A short motivational message from Donald Burns arguing that restaurant owners can run profitable businesses without sacrificing their personal happiness. Burns emphasizes that happiness is a choice, urges listeners to prioritize themselves as much as their restaurants, and calls for immediate action to stop settling and start living.
You can be successful without destroying yourself. You can run a profitable restaurant and still have life. But it's not going to happen until you wake up and decide that you matter just as much as your damn restaurant. I can tell you happiness isn't some far off dream. It's a choice. It's a decision. And here's the thing. It's about time that you made it. So I'm asking you, are you happy? If the answer is anything less than a yes, it's time to make a change. It's time to stop settling. It's time start living.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
