August 15, 2025 • 15 mins
Rediscover Your Happiness (Living Lucky® Podcast)
Ever felt disconnected from what truly makes your soul sing? You're not alone! In this episode, Jason and Jana Banana reveal a powerful, often overlooked tool for rediscovering happiness: your own photo gallery!
Forget endlessly scrolling through others' highlight reels. This episode shares groundbreaking insights for personal development and self-help:
- The "Lucky Lens" Technique: Learn how viewing your own photos with a "lucky lens" of gratitude uncovers undeniable patterns of genuine happiness and abundance in your life.
- Beyond Comparison: Discover why looking at others' pictures fosters scarcity, while your own photos reveal the wealth of joy you already possess. This simple shift in mindset is a game-changer!
- Soul Signposts: Identify moments where you radiate an undeniable energy or "aura." These aren't just memories; they're direct signposts to what truly fulfills your soul and can guide your future.
- Embrace All Emotions: Even photos that stir uncomfortable emotions like envy or disappointment are valuable! These feelings are your soul communicating its deepest desires and limiting beliefs that may be holding you back.
- Sprinkle That Joy Spice: Once you identify your joy patterns, learn how to proactively schedule those happiness-sparking activities into your daily and weekly life, creating more authentic joy.
This episode offers a refreshing perspective on reconnecting with your authentic self. It's about cultivating positive thinking, understanding how perspective shapes your experience, and reclaiming the invincibility and excitement you may have felt in earlier decades.
Ready to unlock your own personal roadmap to joy and Living Lucky®? Tune in, then take our powerful challenge to explore your photo timeline with fresh, discerning eyes! Your happiest self is waiting to guide your next chapter.
How to find happiness again. Rediscovering authentic joy in life. Gratitude practice with personal photos. Mindset shifts for happiness. Emotional well-being through memory review. Connecting with your soul's desires. How to create more joy daily. Benefits of a positive perspective on memories. How can I find what makes me truly happy? Can old photos help you discover happiness? How do personal photos reveal joy pat
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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 start LivingLucky®.
Good morning.
I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we areLiving Lucky®.
You are too.
Do you ever question yourself Idon't know what makes me happy.
(00:23):
Where's happiness?
Where do I go?
I don't even know what I like.
I don't know what makes mehappy.
Where's happiness?
Where do I go?
I don't even know what I like.
I don't even know me anymore.
Jason Shelfer (00:30):
Oh, I've been through that.
Yeah, yes, yes, I've been there.
Jana Shelfer (00:36):
Where I, you know, I'll even reach out to someone
to get their professional helpand they'll say you know what,
Janna, do, what you love?
And I'm like I don't know whatthat is, I don't remember.
I'm trying to please people mywhole life.
I'm trying to make everyoneelse happy.
I don't even remember whatlights me up, except laying on
(00:57):
the couch and taking a big fatnap.
Jason Shelfer (00:59):
I had convinced myself that work made me happy.
Like working so much.
Jana Shelfer (01:05):
I do think work makes you happy though.
Jason Shelfer (01:07):
Work does Work made me happy.
This is so.
This is the thing I would.
I convinced myself that givingeverything to the job made me
happy.
What I didn't realize was thatthere's life outside of work
Like I was giving a commitmentto something that didn't
necessarily have a commitment tome.
It provided and I was reallygood at it, and I think that's
(01:32):
where the misnomer comes in isthat I was.
I was so good at it that I Ididn't have a lot of failure in
it.
So there was comfort, there wasknowing that I could continue
in that and there would be afilling of my cup in some way.
Jana Shelfer (01:54):
Okay, well, today we're talking about.
Jason's been looking throughold pictures and our pictures
tell a story.
So if there is, one thing thatsocial media, or Instagram, or
Facebook, or even our iPhonesthemselves have lent us to it's
looking back at our patterns.
Jason Shelfer (02:16):
Yeah, and our cell phones are such a big tool,
and this is the thing for me.
Jana Shelfer (02:22):
But here's the thing.
It depends on how you perceivethat how you use it, how you use
that Because Jason looks at hisphotos from you know an old
photo will pop up and he justgets all misty eyed, I get giddy
.
And he literally gets into thisstate of.
I am just so proud.
