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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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Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Yesterday we talked about what synthetic happiness is. And today, we dig a little deeper into ways we get to create it for ourselves. I share with you how I did this, unbeknownst to me, when I was a kid.
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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 yesterday we talked about synthetic happiness and just how cool it is. The short answer is that whether it’s natural or synthetic happiness, it does the same thing. The power is within us, to create happiness if we just aren’t getting a lot of the natural kind these days.
We have the capacity to manufacture the very thing we are chasing. Happiness. We can do it through synthetic happiness,which scientifically has the exact same benefits as natural happiness. We do this with our thoughts. When something isn’t perfect, force yourself into gratitude and look for the silver lining. Now, depending on the situation. This may not be easy. It’s not foolproof. Bad things happen. Really bad things. And we can’t always see the silver lining right away. That’s ok. Try on something smaller.
As an adolescent, I didn’t feel like I belonged. I grew up in a small town in MN, 2006 people in the middle of a cornfield. I felt like I had no way out.
As humans, we yearn to BELONG, It is scientifically in our DNA.
The emotional trauma of not feeling like you had good friends or people that really understand you can be devastating.
What I did, unbeknownst to me at the time. Was manufactured synthetic happiness.
The “glass is always ½ full” Like I mentioned, manufactured, synthetic happiness brings you the same joy as organic happiness. I inadvertently trained myself to create synthetic happiness, it’s now my human nature. I know that if I can do it, you can too.
My way out of a place I didn’t feel like I fit in was big dreams of law school, where I thought, was a way to make enough money, to have choices. I did achieve my dream of becoming a lawyer - but I had this tug on me, there was something else.
So while it was a means to an end in a season of life, it wasn’t all of my life. I mean, now, I’m here, with you, talking about happiness, which completely lights my hair on fire.
So, today, I invite you to make some lemonade and be thoughtful about the way you think of something that may not be perfectly happy right now.
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