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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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Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
7 tips to clear the physical clutter. Because we all know clutter is random and randomness causes overwhelm. So where do you start? Listen in to find out.
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 I’m on a kick to clear the clutter and streamline not only my workspace, but also my home and how I consume all the things that end up in front of my eyes or in my earbuds.
As you know, I am obsessed with finding Intentional Margins. And if you tuned in yesterday, you know I recently felt like the order I was craving was full of randomness and overwhelm.
When I felt like I needed order it came two-fold: First, with the tasks I needed to do and keep up with. Second was all the things I was looking at around my house that felt totally out of place. You know that feeling, when things don’t have a home and they just find a way to a flat surface and pretty soon, you don’t even notice that it doesn’t belong.
Truth be told, my family is completely blind to these types of things and I zone in and focus on it. As an example, it’s the headphones to the iPad that are in the mudroom - no one knows why - when they should be in the office. It’s the pictures against a way that need to be hung. It’s the clothes in the laundry room that need to be sorted for donations. It’s the little things all over the house that are sitting out in plain sight in a spot that is not their home. It used be toys when the kids were little. And we could tidy that up pretty quickly. But now it’s just random stuff.
I get an email every now and then from a website called Simplify Magazine and in this email recently, they talked about a few habits to keep your house clutter-free.
First, Make your bed each morning. We all know how good it feels to see a nice made bed at night.
Second, clean dishes after meals. This helps your kitchen feel tidy.
Third, Store things off the kitchen counter. Personally, if we can not use flat surfaces for storage, it helps a lot in the feeling of tidiness.
Fourth, handle the mail immediately and throw out everything you don’t need.
Fifth, return items nightly. This was the problem I was having. It had been months since I invited my kids to do a one-hour tidy up like I described yesterday in Episode 477 and gosh do I wish I did that more often.
Sixth was to complete 1-2 minute jobs immediately.
And lastly, a way to feel less cluttered is to minimize over-filled spaces.
So, I hope you found these tips just as helpful as I did.
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