Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives with Bonus Content Author: Richard A. Swenson MD | Language: English | ISBN:
B006U062F6 | Format: PDF
Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives with Bonus Content Description
Margin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits.
Today we use margin just to get by.
This book is for anyone who yearns for relief from the pressure of overload. The benefits can be good health, financial stability, fulfilling relationships, and availability for God’s purpose. Reevaluate your priorities, determine the value of rest and simplicity in your life, and see where your identity really comes from.
Includes bonus chapter taken from In Search of Balance by Richard A Swenson, MD.
- File Size: 676 KB
- Print Length: 240 pages
- Publisher: Navpress (January 5, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B006U062F6
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,044 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
I recently realized that every time I see someone on television sleeping in a hammock, I'm envious. It just looks so appealing! Well, I think I know why. It's because people who have time to nap in a hammock, have margin. Today I finished Dr. Richard Swenson's book of that title, which rates as one of the most important books on life-management that I've read. Swenson is convinced (and I think he's right) that we live in an unprecedented age where the pace and complexity of life conspire to produce exponential levels of stress and overload. Margin is the space in various areas of our lives - physical, emotional, time, financial - that can protect us from overload. When margin decreases, stress increases and burn-out is the end result.
Swenson spends the first part of the book discussing the cultural changes and societal reasons that account for the pain of stress and overload. This is his diagnosis of our pain. Much of this material reads like a sociology textbook and might even be boring to some people, but that should not put one off from reading the book.
The second section, discussing the presription for overloaded lives is really the heart of the book, and easily make the book worth reading. The prescription is margin - margin in physical energy, emotional energy, time, and finances. We don't have margin because we overwork, overcommit, overspend and overeat. We spend too many hours at the office, accumulate too much debt, spend too little time in silence and solitude, neglect nutrition and exercise and rest, and fail to nurture important relationships. What we need is a strict regimen of lifestyle changes which will help us cultivate margin in our bodies, our souls, our calendars, and our budgets. This calls for discipline and intentionality.
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