Restoring Margin to Overloaded Lives: A Companion Workbook to Margin and the Overload Syndrome - Paperback

by Richard Swenson (Author)

Are you lacking the time, money, physical or emotional energy to accomplish the tasks of a given week or month? Then you're headed for system failure. Whether you're facing burnout now or want to prevent it, these 11 lessons can help you understand stress and limits, find balance and rest, and maintain priorities. Includes discussion questions, helpful exercises, and quotes. Also available: Margin (ISBN 9781576836828) and The Overload Syndrome (ISBN 9781576831311)

Back Jacket

WARNING: System Failure Ahead. Do you feel like you're living at high speed and things just keep going faster and faster? Are you finding yourself without the time, money, physical or emotional energy to accomplish the tasks of a given week or month? Then you're headed for system failure. Whether you're facing it now, or want to prevent it, this workbook is for you. Use these eleven lessons to understand load and limits, find balance, and maintain priorities. You-or your small group-will find its intermingled questions, exercises, and quotes applicable additions to Dr. Swenson's helpful teaching. Based on his best-selling book Margin and related title, The Overload Syndrome, this workbook will be a useful tool for preventing negative stress and restoring margin to your overloaded life.

Author Biography

Richard A. Swenson, M.D., is a physician, researcher, futurist, author, and educator. Following five years of private practice and fifteen years of clinical teaching with the University of Wisconsin Medical School, he currently conducts research and writes full time about the future of the world system, culture, faith, and healthcare. Dr. Swenson is the author of six books, including Margin, The Overload Syndrome, More Than Meets The Eye, and A Minute Of Margin. He and his wife, Linda, live in Menomonie, Wisconsin. They have two sons, Matthew and Adam, and a daughter-in-law Maureen.