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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is about how to sleep in on a weekday.

Yes, you heard that right.

It might be possible.

You just need to tweak your mindset of what this looks like.

So I know some of my listeners are woken up by young kids every morning, weekdays and weekends alike.

But as your kids get older and more independent, or if you don't have kids, you might relish those weekend mornings when you don't wake up to an alarm.

You slowly move in and out of sleep, enjoying a pleasant groginess, and a gentle approach

to getting up. That tends to not be the case on weekdays when most of us wake suddenly to an alarm.

But with a little bit of strategizing, you can, in fact, recreate that slow start most mornings

if you want.

The key is to make sure that you do not have a sleep debt on weekdays.

So first, figure out how much sleep you need.

After tracking my time for more than 10 years, I know my sleep set point is somewhere

between 7.3 and 7.4 hours per day. I am guessing that you have a sleep set point too. It's probably

the average of what you sleep over about a month when you include weekends and holidays. Then, remind yourself

what time you need to wake up on weekday mornings. I set my alarm for either 620 or 640 depending on the

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