Good Morning,
In my current read “Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded lives” by Richard A. Swenson, MD (http://www.amazon.com/Margin-Restoring-Emotional-Financial-Overloaded/dp/1576836827) I am finding out what has happened to all of the time we used to have and how little we have of it today. Dr. Swenson calls Margin that time we have to decompress and relax from our everyday lives. When we run out of that time, we live in what he calls a ‘marginless’ state.
Marginless is holding a screaming baby when the phone rings and you have to cook dinner all at the same time.
Margin is having someone to take care of the baby, an answering machine to take the calls and someone offering to bring home dinner.
The main cause of us having less and less time these days is actually progress. Those time saving devices and technologies and services that are becoming more and more readily available have secretly snatched up our time. We work more hours, and do more work during those hours. Could you imagine 20 years ago eating lunch at your desk while you respond to multiple emails while posting a message to your blog and taking a few phone calls on your office line and one or more cell phones meanwhile chatting with a few coworkers who walk by?
The speed of communication has sped up for sure, we can communicate the world over in seconds, but instead of giving us more time to communicate by shortening the amount of time to type and send an email, we are hit with more communications then ever before. Imagine if for every email you received, deleted or filtered, you got a letter in the mail. Sure the postal service would love the added postage, but we would need a pick up truck to hold the amount of mail. I know I get between 200-400 messages a day. Poor mail man.
Bigger, faster, easier has made our lives busier and busier. The plan seems to have backfired… All of these conveniences from lighting to text messages have each taken away bits of our time. Think about it, if there were no lights, then we would go to sleep when it got dark, not 2 AM. Interesting…
We need to learn to bring balance back into our lives. We need to get more margin in our lives. We need to give ourselves some more quiet time. Turn off the TV more often, read a book, go for a walk. Turn off the cell phone and walk away from it. With your kids, have a Pioneer Night and use no electricity, you will sleep better and longer.
Proactively give yourself some time to de-stress and calm down.
Enjoy
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