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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to use the occasion of a time change to rethink your habits and switch up

when things happen.

This tip was sent in by before breakfast listener

Amber who, like many people with busy lives, was trying to find time to exercise.

I'm not a morning person, she writes, so I tried to work out after the kids went to bed at 9.30 p.m.

And that was successful for maybe two nights.

But then last year around this time Amber says she had an

epiphany. The time change. In much of the United States we reset our clocks

back an hour at the beginning of November. Other countries move at different times

but it's a widespread phenomenon. In any case, Amber thought, with the time change, what if I just

continue to get up at my normal time? My 7 a.m. wake up would suddenly be a 6 a.m. wake up.

My body would not know the difference. I would magically gain an hour in the morning for working out.

Well, she'd gain an hour on the first day at least, but she writes that's what she did.

And it's been sustainable for a year now, Amber says.

It's been one of the most intelligent things I've ever done.

And that's saying something, since Amber has a PhD.

So I encourage your listeners to try it, she says,

especially those with young kids

and a treadmiller waits in the basement.

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