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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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Sunday Jan 30, 2022
Sunday Jan 30, 2022
One inspirational story of the ripple effect of kindness between two people.
Transcript:
Welcome to Everyday Happiness! I'm your host, Katie Jefcoat, and today we're jumping right in
because I have had something on my mind for so long. And I decided I'm just going to go off the cuff and chat with you as if you were sitting right next to me on my sofa, sipping a warm cup of coffee like friends would do.
And the topic that I wanted to talk to you about today is kindness.
I don't know what happened in this world, but we're not doing enough kindness. Whether that's random acts of kindness, being kind to people, saying kind things to people when we see them.
It just seems like whether there's too much angst or there's too much busyness or there's too much hustle or whatever is going on in the world, I feel this. I feel this energy.
And I just wanted to come chat with you as my friends in this micro-podcast.
So I 100% totally believe we need to be doing more kindness. And if you have listened to this podcast episode or this series at all, you know that of course we talk about kindness.
But I wanted to tell you a story of a member in my community.
Right before Christmas, she was out shopping, and she saw this plant. So she bought this plant because she thought it would be perfect for one of her clients, who she does some work for. And so she bought this plant, and she was just going to drop it off at the front door, sent a quick text, and then zip right on out. Because, like all of us, especially right before the holidays, were so busy.
But she had sent the text, and the woman that she was delivering the plant to must have been like literally at the door because she opened the door right away and she's like, "Oh, my gosh, this is so nice. Totally unexpected. Come in. Have a glass of wine with my husband and I."
It was like happy hour.
And my friend knew she was so busy and she had so much to do, but she was like, "Okay, I'll stop in. I need to catch up anyway. It'll be great." So she sits down in their living room. They open a bottle of wine. They have one glass. It was a nice conversation.
And it was about an hour and a half later, my friend leaves. And the other person was like, "Thanks for the plant. Happy holidays." All the things.
Well, the first week of January, my friend gets a handwritten note in the mail thanking her for the plant and for staying to have a glass of wine and for the connection and the community through this experience. My friend was floored. She couldn't believe it.
She was like, why are you sending me a thank you? I was giving you the plant as a thank you because I was thinking of you. And she just couldn't even believe it. And it made her feel so happy. So happy that she told me and told a bunch of us on our weekly coffee chat on Zoom.
So now she has by sending this plant (delivering this plant to a client), she has then gotten this message — this letter; she tells all of us and we all get to experience this beautiful act of kindness.
And it just reminds me that there is more good in this world if we seek it out. So that's my mission to seek out more kindness. And I can't wait to share more with you. Take care.
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