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December 1, 2025 12 mins

Rookie to World Champion in 1 Year: The Moonshot Mindset 

Start from zero knowledge and land a world title in one year? Yes. This self-help path proves mindset beats lack of experience.

The radical shift: converting vague hopes into a calendared system of milestones. This personal development playbook turns a Wildly Improbable Goal (WIG) into a repeatable success cycle.

You will learn the secrets to accelerated achievement:

  • Rookie Curiosity, Rock Star Dedication: Fail forward by treating failure as data—the ultimate shortcut.
  • The Calendar Contract: Dated checkpoints convert intention into action and build confidence from "receipts."
  • Aim Huge, Let Go: The Moonshot Paradox of holding the dream while detaching from outcomes to protect your joy and focus on the craft.

Hear how community belief multiplied momentum for this incredible transformation.

Nuggets:

  • WIG: Wildly Improbable Goal: Name your moonshot. If it's not ridiculous on day one, aim higher.
  • The Calendar Contract: Your calendar is a contract with your future self. Milestones eliminate dread and inject purpose.
  • Fail Forward Mindset: Show up like a rookie. Treat mistakes as information, not criticism.
  • Share Your Goal Wisely: Share your fragile dream with your coach, journal, and calendar—not early skeptics.
  • Gratitude as Resource: Daily gratitude fuels a virtuous loop of progress and community support (Believe in the people around you).
  • Stack Sessions: Micro-commitments protect momentum. Confidence comes from the receipts of showing up (Believe in yourself).
  • Moonshot Paradox: Hold the moonshot lightly; train the next rep tightly.

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  • How to go from zero knowledge to expertise quickly. Turning vague hopes into dated commitments. The rookie curiosity mindset for success. How to use a calendar for goal achievement. Why detaching from outcomes increases performance. How to set and achieve a Wildly Improbable Goal (WIG). "What is a Wildly Improbable Goal (WIG)?" "How can I use a calendar to achieve my goals?" "What is the fail forward minds

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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 startLiving Lucky®.
Good morning.
I'm Jana.
I'm Jason.
And we are Living Lucky®.

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

Jana Shelfer (00:20):
We are live from the Airport Hotel.

Jason Shelfer (00:24):
Park Royale in Melbourne, Australia.

Jana Shelfer (00:27):
Is it Melbourne or Melbourne?

Jason Shelfer (00:29):
Melbourne.
Melbourne, mate.

Jana Shelfer (00:31):
Depends who you ask, right?

Jason Shelfer (00:33):
That is for sure here.

Jana Shelfer (00:35):
Never underestimate the power of the
mind.

Jason Shelfer (00:40):
So, so true.

Jana Shelfer (00:42):
One year ago, I mean, I'm talking November of
2024.
Jason and I knew absolutelynothing about water skiing.

Jason Shelfer (00:51):
Nothing about competitive water skiing.

Jana Shelfer (00:53):
We had played around recreationally.
I would get behind the boat.
Jason would drive his boat, andwe literally would see how high
we could jump over the wakes.
Right.
That was our water skiingexperience.
Hang on.
I mean, that it was hang onbehind the boat.
And then we, I was Googling oneday.

(01:14):
We went to an adaptive skicompetition.
I've told this story manytimes.
You can go to one of our pastpodcasts to hear it, maybe past
10 podcasts to hear it.

Jason Shelfer (01:24):
Right.
Well, we've been in the in itdeeply for the last couple of
weeks.

Jana Shelfer (01:28):
And that year, I literally bought a year-round
calendar and I started makinggoals.
And I said, if I want tocompete, I need to have these
tricks by the end of this month.
I need to be able to do thisslalom course by the end of this
month.
I need to enter competitions bythe end of this month.

(01:50):
And we just started settingmilestones.

Jason Shelfer (01:54):
Exactly.
So perfectly said, because wedon't have to know about
everything about the sport oranything about competitive
skiing.
We were already experts inmindset and goal accomplishment,
a goal achievement.

Jana Shelfer (02:10):
There's a lot to that though, because we showed
up with an open mind, ready tolearn.
And we just started asking theright questions, networking with
the right people along the way.
And something weird happens.
When you start showing up foryourself, when you really start

(02:32):
putting in the work, theuniverse has this way of helping
you out.

Jason Shelfer (02:39):
So my first thought when you started on that
talk track was that we werewilling to fail forward or fail
and not take it personally.
Does that make sense?
Because a lot of times we'lltry something and we will fail,
but we will be like, I'm notgood enough, or I can't, those
types of things.
But when we we gave ourselvesthat grace of knowing we didn't

(03:02):
know.

Jana Shelfer (03:02):
Yes.

Jason Shelfer (03:03):
So it was like, well, we know we don't know, so
let's just go.

