Why “Work More” Is A Flawed Concept For All Burned-Out Business Owners

A successful business isn’t dependent on how many hours the business owner works.

My mom worked twelve-hour days in the family business she started with my father until she was sixty-eight. I tried everything I could to get her to focus on a few big things that deserved her undivided attention, but she was brainwashed to think the more hours she worked, the more stuff that got done. She loved controlling all the small parts of her business areas — like sweeping the warehouse floor.

Owning a business doesn’t mean you have to work yourself to death (or until death).

Society wants us to believe that hustling and working long hours is a right of passage — that it’s the “thing” to do to build a successful business. “We must work seven-to-seven if this thing is going to survive because if I don’t do it myself, who else will?” Unfortunately, this thinking has resulted in people sacrificing the most precious aspect of their multi-faceted life — TIME.

For what? For a mediocre business that an owner built for freedom, to slowly watch morph into their prison.

The belief that working more hours will make you more successful is flawed.