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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.
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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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Work through the issues that overload you using this interactive guide. Based on Dr. Richard Swenson's bestselling book Margin and its companion book, The Overload Syndrome.
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Healthy relationships are possible with God.
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Life is about relationships, but we increasingly see them broken and suffering. Learn how relationships can become whole with four divinely appointed principles: love, integrity, humility, and forgiveness.
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Relationships are the most important part of our lives. They are the source of our greatest joys but also our deepest sorrows. Much of our pain in life comes from difficult or broken connections with other people. This book focuses on four principles that make all relationships succeed: integrity, love, humility, and forgiveness.
These four factors are essential to the most intimate and the most public relationships, yet we can’t achieve them on our own. The authors explain how we can be empowered by God to practice these four compelling keys to relational wholeness.
About the Author
Richard A. Swenson, MD, received his BS in physics (Phi Beta Kappa) from Denison University (1970) and his MD from the University of Illinois School of Medicine (1974). Following five years of private practice, in 1982 Dr. Swenson accepted a teaching position as associate clinical professor with the University of Wisconsin medical school system Department of Family Medicine, where he taught for fifteen years. He currently is a full-time futurist, physician-researcher, author, and educator. As a physician, his focus is “cultural medicine,” researching the intersection of health and culture. As a futurist, his emphasis is fourfold: the future of the world system, western culture, faith, and healthcare.
Dr. Swenson has traveled extensively (to fifty-five countries, living abroad for a total of three years), including a year of study in Europe and medical work in developing countries. He is the author of seven books, including the best-selling Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives and The Overload Syndrome: Learning to Live within Your Limits, both award winning. His works have been translated into five languages and have been distributed to more than 150 countries. His latest book is In Search of Balance.
He has written and presented widely, both nationally and internationally, on the themes of margin, stress, overload, life balance, complexity, societal change, health care, and future trends. A representative listing of presentations include a wide variety of career, professional, educational, governmental, and management groups; most major church denominations and organizations; members of the United Nations, Congress, NASA, and the Pentagon. He was an invited guest participant for the 44th Annual National Security Seminar.
Dr. Swenson has given presentations to national medical conferences such as the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Association of Occupational Medicine, the American Society of Prospective Medicine, the general medical staff of the Mayo Clinic, as well as hundreds of other national, regional, state, and local medical settings. He also has researched extensively and written on the future of health care, helping to initiate a national multidisciplinary group examining the health-care crisis and exploring new paradigms. In 2002, he was awarded the National Leadership Award from the Central States Occupational Medical Association for his original work on margin and overload. In 2003, he was awarded Educator of the Year Award by Christian Medical and Dental Associations.
Dr. Swenson and his wife, Linda, live in Menomonie, Wisconsin. They two sons, Matthew and Adam, daughters-in-law Suzie and Maureen, and a granddaughter, Katja.