In an early-stage start-up environment putting in grind hours is often necessary. Right now I'm the sales person, account manager, blog writer, PR person, admin

In an early-stage start-up environment putting in grind hours is often necessary. Right now I'm the sales person, account manager, blog writer, PR person, admin, CFO and content person. Each of these requires time to just put in the basic work (eg. took a few hours to write 100 emails to leads today). Yes, it's a marathon not sprint but if we don't make it through the first few miles then that's that. So at least for start-ups, I think that's where it comes from. There's just actually lots to do and very few people to do it. Having said that what I struggle with most is how to do all this grind stuff without which we can't survive and still have time to think and reflect on our vision/growth/etc. So then that's where weekends come in. I tend to rest up and then by Sunday afternoon I feel energized enough to really think about our business. People are always talking about how it's possible to run a start-up while working normal hours. And perhaps that's true when you have a team with real roles. But in the very early stages it's very hard to get by on stress-free hours.