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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 take a nap when you are

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Speaker 1: feeling run down, cranky, or that it will be tough

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Speaker 1: to make it through the day. Sometimes a short nap

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Speaker 1: can change everything. Better to spend twenty to thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: taking one than to spend hours trying to muddle through.

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Speaker 1: So on Christmas Day a few weeks ago, I was

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Speaker 1: feeling pretty tired. We've had so much going on for weeks,

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Speaker 1: and then Christmas Eve was filled with church services, including

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Speaker 1: one where I sang half a dozen anthems and many

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Speaker 1: soprano desk cants on the last verse of hymns. Then

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Speaker 1: all the presents had to be dealt with. As the

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Speaker 1: sun it was, I was reminded of a fundamental truth

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Speaker 1: that every kids a morning person. On Christmas morning, they

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Speaker 1: let me sleep until seven, but everything was a flurry

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Speaker 1: of activity after that. As a result, by early afternoon,

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Speaker 1: I was dragging. I got my toddler down for a nap,

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Speaker 1: and then I crawled into my own bed. I was

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Speaker 1: only in there for about forty minutes. It wasn't a

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Speaker 1: deep sleep. As I know, I was lucid for part

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Speaker 1: of the time, but I felt so much better afterwards.

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Speaker 1: I was able to deal with the rest of the

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Speaker 1: long day. Nap math is always interesting to me because

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Speaker 1: most of the time a short nap won't actually erase

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Speaker 1: a sleep debt. I was awake until one I Am

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Speaker 1: on Christmas morning, and then up around seven. I need

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Speaker 1: about seven and a half hours of sleep, So theoretically

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Speaker 1: I should have needed a ninety minute nap, not a

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Speaker 1: thirty to forty minute one. And yet the thirty to

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Speaker 1: forty minute one felt absolutely sufficient. It powered me through,

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Speaker 1: and probably that's even longer than a lot of people suggest.

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Speaker 1: I know that twenty minutes or so is seen as

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Speaker 1: the ideal nap length. That length makes people refreshed, not groggy. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: even if you don't sleep, closing your eyes can help

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Speaker 1: restore you some So if you are feeling run down,

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Speaker 1: why not try shutting your eyes. If you're working at home,

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Speaker 1: you just need to find a break in your schedule

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Speaker 1: and go nap in your own bed. I recognize that

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Speaker 1: if you are working elsewhere this might be harder. Close

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Speaker 1: an office door if you've got one, go sleep in

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Speaker 1: your car. I know that no one wants to be

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Speaker 1: seen napping on the job, and sometimes there are good

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Speaker 1: reasons for that. There are definitely times and situations where

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Speaker 1: a nap would not be wise, But in many other cases,

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Speaker 1: if you are not being productive, no one wins. If

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Speaker 1: you continue in that state, doing something to boost your

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Speaker 1: energy and be more rested could have a massive payoff.

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Speaker 1: A nap might take less time than a coffee break

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Speaker 1: or than zoning out scrolling because you can't do anything else.

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Speaker 1: If that is the case, sleeping can save time. Yep,

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Speaker 1: napping can be productive, Believe it or not. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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Speaker 1: them moose of our times. Hey, everybody, I'd love to

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