Adopt these five rules to make sure the stress of starting up doesn’t get you down.

As the saying goes, money doesn’t buy happiness–but especially when you’re an entrepreneur.

Gurbaksh Chahal, the chairman and CEO at RadiumOne, says being financially successful is one thing, and being happy is quite another. “As an entrepreneur, I’ve been fortunate to see financial success but that has little connection to genuine happiness,” he writes in a post on LinkedIn.

He says entrepreneurs need to cultivate happiness by getting out of business mode and balancing their daily lives. “Let passion dictate the 86,400 seconds you share with the world each day,” he urges.

Below, read a few rules for happiness Chahal says he lives by.

(1) Unplug.

Starting your own business means that you have to be constantly connected to your smartphone and laptop–hoping that email comes through from a venture capitalist, waiting for an answer from your partner. But the “wired world” is just as important as your “real world,” Chahal writes. “Set aside the phone and the laptop and carve out quality time with the people that really matter to you. At the end of the day, they are the only definition of what’s real,” he writes. “Time is actually our greatest virtue. Cherish each of these real moments.”

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