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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 20, 2022
Sunday Mar 20, 2022
Dan Buettner studies the traits of the happiest people he’s encountered in his journey to find what he calls the Blue Zones, where people live the longest.
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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 I’ve become fascinated by the work of Dan Buettner who has studied the most well-lived lives of people around the world for over 15 years as a researcher and writer for National Geographic. He’s written books on living longer - what he calls the Blue Zones of the world where people live the longest - and traits of the happiest people he’s encountered in his journey.
Buettner defines happiness as “...a composite of things: health, emotions, the way you evaluate your life, and the extent to which you’re living out your values.” He goes on to talk about the challenge of wanting to be happy and searching for that, but conveying the depth of happiness is found in meaning not amusement parks.
This idea of happiness is complex for Buettner. There is no silver bullet. He says “I like the idea of thinking about happiness in the same way you think of your retirement portfolio. You want it balanced—the short term and long term, stocks and bonds. The hell-bent pursuit of purpose kind of loses the point a little bit, because there is value in the sum of positive emotions we experience every day.”
Wow, so he’s saying we can’t be on this path to achieve so much purpose that we don’t stop to enjoy the flowers along the way.
I’ve actually seen this in real life. Do you know someone that has worked so hard for a goal and then achieved that goal and didn’t have the outcome of happiness they were expecting. I know I have. Heck, that’s been me. It’s what our brains do. In episode 179 we discussed the idea that our mind plays tricks on us and we think we’ll be so much happier when we achieve that thing, but we’re just not.
I’m just digging into Buettner’s happiness research, but he seems to be saying that we need to be reminded that happiness is the sum of all its parts. That’s someone we’ll be chewing over here at Everyday Happiness as we continue to explore the question: What is happiness?
Inspired by this article in The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/10/get-rid-of-everything/543384/
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