

When Less Is More: The Self-Care Sweet Spot
In Economics, there’s a principle known as The Law of Diminishing Returns. It teaches us that if you keep adding more of one input—like labor or fertilizer—while holding everything else constant, the benefit you gain from each additional input eventually decreases. At some point, adding more actually stops helping—and might even make things worse. This means that more effort does not always equal more benefit. This same concept applies beautifully to our personal energy and s

Paige Apgar
Jun 14, 20252 min read
