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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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Sunday Feb 13, 2022
Sunday Feb 13, 2022
This inspiring story is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to creating a ripple effect of kindness.
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 today I was reading my happiness lesson in the course by The Happiness Research Institute and the professor wrote a story that so brilliantly describes how contagious happiness really is. And there are a million stories like this one.
He said “Two firefighters were standing in the middle of a long line at a fast food restaurant.
Before they could reach the front of the queue, the siren on the firetruck went off and they had to leave, hungry. Seeing this, a couple who had just received their meals gave them to the firefighters and got back in the queue to order. When they finally reached the front of the line, the manager paid for their meals.”
Maybe you are kind to someone and karma doesn’t come back to you that quickly, you will still get the emotional happiness boost of being kind.
Kindness is not only a virtue that’s easy to practise, it genuinely makes the giver happier than the receiver.
This is a real life example, but I wonder how this would play out in social media if we thought the person on the other side of the screen was looking right at us?
We are social beings, we know this. We care about what other people do, what other people think of us and how we are doing compared to everyone else.
But what if we set an example of being kind. And what if that ripple effect started to take hold and diminish some of the toxicity in favor of a more kind social media?
We care about what other people think, generally. This is why people care about relative income and not absolute income. We’ve talked about this.
People look at how their peers are doing, so we can see why social media would have a negative effect on how people feel about their lives. But what if we flipped the switch.
Social comparisons are a pattern in happiness and it’s heightened on social media.
I’m excited to be more overtly kind on social media and to highlight more kindness on social media and I invite you to do the same, maybe, you and I can start a ripple effect that goes way beyond us. If nothing else, it will boost our happiness and the happiness of the people we are kind to.
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