Burnout showed me that I was a bad business creator. It taught me that I was a poor entrepreneur.

Because although I had a good business idea, and the venture was making money, I wasn’t doing the work of an entrepreneur. I was doing the work of an employee.

I had left my job a couple of years previously in order to become free. But the prison that I had created for myself was worse than my previous job.

I discovered that we I was willing to work very hard in my own business, much harder than I was ever willing to work for someone else. That’s fine, and maybe even normal, for a limited time. But after too much hard work the whole thing falls apart. Because its not sustainable.

I broke down. And I didn’t know what to do, or who to turn to for help. Actually I didn’t want to ask anyone for help. I just wanted to get away.

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