Networking on the Margin

Life on the edge, in any capacity is not healthy. If you make $ 50K and live in their means and spend $ 50K, then there is no room or margin for error. In other words, when these inevitable breakdowns occur, you will get stressed and have to scramble for extra money, making life a little harder. Not dishwasher or your car transmission fail in the worst times? Usually, as we make more money, we spend more money because it is not that why we are trying to earn more money in the first place? This is definitely a consumer mindset we are all subject to, and after the media and advertising directly focused on, since it is our obvious weakness.

Networking at the margin is as stressful and harmful as living on the financial margin. You go to events, shake hands, pass out cards, chatter and move on to the next event. When you go to a mixer, of course you will be invited to others as you gain momentum, you'll see her for days and nights filled with events. At first you feel great, most of us are animals by nature love to be involved in groups because it strengthens our sense of belonging and self-esteem, but you will soon find themselves with no "down time" to monitor and strengthen the valuable relationships that have made so much effort to run in the first place. Margin allows these spontaneous encounters that often come up, because someone wants to review the idea or project with you. How can you have time for those unplanned events when running from one meeting to the next group? If you try to squeeze everything in then end up short changing your job and family, because you will not have enough energy to juggle it all. Networking and allowing yourself time to follow up, and spontaneously calls to set appointments with key contacts is only possible when you assign the scheduled time gaps to be free.

Margin in your life, whether it is financial, networking, relationships or whatever you invest your energy in the gap of resources that do not single out and leave an open and free to allow for unplanned events that happen in life. My feeling is that special things happen in the "margin" because of the circumstances and our energy is always changing, you can always get those events in a stress-free manner. Living below your means keeping only a handful of close relationships in your area, networking within your capacity to monitor and build strong relationships makes life much easier and more productive.