You Always Matter

You Always Matter: The Ripple Effect of Kindness & Your Unseen Impact!

Have you ever questioned if your small acts of kindness truly make a difference in the world? In this deeply moving Living Lucky® Podcast episode, Jason and Jana Banana share a profound encounter that will forever change how you view your everyday actions.

Discover powerful "nuggets of wisdom" for your personal journey:

• The Unseen Impact: Hear the incredible story of Barbara, who revealed how a simple driveway breakfast with Cinderella – five years ago – "saved her" during a dark time of job loss, restoring her belief in goodness and magic.
• Energy Never Dies: Understand the scientific principle that the positive energy you put into the universe is never lost; it flows outward, creating a ripple effect of kindness that can return to you from unexpected sources, even years later.
• How Do You Want to Matter?: Realize that you will matter, regardless. Your presence and actions inherently affect those around you. The powerful question becomes: What kind of impact do you choose to have?
• The "Living Lucky® Lens": Experience how gratitude and acknowledgment can instantly shift your mindset, allowing you to see everyone and every situation through a lens of love, connection, and appreciation.

This episode is a powerful reminder to shed limiting beliefs about your significance. It's an invitation to recognize your inherent ability to inspire and uplift others. Learn how expressing gratitude, both to others and for the impact you've had, creates a virtuous cycle of positive energy.

Ready to understand your profound impact and proactively make a difference? Tune in to You Always Matter and join us on this journey of creating a life you crave by consciously contributing to the world, one heartfelt action at a time. 

The power of small acts of kindness. How to make a difference in the world. Understanding your impact on others. The ripple effect of positive actions.  Feelings of insignificance. How positive energy returns to you. Mindset shift for greater impact. Finding purpose through helping others. Do small acts of kindness make a difference? How does positive energy create a ripple effect? How can I understand my impact on others? What is the 'Living Lucky® lens'? Why is it important to know

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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 (00:18):
You are too.

Jana Shelfer (00:19):
On Saturday we went to a charity event to
benefit Mustard Seed of Orlando.
For any of you that have beenfollowing us for a while, it was
the Real Radio Poker Tournament.

Jason Shelfer (00:32):
Yes, what a fun event.

Jana Shelfer (00:34):
It is the one time of the year that I attempt to
learn how to play poker Right.

Jason Shelfer (00:39):
Watching YouTube videos the day of to learn, okay
, what beats what, and how do wedo this?
How do we not look like foolsEvery?

Jana Shelfer (00:47):
single year I print out a little cheat sheet
so that I know the poker hands,because sometimes I just bet if
I have, you know, a jack, queenor king or ace.

Jason Shelfer (00:58):
Oh look, these cards are pretty Right.

Jana Shelfer (01:01):
Like I've got the royals.
It's hearts I've got the royals, I love hearts, it's Royals,
you can call me Queen Bee.
Anyway, something happenedwhile we were at the Real Radio
Poker Tournament, and that isBarbara came over to us.
And it meant a lot to mebecause what she said was during

(01:29):
the pandemic.
First of all, she was soexcited to see us, I mean she
lit up.
She was like oh, janna, jasonand I.
That in itself you just gave megoosebumps again because I just
got to relive that moment andthen she ran over to us and she
hugged us and she said that shediscovered us during the
pandemic.
She was stuck at home and soshe was scrolling on social

(01:54):
media and she came across Janaand Jason and go ahead.

Jason Shelfer (01:58):
Well, and she said we saved her.
And it was the time we hadbreakfast out on our driveway
and we had had Cinderella comeand go around the neighborhood.

Jana Shelfer (02:10):
Yes To just bring joy to the neighbors and to us.
Like we literally had pancakesout in the driveway, we just sat
there and we were waiting forCinderella to come.

Jason Shelfer (02:21):
Right.

Jana Shelfer (02:21):
And she believe it or not had just been laid off
from Disney.
And she said that that was themagical moment that literally
saved her, and she just kneweverything would be OK.

Jason Shelfer (02:34):
She said there is goodness in the world because
when you get laid off like I'vebeen laid off before, it was a
long time ago, but I had thatfeeling of I'm the one that's
not wanted, like it was verypersonal.