Jason Shelfer (02:41):
Grateful, grateful, all these good
feelings.
You get into a lucky seat.
Jana Shelfer (02:45):
I really do you really do you get into?
I am so blessed, I am so lucky.
Jason Shelfer (02:49):
And I think that's where I was talking about
with that.
I tricked myself into believingthat I loved work, because what
I'm looking for right now iswhere does your soul feel
happiest?
Soul feel happiest Like?
What is?
What is that feeling in yoursoul?
Where you're like?
I know me and this is the real.
This is the me that wants toexist in the world.
Jana Shelfer (03:11):
Okay, but that's.
That's a really great point,because I don't think most
people are intimate enough withtheir soul to know when it is
really beaming.
I feel like people are justkind of going through the
motions we're busy, being busyand we have lost touch with that
(03:34):
soul connection.
In fact, I believe if you talkto a little kid, that's what
makes them so great sometimes.
Yes, absolutely, because theyare very in touch with their
soul, their dreams they're likethe world is my oyster.
Jason Shelfer (03:48):
All this and I think I almost believe I'm not a
psychiatrist or psychologist,but I almost believe that it's
because we spend so much timelooking at other people's
pictures and telling ourselveswhat we don't have Right don't
have Right.
So we look at other people'spictures and we say I want that
(04:09):
which subconsciously says Idon't have it?
Yes, but if we go through ourown pictures, we get to look
back and experience all theabundance and joy and we see
these little moments in ourlives in our own history.
Jana Shelfer (04:20):
It's if you look at those pictures with, look at
all I have, look at thoseopportunities, look at those
experiences, look at thosewonderful people that have
shared those experiences with meor have come into my life.
Jason Shelfer (04:32):
If you scroll through enough pictures, I
submit that you will ultimatelyget to a picture or a time frame
in your life where you will saythat's it.
That was a time when I feellike there was energy, there was
spark, there was this happinessabout me.
Jana Shelfer (04:49):
And I think that's a you thing, do you?
Yeah, because I have picturesthat.
So in the last month I've hadto get out a lot of those
pictures for the Hall of Fameand for-.
Jason Shelfer (05:02):
Going through your mom and dad stuff pictures
for the hall of fame and forgoing through your mom and dad
stuff.
Jana Shelfer (05:05):
So I have been going through pictures, pictures
, pictures for me.
Jason Shelfer (05:11):
It is emotionally exhausting, really.
Yes Wow.
Jana Shelfer (05:14):
And even even so.
And that's, that's picturesfrom childhood.
Now, if I go back and look,even at pictures from the last
five years, I still feelsomething.
That's not necessarily a it'snot the feeling I want to feel.
Jason Shelfer (05:30):
Is that because?
Jana Shelfer (05:31):
I go back and I look at this career we've been
creating.
Jason Shelfer (05:35):
Is this high achiever syndrome?
Jana Shelfer (05:37):
It might be, but I look at you and I almost envy
sometimes the way you get I mean, jason and I can get in a fight
and he just goes to his phoneand starts scrolling through
photos and is like I love mywife, I love everything about
her.
(05:57):
I don't always do that.
Jason Shelfer (05:59):
Well, in my mind, we can get into an argument.
We can have this moment ofdisconnection right.
It's that argument where weboth planted our feet and it's
usually me planting my feet.
Actually, I would say it'sprobably 50-50.
Sometimes you'll plant yourfeet in a direction which puts
me in a position to plant myfeet because it's natural.
Jana Shelfer (06:20):
Yeah, I feel like it's natural for people to do
this no, in fact, I almost feelI want to be right too and it's
almost a way of evolving rightand it's and it is a form of
connection.
Jason Shelfer (06:33):
If you look at it like it's a form of engagement,
like arguing is a form ofengagement, not always the best.
Jana Shelfer (06:41):
Yeah, you're right Right.
But, you're right, but no,there's sometimes when I'm just
looking for an argument and I'mlike I don't know why I'm
provoking this.
Jason Shelfer (06:49):
Let's get those juices flowing.
Jana Shelfer (06:50):
I literally feel myself provoking this and I
could choose something different.
I could choose to just laugh orput a banana up in my face or
nibble on his ear and smile.
