What Consistency Looks Like

What Consistency Looks Like: Celebrate Your Progress & Build Your Dream Life (Living Lucky® Podcast)

Feeling stuck? Constantly focused on what you haven’t accomplished yet? 🤔 In this deeply reflective episode of the Living Lucky® Podcast, Jason and Jana Banana explore a powerful quote: "Today, I will remember how much I used to dream of where I am now." Get ready to shift your perspective and celebrate your progress like never before.

This is an essential self-help and personal development guide to breaking free from the “doom loop” of negativity and recognizing the magic in your everyday life.

• The Dream is Now a Reality: Hear the incredible story of a second date dream that manifested into a lakefront home and a fulfilling life. This powerful example proves that what seems impossible today can become your reality through intention and effort.
• The Problem with Perfectionism: Uncover the limiting beliefs that make us fixate on what we haven’t done. Learn why focusing on shortcomings blinds us to the small, consistent wins that are the true foundation of success.
• Tiny Grains of Sand: Forget dramatic, overnight transformations. True progress is built on "tiny grains of sand"—the micro-choices and consistent daily actions that build massive momentum over time.
• Your Power is Within You: Discover that your current reality is a result of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. This episode is a powerful reminder that you have the power to change your trajectory with small, intentional choices.
• The Control is Yours: Learn that your thoughts, feelings, and actions are the three components of your life that you can control. A small tweak to any of them can change your path.

This episode is a call to action to celebrate your past wins, embrace consistent effort, and continue building the life you've always wanted. Stop putting X's on your scoreboard and start counting your wins. 

The power of consistency. How to stay motivated. Why celebrate small wins. How to overcome perfectionism. The secret to personal growth. How to shift your mindset. Setting and achieving goals. The connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Building a dream life with small steps. How to recognize your progress How to stay consistent with goals? Why is celebrating small wins important? What is the three-component formula for success? How do I shift my mindset

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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.
All right, what's the quote fortoday?

Jason Shelfer (00:21):
Jay.
Today, I will remember how muchI used to dream of where I am
now.

Jana Shelfer (00:28):
Today, I will remember how much I used to
dream of where I am now.

Jason Shelfer (00:35):
This really works for me.
Tell me more.
It just makes me pause andthink about-.

Jana Shelfer (00:42):
How far we've come .

Jason Shelfer (00:44):
Yeah, the me 20 years ago that dreamt of living
on the water, having a wife likeyou, having this house, working
for myself.

Jana Shelfer (00:55):
You know, okay, this is such a great time to
reflect on this because I feellike there's layers.

Jason Shelfer (01:03):
There's lots of layers in this Right.
Oh yeah, this is just blanketsof layers.

Jana Shelfer (01:08):
There's different areas of our life and sometimes
it's easy to get caught on thatsurface layer.
Like you know, I haven't bookedmy five speaking engagements
for this quarter.

Jason Shelfer (01:20):
Right, do you know what I'm saying?

Jana Shelfer (01:22):
So it's easy to say oh, I'm not doing it, I'm
not doing it, I'm not doing it.
However, if you look a couplelayers deeper, you can say well,
look, how far I've come.
The fact that I'm even in theposition to be sending out
packets to book speaking gigs.

Jason Shelfer (01:41):
Yeah, there's so often that we talk about count
our wins, but I we still getupset about where we don't
succeed.
Right, we still, we still putthese big x's on the board where
we, where we don't do it yes,like that's just gonna be normal
.

Jana Shelfer (01:57):
I don't know why?
but my, my natural tendency isto do that and sometimes that's
why I feel I'm so grateful to bemarried to you, because I feel
like you really intentionallysay but look, how far you've
come.

Jason Shelfer (02:12):
Yeah, look at what you're doing.
It's normal to say I didn't hitit.
It's normal to say I didn'tmake the shot.

