Surviving Your Storm

Surviving Your Storm: Your 100% Resilience Record & How to Master Any Challenge (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Feeling overwhelmed? Remember this powerful truth: you have a 100% success rate at surviving every single challenge life has thrown at you! On this empowering Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jason and Jana Banana reveal how to harness your innate resilience and transform your relationship with life's inevitable "storms."

Discover the "nuggets of wisdom" for personal development:

• Stop Counting Raindrops: Instead of focusing on negativity, learn to count your "micro-wins" and build undeniable confidence in your ability to overcome.
• Chunk Down Challenges: Feeling overwhelmed by the day? Learn to break down seemingly impossible tasks into manageable minutes or even seconds, building evidence of your strength with each small victory.
• Redefine "Treats": Are your go-to comforts truly helping your well-being, or are they leaving you feeling worse? Identify choices that genuinely support your mindset and goals.
• Master Your Inner Weather: Through personal stories (including a surprisingly hilarious airplane bathroom emergency!), we'll show you how to reframe difficult experiences into narratives of triumph and humor. You'll learn to create your own internal "weather," regardless of external circumstances.

This episode is packed with self-help strategies to spin your "doom loop" into an upward success cycle. Understand that resilience is a muscle that compounds over time, making you stronger and faster to bounce back. You're already a champion with a perfect track record—it's time to fully own your power!

Ready to transform your approach to life's challenges, cultivate positive thinking, and embrace a future where you Live Lucky® no matter what? Tune in and recognize the unstoppable survivor within you!

How to build resilience in difficult times. Strategies for overcoming overwhelming challenges. Tips for maintaining a positive mindset during adversity. Redefining self-care and treats. How to bounce back faster from setbacks. Practical self-help for stress and overwhelm. Developing emotional strength. Life lessons from surviving challenges. How to build resilience? What is a micro-win? How to cope with overwhelming situations? What are strategies for positive thinking during hard

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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®

Jason Shelfer (00:14):
Good morning.

Jana Shelfer (00:15):
I'm Jana, I'm Jason and we are Living Lucky®

Jason Shelfer (00:19):
You are too.

Jana Shelfer (00:20):
On rough days when you feel like you can't take it
anymore, remind yourself thatyour track record for surviving
a shit storm is 100%.
That's so big.
That is the quote of the day.

Jason Shelfer (00:34):
That's so big because oftentimes, when we're
going through the storm, itfeels like, oh my gosh, this is
the one that's going to take medown.
Yes, and we catastrophize it inthe moment because it's hard to
get objective about it.

Jana Shelfer (00:49):
This is so good, but now that I have been
reminded of this, it actuallymakes me very proud of myself
and I look back and go yeah,that's right, I've been through
it.
And you're a freaking championbecause you have I've been
through menopause, I mean anyonethat's gone through menopause
your power has just escalated.

(01:09):
That's my thought.

Jason Shelfer (01:13):
Yeah, and it felt in the time that you were going
through it like, oh my God,what is going on here?

Jana Shelfer (01:19):
I mean.

Jason Shelfer (01:20):
Everything is going like I'm sweating, I'm
moody, all these differentthings happening and it's like
will I ever get through this?

Jana Shelfer (01:28):
Even as of recently, Jason and I have been
through a couple of things andyou actually turned to me and
you said you know what, If thatwould have happened to us 10
years ago, it would have been.
It would have felt sodevastating, it would have been
huge.
But the way we just handledthat and went on and I mean one,
was where I got diarrhea on theairplane.

Jason Shelfer (01:51):
Are you with me?
Yeah, 100%, it could have been.
A it could have been a.

Jana Shelfer (01:56):
oh my God, I'm so embarrassed I'm never getting on
a plane again.

Jason Shelfer (02:00):
Right, let me off here, but we 50,000 feet.

Jana Shelfer (02:03):
But the way we worked together and the way we
we laughed about it in themoment, even though it was
really devastating.
That's crazy To be able tolaugh about it in the moment
Like, oh my gosh, I'm going tohave to borrow some stranger's
pants.
Yeah, like this lady isliterally opening up her bag
saying do you need some pants?

Jason Shelfer (02:25):
Who's got some yoga pants?

