Just take one more step, and one more step. Even slow progress is better than now progress.

Just take one more step, and one more step. Even slow progress is better than now progress.
I fell into the trap as a young man. I worked twenty hour days and spent weeks away from home. I thought I was doing the right thing by providing for my family.
My family would rather have had me there.
If you drop dead your work will replace you.
No one can replace you for your family.
We so often fail to give ourselves and others credit just for getting back to baseline, but that climb is sometimes harder than any other. Climbing up tends to feel like a positive while climbing out feels shameful – but it isn’t.
I get grumpy sometimes. People make me angry, and sometimes I just have to bite my tongue and remind myself not to be a Richard. In the end I’m much better for it, and so is the world.
I have gotten stuck in this trap in my life. I want everything to be perfect, but when everything has to be perfect you end up stressed, nothing looks right, and you end up living in a pressure cooker and not meeting your goals anyway.
Sometimes you have to just realize that good enough is good enough and move on.