Managing your time and energy for optimal performance.  

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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 in the Intentional Margins membership community we talk about priorities and also about when we’re most at our peak energy to do certain tasks and not others.  For example, since I am an early bird and I have the most creativity in the morning as soon as I wake up, it’s best for me to do thinking and creative tasks then and not check email.  A light was shined onto this exact theory just this week when I sent out messages about a meet-up where I put in the wrong time, an hour earlier, because details were missed before the morning coffee had a chance to work.  Why are we fighting ourselves if we have an opportunity to tweak a few things.  

This is the same for the afternoon.  I love meetings and conversations in the afternoon because they give me energy and the afternoon is when I can fall into an energy slump. 

I invite you to ask yourself, what is the best time for the general activities you have throughout the day?  If you work a 9-5 job, ask yourself, how can I structure my day to use my energy efficiently.  It may even be a situation where you ask your boss if you can have a few mornings a week where you are not interrupted so that you can focus on deep work at your peak creative times.   I don’t know, but I think it might work. We all want the best deliverables and we all want it with ease and flow.  No one wants to be efforting through mundane tasks, not even our bosses.  Not every job works like this, but if it can, I invite you to think about it?   

Maybe this concept isn’t applied to work, but to your personal life.  Do you like to work out?  When can you work out at your best?  Morning or evening?  Maybe that’s a shift you can make.  Or even if it’s running errands or meeting a friend.  Would you be your best self at a Saturday morning breakfast or a late-night dinner?  You see, it’s all about managing our energy for peak performance with ease.  

If you’ve ever tried to match your energy with your todos, let me know.  We’re over @everydayhappinesswithkatie on social. 

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