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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 Jun 26, 2022
Sunday Jun 26, 2022
Do you like pie? How about happiness pie? In this mini-series, I am sharing with you how our happiness pie chart is broken down into three unique sections. Today, we talk about the third slice, intentional activities.
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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 over the last two days, we have been talking about your happiness pie. As a quick reminder, your happiness pie is cut into three slices. The first slice is your genetic baseline for happiness. The second slice accounts for current circumstances. The last slice we will explore more in-depth today is your intentional activities, which make up the remainder of the pie.
In How of Happiness and her update, Sonja Lyubomirsky explains that the intentional activity portion of the pie is the part we have the most control over. How we choose to act and think determines our happiness outcomes. We have the neverending potential to improve our happiness or send it down the gutter.
We talk about numerous ways to improve happiness in this podcast, but I want to share a critical point Sonja mentioned in her update. That point was that happiness methods must cater to the individual and be varied. Let’s break that down.
First, we each have unique methods for achieving happiness. What works for one person, won’t always work for the next. It is vital that we find those happiness improvement techniques that work for us, and it may take a while to figure out what those are so don’t give up!
Second, happiness techniques must vary. We can’t use the same practice over and over again because it will lose its effectiveness. We must have an arsenal of techniques that work for us that we can bounce between. Maybe one day it is writing gratitude letters and the next it is meditating.
The whole point I am trying to make with this mini-series about happiness pie is that while we may have no control over our genetics, we, fortunately, do have the ability to control and influence a large part of our happiness.
It is how we choose to embrace and practice the parts of our life within our control that matter. We have the power to control our mind and spirit in how we react and adjust to life. We can choose to pursue happiness. I hope that you will continue to join me on this journey of utilizing happiness. It is inside you; you just have to tap into it.
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And, let’s connect on social at @everydayhappinesswithkatie and join the community on the hashtags #IntentionalMargins and #everydayhappinesswithkatie on Instagram
Links: https://onamission.bio/everydayhappiness/
Inspired by this article in http://sonjalyubomirsky.com/files/2019/11/Sheldon-Lyubomirsky-2019.pdf
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