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You Don’t Have To Wake Up Early To Be Successful

You have to do right thing at the right time.

Sakshi Udavant (Luna)
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6 min readOct 9, 2018

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While bidding goodbye to 2017, I made a commitment to make 2018 the best year so far. I wrote down huge goals, backed with super-detailed plans including all the actionable steps, routines and mindsets I needed to develop in order to be my most creative and productive self.

I started waking up at 5 am to read, write and workout — because those were the habits of the highly successful people. Everything was going well until I fell sick recently and was forced to retract my unfathomable zeal and take a breather — a breather that lasted long enough to spiral out of control, push me off the bandwagon, grab my dreams by the throat and suffocate them to death.

Gradually, I slipped into a bottomless pit of gloom and spent long hours late at night trying to crawl out of it. I tried every method to get some desperately-needed shut-eye but anxiety and overthinking ensured sleep was kept at bay. Until one day, I stopped. I stopped trying to trick myself into falling asleep…

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Sakshi Udavant (Luna)
Publishous

Freelance writer and marketing consultant working with top-tier brands like PayPal, Mozilla, Insider, Digital Trends, etc. Get in touch: sakshiudavant.com