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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is about how not to crash on weekends.

Being a bit more careful about sleep during the week means you can enjoy your discretionary time on weekends, without having to spend that time overcoming weekday exhaustion.

Today's tip, like a few others this week, comes from my new book, Tranquility by Tuesday.

Nine ways to calm the chaos and make time for what matters.

This book shows how 150 people became more satisfied with their time, as they followed my nine favorite time management rules.

One of those rules, indeed, the first rule is to give yourself a bedtime.

Many people have a very strong sleep set point.

Let's say you need seven and a half hours of sleep a day, which is a pretty common number.

If you sleep six and a half hours for a few days in a row, your body is going to force you to make that time up.

That's why people crash on the couch while watching TV, or fall asleep while putting their kids to bed, or sleep through alarms, or hit snooze three times, or sleep in and nap on weekends.

Now, there is nothing wrong with a nice nap on a weekend afternoon.

But if you work a full-time job, most of your potential leisure and family time is likely going to happen on weekends.

Do you really want to spend this potential leisure and family time, sleeping off a weekday death?

It might be nicer to go for an early morning run or bike ride with a friend, and then still get to spend the whole day with your family, versus sleeping in later, if that's even possible, or crashing on the couch at some inopportune point if it is not.

It might be better not to be groggy when your kids get up early, which then leads to you bickering with your spouse over who covers, and then both of you crashing during any little kid naps.

Rather than getting some waking leisure time.

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