Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Inspired Action Protocol

• Jana and Jason Shelfer • Season 10 • Episode 24

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From Flicker to Flame: The Secret to Sustaining Inspired Action ⚡️🎨

What do you do when a "strange" spark of interest hits you? In this episode of Living Lucky®, Jason and Jana Banana break down the anatomy of creation. Learn why inspired action often requires "ogre mode"—a state of total flow where time vanishes and distractions disappear.

We use the "Survivor Fire" metaphor to show you how to catch an ember, protect it from the wind, and breathe it into a stable flame. If you’ve been waiting for "the right time," this mindset shift will move you from a flicker to the finish line.

In this episode:

Identify True Signals: Distinguish a fleeting "idea fart" from a soul-driven nudge.
Fuel the Flow State: Use visible progress as the ignition source to stay in the zone.
Embrace "Signature" Flaws: Handle late-stage mistakes without letting perfectionism kill your momentum.

Nuggets:

  • Oxygenate the Ember: Inspiration is energy in motion; feed it with action or watch it cool. (Believe in your circumstances).
  • Action Precedes Motivation: Don't wait to feel inspired. Movement creates the "mowed grass" effect that fuels the loop. (Believe in yourself).
  • Admiration is a Map: If you admire someone else's work, that same potential already lives in you. (Believe in the people around you).
  • Finish Strong: Like a marathoner at Mile 25, prioritize movement over maintenance. The rough edges are part of the story. (Believe in a higher power).

Stop overthinking the spark. Hit play to breathe life into your next big idea and start Living Lucky® today!

  • How to sustain creative momentum, overcoming perfectionism in art, turning ideas into reality, finding your flow state, building a creation habit.
  • "How do I move from an idea to a finished project?" Use the "Inspired Action Protocol." First, take the smallest immediate step to create visible proof of progress. This triggers a "motivation loop" where the perception of movement fuels further action. Focus on completion over perfection, especially near the end of a project.
  • "What is the best way to handle perfectionism?" View late-stage mistakes as "living signatures" of the process. In the final stretch of a project, shift your energy from maintenance to movement. Like an ultra-marathoner, don't stop t

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*Previously Recorded

Jana Shelfer:

Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start Living Lucky®. Good morning. I'm Jana. I'm Jason. And we are Living Lucky®.

Jason Shelfer:

You are two.

Jana Shelfer:

I finished a wheel.

Jason Shelfer:

Yay! And it's awesome. Let me say that.

Jana Shelfer:

It took me three days, and I really wasn't sure where the inspiration was coming from. But for some reason, it hit me and I decided to take inspired action.

Jason Shelfer:

That's that's the key. That literally is the key to creation. Inspired action.

Jana Shelfer:

And it's weird because we often talk about is this just an idea fart? Is this just an idea that's gonna take me down a rabbit hole or distract me from what's really important? But I just decided to follow it. And I'm not sure why. Like I had this feeling. I don't know, this little sparkle that I wanted to learn about pink, the singer.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, it's the color pink. No, sink the sink the pink. Pink the singer.

Jana Shelfer:

But so I don't know why. I haven't even listened to her music in I don't know how long.

Jason Shelfer:

Right.

Jana Shelfer:

I do remember we went to her concert. I thought she peed on us. Because she flies all over the audience, and when she flew over us, I got sprinkled with a little bit of water.

Jason Shelfer:

A little bit of water.

Jana Shelfer:

Maybe it was pink sweat.

Jason Shelfer:

Pink sweat, or somebody's just thinks that's funny. When she flies over you, they splash a little water from their straw on you. That's uh it's a little bit disgusting remembering that now. Some some people are out there going, yeah.

Jana Shelfer:

So here's what's crazy though. So for the last three days, every spare minute that I've had, I've been in my art room working and I just lost track of time. Like there was one day where I didn't eat lunch. That's very, very rare for me.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah. Well, so the thing about this is the in creation is incredible.

Jana Shelfer:

I finished it last night. I'm a I'm a little bit so it was going really perfectly, and then I decided to put this border around it. Little trim around the edge. And when I did the border, I screwed up a little bit, so then I had to cut it slightly in order to get the trim to go all the way around. And then when I cut it slightly, now it's just like an eighth of an inch too small.

Jason Shelfer:

Well, the what I would say is it is still a a work of art. And a lot of things that we do in life, if we just stick to it and continue to step forward in faith and in that inspired action, yeah, our life will look like a work of art. So it's it's like this translates into anything you want to do. Is we get to our soul, because your soul, I could tell your soul was speaking to you. I mean, when time well yeah, when time goes away, I mean, you worked hours on end.

