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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Episode Transcript

Jana Shelfer (00:00):
Are you ready to create a life you crave?
Let's spin that doom loop ofnegativity into an upward
success cycle and startLiving Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer (00:14):
Good morning.

Jana Shelfer (00:15):
I'm Jana.
I'm Jason.
And we are live from Mowalla,Australia.

Jason Shelfer (00:21):
And we are Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer (00:23):
Yeah, that is.
I do feel so lucky, don't you?
Lucky is the state of mind, andwhen you feel that way, you
just create more of it.

Jason Shelfer (00:32):
That's right.
When you feel lucky, you actlucky, and when you act lucky,
you can't do it.
Lucky things happen for you.

Jana Shelfer (00:38):
You are lucky.

Jason Shelfer (00:39):
Yes, 100%.

Jana Shelfer (00:41):
Let me just tell you about a lucky little gem we
came across yesterday.
Right?
We went out exploring in thislittle town of some people call
it Mowayla.

Jason Shelfer (00:52):
I call it Mowala.

Jana Shelfer (00:53):
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 (00:59):
There's a ton of flies.

Jana Shelfer (01:01):
You'll be talking to someone, and all of a sudden,
like four flies will land ontheir face, and you're like,
should I swap those?
Should I literally just swapthem on the face?

Jason Shelfer (01:09):
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 (01:14):
And then there's the little second grader inside
me that says, you know what?
Every time a fly lands, itpukes on you.

Jason Shelfer (01:20):
Oh, I think it's laying eggs.
Like that's like it's layinglittle baby flies.
Oh no, I've got like thismorbidity of it.
Like I would rather think it'spuking on you.

Jana Shelfer (01:29):
Let's move moving on.
Moving on.
We went exploring into thislittle town and we were looking
for something to eat.
And we went to two places thatwere closed.
They often close theirrestaurants at two o'clock for
some reason.
I guess a small town.
And take a little afternoon.

Jason Shelfer (01:48):
It's like it's very much like Belleville,
Kansas or Quincy, Florida, whereI grew up.
It's it's one of these smalltowns that when the lunch crowd
comes through, once they'regone, it's pretty much open.

Jana Shelfer (01:58):
It's yep, closing up time.
So we went to two places, theywere closed, and then all of a
sudden we're walking down thestreet and I see this alleyway,
and there's this little signthat says homemade food and an
arrow.

Jason Shelfer (02:12):
Yeah.
And I was like, Like a two anda half foot alley, not like an
alley like you could drive a cardown.

Jana Shelfer (02:16):
I think maybe we should go this way.
And he's like, Where?
Because he literally couldn'tsee it.
Totally missed it.
A crack between two buildings.

Jason Shelfer (02:24):
If you're standing too close to the wall,
you're gonna miss it.

Jana Shelfer (02:27):
So we gallop through this little alley, and
literally my wheelchair barelyfit.
Like it was scraping on bothsides.
And I'm I'm thinking, what arewe doing?
If we get stuck, we're notgonna be able to go back.
Yes, we're gonna have toliterally back out the way we
came because there's no turningaround.
We go through this littlealleyway between the two

(02:50):
buildings, and then all of asudden we start seeing painted
artwork, yes, and which justdraws me in.

Jason Shelfer (02:57):
Yeah, and a wall of jasmine, like this huge wall
of jasmine that you could smell.
And birds chirping.
It was almost like I waswaiting for Snow White to come
skipping across the lawn.

Jana Shelfer (03:10):
Me too.
That's how it felt.
And then, like as we kept goingdeeper and deeper in this
rabbit hole, it just keptgetting more and more beautiful,
kind of magical, quaint andmagical.
And then we come around thiscorner and literally it was the
cutest little area.
I was so in awe of what we hadfound.

Jason Shelfer (03:35):
It's too bad the food wasn't great.

Jana Shelfer (03:37):
Oh, no, no, no.
Stop.

Jason Shelfer (03:39):
I was just kidding.

Jana Shelfer (03:40):
Stop right there.
I gotta tell you right now, thefood was exceptional.
It really was.
And there was one little ladyback there.

Jason Shelfer (03:50):
Erin.

Jana Shelfer (03:50):
Erin was her name, and literally, like she had
this little menu that she hadmade, and then you would say,
What are your smoothies like?
And she was like, Well, I onlyhave enough ingredients for one
smoothie.
So, like, it was very, very.
I only have one, I only haveenough ingredients.
Okay, that's a little Britishthere.

(04:11):
Anyway, so it was just verypersonal.
Don't you think it was verypersonal?

Jason Shelfer (04:17):
It was almost like you've just gone to a
friend's house and they'vethey're gonna make you whatever
you want.

Jana Shelfer (04:23):
But but in the grand scheme of things, we as we
sat in this little backyardwith our little birds chirping
and the smell of jasmine and thepainted wall of art.

Jason Shelfer (04:34):
Yes.

Jana Shelfer (04:34):
And I mean, they had like a little herb garden
back there where they would gettheir 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 putsthem on my tacos.
And we're having fresh brewediced tea, which here I'm like,
Can you put it on ice?
And she looked at me like, Areyou crazy?

