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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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Friday Oct 07, 2022
493-The Two Prongs of Happiness
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
According to happiness science, there are two prongs of life where we derive our happiness. Tune in to find out what they are and how I utilize them!
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 when we talk about balance and harmony and fulfillment, I believe what we are really after is happiness. The definition of happiness is a two pronged definition. 1) happiness emotions, joy, contentment, love, positive emotions with 2) satisfaction and purpose. Together, you get well-rounded happiness - life fulfillment.
In her 2007 book The How of Happiness, positive psychology researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky (LU-BO-MER-SKE) elaborates, describing happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
How can you have a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile if you are overwhelmed, over-tasked and so busy that you fall to your pillow every night with a todo list longer than when you started in the morning.
When we are in harmony with our todos and our priorities, when we are mostly doing the right things in the right season, we can’t help but feel happiness. When we are happy, we can’t help but be less stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed.
You can’t hold two emotions at the same time. So for happiness to win, we need to create that harmony and work specifically on that second prong of the happiness definition - satisfaction and purpose.
I can tell you what makes me happy (and fulfilled) in the first prong, it’s spreading random acts of kindness and spending time with my friends. A beautiful dinner out. Snuggling with my kids. Watching the waves of any ocean. Spending time with my husband, having a conversation. That’s all the first prong.
What satisfies the second prong of happiness for me is order. I need order in my day and my life. That looks like a tidy kitchen, a calendar that is not double-booked and with time to breathe. That also looks like researching and writing and recording this micro-podcast. My work feels purposeful and that contributes to my happiness.
So, what I do is intentionally incorporate these things into my life, in the season that they are most valuable to me, which not only helps me feel in harmony when I am so busy, but also happy. And isn’t that what we’re all after?
What this comes down to is that no one can make you happy. No one can change your life for you. That’s a job only you can do. And it starts with intention.
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Thursday Oct 06, 2022
492-Doing the RIGHT Things at the RIGHT Time
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
In this episode of Everyday Happiness, I give you my ultimate philosophy on how to handle balancing your time to stay happy in changing seasons of life. Tune in to find out!
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 as we’re talking about time and priorities lately, I want to highlight that it’s not about doing all the things. It’s about doing the RIGHT things at the RIGHT time, As YOU define YOUR version of balance, AND you PURSUE IT.
Like my friend Jenna always says, there are a million ways to do anything. What we’re doing in this series is deciding what’s right for us individually.
Then you will FEEL this sense of balance that you’ve wanted all along.
Time management isn’t going to get you what you need. You could have everything perfectly planned out. But if you FEEL out of balance, you will still feel overwhelmed and stressed and when we are in those feelings, it’s almost impossible to also feel happiness.
I invite you to ask yourself, WHAT’S RIGHT, RIGHT NOW? You get to answer that, for yourself. In this season, what is the priority?
Life balance is doing the RIGHT things at the RIGHT time, so that you can feel balanced in a busy and often an out of balance world.
I can give you all of the time management tricks in the book, but you still won’t feel balanced or happy. You will still be yearning for something more. I’ve heard you say that you are looking for that balance, harmony, fulfillment, happiness … they’re all the same desire. And time management is a trick to think you’ll get there. But you won’t. I’ve been there. It’s because balance doesn’t come from a perfectly color coded schedule. (I know, I’ve got one) It comes from a feeling. That’s why you can be busy and feel in harmony. It’s when we’re doing the right things at the right time.
That’s what we’re after and why this micro-podcast will give you inspiration and tools to help you along the way. Like setting Intentional Margins® - time for your priority today - science to prove why certain things actually help increase our happiness.
I hope this is helpful. If you are enjoying this micro-podcast, I’d love for you to smash that subscribe button, leave a review and if you want to share anything with us, jump into our DMs over @everydayhappinesswithkatie
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Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
491-Balancing in Times of Busy Seasons
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
Wednesday Oct 05, 2022
There will be seasons in your life where your priorities must shift to reflect what is going on in your life at that given moment, but how do we re-balance? Tune into this episode of Everyday Happiness to learn more!
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 we’ve been talking about how we spend our time and our priorities because I believe that when we look at our calendar it represents our priorities and when we feel out of balance, it’s often not because we have every minute scheduled. We might have every minute scheduled, but it's more about not doing the right things at the right time. If we are doing what’s right for us, right now, we can be super busy and still feel balanced.
If we are doing what matters most, for a good part of the day, and we know why we are doing it, we will feel more in harmony, more balance.
