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Are You Looking After Yourself?
Self-Care is Essential in Order to be Effective
(First posted Feb 2022)
I used to believe the nonsense that taking care of myself was a luxury…until my body nearly fell apart from overuse, little maintenance & debilitating cluster migraines knocked me out of commission for weeks at a time.
“Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are. But as the story shows, true effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset or capacity to produce (the goose).”
– Stephen Covey, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
How good are you about taking care of yourself?
In Stephen Covey’s book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” he writes extensively about something called the “P/PC Balance.”
“P” stands for “Production.”
“PC” stands for “Production Capability.”
