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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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Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Would you want to live where people are happy?
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 individual happiness, but what happens when we rank ourselves collectively. One of the ways researchers determine happiness is by a cognitive evaluation. We talked about this yesterday and those findings determine the UN ranking of happiest countries in the world. So what countries are the happiest, where does the US fall in this comparison?
Robert F. Kennedy said, GDP measures everything except that which makes life worth living. So, some countries started measuring the things that do make life worth living.
Countries, taking the lead from the UN are actually working to measure the happiness of their citizens. It’s fascinating. The world is starting to move in the direction of happiness goals on a massive scale. Apparently those reports on the “happiest place to live” actually mean something and researches and governments are using this data to enhance well-being.
Denmark usually ranks number one in these happiness reports, they mostly look at the average of life satisfaction.
The most fascinating question is why do some countries consistently rank high and others consistently low. Well, the low countries usually have high levels of poverty, political unrest, lack of stability. The countries that consistently rank high are the Nordic countries, and the research seems to indicate that those countries have a good free education system, and usually healthcare as well. It also seems like they trust their government and their fellow citizens. In Denmark, you’ll find some of the highest taxes in the world, but they look at it not as extortion,but contributing to the common good and they seem to think more as a society than as an individual, so they tend to think that their government protects them from so many social and physical risks and the taxes are worth it. I would hypothesize this is the exact opposite of the US, although the US is not ranked in the bottom, it was 19 out of 146 countries on this list in 2021.
So what can we learn from this type of research? Move to a Nordic country? Maybe? Not being a social scientist, I would argue that the main difference is that one population -Denmark - sees themselves more as a unit, as a society all rowing in the same direction, and the other - the US - sees themselves as individuals.
Maybe this doesn’t change anything, but I’d like to think as a society we can make small changes in our neighborhood and in our communities to better mimic some of the happiest places to live around the world.
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World Happiness Report: https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2021/
This episode was inspired by The Happy Course
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