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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 just go to bed. If you

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Speaker 1: have reached the evening and are feeling overwhelmed or sad

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Speaker 1: or exhausted, do yourself a favor and go to sleep

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Speaker 1: as soon as you can. Most likely everything will feel

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Speaker 1: different when you wake adequately rested in the morning. So

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Speaker 1: despite the widespread perception, most people do get enough sleep

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Speaker 1: from a total hour perspective. In fact, the number of

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Speaker 1: hours people sleep per day has been rising over the

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Speaker 1: past few decades, according to the American Time You Survey.

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Speaker 1: But what tends to happen is that people in an

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Speaker 1: irregular fashion, getting too little sleep in the first half

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Speaker 1: of the week and then crashing in the second half.

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Speaker 1: It makes for exhaustion and an inability to maintain good habits.

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Speaker 1: While sleeping less in the first half of the week

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Speaker 1: might seem productive because there would be more space for

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Speaker 1: work and chores, if you just crash and make up

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Speaker 1: the hours in the second half of the week, you

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Speaker 1: haven't saved any time at all. You've just moved it

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Speaker 1: around at the cost of a lot of unpleasantness. Far

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Speaker 1: better to sleep the same amount every single day. In

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Speaker 1: other words, we all need a bedtime. I tell people

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Speaker 1: that you should only stay up past your bedtime if

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Speaker 1: you have a really good reason. However, you don't need

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Speaker 1: a good reason to go to bed before your bedtime.

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Speaker 1: If you are exhausted for some reason or another, there

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Speaker 1: is no reason to stay up. Don't fool yourself that

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Speaker 1: you are going to get something great done. If you

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Speaker 1: are exhausted, you are not going to finish any of

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Speaker 1: your personal projects. If you are exhausted, you are not

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Speaker 1: going to get ahead on work. Don't remind yourself how

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Speaker 1: far behind you are and forge ahead. Don't try to

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Speaker 1: have quality time with your spouse. That won't really be

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Speaker 1: quality time at all. Just go to bed. If you do,

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Speaker 1: one of two things will happen. One is that you

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Speaker 1: will sleep to your normal wake up time. If you

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Speaker 1: have gone to bed prior to your bedtime and wake

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Speaker 1: up at the normal time, then you have likely either

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Speaker 1: made up a small sleep debt or have banked a

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Speaker 1: little extra rest. Either way, you will feel incredibly well

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Speaker 1: rested when you wake up. When you get enough sleep,

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Speaker 1: you feel like you can conquer the world. I am

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Speaker 1: willing to bet that whatever seemed overwhelming the night before

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Speaker 1: will no longer feel overwhelming. It will feel doable, and

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Speaker 1: so you will do it. Sleep is a superpower. The

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Speaker 1: other thing that might happen is that you will wake

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Speaker 1: well rested before your alarm. This tends to happen if

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Speaker 1: you don't have a sleep debt to work off, and

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Speaker 1: you are exhausted for other reasons, like an emotionally or

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Speaker 1: physically rough day. When this happens, well, congratulations, you now

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Speaker 1: have found time. It's found time at a point of

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Speaker 1: day when people often hit their peak of energy. If

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Speaker 1: you are up before your family or before you need

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Speaker 1: to be, you could read, or work, or exercise, or

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Speaker 1: do something creative, or sit there and ponder life quietly

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Speaker 1: if you don't want to disturb anyone else. I am

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Speaker 1: not particularly a morning person, but when I travel from

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Speaker 1: the East Coast to the West coast and thus pop

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Speaker 1: up at five am feeling like it's eight am, I

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

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Speaker 1: Going to bed earlier than normal can give you the

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Speaker 1: superpower in normal life. In any case, it's better than

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Speaker 1: trying to Ford John to solve everything in an exhausted state.

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

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Speaker 1: get frustrated. So just go to bed. Life will feel

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Speaker 1: better in the morning. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.

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