Stop taking whole days for pure having fun, relaxation, and not working, and other days where all of the above is forbidden, and pretty much everything is except work. That is not healthy.

Hear me out please. You only wanted a weekend and a vacation because you hated studying and going to school.

It’s not natural. Also if you have a regular job, you just want to not go to this job some days of the week.

It is an abomination to see so many so-called entrepreneurs long for the weekend to come because they really wanna relax a little bit.

Bro, the entire point of being an entrepreneur is relaxing at will any moment of your day, any day of the week.

You didn’t get the memo?

This is what financial independence is all about.

Free to run around all day. Free to do it all my way.

If you can’t just take a break and chill at any given moment of time, you ain’t an entrepreneur, and you seriously need to consider getting a job.

If you can’t do what you want on a Monday, but you can do it only on a Sunday, then you’re not in control of your life, when you have the opportunity to, which means you don’t choke on not being in full control of your life, which means you’re not a true pure-bred entrepreneur, which means you need to get a job.

Wait, what? You’re only trying to be an entrepreneur because you need the money and you can’t find a job?

Oh no. I thought we were friends.

I’m disappointed at you. I’m sad.

Anyway, back to why you would be more prone to burnout.

When you have to enjoy yourself and do fun activities all day long, that is exhausting. That’s why you tended to waste ample time in summer vacation when you were a kid. Feeling pleasure is a consumptive neurological process that drains you, just like decision making. Something has to happen inside of you to feel pleasure as a direct result of doing a specific activity. When that happens, you get tired a little bit more. Your body understands this, and hence wasting all day long in order to avoid getting involved in such game or process, even if you’re technically taking the day off. If you force your body to push itself anyway, saving up some feeling good for the rest of the week, you’ll exhaust yourself before the week even begins. Also working too hard during the rest of the week in order to earn having fun on the weekends makes you burnout even faster.

It’s called a rat race for a reason.

Sometimes not doing something takes more energy than doing it for hours. Inhibition isn’t the lack of doing something. It’s an active process that consumes a ton of energy. And too much inhibition or inhibition for too long leads to depression because it frustrates you and sends a message to your body that having a ton of activation energy is discouraged or a useless thing, and thus should be avoided entirely for the sake of conservation of energy, because now you care about nothing but mere survival. This makes your body no longer bother giving you activation energy, and hence your lack of motivation, desire, energy, or interest to do anything. Everything is exhausting because everything is done against your will, because your will has been conditioned to no longer want or aspire to do anything, and thus will rarely give you any activation energy to provide you with the essential thrust you need to get any activity going or started.

Stop resisting pursuing or fulfilling every impulse you get. This is bad for you, both in the short and long term. Religion made you consider that to be a good thing. It’s time to break free. Religion celebrates this as the epitome of self-control, maturity, faith, and wisdom, although it is abuse and one of the worst things you can do to yourself to make yourself better in any way there is. It crushes your creativity, spirit, and destroys any chances of you being alive, except for survival levels. It really lowers your intelligence and IQ, even if it increases some abilities, like ‘crushing impulses’. It makes you a helpless victim, capable of doing nothing but obey and be manipulated and ordered around. You will be a good slave, but an empty shell of a human being. It harms you on a neurological level. Avoid it at all costs. Just rest enough so that you can handle navigating yourself in the uncertain world of pursuing, chasing, or fulfilling impulses. Go when ready. Prepare for that. Follow your impulses when you are well-rested, or when you are rested enough, at least when you’re not totally fatigued to know your own good, or be capable of not making bad or horrible decisions. You don’t want to be reckless. You do not want to engage in self-sabotage. You just want what’s good for you, and so you shouldn’t harm yourself in the process and call it a day. Be careful. Regenerate your capacity to do hard work as much as needed, and then follow your impulses all you want. You have no idea how much that improves you. And how much opposing this destroys you.