Not the 5:00 am club

Being a Night Owl is as productive

Raji Pillay
4 min readAug 19, 2020

Let’s take a moment to appreciate the beauty of this owl!!!

There is absolutely no dearth of material on the internet to tell you the how’s of being an early bird, if that is your deal. Probably the most written and viewed content since eons and still prevalent today.

I have devoured that content like my life depended on it. Thankfully my life doesn’t literally depend on implementing it, else I wouldn’t be witnessing this globally crazy year.

For at least 5 years I have wanted to be an early riser and be an amazing super productive person. You know smash out all my goals with the extra deep focus time I carve out by being an early riser.

If you haven't guessed it yet, I haven’t yet turned into one.

I struggled and struggled some more but this was one habit I was determined to form and I kept at it all these years.

Why you ask?

  • Because yes I wanted that extra me-time which I can dedicate to work on my goals
  • I strongly believed that this one habit will be the catalyst in achieving those goals

The Struggle is real

  • Every morning I woke up disappointed in myself yet again because I…

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Raji Pillay

I bring my love for books, coffee, technology and life in general to my writing. Blockchain has caught my fancy and I am exploring it as I write.