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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 Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Today I will share with you some ideas for ways to track your time, depending on your desired results. And why tracking time can be so important to unlocking that feeling of overwhelm.
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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 I am on a kick right now about time. Do you ever feel like you have so much to do that you secretly want to run away to a secluded hideout and give it all up? Honestly, I think about minimalism, we’ve talked about that before on this show, and how maybe if there were less distractions I would feel more like I was in control of my time and my todos.
Well, if you are like me, we can’t actually run away forever. So I wanted to share with you a tip that I used to help me see where I was actually spending my time. It’s called time tracking. You can google time tracking and get apps and plug-ins for your computer or phone, or you can, like me, use a good ol’ fashioned pen and paper.
When I was practicing law at a big law firm, we needed to track our time in 7 minute increments to bill our time to our specific clients. In those days, I used a legal pad for notes and then inputted the appropriate descriptions and tags into the law firm’s billing system. Lucky for us now, we can google time tracker printable and you can print off a few free template sheets and start today.
Depending on what your goals are, you can categorize your time or be super specific. So take a few minutes and think about why you want to track your time and what results you want to see. Some of the things I like to bucket together are all of the work I do on different projects or consulting clients. It might look like a bucket for redesigning my website or writing and recording podcasts. It might be buckets like phone calls, computer work, networking. I also like to be super specific and log showers, think time, scrolling social media (your iPhone can help with that too in settings). There are so many ways to track your time based on what you want to learn.
Time tracking is important because it forces us to do the math. We all have the same 24, right? But doing the math really highlights where we spend our time. I invite you to reflect on your Intentional Margins, those priorities that drive you, that mean so much to you. Does your time reflect your priorities or do you need a little shake up?
Now, before you try to recreate the wheel from last week - stop. Research shows that we as humans are terrible at estimating time. We can’t guess accurately, we always overestimate. This also goes for how we estimate how long it will take us to do a task in the future. We’re terrible at getting that right - unless of course you’ve done the same task 5 times and you know. But that’s not what I’m talking about here.
Today, I invite you to consider how you use your precious 24 hours and if you are interested, track your time for a week and see what happens. See what you learn. For me, it was super insightful. When I was super clear on how I was using my time, I had the knowledge to reflect and pivot.
Until next time, remember, kindness is contagious.
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