Jana Shelfer (02:20):
No, you know, I shot the shot, I didn't make it,
and everybody went.
oh, he missed this morning,after my meditation, I literally
I made this calendar for my skicompetition that's coming up
and I started counting down thedays until I compete in

(02:41):
Australia.
I compete in Australia, andit's so easy for me in my head
to say, oh, you know what.
I wanted to lose five pounds.
I was going to start doing myupper body ergometer exercise at
least 30 minutes a day, and Ihaven't done that and I haven't

(03:01):
been lifting the heavy weightslike I wanted to.
However, I have been going outon the water every day, I've
been skiing every day and I'vebeen doing that for a year.

Jason Shelfer (03:12):
And if you haven't done that, you've been
doing maintenance on like you'vebeen equipment fixing, like
fixing equipment Equipmentfixing.

Jana Shelfer (03:19):
I've been helping other people.
I mean, I've been studyingvideo so it's easy for me to
look at what I haven't done.
Where my shortcomings?
Are instead of being proud ofwhat I have accomplished.

Jason Shelfer (03:37):
Yeah.
And the other part of that iswhen we can just take that
moment and say, okay, well, howfar have I come?
Like 20 years ago it wasliterally like this pipe dream
of having a really, really nicehouse on a lake in Central

(03:58):
Florida.

Jana Shelfer (03:59):
Yeah, that was a dream.
In fact, it was our second date.
Yeah.

Jason Shelfer (04:02):
Do you remember that?
Yeah?

Jana Shelfer (04:04):
Our second date.
So let me just share with thepodcast listeners Our second
date.
Jason and I we happened to bedriving around we had just gone
to a fast food restaurantbecause I don't know.
We were coming back from somefestival and we saw this house
on a lake for sale.

Jason Shelfer (04:24):
Yeah, it was in a cove.
It said lakefront property,lakefront home.

Jana Shelfer (04:29):
For sale.

Jason Shelfer (04:30):
Yeah.

Jana Shelfer (04:30):
And then it had the realtor's name.
And if you open up the littletube underneath the sign, then
you could call her, call thefire.
So I'm like we should stop.
And Jason started telling meabout his dream.
You know, someday I wouldreally like to live on a lake.
And I said really Because Iwould like to live on a lake.
That sounds like so much fun.
And I said really Because Iwould like to live on a lake.

(04:51):
That sounds like so much fun.
And we started living in thisdream together.
It's almost like we startedplaying house at that time.
We stopped the car and I saidcall the realtor, because let's
just pretend that we're a couple.
This was our second date.

Jason Shelfer (05:04):
Let's see what lake property in Central Florida
costs.

Jana Shelfer (05:08):
And the realtor was like I'm 40 minutes away,
I'll be there as soon as I can.
Go ahead and walk around theproperty.
Take a look at what you can see.
And then my bowels acted up andwe had to go.
I'm so sorry, that was on oursecond date Anyway.
So yeah, we both were like ooh,that sounds great.

(05:30):
And I mean and this isn't justabout a lake house or material
things I remember when I waslittle, saying I would love to
have a dog one day.
I would love to have a dog andto love a dog.
I would love to fall in love, Iwould love to meet the man of
my dreams.
And you look back and I'm likeoh my gosh those things happen.

Jason Shelfer (05:55):
And so at the time when we were looking at a
lake house, even I was thinking,okay, well, I had get up and I
go to work at 6.30 every morning, I get home at seven every
night or later, and what wouldit be like to just be able to
work for myself, set my ownhours, set my own schedule, and
I've been doing that since 2021now.

Jana Shelfer (06:15):
Now, in those dreams, there are actions that
need to be taken.
Sometimes it is a leap of faithyeah.
Sometimes it is a giant leap offaith yeah, sometimes it is a
giant leap of faith.
Sometimes it is a micro choiceof To go out and get on the

(06:39):
upper body ergometer exercisemachine for five minutes.
Maybe not 30, but five, yeah,it's just a little tiny step.

Jason Shelfer (06:48):
I think that is one of the biggest things.
So there are those big leapsthat you are going to have,
those jump across the creeks.

Jana Shelfer (06:58):
Where, hey, I'm going to quit my job or I'm
going to start a podcast.

Jason Shelfer (07:02):
Jump across the creeks when, hey, I'm going to
quit my job or I'm going tostart a podcast.
But, more importantly, arethose little tiny, the micro,
like just the daily consistentgrains of sand that you're
plowing through, just like thesands of an hourglass?
Just like the sands of anhourglass.

