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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 Oct 13, 2022
Thursday Oct 13, 2022
The age of remote working has drastically increased since the start of the pandemic, but does it actually make us happier? Tune in today to Everyday Happiness 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 think we are in a curious time in our US history, maybe even globally, where a lot of jobs abruptly pivoted to home telework in March 2020. Now, October 2022, 2 1/2 years later, a lot of people are still working from home in the US. If not 100% of the time, at least part of their week. It feels like how we work is changing.
There is this dialog around work-life balance. Is it balanced when you wear the same athleisure to work at home as you do when you are not working at home? Are we more tied to our work because we can’t have that separation?
There is no question, in general, we are learning to adapt at home. We have make-shift offices, some at the dining room table.
I was curious about how our commute or lack of commute impacts our happiness. People say it’s great to not have to go into the office, to get back that time that would otherwise be spent on the commute. But I wonder if working from home is actually making people happier. As happy as they thought they would be.
Now, the science is still new on this, and not quantitative enough to make any findings but there is a growing school of thought that people still need human connection and that the benefits from working from home do not outweigh the benefits from going into the office, where you engage with your colleagues, you see them at the coffee machine, you can pop into their office to ask them a question that is less rigid than an email.
Of course, this only works with social offices and somewhat social people. Some people can go into the office and still not see or talk to anyone. I’m not sure how much their happiness is boosted in this context.
But the separation of the commute (if it is a reasonable time) - super long commutes lead to unhappiness too. But that transition time often helps us close those mind loops from work and open to what is waiting for us at home.
A report in the USA suggested that getting rid of a one hour commute is the happiness equivalent of getting a $40,000 raise!
Interestingly, all the research shows that once your commute reaches three hours or more, then the negative effects wear off.
If you were one of the millions who pivoted and started working from home, I invite you to look at your day and your happiness levels. Are you as happy or happier as you thought you would be, working from home, having a little more autonomy in your day. Or has the hedonic treadmill caught up with you and you’ve reached your baseline again, now it’s just a new baseline, the one where working from home is the constant.
You can dive into the research in the show notes.
https://www.happinessresearchinstitute.com/ and https://www.42courses.com/courses/happiness
We are living this in real time, so if you have any thoughts on this topic, leave us a message @everydayhappinesswithkatie
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