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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 Mar 06, 2022
Sunday Mar 06, 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 2 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 yesterday we talked about this exciting research that we can invest in our happiness 401(k) and there are seven specific buckets that affect our happiness into our 70-80s that we can start to fill now. Those seven categories are: smoking, drinking alcohol, body weight, exercise, emotional resilience, education (lifelong learning), and relationships.
Today and tomorrow we’re talking about how we can fill or top-off these buckets.
The first seems pretty obvious in the 21st century. Don’t smoke—or if you already smoke, quit now. Any smoke-free years you can put into the happiness bucket will help. I’m watching my step-father in his 60’s - who was a smoker and quit almost two decades ago - struggle with COPD, often a smoker's lung disease, although, you don’t have to be a smoker to get it and even if you are a smoker, you might not get it, but it’s a long painful disease. If our 401(k) goal is to be happy-well, then we shouldn’t be smokers. And if you just can’t quit, then investing in these other buckets will be really important to you.
The second bucket is alcohol. The study basically says to watch your drinking and if you over-consume or abuse alcohol, it can be a strong predictor of winding up sick-sad on the 401(k) happiness scale. Arthur Brooks also cites additional research that indicates that not only the correlation between smoking and drinking that the Harvard study makes, but just too much alcohol by itself shows powerful predictors of eventual sadness. Now, what’s too much? The research really focuses on abuse and severe drinking problems. So I think you’re safe to have that drink at night.
The third bucket is maintaining a healthy body weight. This is so hard for so many of us Americans these days. With the rise in fast food, the hustle culture and frankly, less time to prepare a meal and sit around the dining room table. But the research is compelling that a diet of fruits and vegetables and avoiding intense restrictions is the best way to make deposits in the healthy body weight bucket of our happiness 401(k).
Tomorrow, we’ll talk about the final 4 buckets, the things we can invest in now to increase our happiness 401(k) for our 70s and 80s.
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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