How’s your mental health?

Startups are god awful and I would not wish this journey upon anyone. It takes a certain breed to be able to live off nothing but “a potentially brilliant future IF EVERYTHING works out.”Plans tend to ever pan out the way you want them to, and I’ve honestly faced more disappointment than successes. I think most people on this subreddit who’ve actually went out and pursued an idea can relate.I’m in a bit of a rough patch, just kind of burnt out from 3 years of literally living on prayer. We launched last year, failed spectacularly, survived Covid, and pivoted into a product that is actually pretty damn incredible. We’re actually super close to the starting line, with the proper partnerships in tow and some really interesting niche markets to tackle. But I have no energy. It might be the changing season, less daylight, colder days, but I’m just tired.I say all this but I’m about to pass out and grind out another 10 hour work day. But it still doesn’t change the fact that I’m completely ignoring my mental health and pushing forward against every fiber of my being telling me to just take a week off. This is because we don’t have the luxury of taking a week off. Most startups have a runway, time to lift off. My startup has a precipice, time till we plummet to our deaths. We don’t measure our exist in terms of months, but in days. That’s because we’ve been bootstrapping for the last 3 years, and with Covid, we’re basically at our wits end in terms of financing.But that’s whatever. It’s life. I’m sure most of you guys are in a similar situation where days are starting to blur and you’re just doing everything in your power to push the ball forward so that all your efforts so far won’t be wasted.How do you cope with burn out? We’re all on this struggle bus together so I’d love to hear some of your stories and get some inspiration, or at least know my founder and I aren’t alone in feeling this way — even when “success” is right around the corner.Something something, dark chocolate makes the best hot cocoa. No wait, that’s not right, the saying is night is darkest before dawn. Still, dark chocolate does make some damn good cocoa. So like I guess, all this shit will make victory so much sweeter? see hubwealthy.com/wealthy