Stop Underestimating Yourself

Stop Underestimating Yourself: Jana's World Record Blueprint for Rapid Achievement! (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Ever felt limited by what you think is possible? On this inspiring Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jana Shelfer reveals her incredible 8-month journey from complete novice to USA water skiing team member and World Record Holder – shattering limiting beliefs about what's truly achievable!

This episode is a masterclass in personal development and self-help, packed with powerful "nuggets of wisdom":

• The Power of Intention: Discover how Jana's initial "what if" transformed into a world record through unwavering intention and consistent action, proving you can achieve extraordinary feats, even at age 50!
• Chunking Down Big Goals: Learn the strategic secret of breaking massive dreams into manageable monthly achievements, making the seemingly impossible, possible.
• Ask Better Questions: Instead of "This isn't working," adopt the game-changing question: "How can we make this work?" This mindset shift unlocks creative solutions and propels you forward through any obstacle.
• The Underestimated Year: Uncover the profound truth: "We overestimate what we can do in a day, but underestimate what we can do in a year." This principle explains how consistent effort over time leads to transformative results.
• Challenge the Universe: Learn Jana's unique practice of declaring her dream before achieving it (like Jim Carrey's famous check), programming her subconscious for success and challenging the universe to prove her right.

Whether you're pursuing a career change, learning a new skill, or tackling a long-held dream, this episode offers a clear blueprint for rapid achievement. It's about aligning your mindset with positive thinking, surrounding yourself with supportive people, and truly believing in your limitless potential.

Ready to stop underestimating yourself and start creating the life you crave? Tune in and Live Lucky® by turning your biggest dreams into reality!

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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 start LivingLucky®.
Good morning.
I'm.
Jana, I'm Jason and we areLiving Lucky® you are too.
I'm in the USA too.
What you should have told meDid the.

Jason Shelfer (00:22):
USA team.
You should have told me, I know.

Jana Shelfer (00:26):
I am telling you, a year ago this would have been
complete If someone would havesaid Jana, in one year you're
going to be on the US waterskiing team and you're going to
hold a world record.

Jason Shelfer (00:38):
Wake me up before you go, go.

Jana Shelfer (00:44):
Leave me hanging on like a yo-yo.
I have started singing.

Jason Shelfer (00:47):
It's a dream it's a dream, so it's.
It wasn't even on the radar, itlike it was a thought in the
far distance.
Mate, what if it was a?
What if it was definitely a?
What if, like a year ago, itwasn't even on the, on the?
It was more of a wtf if itwasn't a thought this is a child

(01:07):
before the thought ofconception.
It's crazy because it wasSeptember when you competed in
your first competition.

Jana Shelfer (01:18):
Which was on a whim.
It was totally on a whim.

Jason Shelfer (01:22):
Then it was finding the right coach, Then it
was the excitement of thejourney and finding the right
coaches finding the right people, a lot of crashes.
A lot of crashes and I hatethis sport.

Jana Shelfer (01:35):
I don't want to do this anymore.
Why am I doing this?

Jason Shelfer (01:38):
This is dangerous .

Jana Shelfer (01:39):
Do you realize I've been sore for about eight
months now.

Jason Shelfer (01:45):
I've literally been sore.
When you do things you've neverdone, your muscles are going to
be like what in the heck isgoing on here?

Jana Shelfer (01:52):
I've been living in my stretch though.
What in the hell?

Jason Shelfer (01:54):
That's going to be my new word.
What in the hell is going onhere?
What in the hell, oh my gosh,but we can't underestimate where
we might go when we allowthings to happen and when we
show up regularly with theintention of going somewhere
special.

Jana Shelfer (02:13):
I want to say.
I got out my ski journal thatI've been keeping and at the
very beginning of the year Iwrote in like big colorful
markers you used a whole page.
Yeah, I painted, I paintedseveral pages and I painted 2025
, USA World Team and thenunderneath it I said World

(02:35):
Record Holder Jana Schaufer.
It's almost like I made acertificate for myself.

Jason Shelfer (02:41):
It's kind of like Jim Carrey writing that $10
million check.

Jana Shelfer (02:44):
Which I need to do that next.
There you go, anyway, it hasall come to fruition.
What else is crazy is then, atthe end of January, we made
goals, specific goals, where wechunked things down and said by
February, I need to be doing a360 in each way, I need to be

(03:06):
doing a 540.
I need to be doing a 720 bythis time, and we just kept
knocking off the goals.

Jason Shelfer (03:13):
This is progress on a road trip.

Jana Shelfer (03:15):
I mean, we were looking for competitions to
enter.
There were none.
So I was like okay, what is thenext solution to this problem?
We started entering able-bodiedcompetitions.
Then there was a whole scoringissue and we had to reach out to
people who we didn't even knowwho to reach out to.

(03:36):
How can we make this happen?
And we started asking questions.
Instead of this isn't working,this isn't working.
We just kept asking thequestion how can we make this
work?

Jason Shelfer (03:47):
That's an incredible question to ask,
because oftentimes in workenvironments, in home
environments, we will say thingslike this isn't working,
instead of asking the questionshow might we make this work?

Jana Shelfer (04:01):
I'm telling you you ask better questions in your
life, you get better results, abetter quality of life.

Jason Shelfer (04:07):
One of the things when we couldn't find the
competitions also like.
First of all, I love that yousaid, look, I'll go compete in
an able-bodied competition, yes,but we created a competition
ski camps like, and we gotinvited to ski camps or clinics
where we could just get withpeer groups and say let's go

(04:28):
just practice together, let's goexperiment together.
And that was another form ofintention, almost like um little
pit stops along the way ofsaying what do you know that I
might need to know?
or what do I know that you mightneed to know, but we didn't
know much Like we were figuringit out day to day on the water
in front of the house here.

