Five things I have learned about…living within my limits

Having recently experienced a period of huge change, Cathy Madavan encourages each of us to live with more margin in our lives

The world can feel very frantic at times. With the constant quest for success, the saturation of news and views, endless deadlines, chores to do and people to see – I sometimes feel it’s all a bit much. Anyone else? And yet so often we live over-stretched and over-stressed lives, existing to the edge of our limits with no margin whatsoever. Perhaps we don’t realise that living to the max long-term has significant consequences, affecting our health, our relationships and our sense of wellbeing.