I was talking to my friend and found out that she has had trouble sleeping because of work-related stress. She’s got so much work to do, and often wakes up in the middle of the night because of the issues that need to be addressed.
What should we do when problems keep coming up and there’s no choice but to keep looking for answers?
It’s been almost a year and a half since I started walking or running in the morning, and more than six months since I cut out caffeine, so I usually have very deep sleep. I hardly wake up during the night until morning.
When I think so much about solutions to certain problems, however, those problems are the first ones popping into my head right after I wake up. It’s like they stayed in my head before I went to bed, took a break during the night, and started showing up first thing in the morning. I mean, seriously?
What do I do?
After getting out of bed, I do some reading and head out for a walk or a run. After that, I feel much lighter. There’s still no solution to the aforementioned problems, but my mental state when dealing with them has changed.
Since I get some fresh air while running outside, my head feels much clearer, and I can think straight. Then, if I keep seeking solutions, they eventually come.
We need to have a good night’s sleep and keep looking for solutions.
Because, at the end of the day, the power to change everything is inside me. Always.