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

Today's tip is to give yourself a bedtime. I know a lot of people listen to this podcast

in the morning. I hope that today your morning started at the time you wanted it to start.

Hopefully you didn't spend the 30 minutes after your first alarm,

battling with the snooze button. Hopefully no one in your house was racing around and yelling

this morning because the morning started 30 minutes after it was supposed to. But in case your

morning didn't go so well, here's one of the most important secrets I've learned from studying

people's time logs. Good mornings start the night before. I don't mean that you need to pack

everyone's lunches and lay out clothes and all that. You can if you want, but you don't have to.

What I really mean is that the key to a good morning is getting enough sleep and the key to

that is going to bed on time. One of the best things you can do to get control of your time

is to give yourself a bedtime. That way you can turn unproductive evening hours into productive

morning hours. Setting a bedtime as a grown up is pretty simple. You just need to ask yourself

a few questions. First, what time would I like to wake up in the morning? Let's be honest here.

While it's fun to read stories of people who wake up at 4 a.m. to do triathlons, this isn't

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