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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 Jul 26, 2022
420-The Wabi Sabi Lifestyle Pt-1
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
Tuesday Jul 26, 2022
In this episode of Everyday Happiness, we talk about the theory of Wabi Sabi and how we can incorporate this philosophy into our lives.
Transcript:
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 today we are talking about Wabi Sabi. Wabi Sabi is a Japanese concept that encompasses the beauty of imperfection, the impermanence of life, and the simplicity of the world around us. While it may seem like a funny word, this teaching is a beautiful theory that can be adopted into our lives.
In our Western World, there is a love of perfection, balance, and the idea of permanence. We can find it in our architecture, art, fashion, and beauty standards. On the contrary, Japan has a different concept of the beautiful, which we have no word for in English, Wabi Sabi.
Wabi Sabi shows respect for the passage of time and how everything in life ages, faces challenges, and eventually breaks. It is the appreciation of imperfection, impermanence, and the melancholy.
As a brief history lesson, Wabi Sabi has developed over time, right down to the meaning of the word. It truly began to come to play in 15th century Japan in the tea ceremony. The original tea ceremony was designed to keep monks awake during long periods of Zen meditation, but the shoguns of Japan overtook it as a way to be flashy and show off their wealth.
One tea master found this convoluted practice of the tradition unacceptable, so he redesigned the tea ceremony to emphasize the teachings of Wabi Sabi. Rather than the glitz and glamor of the ceremony, it focuses on the reality of life, aging, and incompleteness.
To put it simply, it rests on these seven aesthetic principles: simplicity, asymmetry, the beauty of the understated, naturalness without pretension, subtle grace, freeness, and tranquility.
Wabi Sabi can be found all around us if we so choose. Instead of seeing ugliness in a face full of wrinkles, you see a life filled with laughter and smiles. Rather than discarding a worn blanket, you cherish it as representing hundreds of snuggles, movie nights, and loving moments. I think you get where I am going with this. We can see the world through whatever lens we choose.
Hopefully, this philosophy has inspired you, but we aren't quite done yet. Tune in tomorrow for a bit more Japanese philosophy that you can adopt into modern life with the art of Kintsugi.
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Inspired by this article in https://positivepsychology.com/wabi-sabi-lifestyle/
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