Episode 116: Marginal Value

Our lives these days are shrouded in uncertainty. This week Janine and Shannon discuss building in some margin to make life--and decision-making--a little easier.

Discussion topics include:

• Creating a margin in your life so you have some flexibility

• How this is particularly important during times of uncertainty (like now)

• What we mean by margin

• How things often don’t go as planned, even if (or especially if) they’re planned to the detail

• The value of building margins in travel

• The margin Shannon built into planning her low-stress wedding

• A great example of imperfection: Shannon and Mike celebrated their wedding anniversary on the wrong day this year

• Basing decisions on those things that you can be certain about

• How giving yourself margin provides flexibility to deal with circumstances that do arise

• Remember: Not making a decision is making a decision

• Janine’s challenge in trying to plan a trip to Washington state for her father’s 90th birthday in September

• The mental and emotional bandwidth taken up by living in a global pandemic during a time of social unrest and economic and political uncertainty—and the benefit of building in a margin for our own mental health

• An important reminder: Keep cutting yourself slack!