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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to get ready for bed a while before you actually intend to go to sleep.

This makes it much easier to get into bed on time.

It's a truism of time management that everything takes longer than you think it will.

This is doubly true with things that occur when you're tired, such as getting ready for bed.

And sadly, the more tired you are, the easier it is to delay what will actually solve the problem, namely going to sleep.

This problem became clear to me a few years ago when my husband was traveling a lot and my

then toddler-aged fourth child was popping up at 5 a.m. every morning. I made sure that my

eldest child was in bed with the lights out around 9.45 p.m. Now theoretically this

meant that I could be in bed at 10 p.m. and in general I do fine with seven hours of sleep

But night after night I would find it almost impossible to be asleep before 10.30

Somehow taking out my contacts possible to be asleep before 1030.

Somehow, taking out my contacts, brushing my teeth,

washing my face, getting my pajamas on and so forth

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