Jana Shelfer:

But it's weird because it's a weird uh time lapse. It's a time lapse where I don't do my makeup, I don't wash my hair, I don't change my clothes. I don't think Albert Einstein did anything. It kind of is weird. I go into this hermit space. I don't think I've left the house.

Jason Shelfer:

I don't think it was so was it a hermit space or was it you were w 100% in flow and saw your progress daily?

Jana Shelfer:

Maybe.

Jason Shelfer:

So if if you're in flow and you have the awareness of your progress daily, this is why people don't achieve their dreams, is they get in flow for a moment, they have that inspired feeling, they take that inspired action, and then they don't recognize their wins along the way. So as you got into that inspired feeling and then took inspired action, you saw your wins because you could literally see progress. This is why I like mowing grass or watching grass get mowed.

Jana Shelfer:

Inspired action should not be deprecating to my hygiene.

Jason Shelfer:

But it was only three days. Like if it was a month, then you would have problems. I would say like Picasso, a lot of the great artists probably when they got in the mode in their zone in go mode, in zone, yeah.

Jana Shelfer:

In go mode.

Jason Shelfer:

There was yeah, there was probably times where they smelled horrible, you know, like they didn't brush their teeth, they didn't brush their hair, they didn't take time for meals.

Jana Shelfer:

That's true, right?

Jason Shelfer:

So it's but we need to be able to have awareness of that just because we could start telling ourselves a different story.

Jana Shelfer:

I'm in my artsy mode.

Jason Shelfer:

I'm an I'm an ogre. I don't need to wash my live in artsy mode. I'm not changing my clothes ever. My clothes are gonna change themselves by the time I'm done.

Jana Shelfer:

Ogre, ogre, artsy mode.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah. So it's and I think if because we're in the zone, we're seeing progress, it creates, it almost creates momentum within the flow.

Jana Shelfer:

Oh, interesting.

Jason Shelfer:

You know?

Jana Shelfer:

Tell me more. I want I want more on that.

Jason Shelfer:

So you have then we're prioritizing. Do I really need to change my clothes? Do I really need to brush my hair because I'm constantly building momentum and I see an end in sight. Like somebody running a hundred-mile marathon or whatever they're called, the ultra marathoners, yeah, doesn't stop before the finish line to say, I'm sweaty, I need to change my clothes.

Jana Shelfer:

Yeah.

Jason Shelfer:

You know, the the the end is in sight. I'm picking up speed. I've built momentum. You know, I'm the I I'm they always gain a little bit of speed at the end. You know?

Jana Shelfer:

Interesting.

Jason Shelfer:

And and things start seem seeming easier the closer they get.

Jana Shelfer:

Okay, so wrap this up for me. Give me the lesson that I should extract from this.

Jason Shelfer:

The lesson you extract today is don't let the inspiration be a flicker if it's true inspiration. And and the thing.

Jana Shelfer:

It's almost like like we love to watch Survivor. We're those people. Survivor has become a huge part of our life. And yesterday they were showing the team didn't have fire. So they were being innovative, taking their glasses and layering them, trying to get this fire started. And then once they got smoke, then they started blowing on the ember. Yeah, they just slightly, just slightly, and they protect.

Jason Shelfer:

Give it a little air. Give it give it oxygen. Give it life. Give it life.

Jana Shelfer:

Give it life. And that's what you're saying is sometimes we get these flickers of inspiration.

Jason Shelfer:

And it either goes out because you did you didn't take your inspired action.

Jana Shelfer:

Inspiration is living in spirit.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes.

Jana Shelfer:

Inspiration is energy. And energy changes forms. So what happened was I took this inspiration.

Jason Shelfer:

And you breathe life into it.

Jana Shelfer:

I made it into a creation, an actual piece of art.

Jason Shelfer:

Yes. And if you if you feel like you've been inspired by anyone, that's your soul saying, There's more for you. You know, and and there's also, and it's also saying you have it in you already. So all you have to do is that Ember is in you. Blow on that ember, take the inspired action, and then allow yourself to build the momentum. Look for your wins and just keep going. Not saying don't change your clothes, don't wash your hair. Right?

unknown:

Yeah.

Jana Shelfer:

Don't get inspired by that part of the story.

Jason Shelfer:

Like we often find the things that we want to find when we're like, oh, they're telling me I don't have to bathe. I don't have to shave. I don't have to shower. You know?

Jana Shelfer:

So In the meantime, we're gonna wrap this podcast up so that I can go take your shower and get your hair done.

Jason Shelfer:

Yeah, awesome.

Jana Shelfer:

Thanks for joining us.

Jason Shelfer:

Keep Living Lucky®.

Jana Shelfer:

Bye-bye.

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