Jana Shelfer (02:27):
I've noticed you've been dripping on the way
to the toilet.

Jason Shelfer (02:32):
You didn't.
You actually didn't drip on theway to the toilet, okay, but it
felt like it.

Jana Shelfer (02:36):
It felt like it and I, literally I thought that
it was much worse in my mind.
At any rate, we got through it.

Jason Shelfer (02:45):
That's a literal shit storm.

Jana Shelfer (02:48):
Seriously, why did my mind go there right?
That's because of the quote, butI will say that the way we
talked about it and rememberedit afterwards really helped me
as well.
So not only in the moment whenwe were kind of laughing and
saying, you know, this too shallpass.

(03:08):
And then when we got off theplane and literally, you know,
got our bags and got to the car,did a little cleaning up at the
airport and got to the car, itfelt like we talked about it in
a way, not that it was this hugewound that we have to overcome,

(03:31):
that's big.
We talked about it in a waylike, oh my God, we just created
a story that nobody willbelieve yeah, and I think that's
where counting your micro winsis huge.

Jason Shelfer (03:42):
Where counting your micro wins is huge Because
so often we tell the story fromthe storm, from what happened to
me, instead of how I overcameand how I, how I won the moments
, the little moments within.
So it's like where am Iprotecting myself or where am I

(04:04):
defeating myself?
Or, I guess, where am I raisingmyself up or where am I putting
myself down?

Jana Shelfer (04:10):
Let me repeat this On rough days, when you feel
like you just can't take itanymore, it's those come on,
take me away.
Days.
Those days, remind yourselfthat your track record for
surviving a shit storm is 100%because we're here, yeah, and I
think you know, go ahead.

Jason Shelfer (04:30):
So my thought on this is a lot of times when
we're in the storm, we startcounting raindrops, like we
start counting how many thingsare happening to me, and we
build this big evidence pile ofall the devastation, all the
wreckage, all the things thatare happening during the storm,
instead of how I made it throughthis moment, like how I got

(04:53):
through just maybe this minute,sometimes when we're in it, it's
like give yourself credit formaking it to the next minute.

Jana Shelfer (05:02):
That's funny.
You bring this up because Ilearned this when I was a kid,
and I think my dad is the onethat taught it to me.
But when things seemed tough, Istarted to slow the processing
down in my mind.
It's not that I was slowingtime, but I was slowing the
processing where I would justmake it through the next hour,

(05:25):
just make it through the nexthour.
Okay, so it started out I'mjust going to make it through
today.
And then when today would gettough, I would say I'm just
going to make it through thenext hour.
And when that hour was like Ican't do it, then I started
literally looking at the clockgoing can I make it through the
next minute?

Jason Shelfer (05:40):
I'm stronger than the next minute.

Jana Shelfer (05:42):
Can I make it through the next second?
And you can literally chunk itdown and you start.
It's almost a mini way of ofbuilding confidence in yourself
because you're like well, wait aminute, I just made it through
that second.
Can I make it through five?

Jason Shelfer (05:58):
more Back in 2004 when I quit smoking yes, that
was like the addiction had me,but it was.
I had to tell myself I'mstronger than this next minute,
I'm stronger than these next 10minutes so that I could say I
don't.
I know I want to stop smoking,but it got so hard and then,

(06:19):
oftentimes, when I would relapse, it was because I quote unquote
said I deserve this.
Now I knew I didn't want to bea smoker.

Jana Shelfer (06:27):
We often say I deserve a treat, yeah, and we
treat ourselves like shit.
And then we go and smoke or wego and drink alcohol or we go
and eat For me it's eating candy, or eating something with bread
.

Jason Shelfer (06:42):
Yeah, I love Give me some of those nasty carbs.

Jana Shelfer (06:45):
Not the good ones.
Breaded carbs Give me some ofthose nasty carbs.
And so then, if you really stopand think about it, we say, oh,
I deserve a treat.

Jason Shelfer (06:56):
And then the question is am I?

Jana Shelfer (06:57):
treating myself well.

Jason Shelfer (06:59):
Yeah, if you, if you feel guilty at all after
your quote, unquote, treat, it'syour subconscious saying this
doesn't align with my goals,this doesn't align with where
I'm going.

