27.3K
Downloads
674
Episodes
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.
Episodes
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Today I share with you how I completely felt overwhelmed, what was the root cause (hint, it all goes back to core values) and how I managed to come out of this phase.
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 this is an episode about musings about life because let’s face it sometimes life can get a little bit out of control and that is exactly how I’ve been feeling the last 10 days or so.
The kids are back in school and it feels like I haven’t caught my breath, so I sat down and made a list of all the things that I was trying to accomplish. What I know is that order is such an important part of my calm if you remember back at episode 381 we talked about personal core values and how they determine your emotional state and what I know is that when things feel out of order when things feel too random it causes my mind to feel like I can’t get control. And when that happens, I’m not a happy camper.
I say all the time randomness causes overwhelm and that is exactly what I was feeling because I had so many things on my list and nothing felt like it had a place in the order of things so my email wasn’t being tended to and I had use my email as a to do list which is such a bad idea on so many levels but that is exactly what I had been doing and so this past weekend I sat down and I got to work. I needed to regain some order.
I made a list of all of the things I wanted to accomplish including ordering the choir uniforms for my daughter and paying her music department dues for school and ordering the music t-shirt for my son and scheduling the orthodontist appointment and rescheduling the allergist appointment and ordering a comforter for a bed and cleaning out the laundry room, I mean there are so many things that were just on the list that needed to get done including going through my email because I had hundreds of emails that were unread that needed attention that something need to happen with and then I have thousands of spam emails that nothing really needed to happen, I just needed to delete them and so I spent hours with my laptop on my lap while I sat next to my husband and watch college football on Saturday just processing email and after a couple thousand emails I felt like I was finally starting to gain back that control because I was finally starting to see that there was a little bit more order.
I also encouraged my kids to do a one hour “follow me around the house and help me with things” process and if you listen back to episode 476 we talked about how one of the things you can do to help with motivating you to do things you don’t want to do, is to set a time limit and then be done so that’s what I did with my kids and we did that this weekend and we cleaned out the laundry room I went through all of these dress-up clothes and costumes that the children have had over the years they clearly don’t fit them and they don’t want and I got them ready to donate for Halloween coming up. There were so many easy things I just hadn’t prioritized. I had them organize our tupperware drawers which felt out of order. We’re making lunches for school and I didn’t always have a top to match the bottom of tupperware and that is annoying so we organize the tupperware drawers and my oh my are they gorgeous. I love it so much. These seemingly little things have really gone a long way to help my mental health and to help me feel like I can tackle the day, to help me feel like I can start to see order which then brings me that calm feeling I’m after.
On Monday morning I had a small list of places I needed to call during business hours and then I had my proactive tasks that I wanted to accomplish - my daily big three. I feel so much better but I wanted to just share with you how anyone can go down the spiral and then what I’ve done to bring myself out of it. Now this may work for some of you not for others but if you’re feeling overwhelmed take a few hours and really try to crush as many things as you can see how it makes you feel.
I’d love to know what tips or hacks you do when you are feeling completely overwhelmed. And remember, kindness is contagious.
Get Everyday Happiness delivered to your inbox by subscribing at: https://www.katiejefcoat.com/happiness
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/
Comments (0)
To leave or reply to comments, please download free Podbean or
No Comments
To leave or reply to comments,
please download free Podbean App.