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145 – Putting the Margin Back into Our Lives

by David Delp | Jan 24, 2020 | Joyful Living, Leadership, Podcast Episodes

Margin is the blank spaces on a document that defines its borders and makes it readable and functional. We need margin in our lives. It is the spaces, the blanks, that make everything else work. REST, health, well-being, effectiveness and many other things are elusive if we don’t mind the blank spaces. In this episode of the Calibrate Life Podcast we talk about putting the margin back in.

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145 – Putting the Margin Back into Our Lives

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I’ve made a re-commitment to learn to REST on new levels in 2020. In last week’s podcast we talked about 2020 being the year of REST, and the acrostic we gave was:

R for REFRESH renew emotional
E for ENERGIZE renew the physical
S for SABBATH (as a verb) renew the spiritual
T for THINK renew the intellectual

Today we are going to hit the topic of MARGIN. and for our Africa House leaders this is a self-leadership and a personal health capacity.

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066 – Overcoming Life Overload: Minding Your Margin

by David Delp | Apr 26, 2018 | Leadership, Podcast Episodes

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Calibrating our lives so we can live joyful, healthy, and effective lives requires having sufficient margin in our lives and schedules. Margin is the blank space left around the edge of a document that give it order. Margin is also the blank spaces we leave in our lives and on our schedules to accommodate the unexpected. When we structure our lives to close to the “edges” we risk overload. A joyful life always has margin.

In this episode of the Calibrate Life Podcast, David and Donna talk about the importance of adding and keeping margin in our lives, and some things to consider in managing the margin in our schedules and in our lives.

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