Jana Shelfer (07:08):
No wonder I feel guilty after every freaking meal
.
That's funny.
Thanks for bringing that to myattention, because I literally
sometimes go to bed and I'mfeeling that it is, it's the
guilt.

Jason Shelfer (07:23):
It's a little bit of guilt or shame.
Like if you knew that you wereeating if you're doing
everything right with your diet.
Let's say, our goal is to lose100 pounds.

Jana Shelfer (07:32):
Oh my gosh, Lose 10 pounds.
Let's lose, jana.

Jason Shelfer (07:35):
Right.
Your subconscious knows what ittakes to do that.
We know what it takes to doeverything Like.
We know what it takes to berich, wealthy, healthy, all
these things, and we don't dowhat.
We know why.
Because a lot of times we'reliving in the storm and we're
not counting our wins.
Because when we have thatultimate confidence and when we
have, when we have been countingour wins and recognize that

(07:57):
we're champions for being heretoday, we can say I'm going to
go anywhere.
I want to go Because it doesn'tmatter what kind of storm comes
, it doesn't matter what'shappening, I'm a badass and I
can do it.
I have 100% track record ofsurviving every shit storm that
comes my way.

Jana Shelfer (08:12):
Yeah, you're going to remember that so I can go
anywhere.
No, in fact I think I'm anexpert at surviving shit storms.
I do Figuratively and literally.
I do think that I mean, we'vebeen through it, you and I have
been through it and I feel likeFrom the outside looking in, you
wouldn't know, oh, but we'vehad 10 years of it.

Jason Shelfer (08:32):
Right.

Jana Shelfer (08:33):
And now things are getting really good for us.
But the reason things aregetting really good for us is
because we literally took thetime, the effort, the energy,
the money to dive in and learnthe tools of how to overcome
adversity better.

Jason Shelfer (08:50):
Yeah, and I think one of the big things is, once
you get so accustomed tosurviving the storm, you start
creating your own weather.
So when you see the cloudscoming in, you change, you
create new circumstances and newthoughts and feelings around it
so that the outside, yourreality, changes.

Jana Shelfer (09:11):
So now, when you have confidence and you get
better at surviving the storm.
You're no longer hiding out inthe hole in the ditch.

Jason Shelfer (09:22):
You know you're going to get through it.
There's confidence in knowingyou're going to get through it,
so it doesn't really matter whathappens.
It's just another game.

Jana Shelfer (09:29):
And you bounce back faster.

Jason Shelfer (09:30):
So fast.

Jana Shelfer (09:32):
It's like a muscle you bounce back faster, you
recover faster and it almostseems like just another workout
and it takes less effort.

Jason Shelfer (09:42):
So the more you do it, the easier it becomes.
The quicker it happens andyou're back on track before you
even realized you fell off, ohmy gosh, I didn't realize I
needed this conversation thismorning, but you have really.

Jana Shelfer (09:58):
This has really helped me.

Jason Shelfer (10:00):
Well, and somebody out there right now is
thinking but you don'tunderstand what I'm going
through.
Oh, I know, I know, you knowwhat I'm saying.
Because we did this, because weall feel that we did this at
the beginning.

Jana Shelfer (10:09):
We all feel that and we all think you know what
Nobody could possibly understandand as you start reaching out
for someone to hear you, helpyou and hold you, you really do
think I am alone on this islandand my situation is so unique
that nobody could possiblyunderstand the feelings that I

(10:33):
am having and how this has allcome together in this giant
hurricane.

Jason Shelfer (10:40):
Yeah, and once you start working through this
process and once you've decidedto get into this, recognizing
that you're a champion,recognizing that you are built
for greatness and a purpose,then you will start recognizing
I can get through it.
Nothing's going to keep me fromwhere I'm going.

Jana Shelfer (10:56):
Let's read it one more time On rough days.
So if you're out there andyou're having a rough day, or a
rough week, or a rough month.
When you feel like I just can'ttake it anymore which we've all
had that thought, we've all hadthat feeling Remind yourself
that your track record forsurviving a shit storm is 100%.

(11:17):
That's an A plus, baby.
You are the valedictorian oflife circumstances.
There you go.
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