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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 Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Welcome to our 6-part series on the 6 categories that affect happiness the most. Today we dive into category 2 of 6 - Relationships, so let’s go.
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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 the Happiness Research Institute in Denmark has developed factors they think affect someone's happiness. They have 6 factors that they group together, they are: health, relationships, freedom, trust, kindness and money. Today we’re talking about relationships. Now, if you’ve been with me for a hot second, you know that I think and the science supports just how much relationships matter.
Relationships with other humans give us a sense of community, sense of connection, that we belong. We’re talking about relationships that could be your partner or neighbor or distant friend or acquaintance. What science tells us is that having close relationships matter. Relationships can be complex, messy and bring us un-happiness too, but when it comes to happiness, we need positive relationships to thrive.
The Happiness Research Institute did a study in their backyard in a town outside of Copenhagen where they found that if you were dissatisfied in your relationships, you were on the happiness scale of being in poor, troubled regions in the world and if they were satisfied in your relationships you reported very high levels of happiness. This down and dirty example indicates just how much relationships matter. These are all relationships, not just with a partner, but the totality of your close relationships.
What they find is that your happiness in your relationships is a very strong indicator of your overall happiness. So if you want to know if someone is happy, ask them about their relationships.
In a Harvard Study, they tracked the lives of 724 men for 75 years. It’s the only study in history that takes a snapshot of a whole life in real time and looks at the factors that affect happiness, health, success, and whatever else might constitute a good life.
This study concluded, among other findings, that It’s not the number of friends or whether you’re in a committed relationship, but the quality of those relationships. Warm, protective relationships keep people healthy, but high conflict relationships are destructive.
We can start this today by spending more time in relationship with people, talking with them, and putting down the screens. We can say hello to our neighbor. These are little things that add up to make a big difference for our well-being.
Don’t forget, kindness is contagious, so go out there friends, be a part of the kindness movement.
And if you are enjoying what you are hearing, share this podcast with 3 friends. Help us be a part of the kindness movement.
This episode was inspired by The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark and their happiness course, The Happy Course.
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