In Search of Balance - Paperback

by Richard Swenson (Author)

In Search of Balance by Richard A. Swenson, MD, author of the best-selling book Margin, helps us understand the dangers of living in a fast-paced world and gives us hope for recovering a foundational sense of equilibrium. Dr. Swenson offers not only important organizing principles for making sense of our priorities but also scores of practical tips for finding rest and contentment in a world that emphasizes materialism and busyness. His advice is grounded in the daily realities we all experience, but his wisdom has been honed by the big-picture perspective of an exhaustive study of the stresses of modern life. Let Dr. Swenson be your gentle guide for reaching a new stage of personal balance.

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Most of us live lives of "quiet desperation," as Henry David Thoreau put it, except we're no longer so quiet about it. When exactly did "all stress, all the time" replace the "green pastures and still waters"? And what can we do about it? We try to manage all the details thrown our way, but we lack a sense of calm and steadiness at the center. Richard A. Swenson, MD, author of the best-selling book Margin, helps us understand the dangers of living in a post-balance world and gives us hope for recovering a foundational sense of equilibrium.
Dr. Swenson offers not only important organizing principles for making sense of our lives but also scores of practical Rx's for recovering our balance. Having worked out his principles as a physician, author, and speaker, Dr. Swenson gives advice that is grounded in the daily realities we all experience. But his wisdom has been honed by the big-picture perspective of an exhaustive study of the stresses of modern life and progress, the forces that relentlessly give us "more and more of everything faster and faster."
Let Dr. Swenson be your gentle guide for reaching a new stage of personal balance. Want to use the book in a group? See the free online discussion guide at www.navpress.com.

Author Biography

Dr. Richard A. Swenson is a futurist, physician-researcher, award-winning educator, and best-selling author of Margin and The Overload Syndrome. He has given thousands of presentations, both nationally and internationally, to a wide variety of career, professional, educational, medical, religious, governmental, and management groups as well as members of the United Nations, NASA, Congress, the Pentagon, and the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Swenson and his wife, Linda, live in Menomonie, Wisconsin.