Over the past year and a half, I've really let both my health and social life slip from under me because I put my startup above all else. And lately it's really been catching up to me. For the past month or two, I haven't been able to get much done. I can't focus anymore and it takes me a week to get something done because I'm tired of looking at my screen at the same few hundreds (thousands?) of lines of code. I've known for a while that this is a result of eating poorly, lack of daily exercise, and lack of social life; but I kept telling myself to just get the startup done first and everything will turn around.
Now I'm finally realizing that I'm going to have to shift my priorities and make every decision the best one, which includes the simplest things like what I eat or what time I go to sleep and wake up... or the startup won't succeed. At some point, I seemed to reach a breaking point where my level of happiness began to directly reflect on the quality of my work on my startup. I won't stop until I succeed though. It's now just a matter of making all the right decisions, I think, which includes prioritizing my health and happiness over my work.