Do you ever feel like your to-do is so long and overwhelming that it will never be brought under control? Today, we are talking about setting boundaries. Tune in to learn more! 

 

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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 I think about Intentional Margins® and when I was creating this concept this was the vision in my head.  

 

Imagine, you are opening a book.  The paragraphs are perfectly justified, as you turn the pages you know exactly what to expect, page after page.  The margins are firm.  It feels easy.  Imagine the words are your todo list.  

 

You’ll notice, the todo list, all those words, they never creep into the margins of the page.  

 

Can you imagine what it would feel like if you were reading and one line shot out into the margins and 4 lines down the sentence was cut to half the page.  And again, the next paragraph has 3 lines that randomly bleed into the margin.  

 

The next page is the same random lines shooting out into the margins.  Chapter after chapter. 

 

It feels randon, sporadic, gives you a little uneasiness, some anxiety and it makes reading that book so much harder.   

 

That’s what I was feeling when my todo list felt out of control.  Like I was on the hamster wheel of todos, and couldn’t imagine jumping off. 

 

When we create boundaries, those margins in a book, we can create harmony.  

 

And the Intentional Margins® are the best parts of your day.  They are the margins in this example.  They are where you spend your time - your most valuable resource - living in your priorities. 

 

Intentional Margins® is a buffer of space and time to find harmony between your todos and your priorities.  

 

When you think of this book, your margins are your best parts of life.  We don’t want to miss it. We don’t want those todos to constantly overreach into the margins.  Here and there, that’s harmony, but when it’s consistent, we feel overwhelmed and out of control.  That’s not a good feeling.  

 

So for me, Intentional Margins® was my filter to prioritize what I say yes to and what I say no to, so that I can achieve those boundaries, and be intentional about my margin.  

 

If you could do anything you wanted, what would you do in your Intentional Margins®? I’m at @everydayhappinesswithkatie  tag me on an IG story so we can celebrate you, use the hashtag #IntentionalMargins or send me a DM, and I promise to write back. 

 

And remember, kindness is contagious.  

 

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