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 logs
Speaker 1: over the years, and I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: hit snoop out of habit. It's not uncommon to spend
Speaker 1: half an hour or more each weekday morning in this
Speaker 1: half asleep state. That's too bad because hitting snooze repeatedly
Speaker 1: amounts to starting each day with an argument that you're
Speaker 1: going to lose. Eventually you are going to get out
Speaker 1: of bed. It seems more efficient to just get up
Speaker 1: once and be done with it. So if you'd like
Speaker 1: to quit the snooze button habit, I've seen a few
Speaker 1: things work for other people. My first suggestion is just
Speaker 1: to be honest with yourself. Be honest about the time
Speaker 1: you intend to get out of bed. Rather than setting
Speaker 1: your alarm for five am and then snoozing until six thirty,
Speaker 1: such your alarm for six thirty. Do this even if
Speaker 1: you have to be out at the door for work
Speaker 1: ten minutes later. Yes, you'll be late, but in the
Speaker 1: snoozing world you were late to In the non snoozing world,
Speaker 1: you'll have gotten forty five more minutes of amazing sleep. Ideally,
Speaker 1: that will make you well rested enough to solve whatever
Speaker 1: problems your tardiness caused. Second, don't rely on willpower change
Speaker 1: your environment. Instead, try getting an old fashioned alarm clock
Speaker 1: that has to be physically reset, or even if you
Speaker 1: plan to use your phone, put it on the other
Speaker 1: side of your bedroom. By the time you're out of bed,
Speaker 1: Getting back in seems more consequential than just rolling over
Speaker 1: You might even put a coffee maker in your room,
Speaker 1: just like there are coffee makers in hotel rooms, and
Speaker 1: program it to have a cut brood at the time
Speaker 1: you wake up. Third, plan something fun for your morning.
Speaker 1: We'll talk a lot about morning routines on before breakfast,
Speaker 1: but I think the best way to think about it
Speaker 1: is this. If you celebrate Christmas, you know that kids
Speaker 1: don't hit snooze on Christmas morning. This past year, even
Speaker 1: my eleven year old was out of bed at five am.
Speaker 1: This is a child that I have to rouse with
Speaker 1: some effort on weekdays at seven fifteen. Normally, he was
Speaker 1: just so excited about the day to come. I know
Speaker 1: every morning can't be a holiday, but what would make
Speaker 1: you genuinely excited to get out of bed? Maybe it's
Speaker 1: meeting a friend for a run, or getting some quiet
Speaker 1: reading or writing time in before everyone else in your
Speaker 1: family gets up. Excitement makes snoozing less tempting. And you
Speaker 1: know what else makes snoozing less tempting, getting enough sleep.
Speaker 1: The whole snooze button issue becomes less relevant if you
Speaker 1: naturally wake up before your alarm. I promise it's not impossible.
Speaker 1: In an upcoming episode, I'll share some tips for getting
Speaker 1: to bed on time so you can wake up on
Speaker 1: time ready to take on the world. In the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
Speaker 1: the most of our time. M Hey, everybody got a
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Speaker 1: I look forward to connecting and learning how you make
Speaker 1: the most of your time.