Make Self-Care Your Competitive Advantage

> The term "self-care" gets thrown around a lot these days, and is often used to describe getting enough sleep and exercise, eating clean, maybe throwing in some meditation for good measure. And yes, all of those things are good and helpful for keeping your mind and body on track. But we want to offer a more expansive definition. Self-care is about harnessing your energy for productive good.

Chalk up another life-improvement method being co-opted by neoliberal ideology, similar to the wholehearted embrace and corruption of mindfulness by corporations who want to extract as much value from their employees as possible[0]. Life is about so, so much more than productivity optimization.

[0] http://www.salon.com/2015/09/27/corporate_mindfulness_is_bul...

This is not what self-care is at all. Self-care is about recognizing how you feel, understanding why you feel that way, and taking action based on how you feel instead of allowing yourself to be a victim of your context.

This article is thinly veiled PR trash. Every single link is to another article on the same website + a LinkedIn profile for the author.

Create an artificial problem, appoint a guru who can solve it, profit, rinse, repeat.

Self-care on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-care