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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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Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Thursday Nov 11, 2021
Managing your time and energy for optimal performance.
Transcript:
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 in the Intentional Margins membership community we talk about priorities and also about when we’re most at our peak energy to do certain tasks and not others. For example, since I am an early bird and I have the most creativity in the morning as soon as I wake up, it’s best for me to do thinking and creative tasks then and not check email. A light was shined onto this exact theory just this week when I sent out messages about a meet-up where I put in the wrong time, an hour earlier, because details were missed before the morning coffee had a chance to work. Why are we fighting ourselves if we have an opportunity to tweak a few things.
This is the same for the afternoon. I love meetings and conversations in the afternoon because they give me energy and the afternoon is when I can fall into an energy slump.
I invite you to ask yourself, what is the best time for the general activities you have throughout the day? If you work a 9-5 job, ask yourself, how can I structure my day to use my energy efficiently. It may even be a situation where you ask your boss if you can have a few mornings a week where you are not interrupted so that you can focus on deep work at your peak creative times. I don’t know, but I think it might work. We all want the best deliverables and we all want it with ease and flow. No one wants to be efforting through mundane tasks, not even our bosses. Not every job works like this, but if it can, I invite you to think about it?
Maybe this concept isn’t applied to work, but to your personal life. Do you like to work out? When can you work out at your best? Morning or evening? Maybe that’s a shift you can make. Or even if it’s running errands or meeting a friend. Would you be your best self at a Saturday morning breakfast or a late-night dinner? You see, it’s all about managing our energy for peak performance with ease.
If you’ve ever tried to match your energy with your todos, let me know. We’re over @everydayhappinesswithkatie on social.
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