There are nights when I wake up at odd hours, and I’m suddenly thinking about work. I’ve got projects to take care of, emails to send, things I haven’t even started that I know are due soon. The stress of it all somehow hits in the middle of the night.
And I have to remind myself: There’s not a lot I can do at 3 a.m.
It doesn’t do me much good to worry, anyway. The anxiety doesn’t make the to-do list any shorter. What I can do is get back to bed, find a pocket of time to take on some work in the morning, and actually do the work.
And then do it again.
And again, and again.
But in the middle of the night, all you can do is remind yourself: You’ve done the work before, and you’ll do it again.
Just not at 3 a.m.
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That photo of sunlight across a bed comes via Unsplash and photographer Becca Schultz.