Jana Shelfer (02:48):
Yeah.

Jason Shelfer (02:49):
And there were a lot of people laid off, but it
was like you don't think thatit's a like it's going to happen
to you, or you think it mighthappen to you Until it?
Does.
But then when you get laid off,like I had this feeling, like
this is a personal thing, not abusiness thing, like I'm the one
, that's not enough and it wasreally a numbers thing.

Jana Shelfer (03:09):
Like I was, I was one of their most profitable,
like I knew all these thingsabout myself, but there's also
that they don't understandeverything I do for the company.

Jason Shelfer (03:17):
I have invested a hundred percent and there's an
invisible workload, so it isliterally a spreadsheet and
numbers game for a business.

Jana Shelfer (03:25):
But you're right, we all tend to take it
personally.

Jason Shelfer (03:28):
Because we take our jobs personally.

Jana Shelfer (03:31):
We do, it becomes our identity.

Jason Shelfer (03:33):
Yes, so she got laid off.
There's, it becomes this I'mnot enough and the world isn't
going to give me back.
What I give it Is that feeling.
And she said you saved me.
Like there's good in the world,there's beauty in the world,
there's magic out there, there'smagic.
And it is true.
My dreams weren't crushed, likemy reality isn't cracked.

(03:58):
And it was so beautiful.
And I got goosebumps because alot of times we will fool
ourselves into thinking thatthings aren't possible.
And when she told us that wesaved her on something we did
five years ago, it made me thinkokay, well, how do I want to
show up every day?

(04:18):
And I think about this a lot,because there were times when I
thought, oh, you know what?
I can keep being nice, I cankeep being kind, I can keep
doing for people, I can keepbeing the me that I want to be.
But does it matter?
It matters to me, right, so I'mgoing to have that.
But will it matter to anyoneelse?
And it's so nice, like I don't,I say I don't need the accolades

(04:41):
that you do but it feels soworthwhile when someone comes
out of the blue, even five yearslater, you impacted my life.
You change things for me.

Jana Shelfer (04:53):
That's how I feel when people come to me and say
you inspire me.
Come to me and say you inspireme, there's something that's
like that's my life purpose.
I'm literally.
I think I was created on thisearth.
I think that my lifeexperiences have led me to be
the person that lets you believeanything is possible yes,

(05:15):
inspired and right don't sit inyour inspiration, go do in your
inspiration maybe I don know,that's your.

Jason Shelfer (05:23):
That's my interpretation, not mine.

Jana Shelfer (05:26):
However, I just so .
What you're saying is whenpeople come to you and say you
matter.
Thank you I appreciate.

Jason Shelfer (05:34):
you mattered to me, me.
I think it's a natural thingthat we want to hear that.
It's kind of like just tellingsomeone thank you.
I used to be so good at writingthank you notes.

Jana Shelfer (05:49):
I know what happened.
I literally have a list ofpeople.
I would like to sit down andwrite thank you notes.
I need to do that today.

Jason Shelfer (05:56):
I feel like I'm good at telling people.
I know that I could be better.
I need to do that today.
I feel like I'm good at tellingpeople.
I know that I could be better.
I know for a fact that I couldbe better Right.
But this goes to the thingwhere we could all be better
anywhere.
We put a pin in it, right.

Jana Shelfer (06:13):
So there's always room for improvement, but finish
your story about you used to be.

Jason Shelfer (06:16):
I used to write probably 25 to 50 thank you
notes a week.
Yeah.

Jana Shelfer (06:24):
You had your own stationery.

Jason Shelfer (06:25):
I know I had my own stationery.
I had my desk set up so that itworked well and it wasn't like
I was writing just a standardcouple sentences.
It was like a personal thankyou note to people every week.

Jana Shelfer (06:42):
Maybe we need to do that.
Maybe we need to literally sitdown and just start writing
messages of you matter.
Thank you, I appreciate you, Isee you, I hear you.

Jason Shelfer (06:56):
I need you.
I think it could be fun.
It might be a fun experimentjust to go through our complete
address list in our phones andstart remembering a moment and
saying, hey, you know what Iremember this and it mattered,
thank you you've got my wheelsspinning because I'm literally
like I have all those rocks inthere.

