One of the greatest insights I've taken out of the last few years is to discard this idea of sacrificing today for tomorrow. Sure, there's always a bit of give

One of the greatest insights I've taken out of the last few years is to discard this idea of sacrificing today for tomorrow. Sure, there's always a bit of give and take, but my conclusion is that successful businesses come out of successful people. That may seem like a flat statement at first, but what it means is that if you really want your business to be successful, you also need to take up the daily habits, behaviours, modes of thinking, etc, that will make you a successful person. The success of your business will then emerge out of that, rather than the other way around. In your case, if you do what you need to make sure that you're a happy, healthy, pleasant individual, your business will do better as a result. To put it in simpler terms, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, etc - were exceptional people before they started their businesses. They didn't become exceptional because of their businesses - their businesses were exceptional because of them.