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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 the occasion of a time

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Speaker 1: change to rethink your habits and switch up when things happen.

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Speaker 1: This tip was sent in by Before Breakfast listener Amber, who,

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Speaker 1: like many people with busy lives, was trying to find

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Speaker 1: time to exercise. I'm not a morning person, she writes,

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Speaker 1: so I tried to work out after the kids went

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Speaker 1: to bed at PM, and that was successful for maybe

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Speaker 1: two nights. But then last year around this time, Amber

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Speaker 1: says she had an epiphany. The time change. In much

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Speaker 1: of the United States, we reset our clocks back an

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Speaker 1: hour at the beginning of November. Other countries move at

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Speaker 1: different times, but it's a widespread phenomenon. In any case,

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Speaker 1: Amber thought, with the time change, what if I just

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Speaker 1: continue to get up at my normal time, My seven

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Speaker 1: am wake up would suddenly be a six am wake up.

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Speaker 1: My body would not know the difference. I would magically

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Speaker 1: gain an hour in the morning for working out. Well,

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Speaker 1: she'd gain an hour on the first day at least,

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Speaker 1: but she writes that's what she did, and it's been

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Speaker 1: sustainable for a year now. Amber says it's been one

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Speaker 1: of the most intelligent things I've ever done, and that's

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Speaker 1: saying something. Since Amber has a PhD, so I encourage

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Speaker 1: your listeners to try it, she says, especially those with

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Speaker 1: young kids and a treadmiller waits in the basement. She

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Speaker 1: generally got the workout in before the kids woke up,

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Speaker 1: but even if they got up, that wasn't a deal killer.

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Speaker 1: Her three year old sometimes came down to watch Mommy

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Speaker 1: on the treadmill, but it still went mostly okay. I

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Speaker 1: think this is a wonderful IDEA long time before breakfast,

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Speaker 1: listeners know that mornings are a great time for getting

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Speaker 1: stuff done, but going to bed earlier and getting up

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Speaker 1: earlier can be challenging. Many people feel groggy for days

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Speaker 1: after international trips as they try to change their body schedules. Physically,

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Speaker 1: we don't always handle this well. The one hour time

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Speaker 1: shift that is the one where we fall back, introduces

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Speaker 1: a relatively painless way to start getting up earlier on

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Speaker 1: the first day, which is usually the hardest day. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to change anything about your sleep time or

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Speaker 1: bedtime at all. Since you get an extra hour, you

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Speaker 1: can accomplish something in the morning without having given anything up. Now.

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Speaker 1: The next night might be somewhat more challenging, as you

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Speaker 1: will actually have to go to bed earlier in order

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Speaker 1: to sustain the practice at least what looks like earlier

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Speaker 1: on the clock. But moving half an hour just costs

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Speaker 1: you half an hour of sleep, and the next night

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Speaker 1: you can shift it completely. Exercising in that early morning

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Speaker 1: hour is a great idea, but you could also use

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Speaker 1: it to do something creative, like right or paint. You

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Speaker 1: could use this time to connect with your spouse before

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Speaker 1: you go your separate ways. If you want to start

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Speaker 1: a side hustle or a hobby, you could use this

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Speaker 1: time for that. But the point is like amber, to

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Speaker 1: use the occasion of an external time change to change

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Speaker 1: your habits and doing so as hard, but occasionally we

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Speaker 1: get handed opportunities to make it a little less hard.

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Speaker 1: I don't think a true night owl is going to

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Speaker 1: become a morning person, but most of us are somewhere

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Speaker 1: in the middle. The time change makes change a little

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Speaker 1: more possible in the meantime. This is Laura, Thanks for listening,

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

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from you. You can send me

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