Relief for the Rat Race

If you haven't noticed, a lot of people are on overload and headed for a crash

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Did you know people sleep 2.5 fewer hours a night than people did a hundred years ago? We spend eight months of our lives opening junk mail. We spend two years of our lives playing phone tag. You will spend five years of your life waiting for people who are late!

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Life in the Rat Race is being 30 minutes late to the doctor's office because you were 20 minutes late getting out of the hairdresser because you were 10 minutes late dropping the children off at school because the car ran out of gas two blocks from a gas station and you forgot your purse!

If overload is the disease then "Margin" is the cure

Margin is the space between the Load and the Limit. Margin is having breath at the top of the staircase, money at the end of the month, and sanity left over at the end of adolescence. Margin-less is not having time to finish the book you're reading on stress. Margin is having the time to read it... twice!

What about you? Are you overloaded, stretched thin, stressed to the breaking point? Then Margin is the answer.

So what do we do? How can we carve out Margin for our lives?

Margin is gained by:

• Learning to say "No." This simple word will add years to your life!
• De-cluttering your life. Eliminate and concentrate. Too many choices translates into stress and overload.
• Spending quality time with God. Ps 23:1-3 "He leads me beside still waters, he restores my soul."

May God bless and help you discover the value of Margin!

Have an Amazing Day!
Jimmy