Yeah, like I could totallychoose other options right now,
but I am choosing to light youup somehow.
Let's get his testosterone upRight, yeah, and there's
(07:10):
something that inside me is likenow we're talking, now you're
in the game, now you hear me.
Jason Shelfer (07:16):
There's my man, and now he's pissed.
So then there's that, and whatI'll do is I'll, so then I could
walk away and start gettingangry at us, right.
Jana Shelfer (07:30):
Yeah, which is exactly what I do.
Jason Shelfer (07:35):
I don't believe you.
Jana Shelfer (07:35):
I walk away and I'm like I don't know, I don't
say that.
But I say why?
Why is this happening?
Jason Shelfer (07:44):
Why is he like that?
And I'll go look at pictures ofus or just think about, um, all
the the amazing parts of ouryou literally look at at we get
in a fight.
Jana Shelfer (07:56):
You look at our pictures and you go.
That's why we're so connected.
That is why we just get eachother on every realm.
We are just.
We are like Legos and all fourlittle cylinders are plugged in.
Jason Shelfer (08:13):
We might have one piece hanging over every now
and then, but it's all right,that's just something else to
build on.
Jana Shelfer (08:21):
Which is why you're so great.
I will say that, like whenpeople say, jano, what is the
secret to a happy marriage?
Jason and I have been marriedfor 20 years, I literally say
it's being married to JasonShelfer.
That is the secret.
Jason Shelfer (08:37):
I don't know about that.
I think it's the willingness toplay together.
Jana Shelfer (08:44):
Yes and okay.
So, that being said, let's tiethis up, because when I do look
back at our pictures, in fact,sometimes the thought that's
really been going through myhead right now is we're just
playing house, and we areplaying house unlike anyone else
in the world.
Jason Shelfer (09:04):
And it's, and it looks like.
I go back to our pictures andit almost looks like make
believe to me, like the wherewe've gone, the things that
we've done, the, the experiencesthat we've had, the, I think,
the joy that I see in myselfwhen I'm with you, when I'm
doing things with you.
So there's a piece of me thatsays, okay, look at everything
(09:29):
that we've been through.
Yes, now what do we want to gothrough or go to?
And I get to set these littlemile markers on the next part of
our journey and say, okay, well, let's start aiming the boat or
the car towards that, andthat's a fun experience.
(09:49):
And we're going to have theselittle detours, we're going to
have these little pit stops orengine failures, whatever it is,
and recognize that it's notwhere we need to focus.
Jana Shelfer (10:04):
I'm going to step in here.
So today's call to action is tolook through 50 photographs.
Jason Shelfer (10:11):
I would say, look through five years of
photographs.
Jana Shelfer (10:14):
Look through five years of photographs and you can
either spend two minutes, fiveminutes, 10 minutes, whatever
you want to do.
Scroll through your oldphotographs for the last five
years and then what is the nextstep?
There, it's ask yourself howlucky am I?
Jason Shelfer (10:32):
Yes, and where are those little moments of
happiness, joy, excitement, andthen start putting little pieces
of that in today and tomorrowand to next week, schedule it?
Jana Shelfer (10:43):
So recognize what feelings, emotions are coming up
when I look at these photos,because our feelings, our
emotions are, literally, theyare just guardrails that are
sending us directly to ourdestiny and sometimes, like I
had I won't mention the namecame up to me and said you know,
(11:07):
when I look back at my photos,I actually feel almost jealousy,
or envy, or disappointment, ormaybe a feeling that's not so
high frequency.
And I say lean into that feeling.
Lean into that becausesometimes it's not only looking
(11:31):
through those photos and findingthe ones that literally made us
laugh and bring us joy and welooked extremely happy, but also
the ones that bring those, thatstir those emotions that we
might perceive as negativeemotions, because sometimes that
is our soul saying that's whatI want.
(11:54):
But that's my biggest fear.
There's something that's fearfulin that.
Jason Shelfer (12:13):
And that's exciting, like if we can just
change that energy slightly,transmute it slightly, you'll
realize.
Oh wait, would have to scrollall the way back to my 20s,
right, it's uh to be happy well,yeah, to find that excitement,
that exuberance, because in your20s you think I'm gonna conquer
the world what is that there is?
