Next Step: Margin

Margin is a lifestyle that allows time for the important. Failure to exercise margin results in overload. Margin-less living is one of the greatest hindrances to maximizing your contribution. Living with margin is making your schedule and priorities secondary to the wishes of those you are serving.

Margin is covered in Next Steps Forum to better help those people organize, prioritize, and wisely choose their activities so that they may be more effective within their individual lives and ministries.

In his book Modern Madness: The Emotional Fallout of Success, business consultant Douglas LaBier states that there is “too much work relative to the time we have, too many demands from our work and personal lives, and too many decisions facing us and not enough time to deliberate about them. In short, too much to deal with in a world which is too busy and … in which we all feel tremendous pressure to make the right decision right now.”