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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 Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Today I share my experience and outcomes from working on my core values with my friend and life coach, Wendy Reed.
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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in about 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 a few months ago I did an exercise with my friend Wendy Reed on identifying my core values. What really matters to me and what deeply held beliefs do I have. It was a fascinating exercise and I’ll drop Wendy's contact into the show notes if you want to check her out.
What I discovered was that “order” was really high on my list. I like things to be in order. I am flexible, but I’m the gal with the back-up plan just in case. I don’t fly by the seat of my pants and I am not calm when the things around me are disheveled for very long.
That’s why my weekend of tidying up in episode 380 was so busy but felt so good, because to me, all was well again when order resumed and the space felt calm and aligned. I wonder if that is because we live in such a busy hustle society that for me, having order helps me gain some control of what my brain thinks of as chaos.
I am sharing this with you, because up until I realized this was truly one of my core values, I just thought it was an annoyance and something I was fighting against instead of listening to my inner self and accepting that this core value for me, order, is how I operate best.
I believe when we understand our core values, when we are living with intention, we gain that clarity and calm that we’re after. I think the calm that we seek is really the happiness that we’re after. When we’re aligned, and it’s not 24/7 + 365, but when that happens, we are at our truest level of fulfilled happiness because we are living in purpose and satisfaction and we’re feeling clarity, peace and calm.
So hear me out, I don’t think clarity, peace and calm have to be in meditation or laying at a beach or in a situation where you are not thinking of anything. I kinda think we can find that clarity, peace and calm when we’re busy, when we’re in flow, when we’re living in our busy and abundant priorities.
It’s food for thought, right? Can we be so aligned with our values that we are happy and also abundantly busy in this season of life? I’d love to know your thoughts.
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And remember, kindness is contagious.
Wendy Reed Coaching: https://www.wendyreedcoaching.com/
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