Having been in this pattern for so long it's also possible you have become addicted to the adrenaline of urgency. It took me a long time to break the "effort a

Having been in this pattern for so long it's also possible you have become addicted to the adrenaline of urgency. It took me a long time to break the "effort and accomplishment is not an unending linear graph", when I finally took the time to stop working so hard, I got a LOT further in life. Like a factor of 5. Income increase, responsibility decrease, and dramatic weight loss. You're going to have to say no to people. If youre agreeable this is hard, but if what you needed was easy, you'd have already dont it right? haha As a hyper industrious (80 hours a week normal) it was very hard for me to make this adjustment, it took about 5 months, and I, like you, had been coding 10 years at the time