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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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Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Like a traditional 401(k), but instead of financial investments, we can make happiness deposits into our happiness 401(k) that will yield great returns in our 70s and 80s. And, like any investment, it’s never too early or too late to start. This is part 1 of the 3 part Happiness 401(k) series.
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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 as we approach tax day here in the US, I’ve been reflecting about what makes me the most happy and am I investing in the right things for the long term fulfilled happiness I’m after.
Arthur Brooks, Atlantic contributing editor and professor at Harvard says “Each of us has something like a “Happiness 401(k)” that we invest in when we are young, and that we get to enjoy when we are old. And just as financial planners advise their clients to engage in specific behaviors—make your saving automatic; think twice before buying that boat—we can all teach ourselves to do some very specific things at any age to make our last decades much, much happier.”
Wow, this is great news, right?
This brings us back to a Harvard study we’ve talked about before on this podcast. It’s where Harvard started following a group of men from Harvard in 1938 from youth to adulthood, asking every so often their happiness scale, among other things to understand their well-being. They all had different walks of life, relationships, life goals. The study has evolved and the participants have expanded to more than just men from Harvard. As this study has evolved and the participants have aged, the researchers began to categorize people on a spectrum of “happy-well” or “sad-sick”. Indicating that physical health was a clear determining factor in someone's happiness.
As the researchers dove in, they discovered the happy-well senior citizens did have some resources that were out of their control, generational wealth, good DNA, long-lived ancestors. But what is fascinating is that some of this is under our control and as Arthur Brooks says, “[this] can teach us a great deal about how to plan for late-life happy-wellness.”
Using this treasure trove of data from the Harvard study, two researchers showed in 2001 that we can control seven buckets that fill our happiness 401(k), they are: smoking, drinking alcohol, body weight, exercise, emotional resilience, education (lifelong learning), and relationships.
Tomorrow we’ll talk about how to fill these buckets. So don’t miss it. Make sure you are subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts.
This episode was inspired by: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/02/happiness-age-investment/622818/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11384887/
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