Jana Shelfer (12:30):
there was something in my 20s like I can
do anything I can.
Jason Shelfer (12:35):
I'm reckless, you know.
Jana Shelfer (12:36):
It's like there was an excitement there of
unfolding what is my reality.
Jason Shelfer (12:42):
You don't feel like you can be hurt by life or
by people.
Jana Shelfer (12:47):
There's that invincibility.
Jason Shelfer (12:50):
Yes, so this is the thing as we grow through the
decades, we're really if, if welook at it realistically and
holistically, we get moreexperience to learn from, so we
can actually get better and morefulfilling through the decades.
Jana Shelfer (13:08):
Yes.
Jason Shelfer (13:09):
But a lot of times we want to put a pin in it
and say well, I was unaware inmy 20s, so I felt invincible.
Jana Shelfer (13:17):
Yes.
Jason Shelfer (13:17):
And I was able to act accordingly, which created
these amazing experiences.
And then I started letting goof that, because I built these
prison walls around myselfthrough responsibility and
choices of, of surroundingmyself with comfort and and
security, not saying throweverything away and caution to
(13:40):
the wind, but I am saying lookfor the joy and sprinkle that
spice.
Sprinkle that joy spice intoday, tomorrow and next week.
Jana Shelfer (13:46):
Okay.
So what you're looking for iswhat you're going to find.
So the challenge today is tolook through-.
Jason Shelfer (13:52):
Your own photos.
Jana Shelfer (13:52):
Your own photos and don't look through them with
a lens of speculation, judgment, critical eye and this isn't
like we are looking throughthose photos, microscopic on
each picture.
Jason Shelfer (14:06):
This is just like kind of scrolling quickly
through the months and the weeksThrough the photos through the
lucky lens.
Jana Shelfer (14:14):
Through the lucky lens, through the.
I feel lucky and when you dothat, you'll start seeing.
Okay, wait a minute, I havelike an aura about me in this
photo.
There is an energy there.
I am putting out some sort ofvibe.
I want to experience that.
So let's do whatever I'm doingin that photo, whether it's
cleaning otter poop off of thedock.
(14:37):
Because, it's my brand new dock, because that made me laugh.
Jason Shelfer (14:43):
Why is there otter poop on my brand new dock?
Jana Shelfer (14:48):
Okay, good, I can't wait to do this, and I'll
let you know how it goes.
Jason Shelfer (14:51):
I'm hoping that this will be fun for everyone.
Jana Shelfer (14:54):
This is definitely fun for you.
It is Because you do this allthe time.
I know Jason does this like 10times a day and it puts him in a
really great mood.
Jason Shelfer (15:02):
It's like my gratitude journal.
Jana Shelfer (15:04):
It's an unfightable state of mind
because when I try to provokeany kind of confrontation, he's
like you know what?
I'm just going to look at myphotos.
Realize how wonderful you are,honey.
Damn it.
Jason Shelfer (15:16):
You're right.
Thanks for joining us KeepLiving Lucky®.
Jana Shelfer (15:19):
Bye-bye.
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Are you ready to create a life you crave?
Let's spin that doom loop ofnegativity into an upward
success cycle and start LivingLucky®.
Good morning.
I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we areLiving Lucky®.
You are too.
Do you ever question yourself Idon't know what makes me happy.
(00:23):
Where's happiness?
Where do I go?
I don't even know what I like.
I don't know what makes mehappy.
Where's happiness?
Where do I go?
I don't even know what I like.
I don't even know me anymore.
Jason Shelfer (00:30):
Oh, I've been through that.
Yeah, yes, yes, I've been there.
Jana Shelfer (00:36):
Where I, you know, I'll even reach out to someone
to get their professional helpand they'll say you know what,
Janna, do, what you love?
And I'm like I don't know whatthat is, I don't remember.
I'm trying to please people mywhole life.
I'm trying to make everyoneelse happy.
I don't even remember whatlights me up, except laying on
(00:57):
the couch and taking a big fatnap.
Jason Shelfer (00:59):
I had convinced myself that work made me happy.
Like working so much.
Jana Shelfer (01:05):
I do think work makes you happy though.
Jason Shelfer (01:07):
Work does Work made me happy.
