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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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Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
Tuesday Jan 18, 2022
In this 2-part show, I answer the question I get most often - How do I do it?
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 yesterday we talked about help and today, boundaries.
So, how do I spend my time? What does that look like? Well, I have an ideal week. It’s what helps me prioritize my buckets. You can google search for ideal week online or join my membership for $15/month and there is a section with tools and templates and video that helps you create your ideal week and we always answer questions inside the membership.
I set firm boundaries around my time, what I am available for and how I want to create my best life. That starts with how I create my best day, for me.
We talked about my anti-mourning routine in episode 199. I encourage you to listen, but the gist of it is that my first hour in the morning is not filled with quiet time, meditation, reading and so on like so many of the guru’s tell you how to set up your day for success. I truly believe you listen to your body and know, there are a million ways to do anything, and we need to do what works for us.
So I wake up about 6:45, get coffee and get into my office by 7am where I get a 1-hour power hour to only work on content for this show. It’s when I’m most inspired and alert. At 8am it’s all hands on deck with our daily family meeting where we get the kids breakfast, set them up for their day, chat and have some family time. This is also when we do dishes and tidy up the kitchen. 8:30 I’m out the door driving to school. Back at 9:15 with a 15-minute check-in coffee time with my husband who is still working from home.
By 10am I’m in work mode until about Noon or 1:00 in the afternoon. This year, I’m trying to move my body more, so I have an hour blocked off from 1:30-2:30 to move my body. We’ll see how that goes. At 2:30 I’m doing my workday shutdown routine of closing the loop on emails, social, looking at my day for tomorrow, all the little tasks. And at 3:30 I’m out the door to do school pickup.
After 3:30 I don’t plan on getting more work done. If I need to or I have some time, great, if not, no sweat.
And there you have it, boundaries around my time. You’ll also notice I have built in Intentional Margins® so that I’m not stressed transitioning from one thing to the next. For example, it takes me about 30 minutes for my workday shutdown ritual. But I have an hour, which is super important because when I pick the kids up from school, I want to be intentional about where my headspace is at. I want to be present and engaged when my little guy jumps in the car to tell me about his day - no distractions. That’s a priority for me, so I make sure I have more than enough time to get that done.
Now, I am fully aware that is a luxury and you can hear that and be rolling your eyes thinking - yeah, no way. I get it. But I encourage you to even create a 2 or 3-minute margin as a transition to take a deep breath, ask yourself how you want to show up and what your intention is for the very next thing. I promise this goes a long way.
By setting boundaries on when I work on certain projects (and not check email or social), it allows me to really dial in my time. I’m also pretty clear that it would have to be really important to cut into the 8am family meeting, because that time is a very high priority for me. When you know what your boundaries are, they are much easier to stick to. I invite you to give it a try.
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