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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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Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Welcome to our 6-part series on the 6 categories that affect happiness the most. Today we dive into category 4 of 6 - trust, 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 trust.
Where you feel trust, your happiness levels are high. In the Nordic, Scandinavian countries, trust levels are high, their population believes they can trust people.
In Scandinavian countries, if you ask them if they think people can be trusted, 3 out of 4 will say yes.
The largest benefit to having trust in your life and even better if you can have it in your community or your entire country, is that trust reduces worry. It reduces stress and anxiety. We assume people are good.
On the contrary, you can see how if you don’t have a high level of trust for mankind, for your neighbor, for authority, you are filled with worry and anxiety as a baseline.
Fascinating, right? If you look generally at the United States, you can see how our cultural lack of trust has driven policy and even outrage in today's society.
You can also look at your home, and if you live in a loving home, you can see how trust supports that happiness. Or even kids going to school, you can see how they trust their school environment, their teachers and how that brings them not only happiness, but less anxiety as they walk into their day. Some of this is blind trust right? You almost have to give your trust before it is earned and hope for the best.
If we trust that people are good people and they want to help and be kind - it not only completely changes our perspective, but our mental and physical health. We don’t have these high levels of anxiety driven hormones that are running through our veins.
One experiment was done all around the world with wallets. Your wallet not only has money in it, but credit cards and your drivers license and having to replace all of that if you lose your wallet is annoying, to say the least. So there was a study that asked people, if you lost your wallet, how likely do you think that it would be returned to you? In this study, they “lost” 12 wallets and 11 wallets were returned in Helsinki and 1 in Lisbon. In New York, they returned 8 out of 12 wallets.
What the research has also found is that breaking social contracts, (like stealing something from someone, or littering on someone else’s property) occurs more between strangers than people who know each other.
So as the Happiness Research Institute suggests, go out and talk to your neighbor and get to know them.
Until next time, remember that kindness is contagious and you get to be a Kindness Crusader by spreading a tiny bit of kindness today.
This episode was inspired by The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark and their happiness course, The Happy Course.
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