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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 to just go to bed. If you have

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Speaker 1: reached the evening and are feeling overwhelmed.

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Speaker 2: Or sad or exhausted, do yourself a favor and go

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Speaker 2: to sleep as soon as you can. Most likely everything

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Speaker 2: will feel different when you wake adequately rested in the morning.

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Speaker 2: So despite the widespread perception, most people do get enough

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Speaker 2: sleep from a total hour perspective. In fact, the number

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Speaker 2: of hours people sleep per day has been rising over

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Speaker 2: the past few decades, according to the American Time Youth Survey.

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Speaker 2: But what tends to happen is that people's in an

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Speaker 2: irregular fashion, getting too little sleep in the first half

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Speaker 2: of the week and then crashing in the second half.

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Speaker 2: It makes for exhaustion and an inability to maintain good habits.

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Speaker 2: While sleeping less in the first half of the week

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Speaker 2: might seem productive because there would be more space for

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Speaker 2: work and chores, if you just crash and make up

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Speaker 2: the hours in the second half of the week, you

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Speaker 2: haven't saved any time at all. You've just moved it

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Speaker 2: around at the cost of a lot of unpleasantness. Far

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Speaker 2: better to sleep the same amount every single day. In

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Speaker 2: other words, we all need a bedtime. I tell people

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Speaker 2: that you should only stay up past your bedtime if

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Speaker 2: you have a really good reason. However, you don't need

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Speaker 2: a good reason to go to bed before your bedtime.

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Speaker 2: If you are exhausted for some reason or another, there

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Speaker 2: is no reason to stay up. Don't fool yourself that

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Speaker 2: you are going to get something great done. If you

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Speaker 2: are exhausted, you are not going to finish any of

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Speaker 2: your personal projects. If you are exhausted, you are not

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Speaker 2: going to get ahead on work. Don't remind yourself how

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Speaker 2: far behind you are and forge ahead. Don't try to

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Speaker 2: have quality time with your spouse. That won't really be

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Speaker 2: quality time at all. Just go to bed. If you do,

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Speaker 2: one of two things will happen. One is that you

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Speaker 2: will sleep to your normal wake up time. If you

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Speaker 2: have gone to bed prior to your bedtime and wake

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Speaker 2: up at the normal time, then you have likely either

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Speaker 2: made up a small sleep debt or have banked a

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Speaker 2: little extra rest. Either way, you will feel incredibly well

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Speaker 2: rested when you wake up. When you get enough sleep,

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Speaker 2: you feel like you can conquer the world. I am

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Speaker 2: willing to bet that whatever seem overwhelming the night before

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Speaker 2: will no longer feel overwhelming. It will feel doable, and

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Speaker 2: so you will do it. Sleep is a superpower. The

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Speaker 2: other thing that might happen is that you will wake

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Speaker 2: well rested.

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Speaker 1: Before your alarm. This tends to happen if you don't

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Speaker 1: have a sleep debt to work off, and you are

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Speaker 1: exhausted for other reasons, like an emotionally or physically rough day.

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Speaker 1: When this happens, well, congratulations, you now have found time.

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Speaker 1: It's found time at a point of day when people

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Speaker 1: often hit their peak of energy. If you are up

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Speaker 1: before your family or before you need to be, you

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Speaker 1: could read, or work, or exercise, or do something creative,

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Speaker 1: or sit there and ponder life quietly if you don't

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Speaker 1: want to disturb anyone else. I am not particularly a

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Speaker 1: morning person, but when I travel from the East Coast

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Speaker 1: to the West coast and thus pop up at five

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Speaker 1: am feeling like it's eight am, I am able to

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Speaker 1: do all manner of great things before breakfast. Going to

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Speaker 1: bed earlier than normal can give you the superpower in

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Speaker 1: normal life. In any case, it's better than trying to

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Speaker 1: forge John to solve everything. In an exhausted state. You

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Speaker 1: won't solve everything. You will probably solve nothing and get frustrated.

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Speaker 1: So just go to bed. Life will feel better in

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Speaker 1: the morning. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for

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

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