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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is that alarms aren't just for waking. They can

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Speaker 1: also be helpful when you need to transition from one

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Speaker 1: thing to the next. They allow you to not think

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Speaker 1: about the upcoming transition, at least until the moment when

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Speaker 1: you need to so as a sudden loud noise. Alarms

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Speaker 1: serve a useful function of waking people from sleep. But

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Speaker 1: more broadly, what an alarm does is that it gets

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Speaker 1: your attention at a specific time. That can be quite

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Speaker 1: useful if you need to do something at a specific

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Speaker 1: time and want your attention directed then but only at

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Speaker 1: that point. So, for instance, if you want to leave

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Speaker 1: at two twenty for a three o'clock appointment, you could

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Speaker 1: set an alarm for two ten to give yourself a

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Speaker 1: few minutes to wrap up what you're doing. Or maybe

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Speaker 1: you need to start dinner at five thirty to have

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Speaker 1: it on the table at six when everyone is available,

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Speaker 1: so you set that alarm for five thirty. Or you

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Speaker 1: need to start an important video conference at ten thirty

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Speaker 1: and you want a reminder to review your notes and

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Speaker 1: get in the zone at ten ten, so you set

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Speaker 1: an alarm for it. And here's the thing. You go

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Speaker 1: to sleep after setting an alarm, even if you have

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Speaker 1: to be up for something really important, because you believe

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Speaker 1: that the alarm will reliably get your attention at the

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Speaker 1: appointed time, so you are free to not focus, that is,

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Speaker 1: to sleep until that time. This is absolutely true for

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Speaker 1: daytime alarms as well. When you don't have to watch

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Speaker 1: the time, you can be become totally absorbed in a

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Speaker 1: work task that you are doing, or a book you're reading,

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Speaker 1: household chores, yoga, meditation, or anything else you are not

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Speaker 1: constantly watching the time. Instead, you can rely on the

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Speaker 1: alarm to let you know when it is time to

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Speaker 1: do the next thing. I find this is particularly helpful

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Speaker 1: if you are going to have a conversation with someone

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Speaker 1: and don't want to be looking at your phone or

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Speaker 1: a watch to know what time it is. If you

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Speaker 1: are meeting a friend for coffee at two thirty and

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Speaker 1: you absolutely have to leave at three point fifteen for

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Speaker 1: a school pickup, just set an alarm for three twelve

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Speaker 1: or so and you can give yourself freely over to

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Speaker 1: the conversation until then. You won't worry about sneaking a

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Speaker 1: peek or wondering if you've talked too long. You will

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Speaker 1: just enjoy yourself until the alarm directs your attention to

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Speaker 1: the time. People think this is weird maybe, but it

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Speaker 1: is nice to focus fully and so that is a

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Speaker 1: mitigating factor. And sometimes it is nice to force a

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Speaker 1: break into any conversation. If your alarm goes off forty

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Speaker 1: five minutes into an hour long meeting that has been dragging,

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Speaker 1: it is just possible that the person you are meeting

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Speaker 1: with will on their own start getting to the point

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Speaker 1: that would be a welcome outcome. Indeed, and hey, if

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Speaker 1: you're in an open plan office and extra sound is

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Speaker 1: annoying to people, maybe do it as a buzz or

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Speaker 1: a flashing light or something like that. It can still

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Speaker 1: work as an alarm. Setting alarms can be a great

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Speaker 1: way to keep yourself on schedule and stay fully engaged

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Speaker 1: in one task until it's time to shift to the

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Speaker 1: next one. In the meantime, this is low Biah. Thanks

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