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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 Feb 03, 2022
Thursday Feb 03, 2022
How we are measuring subjective happiness in the modern day. And as a population, we can have a crappy morning and still feel like we have a good and happy life.
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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 during this course I’m taking on happiness, it got me thinking about just how subjective happiness is, even throughout our own day. I was thinking about my own subjective happiness as I moved through the day.
If I were to ask you all, listening today, what happiness is, we will all have different answers.
What I found to be more exciting though, is that we can have a crappy morning and still feel like we have a good and happy life.
There are 3 ways that researchers measure happiness:
The first is overall life evaluation. They do this through a cognitive life evaluation, like a quiz.
This measures how happy you are with your life overall. This type of evaluation is used by the UN when they rank the happiest countries in the world. This asks people to evaluate their life - as a whole - on a scale from 0 to 10.
The second way that researchers measure happiness is by Affective happiness. These are your moment-to-moment feelings that can fluctuate during a day. Maybe you are upset that your car wouldn’t start or the train was late for your commute. This probably doesn’t make you happy in that moment. This approach is used in the Mappiness study - which mapped out the happiness of people in the UK. They asked people at different times of day what they were doing and if they were happy. I think this is where some of the findings that social connection is so important for happiness comes from. It’s important because it turns out that we can’t really rely on our memories because our experiencing selves (in the moment) and our remembering self perceives happiness differently. Can you think of a time where your memory of an event feels more happy that it was in the moment? I know I can.
The third way that researchers measure happiness is by eudaimonia yüdēˈmōnēə this sense of meaning and purpose in life. It’s what Aristotle was getting at with his work. And it’s often considered the missing piece in happiness evaluations.
I think the hardest part of this type of work is finding trends and quantifying something that is innately hard to quantify, but the researches have done an amazing job at bringing the general public along for this work. In the show notes today, there are links to the studies if you want to dive deeper into understanding how happiness is interpreted in todays modern world.
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This episode was inspired by The Happy Course
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