That’s why I am so passionate about Intentional Margins and taking the time to identify your priorities in this season, because it will be the shining light, the guide, the clarity, the filter for you to make choices on what you say yes to and what you say no to - in this season.
I have a friend, her high-schooler is struggling at school. I am sure so many parents can relate to the season when the older kids need more. She’s not driving yet, so she needs a ride to the study tutor and she needs a parent at home to help her stay on task with her homework. My friend is in a season where her time is spent with one of her kids, just being there. And she’s saying no to wine night and book club and she’s running (something that is a priority for her mental and physical fitness) in the mornings instead of the evenings, because her priorities have shifted to working with her child through her child’s season of figuring some things out.
When my friend tries to double-book and do one more thing, her harmony falls apart. She’s more short tempered with her child - which she recognizes and doesn’t like. She’s more stressed personally by trying to make it work and at the end, she doesn't feel better about trying to squeeze in one more thing.
Balance is never about how much time you have. It’s always about how you feel. You can be busy and balanced. Most of us are very very busy, I am not saying to be balanced you need to reduce ½ of your commitments, that would be insane. What I am saying is that you can take a look at your commitments and decide what needs to stay, what needs to go, and what matters in this season.
Until next time, happy prioritizing.
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Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
490-Planning Your ”Ideal” Week
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Have you heard of the "ideal" week planning concept? In this episode, I explain how it works and how you can improve your ideal week by including space for Intentional Margins®!
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 there is this concept of your ideal week. Lots of people have used and taught this concept, it’s certainly not new and it’s not my idea, but as a curator, I want to bring you these great ideas as it relates to creating harmony and happiness.
I think once we achieve a little more harmony in our busy lives, we can feel happier and isn’t that the goal after all?
The concept of the idea week is that you pull out a blank weekly calendar that has times on the margin from 6 am to 10 pm or something like that. You can google a free printable off the internet.
Once you put in your weekly recurring non-negotiables, you create a visual to see what time is left in the week. For example, if you work a traditional 9-5 job, you would block out that time. For my family, we have a family meeting at 8-8:30am before I start the drive to school drop offs, so that time is blocked on my calendar. And then the next 45 minutes for driving around town.
Perhaps you have a standing Wednesday night book club or painting class. If that is a priority that goes on your ideal week. This also allows you to really think about that book club and ask yourself, is this something that I want to spend my time doing in this season?
Next, I encourage you to add time for what matters. Perhaps it’s your value of connection with others. Do you have time on your calendar for connecting with others? You can time block Thursday nights for “connection” and make plans with different people each week. Do you need down-time to recharge? When you look at your calendar of commitments, are you getting enough down-time, do you need to re-calibrate?
I’m curious, what does your Ideal week look like? Where are you finding you have more or less time than you thought? Are you going to make any changes? Send me a message @everydayhappinesswithkatie and I’d be happy to help you work through your ideal week.
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Monday Oct 03, 2022
489-How Does Your Calendar Reflect Your Priorities
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
In this episode of Everyday Happiness, I invite you to look at your calendar, see where you are spending your time, and determine if it matches your priorities.
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 creating an ideal schedule with the things that matter is where it starts to get tactical.
Your calendar is your life. It reflects how you use your days, your minutes, your hours, your years and it’s time to get tactical and make sure that our calendars are reflecting what matters most to us.
If your calendar is the life you are leading, let's make sure it matches the life that you want.
Yesterday, I mentioned that order is a high priority for me and having a clean kitchen helps me feel orderly, less chaotic and happy.
If you want to run a 5K is the training in your schedule? If you want to start a side business, is the time devoted to that in your schedule? If you want to work on your spiritual growth, is the time devoted to that in your schedule?
If spending time with family or your spouse is what matters most - does your weekly schedule reflect that? Does having date night with your husband matter - does your weekly schedule reflect that? If volunteering is a high priority for you - does your weekly or monthly schedule reflect that?
The more you can align your life with your priorities the more balanced you will feel. We can still be busy doing all the things, as long as we’re doing the right things, the things that hold a high priority for us.
Not everything gets equal amount of time it’s about doing the right things at the right time
And, just because something isn’t right right now doesn’t mean that it never can be. For example if you are really trying to focus on growing your business right now, that might look like saying no to a dinner out with friends in this season of life. You still have a high priority of connection with friends, but building this business and family might be a higher priority right now - in this season.
I invite you to look at your calendar and see where you are spending your time and if it matches your priorities.
