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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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Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Of course there can be days when we feel like chocolate is the only thing that will help us boost our mood - we’ve all been there.
Transcript:
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 if you take the approach that very few things can boost your mood, then you will speak that into existence. What we focus on grows, right? But the thing is, that’s not you. That’s not my audience. I know this because you come back, you listen in, you chew on these concepts throughout the day. And sometimes you even mention something from this show to a friend.
So, can there be days when we feel like chocolate is the only thing that will help us boost our mood - of course. That’s the power of being human and having a wide range of emotions.
What we’re after here is lasting happiness. Intentional happiness. Fulfilled happiness. This is when you can look back at your day and see the joy, the happiness but also know every single minute was not in a constant state of bliss. In fact, you can look back and see that yesterday was a hard and unhappy day, but that doesn’t mean that my life is now unhappy. You see? Isn’t that the most amazing thing? This happiness research reaffirms that we get to have bad, hard, challenging, down-right terrible days or weeks or months and still have a happy life.
We know that we can achieve that job and that will make us happy for a while, but the corner office will barely make a dent in our fulfilled happiness, and it certainly won’t last. The same with negative emotions. They will sting and the quick sand that you feel you are walking through may be hard at times, it will re-appear, it may take some time to go though, but we will go through it.
If happiness is based on how our brain processes the world, we get to help our brain out, by being intentional about what we put in front of our eyes, what we listen to with our ears and who we surround ourselves with as much as we can.
So today, I invite you to sit in your feelings, if that is where you are. And then, I invite you to remind yourself that negative thoughts and feelings do not make up the whole picture and fulfilled happiness is a range, over time, and we get to have both.
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