Jana Shelfer (03:06):
And then when people would help us or tell us
things that could definitely getus further in our journey, we
were open to the feedback.

Jason Shelfer (03:16):
Help us.
Yeah.
And we're like, yeah, we'rewelcome to any feedback.
Please help us.
And okay, we'll try that.
Because we didn't know what notto try.
So we're like, and we didn'tknow what wouldn't work.
So let's just try that.
And if it if it works for us,great.
If it doesn't work for us,we'll say, okay, that didn't
work for me.
Should I try it again or shouldI try something else?
You know, kind of like just itwas like it, it was like an open

(03:39):
buffet of wonderment.

Jana Shelfer (03:42):
It was.
We're saying this kind of inpast tense because yesterday I
won the world championship.

Jason Shelfer (03:50):
Yes, you are you are the the world championship
female skier.

Jana Shelfer (03:54):
Which still I am in disgrace.
I know it blows your mind.

Jason Shelfer (03:57):
I every time I talk about it, I get teary-eyed.

Jana Shelfer (04:00):
The last 24 hours have been literally almost like
a hazy dream.
And I I'm just now starting torealize, oh my gosh, yesterday
we not only skied in two events,but then we had a banquet and
we celebrated and we packed ourskis and we returned the van to
the rental.
Welcome at three o'clock in themorning.
We're at the airport right nowgetting ready to get on another

(04:23):
flight to go on vacation.

Jason Shelfer (04:25):
Yes.

Jana Shelfer (04:26):
Like it's all just been a whirlwind.

Jason Shelfer (04:28):
It's exciting.
It is a whirlwind.
We're gonna have some fun.
We're gonna keep having fun.
And not to wag our own tail.

Jana Shelfer (04:36):
Why not?
But we we've been talking aboutit.
And we have realized how farwe've come, and we didn't do
this alone.
We've had the help of Bill andKathy Furbish, our training
partners, Raquel Benson, ToddHubs, even Blake.

Jason Shelfer (04:55):
You know, you can't, there's no way to name
them all.
I mean, we could go all the waydown to Thomas Roth, our
neighbor, you know, right?
I mean that if has helped us.
He showed up when I couldn'tget your equipment to the course
or to the competition.

Jana Shelfer (05:06):
Community at Ski Fluid, Kiwi, which is Kyle Eid.
I mean, all of these peoplehave helped us in some sort of
way.

Jason Shelfer (05:15):
At this past competition, Fion, you know,
it's like you there's so manypeople in the community to name
that you can't name them.
It's almost impossible.
I mean, we could.
It's just like a gratitudejournal.
You could go on forever.

Jana Shelfer (05:29):
That is true.
You could literally go onforever, but it's a it's but
when you open up your awareness,you realize that when you do
start putting out your goals anddreams, and I caution you don't
put them out too early becauseyou know, a year ago, when if I
would have said I want to be theworld champion, oh Jan, don't
shoot too high.
Right?
No, I think I would have gottenpoopoo.

Jason Shelfer (05:51):
Rivers and the lakes that you're used to.
Exactly.
Don't go chasing waterfalls.

Jana Shelfer (05:59):
And yet, as we have made progress, then it
feels like we just keep kind ofstating our dream a little
bigger, a little bigger, eventhough between us and anyone
listening to this podcast, Ihave had vision boards literally
writing out, I want to do my720s every single time.

(06:22):
I want to do smoother turns,one-handed turns, I want to
compete at the world stage.
I like I have these on myvision board.

Jason Shelfer (06:31):
I want to represent the United States in
water skiing.

Jana Shelfer (06:34):
I had that I wanted I wanted to do 32 slalom,
and that's what I did at thiscompetition.
I only got two buoys.
I'd never done it before.

Jason Shelfer (06:44):
So the we started out this podcast, and I I'd
mentioned that we didn't knowanything about comp competitive
water skiing, but we wereexperts in mindset and goal
accomplishment or goalachievement, however you want to
phrase that.
And one of the things that Iknow is I wasn't sure.
Like the I wasn't sure youwould be world champion this

(07:08):
go-round.

Jana Shelfer (07:09):
Because you have to let go of the result.

Jason Shelfer (07:11):
Yes.

Jana Shelfer (07:11):
We're not after a result, we were after the
journey.

Jason Shelfer (07:14):
The other part of that is even if like uh that
was the that was my my ultimategoal, like my ultimate fantasy.
Like that when they say shootfor the stars, shoot for the
moon, and you'll land among thestars.
Okay, so when they say shootfor the moon, that was my moon
shot.

Jana Shelfer (07:30):
It was my moonshot.

