Burnout comes from intensity, not hours. Simon Sinek's principle: consistency beats sporadic 14-hour days. You have 2-4 peak hours daily, so use them for real work and let the rest be lighter. Measure productivity by what you deliver, not the clock.
Make sure you're being disciplined though, you're doing it every day. That's the biggest thing. Another quote from Simon Sinek is consistency over intensity. And that's one that I've had to take because I just wanna rush and get there. I'm like, I'm gonna work 14 hours a day. I'm gonna get there in 2 years. No, you're not. Just work 8 hours a day.
'Cause like those 14 hours of work could be 2 hours of really productive work. That's the other thing too. It's better to just have, like if you wanna be productive, put in the 2 to 4 hours of productivity that you know you're performing at 110% versus just like sitting around because you feel like you have to work the 14-hour day.
Yeah. And that's like your beliefs around— well, there's, there's certain beliefs that, okay, we got to work 9 to 5, 40-hour weeks. Like, that's a good solid week, 40-hour weeks. Why do we believe that? Because we've been conditioned to believe that because that's just how society's been for the last maybe 100 years, 150 years, right? You work the 40-hour week. But what if you are as productive as someone, as someone who works a 40-hour week in 30 hours or in 25 hours, then what? Yeah, then what, right? So it's not about that. Are you more valued employee then? Yeah, but I'm just saying like for yourself, I guess for entrepreneurs, right? That's why tracking like what are you actually getting done, like don't, don't tie yourself to time because time doesn't mean anything. It's like what are you actually getting done? You're
