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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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Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Organizers can give you lots of tips and tricks to tidy your home, clear the paper clutter, get to Inbox zero, but having an effective todo list has very little to do with how you feel. Today, I am sharing that we can be busy and feel balanced with a few key concepts. Intentional Margins and my friend C.Lee’s concept of KARMA, so let’s dive in.
Transcript:
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 Benjamin Franklin once said, "For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned." And that got me thinking. I read an article that I will link in the show notes that says that “[W]hile Benjamin Franklin's estimation is overstated, spending time getting organized is still a valuable investment. Experts estimate that every hour spent in planning and organizing saves three to four hours of time that would otherwise be wasted.” You know the feeling, when you are driving around in circles, or spending countless hours looking for that piece of paper that you know you have but can’t place it. We can avoid that when we develop a few organizational habits.
Organizational experts have come up with all kinds of ways to try to save time from never touch anything twice, or never respond to email when it pings your inbox to, making time for lunch, doing the hardest thing first in the day.
All of those are well and good, but how do they make you feel. What I’ve found is that we can still feel “busy” because we are doing all the tasks but we are out of balance. We aren’t prioritizing our own priorities in this never-ending todo list. That’s why I created the concept Intentional Margins and why I love my friend C.Lee’s Paper Cleanse course, it’s the only time I’ve been able to feel like I’ve got my paper under control, because she makes it so easy to get those wins and feel the calm of a friction free paper lifestyle - and isn’t that what we are all after - that sense of calm. I also like that it’s for a digital dinosaur like me, so no scanning papers into a computer. So from the mail to the piles on my desk, I have a simple system and it’s easy to maintain. She calls it KARMA and it’s so good.
If you are listening in real time, you can get in on her FREE masterclass where she shares her secrets and gives you the system for success. It’s called The Proven Path for Conquering Paper Clutter for Good Masterclass https://www.cleecawley.com/a/2147507426/jSi8hVBL and you can grab the link in my bio. There is only one webinar left in her series, so jump to the link quickly. If you can’t make the class, she does send a replay, so it’s worth it to register.
Until next time, remember, kindness is contagious.
And her FREE Masterclass, The Proven Path for Conquering Paper Clutter for Good Masterclass 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/
Inspired by: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/11-things-organized-productive-people-do-every-day-bradberry/
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