swim team that meets at 6 a.m. in the morning.

Jason Shelfer 4:58

Yeah, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And I've missed it.

Jana Shelfer 5:01

I've been so sore this week that I haven't been able to go.

Jason Shelfer 5:05

And we've got guests staying with us all week.

Streaks, Small Wins, And Pride

Jana Shelfer 5:08

So when I asked myself the question, wow, if I really look back at my week and my series about my goals and my first inkling was Jana, you gotta do better. Then I stopped and analyzed it more. And I was like, Well, you know what? One goal that I have this year is to build better relationships, and that's what I'm doing by having ski camp here, correct? Yeah, also I want to continue my journey of skiing, and we have one of the best coaches in the world here, and he's been we've been taking my technique apart and maybe rebuilding it a little bit.

Jason Shelfer 5:47

And so we have to look at, okay, we've got some things that are going over time and distance, yes, and we have an opportunity for an immersion experience. Yes, and we have this immersion experience where everyone has come to our house and living with us for a specific amount of time, now we maximize on that and we might have to put everything else on pause for a moment. So if we're looking at that and as a as someone, everyone looking at that from the outside, they're like, how do we get that experience? They must be serious about their goals.

Jana Shelfer 6:20

Yeah, because I'll tell you what, at 11:30 last night, as we were saying goodbye to our dinner guests, I got a notification, you haven't done your Duolingo, which my goal has been to learn Spanish, and I haven't missed a day since July. And so I I immediately like ran to the other room. I was like, I gotta do this for me. Me too. I gotta do this for me before midnight, because at midnight the day starts over.

Jason Shelfer 6:45

Not gonna miss that streak.

Jana Shelfer 6:47

Right. So there you start looking at those little things, and I uh we are doing it. I'm proud of us.

See The Best In Each Other

Jason Shelfer 6:53

I'm proud of us too. I think that if we were quote unquote checking the boxes on the pathway to all the things that we want to accomplish, we want to get done, the the people that we're becoming, and and our five-year-old people are who we were five, 10 years ago, yes, we'd be so proud of who we are today. They would want to be us. Absolutely, 100%.

Jana Shelfer 7:19

I also want to bring up the fact that isn't it odd that my first inkling was to go to how I'm not enough.

Jason Shelfer 7:30

Yeah.

Jana Shelfer 7:30

I think there's a psychological aspect there, and I think a lot of people can relate to that, whether you're a mom or whether you're trying to provide our first thing is, oh my gosh, I'm not doing enough.

Jason Shelfer 7:44

Where am I missing the bullseye?

Jana Shelfer 7:46

Yes. And then the more I look at it, I'm like, wow, I am doing okay.

Jason Shelfer 7:51

So I think the other part, the the shadow side of that is where are we seeing in our partners or in someone else in our life of where are that where's that person missing the bullseye? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, like we just naturally do that is that we're saying I don't think we naturally do that, but I think we can say where are they hitting the mark?

Jana Shelfer 8:12

Yeah, we need to reframe that.

Jason Shelfer 8:13

Where I think it's sometimes we can look for the best, right? Yeah, look for how is someone doing the best job that they they can in the moment, and then just recognize their wins for you.

Jana Shelfer 8:24

Yes.

Jason Shelfer 8:25

Like I I think you do a great job for me, like helping me see my wins, and hopefully I do a great job of for you.

Jana Shelfer 8:31

Oh, you're the best at helping you or in fact, you've been teaching me how to do that.

Jason Shelfer 8:36

Good.

Jana Shelfer 8:36

Uh, I will say in life, I feel like maybe that was your mission.

Jason Shelfer 8:41

One of your uh I'm the come I'm the little four-year-old in the commercial that's like, I was awesome. You were awesome.

Jana Shelfer 8:50

Almost to a delusion.

Jason Shelfer 8:51

We showed up, we made it to the ball game, and and I'm the one we lost 20 to zero, but we were great.

Jana Shelfer 8:58

That's not trying to pull you down. Like sometimes it may seem like I'm an anchor, but I'm here to make you better.

Jason Shelfer 9:05

Jason, you struck out every time, but I was a bat. I was great. I held it, I held the bat by the right end.

Celebrate You And Commit

Jana Shelfer 9:14

Oh, I love us. I do too. The more I look at our life in a week, I think we're doing it. Every time I get better, we need to celebrate. Celebrate you. If you're listening to this, celebrate you. Pretend you are watching your life in a movie and take a week span. And then ask yourself the serious question. If someone else was watching this, would they think I was serious about my goals? And even more so, as I watch this, do I think I'm serious about my goals? Thanks for joining us. Keep Living Lucky®.

Speaker 2 9:47

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