This is so.
This is the thing I would.
I convinced myself that givingeverything to the job made me
happy.
What I didn't realize was thatthere's life outside of work
Like I was giving a commitmentto something that didn't
necessarily have a commitment tome.
It provided and I was reallygood at it, and I think that's
(01:32):
where the misnomer comes in isthat I was.
I was so good at it that I Ididn't have a lot of failure in
it.
So there was comfort, there wasknowing that I could continue
in that and there would be afilling of my cup in some way.
Jana Shelfer (01:54):
Okay, well, today we're talking about.
Jason's been looking throughold pictures and our pictures
tell a story.
So if there is, one thing thatsocial media, or Instagram, or
Facebook, or even our iPhonesthemselves have lent us to it's
looking back at our patterns.
Jason Shelfer (02:16):
Yeah, and our cell phones are such a big tool,
and this is the thing for me.
Jana Shelfer (02:22):
But here's the thing.
It depends on how you perceivethat how you use it, how you use
that Because Jason looks at hisphotos from you know an old
photo will pop up and he justgets all misty eyed, I get giddy
.
And he literally gets into thisstate of.
I am just so proud.
Jason Shelfer (02:41):
Grateful, grateful, all these good
feelings.
You get into a lucky seat.
Jana Shelfer (02:45):
I really do you really do you get into?
I am so blessed, I am so lucky.
Jason Shelfer (02:49):
And I think that's where I was talking about
with that.
I tricked myself into believingthat I loved work, because what
I'm looking for right now iswhere does your soul feel
happiest?
Soul feel happiest Like?
What is?
What is that feeling in yoursoul?
Where you're like?
I know me and this is the real.
This is the me that wants toexist in the world.
Jana Shelfer (03:11):
Okay, but that's.
That's a really great point,because I don't think most
people are intimate enough withtheir soul to know when it is
really beaming.
I feel like people are justkind of going through the
motions we're busy, being busyand we have lost touch with that
(03:34):
soul connection.
In fact, I believe if you talkto a little kid, that's what
makes them so great sometimes.
Yes, absolutely, because theyare very in touch with their
soul, their dreams they're likethe world is my oyster.
Jason Shelfer (03:48):
All this and I think I almost believe I'm not a
psychiatrist or psychologist,but I almost believe that it's
because we spend so much timelooking at other people's
pictures and telling ourselveswhat we don't have Right don't
have Right.
So we look at other people'spictures and we say I want that
(04:09):
which subconsciously says Idon't have it?
Yes, but if we go through ourown pictures, we get to look
back and experience all theabundance and joy and we see
these little moments in ourlives in our own history.
Jana Shelfer (04:20):
It's if you look at those pictures with, look at
all I have, look at thoseopportunities, look at those
experiences, look at thosewonderful people that have
shared those experiences with meor have come into my life.
Jason Shelfer (04:32):
If you scroll through enough pictures, I
submit that you will ultimatelyget to a picture or a time frame
in your life where you will saythat's it.
That was a time when I feellike there was energy, there was
spark, there was this happinessabout me.
Jana Shelfer (04:49):
And I think that's a you thing, do you?
Yeah, because I have picturesthat.
So in the last month I've hadto get out a lot of those
pictures for the Hall of Fameand for-.
Jason Shelfer (05:02):
Going through your mom and dad stuff pictures
for the hall of fame and forgoing through your mom and dad
stuff.
Jana Shelfer (05:05):
So I have been going through pictures, pictures
, pictures for me.
Jason Shelfer (05:11):
It is emotionally exhausting, really.
Yes Wow.
Jana Shelfer (05:14):
And even even so.
And that's, that's picturesfrom childhood.
Now, if I go back and look,even at pictures from the last
five years, I still feelsomething.
That's not necessarily a it'snot the feeling I want to feel.
Jason Shelfer (05:30):
Is that because?
Jana Shelfer (05:31):
I go back and I look at this career we've been
creating.
Jason Shelfer (05:35):
Is this high achiever syndrome?
Jana Shelfer (05:37):
It might be, but I look at you and I almost envy
sometimes the way you get I mean, jason and I can get in a fight
and he just goes to his phoneand starts scrolling through
photos and is like I love mywife, I love everything about
her.
