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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 Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
What if instead of focusing 100% of our attention for 2023 on what our goals and achievements will be, we take a step back and look at the foundation rooted in how we want to live. Perhaps, we get to the same end goal.
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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 this past week I was at a half-day retreat with one of the companies I do consulting work with. While my section was time, boundaries and managing our energy so we can create peak performance that is in flow and doesn’t feel so forced, what I want to touch on today is what the owner of the company talked about.
He is the leader of a large and influential real estate group in DC, and what we call out here the DMV, which is basically DC, and the surrounding Maryland and Northern Virginia area. Here’s the thing. He believes, and he’s proven this over and over again himself and with his team that when we focus on our life and build a solid foundation around what we want our life to be, the business part of that will support it. So his team retreat was almost exclusively about life planning for the next year.
He asked some thoughtful, journal prompting questions that I want to share with you today.
Also, real quick, if you are running for a pen to jot down these questions, you can always sign up to get these episodes in your inbox. The emails also come with all the hyperlinks I refer to in the podcast. You can subscribe at https://www.katiejefcoat.com/happiness
So, here are the 4 questions he walked his team through:
- Who are you? And then he asks, was part of your answer “where did you come from?” and if not, make that a subsection to this question.
- Are you ok? After this journaling prompt, he invited everyone to take a big drink of water and four relaxing deep breaths, signaling that we are ok with our basic needs.
- Who do you want to become? This is aspirational. What characteristics do we want to lean into and embody on a deeper level.
- How do you become the person you want to be? This is the kicker, right? What do I need to do now, to achieve the outcomes I desire.
Everyone will have a different set of ideals and actions to get there and that is the beauty of creating a life that is a solid foundation for the goals we desire to achieve.
Perhaps boundaries are something you want to focus on to achieve and embody the person you want to be. Perhaps it’s slowing down. Whatever is right for you.
I wanted to share this with you because so much of what we want begins with how we live.
I invite you to consider these prompts in some of your reflection and as always, kindness is contagious, so go out there and sprinkle that kindness. It’s just the beginning and you can be part of the ripple effect that brings more kindness into the world we live in.
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