simply: emotional margin

Emotional Margin-an amount available beyond what is needed. This one’s hard for me! I tend to live life full on! I’m passionate about life. I care about people. In truth, I’m a recovering people pleaser.
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I’m also a Jesus man! I’m sold out to serving & loving Him by serving and loving others. If I’m not careful, I don’t know when to say no to helping people.
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Without margin emotionally, we will be short with others, we lose sleep, we stay frustrated with everything, we avoid people.
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So how do we find margin emotionally? Here are a few things To do:
1. RECOGNIZE OUR LIMITS. We can’t fix everyone’s problems...duh?! And we have to recognize who doesn’t really wont help.
2. WE HAVE TO SHARE MY OWN BURDENS. We need to be with emotionally healthy people on a regular basis. They re-energize us.
3. WE NEED TO CULTIVATE GRATITUDE. Counseling or helping others can keep us from seeing the good stuff.
4. WE NEED FOOD & SLEEP. Silly, but without those our bodies can’t handle emotional overload.
5. WE NEED TO WALK IN FORGIVENESS. Forgiveness is the antidote for all that ails us. We have to forgive ourselves and others.