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Do you feel overwhelmed with your todo list? Is "creating fulfilling happiness" missing from that list? Everyday Happiness with Katie Jefcoat is here to help you. In 2-minutes a day, over time, you’ll discover how to reduce overwhelm and create lasting happiness through Katie’s signature method of Intentional Margins, happiness science, and musings about life. Start your day with a positive mindset. Many of us can get deep in the feeling of overwhelm. The anxiety of our own ambition can weigh heavily on our thoughts and emotions. We lay down and close our eyes at night and our chest begins to feel heavy. More items on the to-do list than the day before. How will we ever going to get off the hamster wheel of to-dos? When are we going to start living life for more than the hustle? As a recovering lawyer and passion driven entrepreneur, Katie knew something had to change. What she found is that you can have harmony, be intentionally productive and create massive impact, all at the same time - without feeling guilty. So she asked herself a simple question: "How can I get off the hamster wheel and how can I show others how to do the same? She knew she'd had a system for herself, but she’d never put it into defining words. On August 15, 2019, she sat down at her dining room table with her friend Jenna (her business bestie). Post-It notes covering the table. This is where she first defined the concept of Intentional Margins. What are Intentional Margins? INTENTIONAL MARGINS™ (n): A buffer of space and time to create harmony between your to-do’s and your priorities. Now you can get the support you need to manage your overwhelm, one little tip at a time. Regardless of the industry, Everyday Happiness blends inspiration with a pragmatic approach to finding Harmony. You'll be encouraged to throw “balance” out the window for a more achievable approach called harmony. Through Intentional Margins™, you'll be encouraged to develop what harmony means to you, by identifying your priorities at work and at home. Every day, we'll end the podcast help you feel equipped to jump off the hamster wheel of overwhelm and go out there and crush your day. --About the Host-- Katie Jefcoat is a community curator, speaker, author and motivator who supports ambitious women (and a few good men) move from feeling hectic to harmonious. As a recovering trial lawyer, she knows first hand what it feels like to have a demanding job. As an entrepreneur with a passion that lights her hair on fire and a busy family she’s in the thick of it with you. Many people strive for balance and think overwhelm is just a part of life. Sadly, the hustle culture and our never-ending to-do list is creating a life where our priorities are getting the leftover scraps of time. Katie introduces people to what she calls - Intentional Margins™ - a kind of life in which they reduce randomness, create harmony between their to-dos and their priorities and intentionally enjoy the meaningful parts of life - without feeling guilty. Without exposure to a different way, we remain stuck on the hamster wheel of to-dos and never find the “balance” we yearn for. Katie works diligently to expose her community to different ways of doing things, because she fundamentally believes we deserve to make time for our priorities. We deserve to live a life of harmony. And it’s within our control to create it. Katie curates a smorgasbord of content related to managing your calendar, handling overwhelm, setting boundaries, reducing randomness, saying no, self-care, the power of your choices, and more in her Intentional Margins™ Membership Community -- which she calls the coziest virtual coffee shop (on Facebook). Connect and learn more at www.katiejefcoat.com.
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Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
This feeling between depressed and flourishing lies a feeling of just, blah. The global pandemic heightened this feeling for a lot of people and in this 2-part series we’re using science to describe this feeling and why we’re feeling it. Then, we’ll look at an antidote to moving past this feeling and into what scientists call flow.
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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2 minutes a day, through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life.
I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and today we are talking about the antidote for languishing.
What I love about this work by Adam Grant is that he believes the antidote to languishing is flow. So, it may be hard to find flow in your work if you can’t focus because you are languishing, but he says, you could start, like him, with an early morning crossword puzzle or he mentions a Netflix binge where you are totally immersed with the characters.
He describes flow as where you become immersed in a project, where you are singularly focused instead of being pulled away or checking email 782 times a day.
Finding flow might be setting boundaries so that you can have uninterrupted time for a priority that matters to you. The research indicates that protecting time where there are no interruptions will enhance our ability to find flow because it clears out distractions. I do this every morning from about 6:30-8:00am, where I try so hard to not check email or social media and instead, be open to inspiration, to curate topics for this podcast.
Sometimes flow can seem overwhelming and too big, so I invite you to focus on something small. What is one thing that makes you happy that you can focus on today without distraction, for as long or as little time you have.
At the end of the day, as Grant points out, “We still live in a world that normalizes physical health challenges but stigmatizes mental health challenges. As we head into a new post-pandemic reality, it’s time to rethink our understanding of mental health and well-being. Perhaps we start with languishing, where we’re just in the middle of feeling blah.
I hope this was insightful and helpful for you. If you enjoyed this episode, please smash that subscribe button, sign up to get this audio and transcript delivered to your inbox over at www.katiejefcoat.com/happiness
Inspired by this article in the New York Times, There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing.
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