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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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Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
We all want to crack the code right? Just tell me what to do - that’s all I need to know. When happiness expert Shawn Achor says he has the formula and he knows why we are getting it all wrong. Listen in to find out how to achieve more happiness.
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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2-ish 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 Shawn Achor, a researcher, a world renowned happiness expert and New York Times best selling author says he has the formula for happiness, and what we’re likely doing, as a human race, is getting it completely backwards.
Most people think the formula is that if you work hard, you will be successful and when you are successful, you will be happy. Shawn Achor who has been to over 50 countries and studied happiness around the world says, we’ve got it all wrong. He says this is scientifically backwards.
First, everytime your brain has success, you just change the goal post to something bigger. You get good grades, now you have to get better grades. You have 10,000 followers on Instagram, now you want 20,000. We just keep moving the goalpost. And if happiness is on the other side of this goal, we’re always chasing it and never experiencing it. Our brains never get there.
Our brains actually work in the opposite order. If we can raise our optimism, our positivity, in the present, then our brains can enjoy what Shawn calls the happiness advantage.
The happiness advantage is simple. It is the theory that your brain at positive performs significantly better than it does at negative, neutral or stressed. The research finds that at positive, your intelligence rises, your creativity rises, your energy levels rise.
Achor’s findings indicate that our brains at positive are 31% more productive than if they are at negative, neutral or stressed. You are 37% better at sales. Doctors are 19% faster and more accurate in coming up with the correct diagnosis when their brains are positive.
In fact, the research done by Sonjya Lyubomirsky found that at positive, people would enjoy better secure jobs, superior productivity, more resiliency, less burnout, less turnover, greater sales.
So what this research says is that we can reverse the formula and if we can find a way to become positive in the present, then our brains can work with us, for us, to work more successfully.
Tomorrow we are going to talk about why our brains end up in negative loops and why it’s so darn hard for some people to flip the script. It’s easy to say “be more positive” but those are just words. We’ll explore this more tomorrow.
Inspired By: The happy secret to better work | Shawn Achor
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