u/Cute_Mats_3138

Business runs fine at 30 hours. Revenue is stable. Clients are happy. Nothing is on fire.

But every time I close the laptop at 2pm I feel like I'm cheating. Like I should be grinding. Like the entrepreneurs working 60 hours are doing it right and I'm doing it wrong.

The guilt isn't rational. I know this. The business performs the same whether I work 30 or 50 hours. The extra 20 hours I used to work were filled with busy work and anxiety-driven activity that produced nothing measurable.

But the culture of entrepreneurship has so thoroughly connected hours worked with virtue that logging off at 2pm feels like a moral failing even when the results say otherwise.

Working on deprogramming this. It's slower than I'd like.