I get anxious lying in bed at night and it keeps me awake. I get these momentary bursts of panic and urgency. It’s all about my career. In the quiet and the dark I feel it not moving forward, feel the weight of everything I don’t have. It sparks this impulse to get up and DO something immediately to advance things. But there’s nothing to be done at 1:00 a.m. on a Thursday. No email or tweet or even writing 1k words will break things open. Eventually it passes. And I know I just have to wait.
@MattFnWallace maybe just write yourself a note if you feel you need to do an email or something? Anxiety is horrible, especially in the middle of the night. I use ‘hypnosis’ apps if necessary.. they work as proper hypnosis, but they help me switch off