How And Why I Wake Up At 3:30 Am For The Past 2 Years

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James Ssekamatte
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27 months later, while I watch people go on 30-day challenges of waking up at 4:00 am, the easiest thing for me is to wake up at 3:30 am and this has been the case since August of 2018.

My extremely early rise came when I was leaving on my own in India and had just finished my last course unit at university. I started panicking while asking myself questions that most people undergrads have like, “what am I going to do with my life now?”

The scare that this question gave me was the beginning of my unhealthy sleep habits. But I knew that if I was not going to turn off my scared emotions by flipping a switch, I would find a better way to work with those emotions to make my then unhealthy habits better and healthy for me.

In August of 2018 when I started sleeping for 3 hours, I also had the least productive time as most of it was me being worried that I was going to be a failure in life now that I was about to graduate and yet did not know what to do after.

Also, getting a job was a worse feeling than the feeling of me being a failure in life.

During this time, I ate a lot of unhealthy food, watched everything from porn to spirituality, TED talks helped as…

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