Don’t let perfectionism hold you back. The new thing that I want to add here is that you shouldn’t compartmentalize or divide your time strictly between work and play. Blend them both together like they are the same thing, and a continuous thing or process that takes place throughout your entire waking hours every day. Do not say for example I have worked so hard today I’m going to take the rest of the day off and consider the remaining hours of today to be all down time until I sleep. That is like punishing yourself for having worked so hard today, or for having been productive in the first couple of hours of the day. Your biggest reward for having achieved greatly in a short period of time is a green light or permission to accomplish more epic stuff in the next few hours of the day or currently. If you keep prohibiting yourself or restricting yourself from working or doing anything that is considered productive or from achieving anything for too long, not just for a few minutes, or during a break that you catch your breath in it, because you have accomplished enough today, so far, or recently, then you are signaling or conditioning yourself to not want to be productive, successful, or someone who wants to not be an entirely useless consumer. This is not about happiness. This is about succumbing to your inner nature of being a productive person who adds something to this world, plays their role in the betterment of human civilization and life on earth, significantly contributes to the continued greatness of the rest of the world, instead of being just a liability that exists to consume, receive pleasure, and be hedonistically happy and useless. This makes you inevitably be in a good mood, but this is just a byproduct of you fulfilling your role as a responsible and productive human being, and proving to yourself that you’re not just another loser who is just living apathetically and passively on this planet to be in a good mood and enjoy just being or existing, and enjoy whatever the present moment throws at them. This is why you shouldn’t be okay with too long breaks or down time where you are supposed to not work at all. You are not someone who hates what you do, and if you are, then it’s time to change your work, until you find what you are really okay with doing all the time if you can. So the point here is to not declare the rest of the day off or as time where you are not allowed to work at all. Still you have fun at will and rest as much as required. The problem is with telling yourself don’t you dare talk to me about work again indefinitely, or until further notice. The moment you limit your options is the moment you start feeling trapped and helpless, with no way out of staying miserable indefinitely, or until further notice. This isn’t the mindset or mentality of a boring or workaholic person. There’s nothing wrong with you if you were like that. The problem is with people who consider that to be someone who is miserable and hates themselves too much to the extent that they channel that or distract themselves from their negative thinking by working all the time. Still you’re not working all the time. But you’re not having fun or resting all the time. You’re doing both. You are doing everything. You are in a state of alternating or successive work and play all the time. And that is the peak of human happiness.