Last week, I faced a hypertensive emergency.
A stark reminder that no matter how driven you are, your body has limits.
Seven days ago, my blood pressure hit stroke-level numbers.
It was a crisis that didn’t announce itself until it was nearly too late.
As entrepreneurs, especially in fast-paced markets like real estate and investment, we often push ourselves to the edge, believing human capacity is infinitely scalable if we just work harder and faster.
But it’s not weakness. It’s mathematics.
Your body keeps a ledger you can’t negotiate with.
Here’s the conversation many entrepreneurs avoid:
- We celebrate hustle culture and heroic grit while designing businesses that deplete the very people building them.
- We track revenue and growth obsessively but often overlook the health metrics that sustain those results.
Burnout isn’t a personal failing. It’s a flaw in how we build our professional lives.
What changes the game:
- Leaders who set boundaries by example, not just in words.
- Systems that reward sustainable success over short-term heroics.
- Cultures where taking care of yourself is part of the strategy, not a luxury.
In our world, the people who care the most often risk the most, their health before disappointing their teams or letting the business down.
My personal mandate moving forward?
- To make preventive health as routine as quarterly business reviews.
- To build companies where longevity isn’t an aspiration, it’s the strategy.
Because real legacy isn’t about how hard you hustled, it’s about how long you’re here to build it.
A stark reminder that no matter how driven you are, your body has limits.
Seven days ago, my blood pressure hit stroke-level numbers.
It was a crisis that didn’t announce itself until it was nearly too late.
As entrepreneurs, especially in fast-paced markets like real estate and investment, we often push ourselves to the edge, believing human capacity is infinitely scalable if we just work harder and faster.
But it’s not weakness. It’s mathematics.
Your body keeps a ledger you can’t negotiate with.
Here’s the conversation many entrepreneurs avoid:
- We celebrate hustle culture and heroic grit while designing businesses that deplete the very people building them.
- We track revenue and growth obsessively but often overlook the health metrics that sustain those results.
Burnout isn’t a personal failing. It’s a flaw in how we build our professional lives.
What changes the game:
- Leaders who set boundaries by example, not just in words.
- Systems that reward sustainable success over short-term heroics.
- Cultures where taking care of yourself is part of the strategy, not a luxury.
In our world, the people who care the most often risk the most, their health before disappointing their teams or letting the business down.
My personal mandate moving forward?
- To make preventive health as routine as quarterly business reviews.
- To build companies where longevity isn’t an aspiration, it’s the strategy.
Because real legacy isn’t about how hard you hustled, it’s about how long you’re here to build it.