Restoring Margin to Overloaded Lives: A Workbook Based on Margin and The Overload Syndrome [Paperback]

Richard Swenson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 1999

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
• 11 lessons for small group or individual use
• Also available: Margin and The Overload Syndrome

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From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: NavPress (December 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576831841
• ISBN-13: 978-1576831847
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #564,642 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars How we bring things on ourselves, July 8, 2001

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Cordell W. Riley (Hamilton, Bermuda) - See all my reviews

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This is an excellent book. The author, a medical doctor, through easy to understand charts and graphs, explains how most of the patients he sees could have prevented, or lessened the effects, of their illness. The author also recommends simple cost-effective strategies for taking better care of ourselves. The book is written from a Christian perspective.

2.0 out of 5 stars Review of Restoring Margin of Overload, November 20, 2011

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I purchased this book as a supplemental book in a Bible study. I did not buy it because I wanted to read it, but it just doesn't apply to me at this stage of my life of retirement. I can see that it might have been useful much earlier in my life when I was raising children and working.

5.0 out of 5 stars Self help book, March 13, 2010

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My good friend suggested this book to me because I seem to work all the time. I didn't have much margin in my life and in the event something went slightly wrong it became a crisis. Finding areas to increase margin is a function of this great book. If you feel overwhelmed at times, get this book and read it when you can. I felt better one day and it may have been because I usually read from this book a couple times a week. Jeffco