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Before Breakfast

Second Cup: Get ready for bed before bedtime

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Make it easier to get enough sleep

Transcript

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0:00.0

13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction

0:05.3

podcast presented in immersive 3D audio.

0:08.2

If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.

0:11.3

Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.

0:14.9

Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.

0:18.4

How do you know? I'm innocent.

0:20.3

Are any of us truly innocent?

0:22.3

Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.

0:25.2

Listen to 13 Days of Halloween on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.8

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:41.8

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

0:47.0

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

0:53.2

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

0:57.8

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

1:03.2

This is doubly true with things that occur when you're tired,

1:06.4

such as getting ready for bed. And sadly, the more tired you are,

1:11.2

the easier it is to delay what will actually solve the problem, namely going to sleep.

1:17.6

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

1:22.7

then toddler aged fourth child was popping up at 5 a.m. every morning.

1:28.0

I made sure that my eldest child was in bed with the lights out around 9.45 pm.

1:33.1

Now theoretically, this meant that I could be in bed at 10 pm.

1:36.6

And in general, I do fine with seven hours of sleep.

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