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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 Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
A story about how kindness won a client sale over experience and knowledge. The power of a positive attitude.
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Welcome to Everyday Happiness, where we create lasting happiness and two-ish minutes today 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 let you in on an experience that happened to me just a couple of days ago. I was going to a furniture store. I planned to go to this furniture store where I picked some stuff out online, and I wanted to place the order. I called this store and the person that answered the phone was Gidion, that was his name. And he was very helpful and felt a little bit newer-ish, but was definitely trying to point me in the right direction for some questions that I had about this furniture.
He told me what his work hours were later in the week, and that I could come in at any time and place the order in person with him and then also look at a few things in the store. So of course, I did. And this is what happened.
I go to the store. In the back of the showroom, there's a big round table with four stations that are diagonal from one another that are computer stations. He's at one of those. I go over, introduce myself, and we start talking about what kind of furniture I am looking for. And at about the same time, another designer sits down to my right.
She is a little bit older than Gidion, maybe 10-20 years. And she clearly is a more established interior designer, you can tell, she has a little bit of a chip on her shoulder. She has a binder full of orders and papers and seems like she has an extensive customer list. She probably knows really what she's doing. When she sat down she wasn't super polite or nice. But that was fine. I was working with the person next to her. And I just let this evolve. About 30 minutes later, I'm still working with Gidion, and a customer comes into the store and is looking at rugs behind this table.
She has with her, probably her four year-old toddler. And the toddler is if you can remember toddlers he was doing like a bear crawl kind of on the floor, just you know, he had a couple of toys and he was clearly just trying to entertain himself at his mother's feet while his mom was looking at rugs. And this designer turns around, and she says to this mother, I don't think that your kid should be on the floor. It's not safe. And the mother scooped up the toddler and they both went about their day.
But it reminded me a little bit about what it means to be kind and how that matters in business. I could have easily made an effort to work with this more experienced interior designer. But instead, I chose to work with Gideon, because he was kind, because he was willing to learn, and because he was doing everything that he could to get the sale, to make me happy, to create a pleasurable buying experience. It just goes to show that whether you're experienced or not, kindness matters and in this case, kindness won out and all of my business is going to this person that hasn't been doing this very long, but is so grateful for the opportunity to have this order. So maybe when you're thinking about growing your own business, you will also think about how kindness matters. Until next time, remember kindness is contagious.
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