Travel Chaos

The Next Best Step: Performance Under Pressure & The Power of Adaptation 🇨🇦🇦🇺

Wheels Lost? The Single Question for Performance Under Pressure 🇦🇺

A 30-hour travel haul ends in disaster: a world-class team's wheelchair wheels are missing at the World Water Ski Championships.

This self-help playbook for high-stakes setbacks shows how one mindset shift—"What's the next best step forward?"—replaced a blame spiral with immediate resilience.

You'll master adaptation under pressure:

• The Crisis Question: "What's the next best step?" collapses frustration into aligned action.
• Community as Tool: Borrow competence from people, not objects, as local heroes sourced spare wheels.
• Accept Imperfection: Embrace the champion mindset: "different but doable."

Discover micro-tools like breathing resets to clear cognitive load and the essential shift to prioritizing people over equipment. Performance lives in your next decision.

Actionable Takeaways for Resilience & Focus:

• The Next Best Step: In crisis, ask the question to combat the blame spiral and simplify variables.
• Prioritize People Over Gear: Gear is replaceable; people are essential. Borrow competence from your community
• Embrace 'Different but Doable': Choose progress over perfection. An imperfect solution is the bridge to your goal.
• Mental Recovery is Key: Frustration increases cognitive load. Use quick breathing resets to redirect energy back to purpose.
• Chunk the Problem: Simplify when variables multiply. Conquer issues leg by leg (e.g., sharing chairs first).
• Value of Crisis: Performance lives in your next decision, not the chaos of the road behind (Believe in yourself).

Hit play to learn how champions steady their hands when disaster strikes!

• How to manage crisis when high stakes are involved.
• The role of community in managing personal setbacks.
• Adapting to imperfect solutions for goal achievement.
• The difference between blame and constructive action.
• "What is the best mindset shift for managing a high-stakes setback?"
• "How does asking 'What's the next best step?' help

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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 Living Lucky®.
You are too live from Mulwala,Australia.

Jason Shelfer (00:23):
Mulwala.
Mulwala.

Jana Shelfer (00:26):
Jason's making up little tunes.
Little Diddies.
I have a hard timeunderstanding the language.
Dialect.
And I know that sounds socrazy.

Jason Shelfer (00:35):
You should have been taking the Duolingo for
Australia, like I have.

Jana Shelfer (00:40):
When people tell me stories, the locals, I
literally look at them like,please don't ask me a question
at the end of this because Idon't understand exactly what
you're saying.
Something about your Dundies?
Yeah.

Jason Shelfer (00:56):
I got some of it.

Jana Shelfer (00:57):
Anyway, today we are talking about adaptation.

Jason Shelfer (01:03):
Adaptation.

Jana Shelfer (01:04):
You started before I even said that.
Here's the story.
The Canadian team came inyesterday.
Now we trained with some of theCanadians.
We had them at our house twoweeks ago.

Jason Shelfer (01:17):
Yeah, for a whole week.

Jana Shelfer (01:18):
So we become good friends with them.
Well, when they landed inMelbourne, they rented a trailer
and of course a van and theyput all of their equipment in
the trailer.
Somehow, on their three and ahalf hour drive here, the door
to the trailer opened and wheelsstarted falling out onto the

(01:44):
interstate.

Jason Shelfer (01:45):
So when they arrived here at the hotel in
Mulwala, they got startedunpacking their wheelchairs, and
not all the wheelchairs hadwheels.
They're missing three wheelschairs.

Jana Shelfer (01:59):
So imagine being in a foreign country being
paralyzed and not having wheelsfor your chair.

Jason Shelfer (02:06):
Yeah.

Jana Shelfer (02:07):
That's a big deal.
That's a problem.

Jason Shelfer (02:09):
That's an issue.
And you've got now a three anda half hour drive where any of
this could have happened.
So what do you do?
And they're not cheap.
Like these are spin-ergy wheelsthat run in the sometimes.

Jana Shelfer (02:26):
I don't know what the current cost is, but I do
know that they're quite pricey.
Yeah.
Depending on where you getthem.
So what do you do?
Do you go by do you immediatelydrop people off, even though
they they can't get around?
So, or do you leave them in thecar and turn the car around and
go start looking for wheels?
Is that what we do?

Jason Shelfer (02:47):
Well, so I talked to Blake last night.
I sat with him at dinner.
Yes.
And he I can tell you thatthere was a huge frustration
level like right out of thegate.

Jana Shelfer (02:57):
Of course.
And I'm sure there was a theblame game starts, right?

Jason Shelfer (03:01):
Well, it was a compound.
So there's this is a there's alot compounding in here because
first of all, you've just beenin a three and a half hour car
ride with um your teammates.

Jana Shelfer (03:14):
Not only three and a half car ride, this is after
after a 30-hour just traveltrip, right?

Jason Shelfer (03:22):
And all you want to do, like all we wanted to do
when we got here was get intoour rooms.

