It's easy to let work and other obligations take over your life, but what practical steps can you take to carve out more time for your family and life's little pleasures?

Dr. Richard A. Swenson, author and award-winning educator will speak on his best-selling book Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves To Overloaded Lives at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 21 at the . The event, presented by Gilda's Club of Southeastern Wisconsin in partnership with the JCC, is free and open to the public.

Swenson, also a physician-researcher, futurist and educator, is the author of six books including best-selling Margin, and The Overload Syndrome: Learning to Live within Your Limits, both award-winning.

At the February 21^st lecture, the audience will learn from Swenson how to have more time and energy for family, friends and faith. Swenson believes that life in modern day America is essentially devoid of time and space – not the Star Trek kind – the sanity kind. Chronic overloading is the culprit; margin is the cure.

Also a witty lecturer, Swenson describes Margin and Overload as, “Overload is not having time to finish the book you’re reading on stress. Margin is having time to read it.” The audience will leave with practical prescriptions for restoring margin in the essential areas of emotional energy, physical energy, time, and finances.

To register for the lecture, call Gilda's Club at (414) 962-8201, ext. 102.