All this year, I’ve been talking to the men over on The Generous Husband about the need for margin. Margin is time that’s not committed to anything. It’s not downtime or free time, it’s time that is left open for whatever comes up. If nothing comes up, then it’s free time!

Margin makes life sane. It gives you extra time when you need it, and it makes it possible to slip in things that come up at the last minute. Lori and I have been working on having more margin for a good many years. We still fail at times, but overall we do well, and it has greatly reduced the stress in our lives.

I understand all the reasons you can’t make margin in your life. I had plenty of reasons why I couldn’t do it either. The reality is anyone can do it if they make it a high enough priority. Of course, that means making something else, or something elses, lower priority, and that’s difficult. 

If you hate a marginless life enough, you will do something about it. If not, you won’t. My prayer is many of you will decide you’re tired of a too full, too busy life and make more margin in your life in 2019.

~ Paul – I’m XY, and having margin totally rocks!

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