Short YouTube monologue by Donald Burns urging restaurant owners to prioritize their personal happiness over their business. The speaker asks direct, rhetorical questions (e.g., “Are you happy?”) and issues a call to action to stop settling and make changes if they are not content with their lives and work.
How long are you going to keep this charade up? How long are you going to keep sacrificing your happiness for a restaurant that is slowly, slowly draining the life out of you? I mean, come on. I get it. Your restaurant is important. But let me ask you something. When was the last time that you were important? When was the last time that you put your own happiness on the table? 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.
