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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is about what to do if you wake before you're alarmed.

This can be a great thing and it's nice to treat it like the found time that it is.

Many of us wake most days to an alarm clock of one sort or another.

We have to get up for work or to get kids off to school.

Even on weekends, there might be activities or worship services to attend.

We don't want to sleep through these things, or at least we decide it would be better if we didn't sleep through these things, so we set an alarm.

But if you have good sleep habits, you might not wind up using the alarm.

The goal is to get enough sleep each night that you are not constantly working to erase a debt.

This means getting to bed at a time each night that allows for your daily sleep requirement before you need to wake up.

So, for instance, if you need seven and a half hours of sleep and you need to wake up at 6.30am on weekday mornings, then you need to be sleeping by 11pm the night before.

That probably means turning out the lights somewhere between 10.30 and 11 to make that happen.

If you do that consistently, an interesting thing can start to occur.

Some nights you will likely fall asleep at, let's say, 10.45pm.

If you need seven and a half hours of sleep and you are getting that amount every single night, you will likely start drifting awake closer to 6.15pm on those mornings.

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