A Minute of Margin: Restoring Balance to Busy Lives180 Daily Reflections [Hardcover]

Richard Swenson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 28, 2003

Rediscover the space you need in between your work, your schedule, and your limits by eliminating unneeded frustrations and reflecting on how you spend your time.

This devotional's 180 daily readings offer encouragement, healing, and rest as you deal with time management, stress, and busyness.

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From the Back Cover

Prescriptions for peace. Fatigued? Swamped? Irritated? If you feel under-rested and overwhelmed, steal a minute to reflect and revitalize. In 180 daily readings, Dr. Richard Swenson addresses the need to close the gap between rest and exhaustion in our overloaded lives. Dr. Swenson’s unique suggestions will help you slow down, simplify, and change your perspective on what really is, and what isn’t, urgent in life. A Minute of Margin offers help and encouragement––“prescriptions”––for restoring harmony in our everyday lives. By re-establishing leeway between your schedules and your limits, you'll be free to live more “peace-full” lives.

About the Author

Richard A. Swenson, M.D. is a physician, a futurist and the author of Margin, The Overload Syndrome, Hurtling Toward Oblivion, and More Than Meets the Eye. Dr. Swenson and his wife, Linda, live in Menomonie, Wisconsin. They are the parents of two sons, Adam and Matthew.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: NavPress; 1 edition (October 28, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576830683
• ISBN-13: 978-1576830680
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Most Helpful Prescription, February 22, 2004

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Robby Butler "Robby Butler" (Anacortes, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Minute of Margin: Restoring Balance to Busy Lives180 Daily Reflections (Hardcover)

In his other books, Margin and The Overload Syndrome, Richard Swenson, MD, has written masterfully on the causes, symptoms and treatment of the overload epidemic raging among the vast majority of North Americans who chronically exceed their God-given limits.

In this volume Dr. Swenson matches his medicine to the ailment in 180 short daily readings--a dosage well-suited to the busiest of lives.

This consistent prescription squarely addresses the ailments of overload, guiding and strengthening readers to aggressively combat the poisons of our culture rather than passively succumbing to them. A must read!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A minute a day, read the doctor and pray!, February 13, 2004

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Drew "drewvanfossen2" (De Pere, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Minute of Margin: Restoring Balance to Busy Lives180 Daily Reflections (Hardcover)

From his thoughts on the sovereignty of God in "More Than Meets the Eye," to the very practical and personal prescriptions for reducing stress and building some breathing room into our days in "Margin" and "Overload," to his assertions of overload gone global in "Hurtling Toward Oblivion", Dr. Swenson has compiled the best of the best for the reader to digest one day at a time. You'll find this book approachable and insightful, and it's author a gentle and exemplary Christian man using his remarkable mind to help us all gain more time for the things that matter, develop peace of mind in a world gone nuts, and ultimately, to "seek authenticity at the highest level."

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Minute of Margin, January 9, 2007

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W. Paul Jackson (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Minute of Margin: Restoring Balance to Busy Lives180 Daily Reflections (Hardcover)

Outstanding book. Short but profound daily thoughts that help keep life and priorities on track. Outstanding gift to business colleagues, family and friends.