Jana Shelfer (07:16):
Maybe we start making rocks.

Jason Shelfer (07:18):
Barbara kind of did that for us.
It wasn't.
It wasn't in a she inspired uswritten form, but it was in a
very.

Jana Shelfer (07:26):
It was in a public forum and it was in the way she
, you could tell, in the, theenergy, the sparkle in her eye,
that like you could see, likeher, her emotions were welling
up, like it was.

Jason Shelfer (07:38):
It was a an honest, sincere moment and it it
was so genuine like it touchedme in my soul it touched jason
so much that he's like we got togo back to that poker
tournament that's right we got,we got to be go there every year
we we got to go hug Barbara.
We got to get some.
Barbara hugs some more.

Jana Shelfer (07:56):
Okay, so what is the nugget that we're coming
away with?
I think the nugget is Maybe itfelt so good for us to hear that
we mattered to someone thatmaybe we should pay it forward.

Jason Shelfer (08:10):
I think there's two messages here.
One is pay it forward.
So always continue lettingpeople know how they matter and
then also decide how you want tomatter.
Because you do, you areregardless, like you will always
matter.
How do you want to matter?

(08:31):
So that's the question that wecan ask ourselves is how do I
want to matter?
And show up how you want tomatter and then just let it be,
let it be out there in theuniverse because it's happening.
It may take five years for itto come back around, or 10.
Yeah, but that it's the energythat you're putting out there

(08:54):
and that energy is not going tobe destroyed or changed.
You have put that true matterenergy out there.
Someone is receiving it.

Jana Shelfer (09:07):
I just had an aha moment.
I want to go back and listen tothis again because I feel like
I maybe needed to hear what youjust said right there.
Well, that's a science lessonBecause we are putting out.
It's almost like karma.
We are putting out juju intothe world, right, and it's like
a domino effect.
Eventually, that domino comesback to us.

Jason Shelfer (09:28):
Yeah, so, and I don't know the exact scientific
term.

Jana Shelfer (09:32):
Even if it doesn't come back to us, then we have
started the flow of, of thatenergy, of putting it into other
people and then eventuallysomeone else will put it into us
.
Yeah, Because we attract whatwe are.

Jason Shelfer (09:47):
The person that gave like it might not come back
from the person that got thatenergy from us.
Yeah, but that person is goingto give it to someone else.
It's just like the whole whenyou buy someone a meal at
Starbucks or a coffee atStarbucks, or you buy someone's
meal in the drive through linesomewhere.

Jana Shelfer (10:04):
Right.

Jason Shelfer (10:05):
It starts getting paid forward, I mean it's, it's
one of those, it's a weird.
It's a weird phenomenon becausethat energy gets picked up.

Jana Shelfer (10:13):
You are so right.
And sometimes it feels like Igo through phases where I'm like
I'm always the recipient, Likeevery time I go to Starbucks I'm
getting a free tea.
And then there's other times,other phases of life, where I'm
like.

Jason Shelfer (10:28):
Why am I the one always starting this thing?
Why am I?

Jana Shelfer (10:30):
always starting this.

Jason Shelfer (10:32):
Why am I the one hiding gift cards all the time?

Jana Shelfer (10:36):
So you're right.
Oh, so this podcast inparticular goes out to Barbara.
Yes, thank you Barbara, we justwant to say thank you, because
you really made all thedifference for us.
We had a blast.
I know that we would have had ablast at the poker tournament
just seeing everybody, but thefact that Barbara came over and

(10:58):
told us that it really made uswarm and fuzzy.
You truly touched my soul,which in turn, just made the
whole night spectacular.

Jason Shelfer (11:08):
It amplified everything and I think also that
encounter so early in theevening.
It also opened up a differentlens for the whole experience.

Jana Shelfer (11:18):
It really did.
We started seeing everyonethrough this lens of love.

Jason Shelfer (11:24):
Am I right that Living Lucky® lens?

Jana Shelfer (11:26):
Yeah, the Living Lucky® lens.
Thank you, Barbara.

Jason Shelfer (11:31):
And thanks for joining us.
Keep Living Lucky®.
And thanks for joining us.

Jana Shelfer (11:38):
Keep Living Lucky® .
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