Comments on: Are Your Margins Wide Enough?

By: Lois Flowers

Lois Flowers — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:46:36 +0000

I’m sorry you’ve been tired lately, Lisa. I know the feeling. I hope you can unplug some and make those margins a bit wider. Praying for you, friend …

By: Lauren Renee Sparks

Lauren Renee Sparks — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 18:10:39 +0000

We would all do well to leave margin. Great post.

By: Tea With Jennifer

Tea With Jennifer — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:43:07 +0000

I simply can’t have a full schedule anymore, my margins are wide open now, they have to be, with chronic health issues.
Although I can even over do it with a simple walk! I know I’ve over done it when my inner being starts to shiver (a phenomena in Fibromyalgia).
Blessings, Jennifer

By: David

David — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:34:39 +0000

Completely agree. A time management book I read once said something like “only schedule 3/4 of your day”. I have tried to live by that ever since. There are generally plenty of “matters arising” to fill in the other 1/4.

Your post reminds me of those repeated admonitions in the Torah (Leviticus maybe?) not to harvest up to the edges of your crop fields, always leave some for the orphan, the widow, the stranger. We should leave some of our time for these orphans, widows, and strangers too (especially internal ones).

Your post also reminds me of an old hacker saying I like: necessity might be the mother of invention, but laziness is definitely the father.

By: Linda Stoll

Linda Stoll — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 02:51:30 +0000

thanks for this, Lisa. i need huge swaths of white space and generous margins in my life to operate well and with joy. you’re speaking my language, friend! and i appreciate Richard Swenson’s book so much. good stuff.

By: Jean Wise

Jean Wise — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:29:41 +0000

I know I certainly feel better and have more peace and joy with more white space in my life. I like your image of margins too.

By: Esmé Slabbert

Esmé Slabbert — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:14:06 +0000

This is so true in today’s rushed pace, We tend to take on more and more and I find it difficult to say “No” but need to relearn that word and create more open space in those margins.
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By: Donna Reidland

Donna Reidland — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:18:25 +0000

Lisa, this is convicting because I know my margins are never wide enough. It’s something my husband talks about a lot. He’s better at it in some ways than I am. But he would say I’m a little better at it in other ways. But it’s something we both need to work on.

By: Joanne Viola

Joanne Viola — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 19:32:41 +0000

I need balance. Some days can be full but then, I need some slow days as well. I always need a slow morning though 🙂 “I breathe easier with holes in my schedule.”

By: Ashley Rowland | HISsparrowBlog

Ashley Rowland | HISsparrowBlog — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:09:06 +0000

I love your quotes, Lisa: “I breathe easier with holes in my schedule.” They crack me up and articulate life in a refreshing way.