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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to use a timer to help you

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Speaker 1: feel more relaxed while moving things along. Most of us

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Speaker 1: don't set too many timers in life, except for one

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Speaker 1: specific instance, the snooze button. In the morning, you hit

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Speaker 1: snooze on your phone and nine minutes later it will

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Speaker 1: start beeping again. Long time Before Breakfast listeners know that

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Speaker 1: I think snoozing is a terrible idea. Either get up

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Speaker 1: the first time, or set your alarm for the time

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Speaker 1: you actually intend to get up. But one listener, Carlo,

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Speaker 1: rode in to remind me that a snooze button can

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Speaker 1: actually be used for good as long as you're not

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Speaker 1: using it to go back to sleep. Carlo, for instance,

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Speaker 1: uses his snooze button to segment his morning activities in

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Speaker 1: a more efficient way. He and his kids need to

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Speaker 1: leave the house at a certain time, so he segments

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Speaker 1: the hour before they leave into six nine minutes segments

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Speaker 1: with a little time change left over. He uses one

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Speaker 1: segment to get himself dressed, he uses another to help

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Speaker 1: the kids get dressed. He uses a segment to eat

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Speaker 1: a quick breakfast. He uses a segment to do some

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Speaker 1: morning house chores and a segment to make lunches for everyone.

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Speaker 1: Then the last segment is devoted to gathering everyone and

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Speaker 1: everything together to get ready to go. This way, he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have to keep watching the clock, but he also

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Speaker 1: knows quickly if they're running behind, and he can course

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Speaker 1: correct before the morning goes off the rails. Carlo reports

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Speaker 1: that he's used his snooze button at worked two when

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Speaker 1: he's in a time crunch. I set up an alarm

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Speaker 1: at a specific time, say four o'clock, and use the

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Speaker 1: snooze to plan two or three activity bursts, he says,

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Speaker 1: such as answering a complicated email by the first snows,

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Speaker 1: sending all his meeting invitations for the next day by

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Speaker 1: the second snooze, and planning the next morning's to asks

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Speaker 1: by the thirds news. As he reports, this way, I

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Speaker 1: have finished several menial tasks and I can feel organized

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Speaker 1: for what comes ahead. I think this is a great idea.

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Speaker 1: Of course, if nine minutes doesn't work for you, feel

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Speaker 1: free to set your phones time or for any other

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Speaker 1: amount of time. Lots of people swear by the Pomodoro technique,

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Speaker 1: where you set a timer for twenty five minutes, focus

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Speaker 1: on something intensely for that time, and then take a break.

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Speaker 1: You can set alarms for other things too. Say you're

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Speaker 1: in a meeting and you know you need to leave

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Speaker 1: on time, but you really want to focus on the

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Speaker 1: other person instead of trying to sneak peaks at the

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Speaker 1: clock here and there, set an alarm for a few

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Speaker 1: minutes before you need to go. The other person will

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Speaker 1: hear the alarm too, and so it provides an opening

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Speaker 1: to move things along and end things. But you can

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Speaker 1: completely relax up until that point. It's a way of

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Speaker 1: being off the clock while still being on the clock too.

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Speaker 1: Do you set timers? Let me know for what You

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Speaker 1: media dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.

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