(04:56):
But okay, we'll do that.
And as we sat back there, wewere the only ones because it
was three o'clock in theafternoon.
I just felt like the worldstopped.
And I felt lucky.
And the point that I want tomake today is that sometimes in
our everyday life, we get intoroutines, we get into habits.

(05:20):
Now, don't get me wrong,routines and habits are good if
you're working toward a goal orwhatnot.

Jason Shelfer (05:27):
But sometimes it's the discipline of those,
it's picking the right routines,the right habits, and having
the discipline to stay withthose.
But it's also, I hear whatyou're saying is it's finding
that nuance of exploring.
Where do we explore?
Where do we find the newness inlife?
We need new experiences.

Jana Shelfer (05:47):
We need to put ourselves in new environments.
We need to put ourselves withnew people, meeting new people
and experiencing new things.
And when you do, there'ssomething 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 morningfeeling incredible to the point

(06:13):
where I'm like, I gotta shower.
I never say that.
Like showering is like, okay, Igot a shower.
But today I was like, I gottashower.
I gotta blow dry my hand.

Jason Shelfer (06:22):
It's a new excitement.
It's it's one of those thingswhere when we get out of that
law of habituation, it is the wefind little hints of
inspiration that we get to leantowards.
Yes.
And that's a beautiful thing.
And a lot of times we will findthat even in our everyday life.
We'll hear that little whisperof, I wish that I had this, or

(06:42):
we'll hear that whisper in oursoul of I I I want more of that.
Yes.
You know, but we let it be aflicker in ourselves instead of
lighting that flame when thatflicker happens.

Jana Shelfer (06:53):
Why do we we sometimes ignore that little
voice because it's convenient toignore it?

Jason Shelfer (06:59):
Yeah, well, we act like it's like we're lazy.
We act like it's a knock on thedoor from a solicitation.
Yeah, we do.
We're like, we want to lay onthe couch, ignore the colour.

Jana Shelfer (07:07):
And then we're like, why are you bothering me?
I'm fine on the couch justwatching Netflix.

Jason Shelfer (07:11):
Yeah, we say, we'll get to that later.
I'm doing something right now.
And then what happens is wenever come back to it.
Like when people go onvacation, they recognize because
that's new.
That's something they they'vegotten 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 muchwork done in the lead up to the

(07:33):
vacation, and then they go onvacation and then they start
having all this newness andexcitement in their lives, and
they're and their soul issaying, Thank you, I want more
of this, and then they go backto sameness.

Jana Shelfer (07:46):
Yes.

Jason Shelfer (07:46):
And while they're on vacation, they're they're I
guarantee you, their soul andtheir brain and their heart and
everything is saying, I needmore of this in my life on a
regular basis.
I need more of this in my lifeon a regular basis.
However, when that firstworkday hits, when Monday
morning rolls around, they goback to the same.

Jana Shelfer (08:04):
So why why do we go back to the same?
Because there was somethinginside me yesterday that
literally said, I need more ofthis.

Jason Shelfer (08:13):
Yeah, I and it's just making that conscious
decision.
And sometimes you sometimes weneed an accountability coach or
accountability partner thatsays, How do we how do we just
add a little bit of that todayand tomorrow?
And what are we doing to getout of our comfort zone?
Or what are we doing to make asmall change?

Jana Shelfer (08:32):
I also want to say, I feel like there is this I
mean, we can all come up withexcuses, right?

Jason Shelfer (08:39):
Oh, excuses.

Jana Shelfer (08:41):
But for me, there's this wall of tiredness.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like energy is probably mybiggest vice of oh gosh, I don't
know if I have the energy.
However, when I pushed throughthat wall and said, you know
what?
I'm not going back to the roomright now because if I go back
to the room, I'm gonna lay down,go to bed, I'm gonna go

(09:01):
explore.
And I ended up having the besttime.
And you gained energy.
I did.

Jason Shelfer (09:07):
So think about that, because that's a lot of
times what happens is when weare in that routine, our energy
starts dissipating over timebecause we're so used to it.

Jana Shelfer (09:18):
And then that becomes our norm.

Jason Shelfer (09:20):
Yes, it's that emotional thermostat or that
energetic thermostat of mybattery is continues to run low
and then it just gets lower andlower and lower and lower.

Jana Shelfer (09:30):
Did you just coin that term energetic thermostat?
I don't know.

Jason Shelfer (09:34):
I haven't I don't remember reading that anywhere,
but I know that I emotionalthermostat, if you have an
emotional thermostat, we'rewe're bound to have an energetic
thermostat, a love thermostat,a spiritual thermostat,
spiritual thermostat, a funthermostat.
Everything has its norm and wetend to relax or rest into it.
And how and how do we justincrease it?

(09:57):
Like how do we choose to fanthe flame?

Jana Shelfer (10:01):
Yes.

Jason Shelfer (10:03):
And that's what we've done.

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 newfriend, whether that's visiting
a new place or a new coffee shopor a new environment.
Yeah.
Explore, explore, get outsideof your everyday norm.

(10:26):
Yeah, take a different route towork.
Or maybe just hop on a planeand 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):
Bye-bye.
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