WEBVTT - Just go to bed

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is to just go to bed. If you

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<v Speaker 1>have reached the evening and are feeling overwhelmed or sad

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<v Speaker 1>or exhausted, do yourself a favor and go to sleep

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<v Speaker 1>as soon as you can. Most likely everything will feel

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<v Speaker 1>different when you wake adequately rested in the morning. So

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<v Speaker 1>despite the widespread perception, most people do get enough sleep

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<v Speaker 1>from a total hour perspective. In fact, the number of

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<v Speaker 1>hours people sleep per day has been rising over the

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<v Speaker 1>past few decades, according to the American Time You Survey.

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<v Speaker 1>But what tends to happen is that people in an

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<v Speaker 1>irregular fashion, getting too little sleep in the first half

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<v Speaker 1>of the week and then crashing in the second half.

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<v Speaker 1>It makes for exhaustion and an inability to maintain good habits.

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<v Speaker 1>While sleeping less in the first half of the week

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<v Speaker 1>might seem productive because there would be more space for

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<v Speaker 1>work and chores, if you just crash and make up

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<v Speaker 1>the hours in the second half of the week, you

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

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<v Speaker 1>around at the cost of a lot of unpleasantness. Far

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<v Speaker 1>better to sleep the same amount every single day. In

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<v Speaker 1>other words, we all need a bedtime. I tell people

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<v Speaker 1>that you should only stay up past your bedtime if

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<v Speaker 1>you have a really good reason. However, you don't need

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<v Speaker 1>a good reason to go to bed before your bedtime.

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<v Speaker 1>If you are exhausted for some reason or another, there

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<v Speaker 1>is no reason to stay up. Don't fool yourself that

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<v Speaker 1>you are going to get something great done. If you

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<v Speaker 1>are exhausted, you are not going to finish any of

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<v Speaker 1>your personal projects. If you are exhausted, you are not

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<v Speaker 1>going to get ahead on work. Don't remind yourself how

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<v Speaker 1>far behind you are and forge ahead. Don't try to

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<v Speaker 1>have quality time with your spouse. That won't really be

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<v Speaker 1>quality time at all. Just go to bed. If you do,

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<v Speaker 1>one of two things will happen. One is that you

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<v Speaker 1>will sleep to your normal wake up time. If you

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<v Speaker 1>have gone to bed prior to your bedtime and wake

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<v Speaker 1>up at the normal time, then you have likely either

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<v Speaker 1>made up a small sleep debt or have banked a

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<v Speaker 1>little extra rest. Either way, you will feel incredibly well

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<v Speaker 1>rested when you wake up. When you get enough sleep,

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<v Speaker 1>you feel like you can conquer the world. I am

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<v Speaker 1>willing to bet that whatever seemed overwhelming the night before

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<v Speaker 1>will no longer feel overwhelming. It will feel doable, and

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<v Speaker 1>so you will do it. Sleep is a superpower. The

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<v Speaker 1>other thing that might happen is that you will wake

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<v Speaker 1>well rested before your alarm. This tends to happen if

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have a sleep debt to work off, and

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<v Speaker 1>you are exhausted for other reasons, like an emotionally or

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<v Speaker 1>physically rough day. When this happens, well, congratulations, you now

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<v Speaker 1>have found time. It's found time at a point of

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<v Speaker 1>day when people often hit their peak of energy. If

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<v Speaker 1>you are up before your family or before you need

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<v Speaker 1>to be, you could read, or work, or exercise, or

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<v Speaker 1>do something creative, or sit there and ponder life quietly

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<v Speaker 1>if you don't want to disturb anyone else. I am

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<v Speaker 1>not particularly a morning person, but when I travel from

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<v Speaker 1>the East Coast to the West coast and thus pop

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<v Speaker 1>up at five am feeling like it's eight am, I

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<v Speaker 1>am able to do all manner of great things before breakfast.

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<v Speaker 1>Going to bed earlier than normal can give you the

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

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<v Speaker 1>trying to Ford John to solve everything in an exhausted state.

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<v Speaker 1>You won't solve everything. You will probably solve nothing and

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<v Speaker 1>get frustrated. So just go to bed. Life will feel

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<v Speaker 1>better in the morning. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of

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