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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 Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Today I’m chatting about how I create Intentional Margins® when I have time in the car, which seems like all the time these days running children from activities.
Transcript:
Welcome to Everyday Happiness, where we create lasting happiness in two 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 I wanted to share with you an Intentional Margin® that I created just the other day. So this past Wednesday, I had to drive my daughter to ice skating lessons and usually it's a longer lesson. I drop her off and then she does her lesson. She does free skate and then I pick her up later.
But this particular day, it was just a 30-minute lesson so I knew I had about 30 minutes of downtime. What was I going to do? Well, my 13 year old daughter had already requested that I not go watch this particular lesson because she was just starting a new series and she wasn't
feeling very confident. So if you have a 13 year old, you know exactly what this feels like.
So I knew that I had to stay in the car, so I was intentional and thought, what am I going to do for these 30 minutes? Instead of the scroll hole of social media and the news, I thought, I'm going to use this and make it a priority to create my Intentional Margins®.
So it looks like this.
I knew that driving my daughter to ice skating was a priority. It's very important to me to be able to be there to do these things. And my to-do list did not go away and still feels like it's longer than anyone could ever imagine and really accomplish. So I put on my sticky note three things that I wanted to do while I was in the car before I got on social media.
And it was to make a list to go to Target because I knew I was going to Target the next day and I didn't have a list yet. I had some things jotted down, but I needed to really think about why I was
going to Target and what I needed. So I needed to make a list.
I also needed to create a Facebook birthday post for my little guy—it was his birthday. So I needed to get that done and it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.
And then I wanted to review my full focus planner for the day and then look at it for the next day and make sure that my appointments were aligned and that I didn't have anything wonky going on that I wasn't aware of.
So those are the three things that I decided to make a priority in my 30 minutes before I started down the scroll hole of social media and the news and all the things which I love to do. I mean, social media is like my virtual coffee shop, so I love to see what everyone is doing and comment and get into the DMs and all that stuff. But I also have responsibilities. I have this to-do list.
So I use those 30 minutes to be productive and then also do some fun stuff like scroll social.
So I just wanted to share that with you in case you're thinking about how do I create an intentional margin or how do I use Intentional Margins®?
It's not always knitting and all these fun things. Sometimes it's just how do I better manage my time so that I can do the things that matter most when I have that other time —these little pockets of time, like time confetti, you can get a lot done.
So I hope it encourages you to think about what you're going to do when you have your next pocket of time. Take care, everyone.
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