While reading Kevin DeYoung's Crazy Busy I came across a term he borrowed from Richard Swenson called, "margin." He uses this to refer to the the gap between your load and your limits. Everyone's life needs margin. If you are too efficient, squeezing every ounce out of every second, you will find the unexpected often derailing your entire life. You need margin built in because you need to plan on something taking longer than you expected or something being interjected into your day or week that you had not planned for and could not have foreseen.
According to Swenson, "margin is the space between your load and your limits."
You need to make sure you aren't always carrying your max. You should leave a little gap between what you schedule and how much time you have. Since you only have 24 hrs in a day, you should not seek to plan every last second of the day, unless you deliberately schedule some of that time as gap time between things or a stretch where there is nothing in particular planned. This will make space for unforeseen tasks or planned tasks that didn't go according to plan.
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