[toomuchtodo]

Re-evaluate your life. What makes you happy? Work backwards from there. Find a therapist. Step back from the business and delegate as much as you can, it should be able to run with no more than 10-20 hours per week of your time. Use the capital efficiently towards quality of life improvements, not the material hedonistic treadmill. Spend quality time with your partner.

[burnedout008]

"Re-evaluate your life. What makes you happy?"

Pretty much what I have been thinking about for past few weeks. I thought I was very happy with everything I wanted and suddenly it doesn't feel like it. I dont know where things went wrong. Only thing I can think of is the constant pressure to do better than before which is getting to me I suppose. I forgot about what really matters to me personally.

[doctor_eval]

I just want to second what people have said here, that you need to hire good people. Your value is in what you know about the business, not in doing everything yourself. Find someone you trust to do the daily grind, give yourself breathing room. This may require accepting that not everything will be done the way you want it, and that some fires won’t be put out - but you can now afford to let others make mistakes.

Once you have space to think, you will find things you love. If you can wake up in the morning and not have to go to work, if you have others fighting the fires, you will find new things to fill your days up.

I’m in the process of this right now. After working like you for a long time, I deliberately moved to a warm location and stopped working for a while (2 months so far). Since then, I’ve discovered things I didn’t even know I’d be into (mostly outdoors stuff but there is so much to enjoy in the world).

But whatever you do, the first place to start is to give yourself enough head space to find what you love. Don’t despair that you don’t know what it is yet - set yourself the goal of setting aside enough time to find out!

Good luck.

[lawry]

Maybe doing things that are out of your comfort zone will make you happy, worst case you just walk away with next experiences. Camping can be a fun family activity for instance!