506-Affirmations To Beat Time Famine

Sometimes we just have to talk to ourselves.  You know, that voice inside your head that's beating you up and making you feel guilty and overwhelmed because you have a million things to do and nothing ever feels like the right thing.  Today I share my favorite affirmations for challenging that voice and finding some peace.  

 

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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 what if we didn’t feel like everything is important but nothing gets done.  And what if we, as women, stopped feeling the guilt of thinking we need to spend more time with the kids and what we do is never enough.  Friends, it’s enough.  Quality over quantity.  But man, that is a hard lesson to learn and that guilt is real.  So real.  

 

What if life didn’t constantly feel exhausting.  Like you are running a marathon that never ends.  We all know that cycle of overwhelm, exhaustion, crashing (maybe it’s a day of binge watching TV) only to start the new day with the same overwhelming feeling of being spread too thin because, let’s face it, our todo list is staring right back at us. 

 

I think this has to do with our relationship with time.  Like we talked about in episode 504, we as humans are terrible at estimating time.  So what if the feeling of being time famished is really more of a mindset.  

 

These are some affirmations or mantras, whatever you want to call them, that I have decided to start telling myself, to upgrade my time mindset - if you will, and I wanted to share them with you.  

 

I don’t feel guilty. This is important when my mind starts down a path of spending time in places that I cannot be, for whatever reason. 

 

If you know what’s important it’s easier to say no to what’s not.  This is helping me prioritize my days and my weeks to align with either a big goal or my north star.  I have a free download that helps me create my ideal day over at www.katiejefcoat.com/blog and that keeps this at the top of my mind. 

 

There is always enough time for what is important.  Yup, this is a kicker.  This mantra reminds me that I am in control.  Now, you may be thinking, I work 50 hours a week, I don’t have the luxury of controlling my time.  But I would argue that you can identify what is important in those non-work hours and look at how you spend that time.  Go back to episode 504 on time auditing and see if that helps. 

 

And lastly, I am not available for feeling overwhelmed.  This reminds me that feeling busy or overwhelmed is really just a feeling and I am in charge of my feelings.  I reframe it to be abundant.  I remind myself that I am making choices on how I spend my time.  I can feel busy and balanced, if I am living in my Intentional Margins, where all that fulfillment lives.  

 

I hope these affirmations give you a little insight into how my mind works and maybe you can copy mine or make your own to reflect how you are feeling in this, shall we dare say, busy time of life. 

 

And remember, there is always enough time to spread kindness.  If you are interested in having a guide to creating your intentional day, you can pop over to my website and download it for free.  The link is in the show notes. 

 

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