(05:57):
I don't always do that.
Jason Shelfer (05:59):
Well, in my mind, we can get into an argument.
We can have this moment ofdisconnection right.
It's that argument where weboth planted our feet and it's
usually me planting my feet.
Actually, I would say it'sprobably 50-50.
Sometimes you'll plant yourfeet in a direction which puts
me in a position to plant myfeet because it's natural.
Jana Shelfer (06:20):
Yeah, I feel like it's natural for people to do
this no, in fact, I almost feelI want to be right too and it's
almost a way of evolving rightand it's and it is a form of
connection.
Jason Shelfer (06:33):
If you look at it like it's a form of engagement,
like arguing is a form ofengagement, not always the best.
Jana Shelfer (06:41):
Yeah, you're right Right.
But, you're right, but no,there's sometimes when I'm just
looking for an argument and I'mlike I don't know why I'm
provoking this.
Jason Shelfer (06:49):
Let's get those juices flowing.
Jana Shelfer (06:50):
I literally feel myself provoking this and I
could choose something different.
I could choose to just laugh orput a banana up in my face or
nibble on his ear and smile.
Yeah, like I could totallychoose other options right now,
but I am choosing to light youup somehow.
Let's get his testosterone upRight, yeah, and there's
(07:10):
something that inside me is likenow we're talking, now you're
in the game, now you hear me.
Jason Shelfer (07:16):
There's my man, and now he's pissed.
So then there's that, and whatI'll do is I'll, so then I could
walk away and start gettingangry at us, right.
Jana Shelfer (07:30):
Yeah, which is exactly what I do.
Jason Shelfer (07:35):
I don't believe you.
Jana Shelfer (07:35):
I walk away and I'm like I don't know, I don't
say that.
But I say why?
Why is this happening?
Jason Shelfer (07:44):
Why is he like that?
And I'll go look at pictures ofus or just think about, um, all
the the amazing parts of ouryou literally look at at we get
in a fight.
Jana Shelfer (07:56):
You look at our pictures and you go.
That's why we're so connected.
That is why we just get eachother on every realm.
We are just.
We are like Legos and all fourlittle cylinders are plugged in.
Jason Shelfer (08:13):
We might have one piece hanging over every now
and then, but it's all right,that's just something else to
build on.
Jana Shelfer (08:21):
Which is why you're so great.
I will say that, like whenpeople say, jano, what is the
secret to a happy marriage?
Jason and I have been marriedfor 20 years, I literally say
it's being married to JasonShelfer.
That is the secret.
Jason Shelfer (08:37):
I don't know about that.
I think it's the willingness toplay together.
Jana Shelfer (08:44):
Yes and okay.
So, that being said, let's tiethis up, because when I do look
back at our pictures, in fact,sometimes the thought that's
really been going through myhead right now is we're just
playing house, and we areplaying house unlike anyone else
in the world.
Jason Shelfer (09:04):
And it's, and it looks like.
I go back to our pictures andit almost looks like make
believe to me, like the wherewe've gone, the things that
we've done, the, the experiencesthat we've had, the, I think,
the joy that I see in myselfwhen I'm with you, when I'm
doing things with you.
So there's a piece of me thatsays, okay, look at everything
(09:29):
that we've been through.
Yes, now what do we want to gothrough or go to?
And I get to set these littlemile markers on the next part of
our journey and say, okay, well, let's start aiming the boat or
the car towards that, andthat's a fun experience.
(09:49):
And we're going to have theselittle detours, we're going to
have these little pit stops orengine failures, whatever it is,
and recognize that it's notwhere we need to focus.
Jana Shelfer (10:04):
I'm going to step in here.
So today's call to action is tolook through 50 photographs.
Jason Shelfer (10:11):
I would say, look through five years of
photographs.
Jana Shelfer (10:14):
Look through five years of photographs and you can
either spend two minutes, fiveminutes, 10 minutes, whatever
you want to do.
Scroll through your oldphotographs for the last five
years and then what is the nextstep?
There, it's ask yourself howlucky am I?
Jason Shelfer (10:32):
Yes, and where are those little moments of
happiness, joy, excitement, andthen start putting little pieces
of that in today and tomorrowand to next week, schedule it?
