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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 Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Have you heard of oxytocin? It's a natural happiness hormone that you can easily produce every day. Want to learn how? Listen in on this podcast episode!
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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 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 today I want to share a practical way to boost your happiness hormone, oxytocin.
What we know is that happiness is up to you. Now, a caveat, of course there are injustices and we should speak up, and there are things that we cannot control, and we should feel all those feelings. But that should not preclude our happiness - in whatever moments of time, you can get it.
As we’ve discussed in this podcast, human connection is a basic way to quickly and effectively boost happiness. We just talked about this again in episodes 264 and 266.
On the flip side, for most people, scrolling through social media will not boost our happiness. It doesn’t have the same connection.
I’ve always said and felt like social media is my virtual coffee shop, I love it. I am a connection junkie. But the science is pretty clear that social media is not a substitute for human connection, those likes and comments and seeing what your friends are up to, that’s not going to boost your happiness. It’s like being on a diet, but binging on ice cream when you are hungry. It’s not going to help your diet goals.
If you need a boost of the happiness hormone, oxytocin, human connection is a great way to go. And if this is true even for me, who thinks social media is my virtual coffee shop, it's probably true for you too.
When we are lonely, we are starving for OXYTOCIN. We starve for eye contact and human touch, both boost oxytocin.
If you can get with someone, do that. But if you can’t, a video conference, or a Facetime is really the next best thing.
The reason video conferencing works is that although I can not touch you, I can see you and OXYTOCIN comes from seeing you too - looking at your eyes.
That means being intentional and not multitasking on the video call.
So, go out and touch someone or catch up with a friend on a video call. Let me know over on social how it went - we hang out at @everydayhappinesswithkatie
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