An entrepreneur describes years of constant fight-or-flight mode, responding instantly to every call and email out of fear that delays would kill sales. He eventually realized the business survives without hyper-responsiveness, letting him finally slow down and take breaks.
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It's gonna be fine. It's like, I feel like when you own a business and are an entrepreneur, you're, especially in the first couple years, you're always in like fight or flight mode. And, uh, you think you have to, you know, reply to people in 10 seconds and return people's calls, um, you know, right away and answer emails and all these things within, you know, a non-realistic timeframe to make your business work. But, and that's what I did for the last, you know, however many years. Mm-hmm. But now I'm like, oh, I can reply tomorrow and they're still gonna come enroll. They're still gonna, you know, my school's still gonna be here. Yeah. And so that was the biggest thing was I had to realize like, we're still gonna be here. It's, it's okay to, you know, take a break and so on.