Margin

Spare capacity you deliberately hold back and refuse to spend: cash, time, energy, attention. Not about sequencing or undoing anything. It asks how much surprise the plan can absorb before it breaks, then sizes the cushion to the surprise you expect.

Spare capacity you deliberately hold back and refuse to spend: cash, time, energy, attention. Not about sequencing or undoing anything. It asks how much surprise the plan can absorb before it breaks, then sizes the cushion to the surprise you expect.

Example

In the career switch, margin is six months of living costs in a separate account you will not touch for launch expenses, plus two free evenings a week. If the first client takes five months instead of two, you keep going instead of crawling back.