Craig Groeschel

emotional margin.

Something goes wrong and emotionally you fall apart.

And so you want emotional margin.

So your team, and you want it for your team, you want your team members to have margins so they can say yes without burning out.

If you have a great idea and say, hey, let's go attack this, and your team is emotionally on the edge, they're not going to be any good.

So you want emotional margin.

And then for me as a follower of Jesus, I want spiritual margin.

And that's so that I've got time to seek the heart of God and

And so I can hear God's direction above all the noise.

So what I'd say to you is this.

Planning's good, but planning for opportunities or problems you can't predict is even better.

You have to have margin to do it.

And so margin isn't accidental.

It's a discipline.

For example, in a mistake I've seen people make in the church world where I live, sometimes pastors talk about starting.

We're going to start 10 new campuses in the next 10 years.

And if they're a friend, I'll always say, that's dumb, don't be dumb.

And I talk to my friends that way, because we're friends, but I don't wanna be harsh, but that's really dumb.

Because if your plan is to start 10 campuses in the next 10 years, here's what's gonna happen, is you're probably gonna start some you shouldn't start, because you're trying to stay on this plan you pulled out of nowhere.

Or you'll start some wrong ones because you're trying to stay on track.