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  • Essay / Margin - 754

    MARGINIntroductionThe world has a plethora of information for people who want to know how to accomplish whatever they want to accomplish. Libraries are overflowing with traditional books, audiobooks, and even e-books, while the worldwide web is full of site after site with a wide range of how-tos, such as how to manage your time, how to have a better marriage, how to find any more time, and the list goes on and on. Margin by Richard Swenson is no different from other time management manuals, but his book is different because he brings not only empathy but also sympathy to this manual as it was once marginless. He says: “I know the extent and severity of this disease from three sources. First, I observed it in the lives of patients. Second, I have seen its effects in the lives of the interns and residents I have taught for fifteen years. Third, I know the weight of life without margin because it has been on my chest for a long time. “Without margin is the chaos that grips us and sends us into a spiral of failure. It is an ever-shrinking time bubble that seeks to consume us, no matter who we are or who we think we are. Swenson declares Marginless to be the disease of the new millennium; and as is the case with so many diseases, the cure often lies in the disease itself, so the margin according to Swenson is the cure. Swenson addresses emotional restoration, physical, final and temporal reserves of overburdened lives in three main points. The problem of pain, the prescription margin and the prognosis. ......to treat the symptoms to determine the problem of pain leading to loss of margin. His response to these beers is The margin on prescription in the hope of arriving at the health prognosis. The way he ends the book with the question ARE YOU READY is much more than a question, it is a challenge of sorts to anyone who would like to put aside any preconceived notions about who they think they are and give an honest assessment of our lives to see. if they have a margin or if they are without margin. The biblical terminology for what Swenson describes as "margin" is the Sabbath. God created 6 days to work and on the 7th day he rested. In today's society, hard-working men and women are in desperate need of rest (Sabbath). Although it is not a cure for everything, Margin is a good start that seems to address man in both the physical and spiritual realms, which can also be achieved through weekly sabbaticals..