When I heard this analogy, it all clicked.  I’m sharing it with you today. 

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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 I heard this analogy years ago, and it’s stuck.  

It’s this idea that we can’t do it all - all at the same time.  

Happiness and balance and harmony is less about the calendar and more about enjoying the life the calendar represents.  What’s on your calendar is how you spend your time.  That’s a given.  But are we spending our precious time doing the right things in this season? 

We can’t do it all at once.  We were never created to do-it-all, that’s called burn-out, no one wins that game.   

So, imagine there are 10 soccer balls all lined up on the goal line of a soccer field.  You get 10 kicks.  You can kick every ball one time or you can choose your priorities - your goals -  in this season and kick 2 balls.  One 7 times and the other 3 times.  See how much more progress you make on those two balls when you focus on what matters most in this season.   

So the question is, what soccer balls are you going to kick?  

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