Briyas, who launched Briyas Tofu in 2014, said that his Sundays were often spent in factory visits or work calls. Even when he was present physically with his family, his mind was elsewhere.
“I answered calls. I visited the factory ‘for ten minutes’ that became three hours. All the hard work took a toll on his health, and Sivaram Briyas eventually landed in the hospital. “I wore it with some pride. Entrepreneurs don’t take off days. A stint in the ICU changed his beliefs. The body doesn’t grow stronger during effort. It grows stronger during rest. The surgery is the damage. He realised that the same learning can be applied to businesses and founders. he no longer works on Sundays While he still believes in working hard.
I told my family I was present while my mind ran inventory numbers,” he confessed. The Bengaluru-based entrepreneur said that he used to wear his long hours like a badge of honour. Or that’s what I believed,” he said. “Then I spent four months in an ICU, and I got all my off days at once,” said Briyas. Briyas got time to reflect on something that his doctors told him: That the body grows stronger during rest, not while working hard While hospitalised. “Lying there, I kept thinking about something the doctors told me about recovery. The healing happens in between, in the sleeping, the eating, the waiting,” he said.
The founder of MillD Protein Atta reflected on how he manages work-life balance better today.
“I still work hard. “But I try to protect my Sundays now. Because now there’s less time and more purpose, probably harder than before,. Because i’ve earned rest, not. Because rest is where the work completes itself,” he concluded.
