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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 Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
According to happiness science, there are two prongs of life where we derive our happiness. Tune in to find out what they are and how I utilize them!
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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 when we talk about balance and harmony and fulfillment, I believe what we are really after is happiness. The definition of happiness is a two pronged definition. 1) happiness emotions, joy, contentment, love, positive emotions with 2) satisfaction and purpose. Together, you get well-rounded happiness - life fulfillment.
In her 2007 book The How of Happiness, positive psychology researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky (LU-BO-MER-SKE) elaborates, describing happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
How can you have a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile if you are overwhelmed, over-tasked and so busy that you fall to your pillow every night with a todo list longer than when you started in the morning.
When we are in harmony with our todos and our priorities, when we are mostly doing the right things in the right season, we can’t help but feel happiness. When we are happy, we can’t help but be less stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed.
You can’t hold two emotions at the same time. So for happiness to win, we need to create that harmony and work specifically on that second prong of the happiness definition - satisfaction and purpose.
I can tell you what makes me happy (and fulfilled) in the first prong, it’s spreading random acts of kindness and spending time with my friends. A beautiful dinner out. Snuggling with my kids. Watching the waves of any ocean. Spending time with my husband, having a conversation. That’s all the first prong.
What satisfies the second prong of happiness for me is order. I need order in my day and my life. That looks like a tidy kitchen, a calendar that is not double-booked and with time to breathe. That also looks like researching and writing and recording this micro-podcast. My work feels purposeful and that contributes to my happiness.
So, what I do is intentionally incorporate these things into my life, in the season that they are most valuable to me, which not only helps me feel in harmony when I am so busy, but also happy. And isn’t that what we’re all after?
What this comes down to is that no one can make you happy. No one can change your life for you. That’s a job only you can do. And it starts with intention.
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