Jason Shelfer-Living Lucky

09/01/2026

Have you told someone you are an Introvert? Make sure you check out yesterday's Living Lucky® Podcast.

08/28/2026

Make sure you check out today’s Living Lucky Podcast: Rebuilding Self-trust

08/28/2026

How much CHANGE
Are you INVE$TING in the change you want to experience?

08/26/2026

I asked ChatGPT to warn people about me.
The response was interesting 🤔

08/24/2026

For years Jana’s alarm went off at 4:00 AM and mine went off at 4:30.

That thirty minutes isn’t because I need less sleep.

It’s because it takes her longer to get to the same start line. Putting on pants takes longer when you’re paralyzed. So does putting on shoes, and so do a lot of the small things most people never think about. She built the extra half hour into the schedule years ago and never mentioned it again.

Nobody sees the 4:00 alarm. People see her on a stage or on a water ski or getting a medal, and they call that inspiring, and it is.

What I see is somebody who set an alarm thirty minutes earlier than she had to, for years, so nobody would have to wait on her.

I’ve been thinking about that in connection with something else.

Most people think they have a motivation problem. I don’t think that’s usually it.

Every time you say you’ll do something and don’t, the thing you said gets a little cheaper. Not to the other person. They forgot about it walking back to their car.

To you.

Some part of you keeps a ledger, and that part has been marking your statements down for years. The skipped workout. The “let’s grab lunch sometime” you had no intention of scheduling. The alarm you set at night and renegotiated at dawn.

None of it costs much on its own. That’s what makes it hard to see.

But confidence isn’t a personality trait you either have or don’t. It’s the balance in that account. And you can’t affirm your way to a balance. You can only make deposits.

So here’s the smallest possible version of the work.

Make one promise today you’re certain you can keep. Keep it. Write it down, because the whole problem is that you’ve stopped noticing the deposits.

Then do it again tomorrow.

What’s the one you’d start with?

We Create Our Luck®.

08/24/2026

How much pressure are we manufacturing for ourselves?
How much is real and how much is imagined?

08/23/2026

Whatchu talking about, Willis?

08/23/2026

Why am I so tired? If you’ve asked yourself this question, head on over to The Living Lucky Podcast

08/23/2026