A short motivational monologue by Donald Burns encouraging restaurant owners to prioritize their own happiness and work–life balance. Burns argues that success need not require self-destruction and urges listeners to decide that they matter as much as their restaurant and to take action if they're not happy.
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.
