Ever wake up around 3 a.m to 4:00 a.m., eyes wide open, fully awake, can't fall asleep, but have no idea what's going on or why?...

...Maybe you grab a book to read, maybe watch some TV, or hop on your phone for an hour or two before you can go back to it...

...Me too, for years.

Here's why it happens, what's happening, and how to fix it.

Change is necessary for growth, and it's part of life.

Everything changes, sometimes slow, sometimes fast.

Change can be VERY stressful, and we can only handle so much change at any given time.

The more change, the more stress.

There's negative change and positive change, although positive change becomes negative when it becomes more than we can handle at any point in time.

The amount of stress change will generate depends on whether you have a strategy to manage that change...

...A plan, a way out, a path to get through the change.

...Meaning do you know exactly what to do next and what to do after that?

The wake up at 3:00 a.m. is your mind pumping out cortisol, waking you up and forcing you to become creative and figure things out.

It's a "wake-up call".

This is often why we wake up with "thoughts" of "this or that'.

The mind doesn't have a strategy; it doesn't know what to do next, but not any strategy, the strategy has to offer a win, a gain, a better life, or at worst to keep you where you are, can't be a negative step back.

Once you have a strategy, any strategy, for how to navigate the change, you'll never wake up at 3:00 a.m. again, and you'll sleep like a baby.

This was inspired by a few friends in the game who kept telling me they randomly wake up at 3:00 a.m., I shared this with them and they haven't woke up since, life's much better for them, and I hope this will make your life much better too.

Have a great Wednesday,

Alen