Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is about a new way to think about
Speaker 1: sleep that just might have you going to bed on time.
Speaker 1: I've long enjoyed Julie Morgan Stearn's books on organization and
Speaker 1: time management. I recently read her latest book, Time to Parent,
Speaker 1: and came away with all sorts of great ideas for
Speaker 1: upgrading the time I spend with my kids, some of
Speaker 1: which we'll talk about in later episodes. But one of
Speaker 1: the most memorable tips had more to do with adult
Speaker 1: life than kid life. We all know that his life
Speaker 1: gets busy. Sleep can be one of the first things
Speaker 1: to go. We know the day will start when it starts,
Speaker 1: but we stay up later trying to cram in one
Speaker 1: more thing. Julie no is a good way to tackle this.
Speaker 1: Here's an interesting question I ask clients who stay up
Speaker 1: too late, She writes, do you think of sleep as
Speaker 1: the end of one day or the beginning of the next.
Speaker 1: People who think of sleep as the end of the
Speaker 1: day often have trouble letting go at night, Like the
Speaker 1: kid who refuses to leave a party for fear of
Speaker 1: missing out. Try flipping your thinking. When you viewed sleep
Speaker 1: as the start of the next day, you feel excited
Speaker 1: to charge up your batteries and fill your fuel tank
Speaker 1: for the next day's adventures. I think this is a
Speaker 1: great mindset shift. The day doesn't begin when your alarm
Speaker 1: clock goes off in the morning. The day begins when
Speaker 1: you close your eyes and start surrendering to sleep. If
Speaker 1: you want to get a jump on the next day,
Speaker 1: you get into bed. You're not admitting defeat at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. You're charging up to prepare for
Speaker 1: the day to come. Indeed, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: this is the way our clocks and calendars are structured.
Speaker 1: The new day begins at midnight, not at some point
Speaker 1: in the morning. Most of us spend the first six
Speaker 1: hours or so of each new day asleep. Rather than
Speaker 1: think that's strange, we're probably better off thinking that's the
Speaker 1: way it should be. Sleep is a necessary first part
Speaker 1: of the day, not an afterthought or a waste of time.
Speaker 1: And the more valuable we consider sleep, the more likely
Speaker 1: we are to put away the phone, turn off the TV,
Speaker 1: and get into bed. We invest in starting the next
Speaker 1: day in the strongest way possible. Do you think of
Speaker 1: falling asleep as the end of the day or the
Speaker 1: start of the next one. Please let me know. You
Speaker 1: can email me at Before Breakfast podcast at iHeart media
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Speaker 1: listening and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,
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