The Sacrifice of Success: Navigating Mental Health and Work-Life Balance

Doing anything great requires some level of sacrifice. You come into this world as a kid and you build all these hobbies and you build all of these relationships because they give you dopamine, they give you joy. Then we build this feedback loop in our brain about business, create bigger reward systems for us by making an extra dollar. Eventually all of your hobbies, all of your relationships will slip away because all you’re focusing on is work. Eventually you’ll lose yourself as well. That’s when you start to say negative things about yourself and that’s when your mental health also goes. And then you don’t have the relationships and the hobbies to switch off, which is the No. 1 way to prevent mental health issues. And it’s just a self perpetuating cycle that causes a lot of issues. I have been down that road during Oodie, like completely ruin my mental health to the point where I was having panic attacks every day. And you are not immune. Just have a different threshold. Cause what you’re doing is you’re living with chronic stress and it feels okay. You’re using stress to get up out of bed and get shit done, which feels great, but you don’t actually realise you’re constantly in this hidden state and it will just hit you. The remedy is not instantaneous. Taking a day off doesn’t actually make you feel that much better. You can win on a daily basis, but you’re never actually Gonna win. It’s an infinite game. You realise that when you can’t sit still and you have enough money, but then you try to have a week off and you’re like, I’m gonna launch another business.