Jana Shelfer (03:26):
I wanted to get horizontal.

Jason Shelfer (03:28):
Literally, all we wanted to do was get out of the
get out of the car, stretch ourfeet, get in the get
horizontal, and just rest.

Jana Shelfer (03:35):
Okay, so there's a frustration level, so you know
tensions.
Oh.

Jason Shelfer (03:44):
And he goes, like he was just starting to fume
more and more and more.

Jana Shelfer (03:49):
Because they probably were searching every
nook and cranny of that trailer,going, it's gotta be in here
somewhere.

Jason Shelfer (03:54):
And then how do you tell people that it made it
through like the airplane, likethe airport's luggage system,
because that's what you worryabout when you travel.

Jana Shelfer (04:04):
I always worry about that.

Jason Shelfer (04:05):
Worry about are they gonna lose it in the
airport?
Are the airport people gonnalose it?
Because that's what you think.

Jana Shelfer (04:12):
You're like Okay, so no, this was definitely one
of their own people that leftthe trailer door unhitched, or
somehow it broke, or somethinghappened.
Okay, so there's um we're in asituation here.

Jason Shelfer (04:27):
Yeah.

Jana Shelfer (04:27):
Now it's all about adapting.

Jason Shelfer (04:30):
Yes.

Jana Shelfer (04:30):
And going to plan B and not letting that affect
your competition.

Jason Shelfer (04:40):
What's the next best step forward?
And that's what you were sayingearlier.
So what's that next thing wedo?

Jana Shelfer (04:45):
Here's the thing, though.
Your wheelchair is almost likea pair of shoes.

Jason Shelfer (04:48):
It's well, it's your legs and mobility.

Jana Shelfer (04:52):
Yeah, that's even bigger.
And so when you change outsomething like that, every
little thing, whether it's justgetting in and out of bed or
going to the bathroom or or justpushing through the grass, like
there's so many little things.
And for the first day, theyactually were sharing
wheelchairs.

(05:12):
So I know Ashley came up tobreakfast, she transferred to a
chair, and then someone took herwheelchair down to get the next
person.

Jason Shelfer (05:20):
Right.
Musical wheelchairs.
Which yeah, no fun.

Jana Shelfer (05:24):
No thank you.

Jason Shelfer (05:26):
But they made it first of all, they made it work.

Jana Shelfer (05:28):
They made it work.
So you have to give them creditthere.

Jason Shelfer (05:31):
And then the Canadian team came in and said
Australian.
Oh, sorry, the Australian,thank you.
The Australian team came in andsaid, How how can we help?
And that is incredible.

Jana Shelfer (05:46):
They are the heroes, right?
They come in and say, Hey, canwe can we help you in some way?
We have extra wheels.
And they're the host country,so it's nice that I mean I would
have helped, but I didn'ttravel with extra wheels.

Jason Shelfer (05:58):
Well, why would you?

Jana Shelfer (05:59):
Right.

Jason Shelfer (05:59):
Right?
It's hard enough to to pack thewheelchairs, but then so they
have people that live locally,and we are not in a metropolis.

Jana Shelfer (06:08):
No, no, no.
We are you know we areliterally in the outback.

Jason Shelfer (06:13):
So people traveled from a a distance to
get here in their wheelchairsfrom all like the Australian
people, but they went back towherever they drove in from,
whether it was a five-hour trip,three-hour trip, or seven-hour
trip, and they got their extraequipment and they brought it
back for the Canadian team.

Jana Shelfer (06:31):
Which is awesome.
It's still different, but it isdoable.
Right.
And I guess when I look at thisfrom an outsider, I think,
okay, are you gonna be able tolet that go and concentrate on
why we're here in the firstplace, which is water skiing,
which has nothing to do withwheels.

Jason Shelfer (06:53):
Right.
We're on the water without ourwheelchairs, however, it's just
those compounding things thatwhat's the comfort stir in the
the your comfort zone and yourrecovery zone in that in that
norm between being on the water.
And and also the frustrationlevel.
So the mental space, this is avery mental and emotional

(07:16):
throughout the whole um coupleof weeks that we're here.

Jana Shelfer (07:21):
You're right.

Jason Shelfer (07:22):
You are right, you know, and I've watched
people melt down.
I'm one of them.
I've watched people melt down,and it's like, okay, well, let's
just breathe because everyonethat's here is a champion.

Jana Shelfer (07:33):
Yeah.

Jason Shelfer (07:34):
Like this is the world series of water skiing,
like the world championships.
Like I'm in awe of watchingpeople compete out here and just
practice.

Jana Shelfer (07:45):
Well, I have to give it to the Canadians,
especially the ones that didlose their wheels because they
have been showing up and movingon, letting it go, moving on.
That's what you gotta do.

Jason Shelfer (07:58):
Keep on moving, don't stop, keep on moving,
don't stop.

Jana Shelfer (08:01):
No, do you want me to stop him?
I will stop him.
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