And until next time, remember, kindness is contagious.
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Sunday Oct 02, 2022
488-Why We Want That Happiness Feeling
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
Sunday Oct 02, 2022
When we are setting priorities we need to be able to go beyond the "why" it needs to get done to the "why" it is a priority for us and our happiness. Tune in to learn some examples of how I do this in my own life.
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 we’ve been talking about the tactical part of priorities and creating Intentional Margins®, but today, I want to mix in a little of the why - the feeling we are trying to achieve.
When we look at our calendar, (which we are going to dig into tomorrow), I want to be thinking about how I would feel. So for me, having order is a high value, having a clean house and not seeing the mess helps me feel more balanced, relaxed, in harmony and happy. Now, do I like cleaning, of course not, do I want to spend my time cleaning, absolutely not, is cleaning a high priority for me, does it excite me, no. But I know that having a clean kitchen in particular helps me feel calm and balance and that is important to me so that looks like during the family meeting, which we do at 8:00am every weekday, my husband and I tidy up the kitchen so when I come home from dropping the kids off at school my kitchen is clean, and when my kitchen is clean, it makes me happy I feel like I can tackle the rest of the day.
When my laundry is done on the weekend so all of the children including myself have what we need for the week and my week flows better I feel more balance and I am able to tackle my week without the stress of having to throw in a load of laundry and stay up late to fold those clothes because that cuts into my sleep and sleep is a high priority for me. Having enough sleep helps me be a happy person and achieve this harmony I’m after.
I know that if I get to enjoy one cup of coffee in a quiet house and spend some time on this micro-podcast before my family wakes, up I’m a better mom. It checks the 2 happiness boxes in the scientific happiness equation 1) of doing something I enjoy (sipping a warm beverage) and 2) writing and researching for this podcast (purpose).
The more you can align your life with your priorities and how you want to feel, I believe the more balance (or harmony) you will feel.
Until next time.
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Saturday Oct 01, 2022
487-Buffering Time For Your Intentional Margins®
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
Saturday Oct 01, 2022
When you think about the time you spend doing things each day, was it just an endless checklist or did you get enjoyment? Today, I challenge you to buffer your time. Tune in to learn more!
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 over the last couple days, we’ve been talking about time and balance and harmony and todo lists and how most of us desperately want to get off the hamster wheel and feel fulfilled - feel happy.
Yesterday, I invited us to ponder the following statement:
If your todo list doesn’t create the life you want then maybe you’re doing the wrong things.
We all have things that we don’t want to do like our taxes and change diapers and go to the dentist but we have more control over our life than we often give ourselves credit for.
After we pay the taxes and change the diaper, what’s left? If there is something on your todo list or on your calendar that isn’t really that important to you and you don’t really have to do it, then maybe it shouldn’t be getting your time. This could be a process of extracting yourself from commitments. And I don’t want to give you the illusion that this can happen overnight. It usually doesn’t. And, it always takes effort. You have to do the work. You have to ask yourself these hard questions of what are my priorities, what do I care most about?
I hear people say all the time that “I don’t have enough time“. I don’t have enough time to workout, I don’t have enough time to call call a friend, I don’t have enough time to get a haircut, I don’t have enough time to you can fill in the blank but the truth is you do have enough time you just need to decide what’s keeping you from prioritizing that thing if it’s important to you and where are the distractions that you can illuminate? Is it possibly Netflix or Instagram?
If you don’t think you have time to work out or go on a date or call a friend, then I would argue that you need to look at where you’re spending your time. Of course, there are seasons, and maybe this season is a new baby or a big work project, but these seasons will pass and time will look different next season. So it’s being intentional about how we spend our time.
Alright, until next time, crush that subscribe button. If you want to get this delivered to your inbox, jump over to katiejefcoat.com/happiness.
And remember, kindness is contagious
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Friday Sep 30, 2022
486-Are You Charge of Your To-Do List or Is It In Charge of You?
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Are you going through life checking off boxes, only to never feel fulfilled? In this episode of everyday happiness, we talk about whether you are controlling your to-do list, or if it is controlling you.
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 today we are asking ourselves, what does success look like for us when it comes to balance, rhythm, harmony, however you define this feeling of fulfillment. We talked about this yesterday if you want to go back and listen.
What I’ve found is that our todo list is filled with essential items like pay bills, go to the dentist and nonessential items like powerwash the front steps and organizing the junk drawer.
No wonder we feel out of balance. No harmony.
