The 21-Day Reset
noun
DiagnosisRecurring, three weeks
What it means
A structured programme promising to rebuild your life in three weeks, sold to people whose lives are not the part that needs rebuilding.
What it actually means
Three weeks, then straight back to the conditions that caused this.
How it is used in a sentence
"She is doing a 21-day reset. No caffeine, no screens, no joy."
Filed under
Lifestyle & Well-Being — The industry built around resting properly, which has somehow become another job.
Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.
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Lifestyle & Well-BeingnounCoinage
Applying productivity software to the business of being a person, on the assumption that the problem was never the software.
Real meaningI have optimised everything and I am exhausted.
Wellness Programme
Work & AmbitionWEL-nis PROH-gramnounEuphemism
A subsidised gym membership and a mindfulness app, priced into your benefits, offered in place of a workload you could survive.
Real meaningHere is a coping mechanism instead of a solution.