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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 Feb 11, 2023
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Declaring Email bankruptcy and starting fresh was a game changer for me, and today, I’m going to share with you how I did it.
Transcript:
Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2-ish 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 if you listened yesterday to the episode about declaring clutter bankruptcy, I wanted to follow up with a hack for email too. Email and paper are by far my two biggest and chronic problems in staying organized, staying clear focused and staying on my game. I’m in a constant state of struggle with keeping up with the email and paper.
Thankfully, my friend C Lee’s course has helped me put systems into place for most of the paper. And this email system does work for me. But I will warn you, it’s not a one and done for me. I’ve declared email bankruptcy multiple times.
Here’s how it works. Create a folder in your email system called “bankruptcy April 2022” or whenever you are doing this. You can also use “Archive April 2022” The words don’t matter as long as it is something you can remember. If you do this more than once you can even nest your bankruptcy folders - oh yeah, I’ve been then.
This does two things. First, it immediately gets you to Inbox Zero with a clean slate. This feels amazing. Second, it keeps everything in a searchable archive so if you are looking for that recipe a friend sent you, a confirmation for the sweater you ordered online, it’s all there. And if you use Gmail, it’s all very searchable.
You can also, at your leisure, review your bankruptcy folder and mass delete from specific senders and look for items that you really do want to organize in your email reference folder, for example. Most of the time, if someone needs something from you and you haven’t responded, they will email again, so this system works pretty well.
If you use the snooze feature on Gmail, the snoozed email will pop up in your inbox at the time you indicated.
So, that’s my tip for clearing the email clutter so that you can feel less stressed, less overwhelmed and that translates to a little bit happier. If you are interested in how to banish that paper clutter, you have a couple days to jump into the free masterclass by my good friend C Lee. She’s a professional organizer and she’s got the best system for success with your paper piles. You can get our Everyday Happiness link in the show notes. And remember, kindness is contagious, so go out there into the world and be extra kind to someone today.
The Paper Cleanse: https://www.cleecawley.com/a/2147507426/jSi8hVBL
In the spirit of full disclosure, if you enroll in the Paper Cleanse via my link, I'll receive a small commission. Because your success is important to me, I only recommend systems that I've personally used to create real results in my own life. The KARMA system works and C Lee is a great teacher.
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And, let’s connect on social at @everydayhappinesswithkatie and join the community on the hashtags #IntentionalMargins and #everydayhappinesswithkatie on Instagram
Links: https://onamission.bio/everydayhappiness/
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