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Eight Examples to Create Margin in Your Life<\/span><\/h2>\n

Living A Life of Focus – Part 6<\/span><\/h3>\n

Busy.\u00a0 Tired.\u00a0 Overwhelmed.\u00a0 Restless. Stressed.\u00a0 Those words are common everyday words you hear from most people.\u00a0 What you rarely hear is: relaxed, fulfilled, refreshed, ready, tranquil, and calm.\u00a0 These words are far less than common and almost nonexistent. Which words best describe your life?\u00a0 Are you brave enough to step away from the norm and live a life of margin?<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome to our sixth installment and our fifth focus statement.\u00a0 We implement focus statements because we desire to see change, intentional change, occur in our own lives.\u00a0 In this lesson we\u2019re studying our \u201cMarginal Habits – Create Margin in All We Do\u201d focus statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marginal Defined by the Bible: <\/span>\u201cBetter [uncommon] is one handful [margin] with tranquility than two handfuls with toil [too much going on in your life] and chasing after the wind [never being satisfied].” – <\/span><\/i>bible.com\/111\/ecc.4.6.niv<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"The Thought or Concept:<\/span>
\n<\/span>“Most people are not quite sure when they pass from margin to overload.” –\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>Michael Hyatt<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Could it be that you never noticed when things got out of control and instead of living life, you began chasing it?\u00a0 Are you now wishing you had more time and it seems like there\u2019s never enough of it? You need some margin.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this episode, we\u2019re going to help you see the benefits of creating margin in everything you do.\u00a0 I\u2019ve learned an important lesson from practicing this focus statement on margin. It\u2019s resulted in how to get control of our lives by slowing down what I call \u201c<\/span>the pace of life<\/span><\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 This is called margin.\u00a0 Margin is you scaling back, doing less, so that you can achieve more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Margin is taking back control of your life from all the people and activities that have stolen it away.\u00a0 It\u2019s you setting limits and boundaries. Margin means you can breathe and slow the pace of your life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Practice:<\/span>
\n<\/span>If you want to sleep better at night, add a little margin to every area of your life.\u00a0 If you want a better relationship with your spouse or children add a little margin. It\u2019s not going to come by you continuing to do what you\u2019re currently doing.\u00a0 If you desire better working conditions, you don\u2019t need a new job, you need to add just a little margin. So let\u2019s talk about how to get it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since we\u2019ve defined it, to truly understand it, I’d like to share eight ways you can set margin in your life.\u00a0 I think of my life, my home, my family as a business and so should you. As a business your life has these departments that must be managed.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to discuss the eight departments that make up one’s life and give an example of how we establish margin in each department. Let\u2019s do it.\u00a0 <\/span>(Note: some of these examples might sound a little extreme and they should because this is uncommon stuff.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n