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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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Saturday Oct 29, 2022
Saturday Oct 29, 2022
In life, we don't always get what we want...that sucks, but it doesn't mean that we can't be happy. Tune in to learn how manufactured happiness can work for you.
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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’ve been thinking about happiness and still being happy when we don’t get what we want. When we want something and we get it - for a minute, we get that boost and that’s called natural happiness. It’s the mood, the feeling of happiness. We’re searching for a parking spot and we find one, we feel happy.
But how can we feel happiness even if we don’t get what we want? That’s where Harvard psychologist Dr. Daniel Gilbert’s research on synthetic happiness comes in. It’s this idea that we can manufacture some of our own happiness, we don’t have to wait for it to come to us, like that perfect parking spot. Because, let’s face it, that perfect parking spot may never show up for us today.
As Dr. Daniel Gilbert puts it, “...we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we choose experience” over materiality.
That commodity is happiness and with practice, he says, we can find more happiness through choice than we ever will through selfish pursuits and material acquisition.
This is where our frontal lobe part of our brain comes into play. This is the part in our brain that allows us humans to have reasoning, executive function skills and even more mind blowing is that this part of our brain allows us to experience things even before going through them - or maybe never experiencing it. Thanks to the frontal lobe you can be happy even though you didn’t get that pay raise.
If happiness is not a thing, but a state of mind, then we can create synthetic happiness. Now, I am not talking about toxic positivity, which is a whole different thing and one we don’t have time for today. What I am saying is that the science indicates, we humans have the ability to synthesize happiness - we don’t have to wait for happiness to happen to us. And that I think is incredible.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Do you have any experience with creating a glass is half full scenario when it otherwise might have felt completely empty? Send me a message or tag me in your stories post. We’re over @everydayhappinesswithkatie.
Inspired by thisTED Talk, The Surprising Science of Happiness and the follow-up blog fixing some mistakes, over at Ten years later: Dan Gilbert on life after “The surprising science of happiness”.
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