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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.

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