Jana Shelfer (07:16):
So are the days of our lives.
Oh my gosh.
We're probably going to getcopyright infringement for that
get.
We're 80s kids.

Jason Shelfer (07:23):
We grew up with soap operas I don't even know if
they're still on they probablyaren't, but it's a but, it's,
that's, I think, consistencylike it's.
It's like just small actionsevery single day, like something
that is leaning into yourdreams, okay.

Jana Shelfer (07:41):
So why are those little grains of sand, as you
call them?
Why are those so scary.

Jason Shelfer (07:49):
I think it's because we don't take the time
to look to see how far we'vecome and we don't count our wins
.
We don't say you know what, Iam making progress.

Jana Shelfer (08:00):
Why does it sound scary to me to just walk over to
the gym, which is literallyless than a block away from me?
Walk over there and startlifting some weights.
Why is that so scary to me?

Jason Shelfer (08:13):
Maybe it's because you don't count the walk
as part of like, because justwalking halfway to the gym is a
workout, you know what I'msaying.

Jana Shelfer (08:24):
I hate to say the gym is a workout.
You know what I'm saying.
I hate to say it, but a block.

Jason Shelfer (08:27):
yeah, if you start saying yeah when it's 100
degrees outside, when you startsaying you know what, walking
halfway there, if I do that overand over again and then if I
walk there.

Jana Shelfer (08:39):
And lift, do one exercise yeah, just one end.
And then if I walk there andlift, do one exercise yeah, just
one.
But for some reason in my mind Ithink I need to go and work out
literally start working outlike rocky balboa because that's
what we've been seeing on onmovies.
That's what we've seen, likethat's I'm like I gotta go all
in.

Jason Shelfer (08:58):
That's what it has to be, that's the jumping
across the creek but my all-inright now is just getting there.
That's my all in and it's thosesmall, consistent actions.
It's just like walking aroundthe block the gratitude walks
that we do.
I mean that is a verybeneficial, helpful exercise.
That is an exercise mental,physical and emotional,

(09:20):
emotional connection.
Yes.

Jana Shelfer (09:22):
I know, see, I know, see, I know these things.
Then the whole thing is I knowwhat to do, so why am I not
doing it?

Jason Shelfer (09:31):
You are.
That's why you're going toAustralia in November to compete
as a world champion, not anational champion.
You already are a nationalchampion, a world champion,
world champion, not a nationalchampion.

Jana Shelfer (09:43):
You already are a national champion, a world
champion.
But I also think you know, foranyone listening to this, there
are things in our lives.
I mean I would like to lose 10pounds and yet I mean I do my
best to eat well, and then Itend to have that day where I'm
like, oh, I've eaten well forsix days.
It's time to treat myself.

Jason Shelfer (10:03):
Go get me a turkey.

Jana Shelfer (10:08):
Unfortunately, turkey is not usually my choice
of food.
It's more like ice cream.
Okay, yeah, go get me somepancakes.
I guess, coach Jason, what youare telling us today is I think.

Jason Shelfer (10:25):
Just take time to recognize how far we've come.

Jana Shelfer (10:27):
Just celebrate yourself.

Jason Shelfer (10:29):
Yeah, celebrate yourself and where you're at
Celebrate where you're at.

Jana Shelfer (10:34):
Where you're at is not who you are, but celebrate
it, because your thoughts andyour feelings and your actions
have gotten you to where you areright now.

Jason Shelfer (10:44):
Yeah, and you can decide where you want to go
from there and then just makesmall, consistent actions to get
you wherever you want to go.

Jana Shelfer (10:51):
And the control is in you.
It's in your choices, it's inyour thoughts, your feelings and
your actions.
Those are the three components.

Jason Shelfer (11:01):
Yeah, and if you're having trouble changing
one of those thoughts, feelingsor actions, that's where you
reach out to a coach.

Jana Shelfer (11:08):
All right, let's just recap what is the quote for
the day.

Jason Shelfer (11:11):
Today, I will remember how much I used to
dream of where I am now.

Jana Shelfer (11:20):
And we live happily ever after.
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