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Press play now to shift from “Why isn’t this working?” to your own unstoppable uncommon way.
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Full Episode Transcript:
Jenna Harrison: [00:00:00] What if there was one simple shift that could get more luck flowing towards you and your business? Welcome to the three-day work Week, helping women entrepreneurs run profitable, meaningful businesses in just three days a week if they like, without stress, guilt, or sacrificing growth. I'm your host, Jenna Harrison, sharing practical strategies, mindset hacks, and even some woo, to help you work smarter, leap boldly, and find true balance.
Let's dive in. Welcome, welcome back to the podcast. I've got a little story for you today. It's all about luck. Oh my gosh. We love it when Lady Luck seems to be shining her light on us and hate it when she seems to leave us. It's like there's no room for seasonality. We just want it all the time. Am I right?
Or maybe that's just me. My son, Dylan, has just recently discovered the game Uno, the card game. He's seven and a half. He acts like he's 12. I have [00:01:00] no idea why this didn't land for him before. But anyway, now is the moment. So we have been having some marathon family Uno games here in our home, which is great because it has been boiling hot outside.
But there was the most interesting dynamic going on this morning. We were at a tiebreaker match. My son had won a game. I had won a game, and my husband had won a game. Now, of course, my son is very, very competitive, so he had conveniently forgotten that he had won a game. He was convinced that everybody else was winning except him, as we were heading into this tiebreaker match.
So it was really comical watching him with all of the sound effects that would come along with every card he drew, drew with everything that was played. He'd either be elated or crushed. And by this point, I hate to say it, maybe you're gonna judge me, but I was trying to help him win. I did not [00:02:00] wanna win that match.
Now, not because I'm trying to shelter him from disappointment, but because when we play, I tend to win. And frankly, he's so hyperactive that it's been wonderful having just a quiet family game where we can sit and play. And I know that if he got too demotivated, he wouldn't do that anymore. But I have to tell you, no matter what happened.
It would work out that I kept having to put down a draw two, or my husband would have to put down a draw four when it was Dylan Stern. And so he kept having to collect all these cards, and he was getting angrier and angrier, and I got to the point where I just couldn't contain my laughter because it was like, you couldn't even script this.
Oh, you couldn't plan it this way. Maybe I didn't have a yellow card to put down, and so I went to the deck to pick up a card, and what is the one yellow card? A draw two yellow card. So I had to play the card. I put the card down. Dylan, of course, his face is crushed. He's all crushed, all a drawing his [00:03:00] two cards, but started to become so funny, even when we would reverse and go back in the other direction so that I wouldn't be giving Dylan the bad cards.
The same thing would happen with my husband. As I was reflecting on this, I was thinking about how my husband and I were playing it as if it were a game. We really weren't attached to the outcome. It really doesn't mean that much in our world, whether or not we win or lose, UNO in the family, but for us, it was like we couldn't lose.
Meanwhile, Dylan was so attached to the outcome, and it was as if he was just repelling all of the good cards, and I started to think. This is such a great analogy for business, too. And so today I just wanted to leave you with this one little thing that you can take forward in the week as you're going about your business activities.
Thinking about what if I were thinking of this as just an UNO game, right? An UNO game where it's [00:04:00] actually fun sometimes, where you get down to Uno and then have to draw more cards, and then you're trying to work your way back. That adds to the enjoyment. It prolongs the game. And of course, there are times when there are very dire consequences.
On the other side of our bad luck, I do not wanna minimize that. But most often in the clients I've seen, the stakes aren't as high as our brains are making them seem. We put a lot of meaning into things that really aren't life and death. So if you have been feeling a bit of heaviness. In your business, some frustration, maybe even feeling like luck is turned against you.
Then whatever you're currently doing isn't working. And so what could you lose by just trying this for one week? Let's all do this together. What would I do? How would I play this card? How would I make this move if this were as [00:05:00] light and fun as an Uno game? Alright, one last note before I leave you today.
I would like to apologize for a little snafu. Now, in the episode last week, I said that we were going to put a poll on Instagram that day, and I encourage you to go over and choose your favorite title. Well, unfortunately, that poll did not get posted on Tuesday when this episode drops. So if you'll gimme a second chance, I would be so grateful to hear what you think.
All right. Thank you so much for tuning in today. I look forward to being with you again next week. Let's talk again on Tuesday.
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