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3 Success Lessons to Learn From Sleeping Babies

“I’m so good at sleeping that I can do it with my eyes closed.”

Mathias Barra
3 min readMar 4, 2020

In the morning you beg to sleep more, in the afternoon you are dying to sleep, and at night you refuse to sleep. Such is the life of all human beings.

What happened at night when you were a baby? You couldn’t sleep. Your parents had enormous rings under their eyes every day and anybody telling them they should sleep more just angered them. After a while though, you learned to sleep all night.

The good and bad days

Did you sleep the entire night every day? Not at first. Once in a while, you’d wake up in the middle of the night. And the next day, you’d be back to your regular sleep schedule.

As you work toward your goals, you’ll have good and bad days. Some you’ll be thriving, discovering many things, some you’ll be struggling, wondering whether you’re on the right path. At first, you’ll be doubting much of what you do but as time passes, you’ll notice how natural it becomes.

“No need to worry anymore, the process is well underway. I’m on the path to success.”

Then, out of the blue, you’ll fall back into negative patterns. It’ll surprise you. After all, the tough part is behind now. In those…

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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