Jason Shelfer (07:31):
So my moonshot at the beginning of the year was
what if?
Like my big what if was what ifwe I we could focus so intently
on this that we could we couldget Jana to be the world
champions water skier.
And it was this was aridiculous what if at the time.

Jana Shelfer (07:49):
It was a wildly improbable goal, what we call a
wig, a wildly improbable goal.

Jason Shelfer (07:54):
Because your first competition, you were
doing the intercourse, I waslast it was it was your first
time ever doing the intercourse,and you did it at like 18 miles
an hour.

Jana Shelfer (08:03):
I know.

Jason Shelfer (08:04):
Okay, and then there was no other like the
trick score, can't even reallywouldn't register on the Richter
scale, you know, and there wasno jump.

Jana Shelfer (08:14):
I know.

Jason Shelfer (08:14):
So there's two other events that have to go
from pretty much zero to hero ina year.
This is crazy that's so thiswas a very wildly improbable
goal.

Jana Shelfer (08:28):
Yes.

Jason Shelfer (08:29):
And I just thought, okay, well, let's just
throw this craziness out there,and something magical is gonna
happen in between there.
That was and because I knowthis.
Yes, and this is how I've kindof always lived.
And then here we are, becauseevery now and then, no matter
how you throw the dart, you'regonna hit a bullseye.

(08:51):
Every now and then.

Jana Shelfer (08:52):
But we put the work in, and everything lined
up, and that's just we I mean,we definitely had help along the
way.

Jason Shelfer (09:00):
Yeah, because from not only people,
communities, the universe,equipment, and we also
continually lived in theLiving Lucky® mindset where the
more you believe and the moreyou really understand how
amazing life works for you,everything kind of falls into

(09:21):
this vortex of sucking into yourum this power within you and
behind you to push you towardsyour goals.

Jana Shelfer (09:31):
And I'm gonna just piggyback off of that a little
bit because this morning Istarted asking imagine what we
can accomplish when we put ourminds to it.
Like I texted Bill and Kathy,and I said, Hey, you know what?
Let's start thinking.

Jason Shelfer (09:49):
Let's get crazy again.

Jana Shelfer (09:51):
What's next?
Let's get crazy.
Let's get crazy, let's go nuts,right?

Jason Shelfer (09:56):
Let's do it.
Let's take some more peoplewith us.

Jana Shelfer (10:00):
And I want to just throw this out to anyone that's
listening.
You may be at a point right nowwhere you know nothing about a
goal or a dream that you want toaccomplish.
Throw it out to the universe,and you don't have to tell
people publicly what it is thatyou want, but you need to at
least share it with a coach,like someone that you can trust.

Jason Shelfer (10:26):
You need to share it with your journal at a
minimum.

Jana Shelfer (10:28):
At a minimum.

Jason Shelfer (10:29):
At a minimum, your journal.

Jana Shelfer (10:31):
Allow your soul to explain.

Jason Shelfer (10:33):
Remind yourself over and over and again what
you're aiming for.
Remind it share it with yourcalendar.

Jana Shelfer (10:40):
Share your calendar.

Jason Shelfer (10:41):
Share it with your journal, share it with your
calendar, because if when it'son the calendar, it will start
happening.

Jana Shelfer (10:46):
It does, and then you start believing into it.
Yes.
And you have to show up.
That is the other part of this,is that I look back at our last
year and we showed up even whenit was freezing cold.
Yeah, we showed up when I wasgoing through menopause.
We showed up when I felt fat ordidn't fit into my bathing

(11:07):
suit.

Jason Shelfer (11:07):
Even when my foot was killing me and didn't want
to carry any equipment, my backhurt.

Jana Shelfer (11:11):
When I had inflammation.
Do you remember all the time?

Jason Shelfer (11:14):
I went to the chiropractor for three weeks
because I couldn't, I keptgetting stuck.

Jana Shelfer (11:19):
Jason would get stuck in the bent over position.
Our dog got to the point whereshe was like, you know what?
I'm just gonna watch from thefirst of all, the dog.
And then it was I'm gonna watchfrom the L and I.

Jason Shelfer (11:30):
I'm gonna watch from inside.
I'll watch from the slidingglass door.

Jana Shelfer (11:33):
I'll just sit here in the window and watch this
time.
It's too cold out there.

Jason Shelfer (11:36):
That's right.

Jana Shelfer (11:37):
Anyway, put it out there wildly improbable goals,
and then show up like a rookie.
Show up, absorb the informationyou get, and don't be afraid to
fail.
Show up like a rookie with thededication of a rock star.
Oh we'll end on that.
Thanks for joining us.

Jason Shelfer (11:56):
Keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer (11:57):
Bye-bye.
If the idea of Living Lucky®appeals to you, visit us at
LivingLucky.com.
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