Jana Shelfer (10:43):
So recognize what feelings, emotions are coming up
when I look at these photos,because our feelings, our
emotions are, literally, theyare just guardrails that are
sending us directly to ourdestiny and sometimes, like I
had I won't mention the namecame up to me and said you know,
(11:07):
when I look back at my photos,I actually feel almost jealousy,
or envy, or disappointment, ormaybe a feeling that's not so
high frequency.
And I say lean into that feeling.
Lean into that becausesometimes it's not only looking
(11:31):
through those photos and findingthe ones that literally made us
laugh and bring us joy and welooked extremely happy, but also
the ones that bring those, thatstir those emotions that we
might perceive as negativeemotions, because sometimes that
is our soul saying that's whatI want.
(11:54):
But that's my biggest fear.
There's something that's fearfulin that.
Jason Shelfer (12:13):
And that's exciting, like if we can just
change that energy slightly,transmute it slightly, you'll
realize.
Oh wait, would have to scrollall the way back to my 20s,
right, it's uh to be happy well,yeah, to find that excitement,
that exuberance, because in your20s you think I'm gonna conquer
the world what is that there is?
Jana Shelfer (12:30):
there was something in my 20s like I can
do anything I can.
Jason Shelfer (12:35):
I'm reckless, you know.
Jana Shelfer (12:36):
It's like there was an excitement there of
unfolding what is my reality.
Jason Shelfer (12:42):
You don't feel like you can be hurt by life or
by people.
Jana Shelfer (12:47):
There's that invincibility.
Jason Shelfer (12:50):
Yes, so this is the thing as we grow through the
decades, we're really if, if welook at it realistically and
holistically, we get moreexperience to learn from, so we
can actually get better and morefulfilling through the decades.
Jana Shelfer (13:08):
Yes.
Jason Shelfer (13:09):
But a lot of times we want to put a pin in it
and say well, I was unaware inmy 20s, so I felt invincible.
Jana Shelfer (13:17):
Yes.
Jason Shelfer (13:17):
And I was able to act accordingly, which created
these amazing experiences.
And then I started letting goof that, because I built these
prison walls around myselfthrough responsibility and
choices of, of surroundingmyself with comfort and and
security, not saying throweverything away and caution to
(13:40):
the wind, but I am saying lookfor the joy and sprinkle that
spice.
Sprinkle that joy spice intoday, tomorrow and next week.
Jana Shelfer (13:46):
Okay.
So what you're looking for iswhat you're going to find.
So the challenge today is tolook through-.
Jason Shelfer (13:52):
Your own photos.
Jana Shelfer (13:52):
Your own photos and don't look through them with
a lens of speculation, judgment, critical eye and this isn't
like we are looking throughthose photos, microscopic on
each picture.
Jason Shelfer (14:06):
This is just like kind of scrolling quickly
through the months and the weeksThrough the photos through the
lucky lens.
Jana Shelfer (14:14):
Through the lucky lens, through the.
I feel lucky and when you dothat, you'll start seeing.
Okay, wait a minute, I havelike an aura about me in this
photo.
There is an energy there.
I am putting out some sort ofvibe.
I want to experience that.
So let's do whatever I'm doingin that photo, whether it's
cleaning otter poop off of thedock.
(14:37):
Because, it's my brand new dock, because that made me laugh.
Jason Shelfer (14:43):
Why is there otter poop on my brand new dock?
Jana Shelfer (14:48):
Okay, good, I can't wait to do this, and I'll
let you know how it goes.
Jason Shelfer (14:51):
I'm hoping that this will be fun for everyone.
Jana Shelfer (14:54):
This is definitely fun for you.
It is Because you do this allthe time.
I know Jason does this like 10times a day and it puts him in a
really great mood.
Jason Shelfer (15:02):
It's like my gratitude journal.
Jana Shelfer (15:04):
It's an unfightable state of mind
because when I try to provokeany kind of confrontation, he's
like you know what?
I'm just going to look at myphotos.
Realize how wonderful you are,honey.
Damn it.
Jason Shelfer (15:16):
You're right.
Thanks for joining us KeepLiving Lucky®.
Jana Shelfer (15:19):
Bye-bye.
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