If you’re not careful you will spend your entire life checking boxes and feeling like you were on the hamster wheel of your todo list and not doing anything that matters most to you.
This is when we take a deep breath and ask ourselves, what are our priorities and where do they fit into our lives?
Instead of doing just anything, consider doing “the right things“. I’m guessing cleaning the junk drawer (while I am sure important) and paying bills don’t actually carry the same weight, the same urgency, yet, we so often treat everything on our todo list as if it’s all important, when it’s just - not.
So, this looks like blocking time for errands and prioritizing what needs to get done first, doing what you can and then having time on your calendar to spend with the people you love or just to dive into that book you’ve been meaning to read - that’s creating your Intentional Margins®.
I want to ponder this question until tomorrow where we’ll continue to dig into this concept of time and harmony.
If your todo list doesn’t create the life you want then maybe you’re doing the wrong things.
I believe that when we feel that harmony, we can create that happiness we’re after.
Until next time, make sure you tap that subscribe button and of course, a 5-Star review would make us so happy over here.
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Thursday Sep 29, 2022
485-Balance, Rhythm, Harmony: What Works for You?
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
Thursday Sep 29, 2022
When working to find some kind of flow for your happiness, how do you find it? Tune in to understand how these three analogies may work for your life.
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 I believe that if you want to achieve the elusive balance in your life, however you define that, you need to first define what success looks like for you – you need to define what the finish line is, for you. There are a million ways to do anything, but we need to be clear on what matters to us and how we are going to get there. This micro-podcast is inspiration and Intentional Margins® is a tool to help you get there.
I ask myself every quarter, every week and every day, ”what does success look like for me in this season, this week, this day”?
Let’s talk about balance. When I hear the word balance, I think of the scales of justice and everything being equal. Well, it’s not. Every day is different, every season is different. To me, balance is illusive and frankly not what I’m after.
So what if we called this feeling Rhythm. Adam Grant used this term in a seminar I heard last year. He said the chorus is the work and the melody is the family/personal life and together there is rhythm. Perhaps this analogy will work for some. I can see his point that when everything is working together, there can be rhythm, but I often find in my life, it’s not that simple.
I like the term harmony. It’s the yin and the yang. When they are pulled apart they are completely off balance, but when they are put together, they are in harmony. Some days are more heavily focused on one aspect of life than others. Different priorities. Different days, different seasons. There is no formula in my mind for the perfect balance or the ideal rhythm to make the music. It doesn’t exist, there are too many variables, minute by minute. So I like to think of harmony and know that I’m doing the best and I can. And to tell you, you are doing the best you can.
Tomorrow we are going to get more tactical and talk about how we decide where to focus our attention to create this sense of fulfillment and happiness.
And, if you haven’t already, make sure you hit that subscribe button and if you feel inspired, please write a 5-star review, it helps us grow our micro-podcast.
Until next time.
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Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
484-Let’s Look at Your Calendar
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Did you know that time and priorities have a direct correlation to your happiness? Tune in today to learn how it works and what you can do to improve your happiness levels.
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 Ashley Whillams over at the Harvard Business School reports that if you are self reporting as being time famished, having no free time – it’s just as bad for your happiness as being unemployed.
That’s why it is so important to have intentional Margins®. Not only do you get to do the priorities that matter most to you instead of continuing to check the box on the never ending todo list. It also brings an awareness that you actually do have time to do what matters most.
If you work 40 hours a week and you sleep seven hours a night you have roughly 79 hours in the week to do other things -- I mean, you’re spending that time doing something, but what if, that time was spent more aligned with your priorities.
Whillams calls this feeling of having enough time, time affluence. It is not about the objective amount of time you have, it’s about the subject sense that you have some time.
And it’s even more critical for our wellbeing and happiness that we have time for what matters. Since this theory is a subjective measure of how much time we think we have, it means you can hack time affluence without objectively giving yourself more time. We all know there are only 24 hours in the day, no matter how good we are at multitasking.
You don’t necessarily need to clear the calendar to feel more time affluent.
It’s identifying your priorities - and creating that Intentional Margin®.
I invite you to think about something you want to have more of in your life and then, look at your calendar for this week and see if there is a way to either sneak in that time or plan for that time. We’re not taking a grand vacation, we’re talking about reading that book you’ve been meaning to pick up, or calling that friend you’ve lost touch with.
If you want a little accountability, pop over to social and let me know what you decided to make your Intentional Margin® this week. We’re over @everydayhappinesswithkatie.
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