Omar Zenhom spent ten years working 12-hour days building a successful business, only to hit chronic fatigue. He argues that money means nothing without health, relationships, and a sense of who you are. The real goal is building a venture that funds the life you want, not sacrificing everything for it.
You can build a wildly successful business and completely destroy your health, your relationships, and your sense of self all in the process. I used to work 12-hour days for 10 years straight. I did it. And what happens is that the exhaustion accumulates slowly and you don't really realize it. You don't really notice it until one day you wake up and you realize, I haven't felt rested in years. And here's what I know after 20 years of building businesses. The goal is not just to build something that makes you money. The goal is to build something that you're proud of that doesn't cost you everything else in the process. Because money is great, but if you're rich but don't have anybody to spend the money on, you have nobody to enjoy it with, you have no health to enjoy it with, it's really useless. You want to build a business that funds a life that you want, not a life that you just end up with because of all the collateral damage that you experience through building the business.