Jana Shelfer (04:48):
Yes.

Jason Shelfer (04:48):
But looking at someone else going, oh I can see
how that can get implementedand that was kind of the cool
thing to watch happenorganically.

Jana Shelfer (04:57):
Yes.

Jason Shelfer (04:57):
And putting the right people around us in the
sphere of influence.

Jana Shelfer (05:01):
You're right.
You know, Jason, it's almostlike we have done eight months
of mastery in this one endeavorand if you look at, I mean we've
put a lot of energy, time,money, attention, don't get me
wrong, we have poured ourselvesinto this.

(05:24):
We have done the work, we'veshown up.
However, if you look at theresults that we've gotten,
that's pretty incredible.

Jason Shelfer (05:32):
Yeah, I would say most people start at a very
young age to make a nationalteam, like most people.
This is like the Carolis, right, like you're going to start in
for gymnastics those don'tcompare us to the Corollis.

Jana Shelfer (05:49):
Let's not go there .
Bad analogy.

Jason Shelfer (05:50):
That's the first thing that came up from the
documentaries that we watch andstuff which probably isn't the
best, but people oftentimesstart at in the able-bodied
competitions we see theseven-year-olds, the
nine-year-olds, the 12-year-oldsthat are starting young so that
they could progress and growthrough the sport.
And you started at 50.

Jana Shelfer (06:09):
Let's not bring that up.
I feel like you're arguing thewrong, I'm just saying intention
.

Jason Shelfer (06:14):
In the last eight months you've made a national
team and you've set a worldrecord.

Jana Shelfer (06:17):
I have and I just want to tell people who are
listening to this weoverestimate what we can do in
an hour.
Who are listening to this?
We overestimate what we can doin an hour.
We definitely overestimate whatwe can do in a day.
We even overestimate what wecan do in a week.
We make these darn to-do listsand we put sometimes I'll make a
to-do list and put 20 items onit.

Jason Shelfer (06:40):
So true, me too.

Jana Shelfer (06:41):
And then, at the end of the week I almost feel
like oh my gosh, I didn't.

Jason Shelfer (06:45):
And then we beat ourselves up for not getting a
couple things done.

Jana Shelfer (06:52):
Yeah, I didn't even get a fourth of the way
through this list and it startsmaking me feel like I'm not
living up to my efficiency or myproductivity, or-.

Jason Shelfer (06:58):
Worthiness.

Jana Shelfer (06:59):
Yes, like I have so much more potential to unveil
and it's because of me and mytime management that I'm not
getting it done.

Jason Shelfer (07:07):
I'm not good enough.

Jana Shelfer (07:09):
However, when we look back at what we can do in a
month or a year, that's weoften underestimate.

Jason Shelfer (07:21):
That's magic and that's proven in this last eight
months, like, that's like.
I look at this last eightmonths and it's incredible, like
, but it is credible becausethere was so much intention and
I remember all the days thatthings didn't get completed.
You know what I'm saying?

Jana Shelfer (07:41):
many days, where I would go to bed and I would say
we didn't ski today.

Jason Shelfer (07:45):
Right.
Because it just didn't fit inor the weather wasn't
cooperating, or so many dayswhere we could have said things
went wrong, and I did say thingsdidn't happen the way we hoped
they would.
Today, However, the progresswas there.
That is true, and the work, theintention stayed, the attention

(08:06):
stayed and we got there.
And or you got there, we gotthere as a team, like cause.
Nothing happens in a vacuum.

Jana Shelfer (08:12):
Correct.

Jason Shelfer (08:12):
But it was just such an amazing, incredible
journey and I'm so proud of you.

Jana Shelfer (08:18):
Thank you.
I'm proud of us because itdefinitely has been a team
effort.
I know I've said that before.

Jason Shelfer (08:24):
Well, you're the one getting in the water when
it's so cold, yeah, but you'rethe one putting up with my maybe
not so positive attitude inthose moments.
I think this is an incrediblething.
I'm excited about a trip toAustralia.
It's figuring out how to payfor it.

(08:45):
It's going to be fun.

Jana Shelfer (08:46):
And I just want to say for anyone listening don't
underestimate what you can do ina month, a quarter or a year.
Think big, think big and thenalign your thoughts and your
feelings and your actionstowards that big dream, Because

(09:07):
you may be surprised andchallenge the universe to
surprise you.

Jason Shelfer (09:12):
That's the other thing.
That's really big.
And write it down Like youwrote it down and said this is
where I'm going and you keptlooking at it and saying where
am I going?
This is where I'm going,Reminding your subconscious to
look for the way.

Jana Shelfer (09:24):
Because often we look at the universe and we're
like, see, you proved me right,but we say it in a negative
connotation.
You proved to me that I wouldbe disappointed.
You proved to me that my dreamsaren't worthy.

Jason Shelfer (09:40):
Yeah, I can't get there.

Jana Shelfer (09:41):
So challenge the universe to prove you right and
then put it out there and followthrough, follow through so big
Lay back and let it happen.
Let the magic happen.

Jason Shelfer (09:55):
So big Thanks for joining us.
Keep Living Lucky® Bye-bye, letthe magic happen.
So bad Thanks for joining us.
Keep Living Lucky®, bye-bye.

Jana Shelfer (10:07):
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