It’s the first week of January, and you’re already drowning in Slack messages. You told yourself this year would be different, that you’d set boundaries and stop overcommitting. But here you are, saying yes to another meeting you don’t have time for, staying late to fix something that could wait, feeling that familiar knot in your stomach every Sunday night.

Across corporate America, 90% of employees are experiencing some level of burnout. For decades, we’ve been focusing on optimizing our physical health, tracking our sleep cycles, heart rate variability, while the part of us that actually drives our decisions at work, and quality of life, namely our beliefs and emotional patterns, remains almost entirely unmeasured. 

We blame our schedules, download another meditation app, and tell ourselves we’ll feel better once we find the right morning routine. 

But as companies prepare to spend $94.6 billion on wellness programs in 2026, it might be worth asking ourselves: What if we started to treat our minds as if they had........

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