3 steps to help when you wake up at night worrying

Colleagues,
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​What’s bothering you and what are you doing about it?

Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night worrying about something?

If, like me, you do, I suggest trying the following steps as it is helping me:

• In the morning, interrogate the thing that you are worrying about.
• Ask yourself, what is one small thing I can do to make me feel like I am making progress on this?
• Do the one small thing.

This sounds obvious, but I’ve found I frequently make these issues bigger than they actually are and I try and solve them all at once. That’s a heavy lift that I usually don’t have time or capacity for.

Note: If I am really distressed, I will get up and do this in the middle of the night as it is the only thing that will allow me to get back to sleep.

So, confront the thing and take action, but focus on one small step.

Let me know if this helps. 😃

Cheers!

Frederick