Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is about how to quit the snooze button.
Speaker 1: When it comes to how we spend time. I think
Speaker 1: the snooze button is one of the most unfortunate inventions
Speaker 1: ever created. That's not because I think everyone should get
Speaker 1: up at the crack of dawn to run marathons or
Speaker 1: anything like that. I think snoozing is bad because I
Speaker 1: love my sleep. I love deep dream inducing, brain restoring sleep.
Speaker 1: Sleeping in nine minute increments, on the other hand, is
Speaker 1: the worst of all worlds. You're not getting up and
Speaker 1: starting your day, but you're not enjoying deep sleep either.
Speaker 1: That said, like many evil things, the snooze button is
Speaker 1: very tempting. I'm not a big snoozer myself, partly because
Speaker 1: I have a lot of young children. They don't come
Speaker 1: with snooze buttons. But I've studied thousands of time loogs
Speaker 1: over the years, and I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: hit snow out of habit. It's not uncommon to spend
Speaker 1: half an hour or more each weekday morning in this
Speaker 1: half a sleep state. That's too bad because hitting snooze
Speaker 1: repeatedly amounts to starting each day with an argument that
Speaker 1: you're going to lose. Eventually you are going to get
Speaker 1: out of bed. It seems more efficient to just get
Speaker 1: up once and be done with it. So if you'd
Speaker 1: like to quit the snooze button habit, I've seen a
Speaker 1: few things work for other people. My first suggestion is
Speaker 1: just to be honest with yourself. Be honest about the
Speaker 1: time you intend to get out of bed. Rather than
Speaker 1: setting your alarm for five forty five am and then
Speaker 1: snoozing until six thirty, set your alarm for six thirty.
Speaker 1: Do this even if you have to be out at
Speaker 1: the door for work ten minutes later. Yes, you'll be late,
Speaker 1: but in the snoozing world, you are late too. In
Speaker 1: the non snoozing world, you'll have gotten forty five more
Speaker 1: minutes of amazing sleep. Ideally that will make you well
Speaker 1: rested enough to solve whatever problems your tardiness caused. Second,
Speaker 1: don't rely on willpower change your environment. Instead, try getting
Speaker 1: an old fashioned alarm clock that has to be physically reset,
Speaker 1: or even if you plan to use your phone, put
Speaker 1: it on the other side of your bedroom. By the
Speaker 1: time you're out of bed, getting back in seems more
Speaker 1: consequential than just rolling over. You might even put a
Speaker 1: coffee maker in your room, just like there are coffee
Speaker 1: makers in hotel rooms, and program it to have a
Speaker 1: cup brood at the time you wake up. Third, plan
Speaker 1: something fun for your morning. We'll talk a lot about
Speaker 1: morning routines on before breakfast, but I think the best
Speaker 1: way to think about it is this. If you celebrate Christmas,
Speaker 1: you know that kids don't hit snooze on Christmas Morning.
Speaker 1: This past year, even my eleven year old was out
Speaker 1: of bed at five forty five am. This is a
Speaker 1: child that I have to rouse with some effort on
Speaker 1: weekdays at seven point fifteen. Normally, he was just so
Speaker 1: excited about the day to come. I know every morning
Speaker 1: can't be a holiday, but what would make you genuinely
Speaker 1: excited to get out of bed. Maybe it's meeting a
Speaker 1: friend for a run, or getting some quiet reading or
Speaker 1: writing time in before everyone else in your family gets up.
Speaker 1: Excitement mixed snoozing less tempting. And you know what else
Speaker 1: makes snoozing less tempting, getting enough sleep. The whole snooze
Speaker 1: button issue becomes less relevant if you naturally wake up
Speaker 1: before you're alarm. I promise it's not impossible In an
Speaker 1: upcoming episode, I'll share some tips for getting to bed
Speaker 1: on time so you can wake up on time ready
Speaker 1: to take on the world. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody got a tip or a question.
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Speaker 1: learning how you make the most of your time.