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Before Breakfast

Second Cup: Set a timer

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Use your snooze button — and other timers — to help you focus

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:21.4

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0:29.8

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:39.0

Good morning.

0:40.0

This is Laura.

0:41.6

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:44.3

Today's tip is to use a timer

0:46.6

to help you feel more relaxed

0:48.2

while moving things along.

0:50.6

Most of us don't set too many timers in life, except for one specific instance, the snooze button in the morning.

0:58.0

You hit snooze on your phone and nine minutes later it will start beeping again.

1:03.0

Long time before breakfast listeners know that I think snoozing is a terrible idea.

1:08.0

Either get up the first time,

1:10.0

or set your alarm for the time you actually intend to get up.

1:14.0

But one listener, Carlo, wrote in to remind me that a snooze button can actually be used for good,

1:20.0

as long as you're not using it to go back to sleep.

1:23.0

Carlo, for instance, uses his snooze button to segment his morning activities in a more efficient way.

1:29.0

He and his kids need to leave the house at a certain time,

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