Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is about how to become a morning person.

Make sure there is something you are truly looking forward

to when you get up. It is not hard to get out of bed when the very thought of the day

makes you excited. This episode is first airing right before Christmas. If you have young children, and you celebrate Christmas,

I can assure you that they will pop out of bed bright and early on Christmas morning.

Perhaps you have a child who routinely turns over and hides under the pillow,

or whines loudly about getting up for school. I can assure you that even

this child will be out of bed, possibly before the sun, ready to see what is under the tree. Christmas

morning turns people into morning people. Now, obviously not every day can be Christmas. As the song goes,

it is the most wonderful time of the year. Its rarity helps make it special. But I do think that

people who successfully build morning routines figure out a way to make mornings truly exciting

and enjoyable. Maybe not quite as exciting

as Christmas, but pleasurable, all the same. That is why they are able to stick with their early

morning plans. So if you would like to build a morning routine in the new year, it might help to think about this.

What would make you excited to get out of bed?

If you are getting up to exercise, make sure it is exercise you enjoy.

Like a run with a dear friend, or a class at the gym with an instructor you love.

Lots of people enjoy creative pursuits and feel they don't have time for them in their

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