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

Today's tip is about how to quit the snooze button.

When it comes to how we spend time, I think the snooze button is one of the most unfortunate inventions ever created.

That's not because I think everyone should get up at the crack of dawn to run marathons or anything

like that. I think snoozing is bad because I love my sleep. I love deep, dream-inducing,

brain-restoring sleep. Sleeping in nine-minute increments, on the other hand,

is the worst of all worlds. You're not getting up and starting your day, but you're not enjoying

deep sleep either. That said, like many evil things, the snooze button is very tempting.

I'm not a big snoozer myself, partly because I have a lot of

young children. They don't come with snooze buttons. But I've studied thousands of time logs over the

years, and I know a lot of people hit snooze out of habit. It's not uncommon to spend half an hour

or more each weekday morning in this half-asleep state.

That's too bad because hitting snooze repeatedly amounts to starting each day with an argument

that you're going to lose. Eventually, you are going to get out of bed. It seems more efficient

to just get up once and be done with it.

So if you'd like to quit the snooze button habit, I've seen a few things work for other people.

My first suggestion is just to be honest with yourself.

Be honest about the time you intend to get out of bed.

Rather than setting your alarm for 5.45 a.m. and then snoozing until 6.30,

set your alarm for 6.30. Do this, even if you have to be out of the door for work, 10 minutes later.

Yes, you'll be late, but in the snoozing world, you are late too. In the non-s snoozing world,

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