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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 Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Welcome to our 6-part series on the 6 categories that affect happiness the most. Today we dive into category 3 of 6 - Freedom and Choice, 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 freedom and choice. Free will so to speak.
One aspect of freedom that is often overlooked is freedom of time. Episodes 57-64 talk about time affluence and even time confetti and if you haven’t listened to them, I encourage you to do so. Time can be such a tricky thing - we all have the same amount and there is no hack to gain more time.
The research indicates that regardless of how you spend your time, having control over your time leads to more happiness. One way to do this is to identify your Intentional Margins®: How do you want to spend your time? What priorities are you placing on the activities taking up your time.
Freedom of choice to do what you want, get what you want can be great, but there can also be agony of choice. Have you ever walked into the cereal aisle at the grocery store and stood there for way too long wondering, pondering, deciding what to choose. There are so many choices. Too many choices can be debilitating.
The research indicates that having too many choices doesn't make us happier. We think having 200 different cereals to choose from in the cereal aisle will make us happier, but it doesn’t. And this goes beyond cereal. There is a study about jams, where there are two farmers market stands one has 24 jams and the other 6. What they found was more people purchased from the stand with only 6 jams -- they said when people are faced with too many choices, they can’t make a choice, so the choice is to forego it all for perhaps, something better.
So I invite you to think about how freedoms of time, autonomy and choice play a role in your happiness.
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This episode was inspired by The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark and their happiness course, The Happy Course.
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