A new way to think about sleep

A little mindset shift can help you get to bed on time

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Good Morning. This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is about a new way to think about
sleep that just might have you going to bed on time.
I've long enjoyed Julie Morgan Stearn's books on organization and

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time management. I recently read her latest book, Time to Parent,
and came away with all sorts of great ideas for
upgrading the time I spend with my kids, some of
which we'll talk about in later episodes. But one of
the most memorable tips had more to do with adult
life than kid life. We all know that his life
gets busy. Sleep can be one of the first things

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to go. We know the day will start when it starts,
but we stay up later trying to cram in one
more thing. Julie no is a good way to tackle this.
Here's an interesting question I ask clients who stay up
too late, She writes, do you think of sleep as
the end of one day or the beginning of the next.

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People who think of sleep as the end of the
day often have trouble letting go at night, Like the
kid who refuses to leave a party for fear of
missing out. Try flipping your thinking. When you viewed sleep
as the start of the next day, you feel excited
to charge up your batteries and fill your fuel tank

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for the next day's adventures. I think this is a
great mindset shift. The day doesn't begin when your alarm
clock goes off in the morning. The day begins when
you close your eyes and start surrendering to sleep. If
you want to get a jump on the next day,
you get into bed. You're not admitting defeat at the

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end of the day. You're charging up to prepare for
the day to come. Indeed, if you think about it,
this is the way our clocks and calendars are structured.
The new day begins at midnight, not at some point
in the morning. Most of us spend the first six
hours or so of each new day asleep. Rather than

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think that's strange, we're probably better off thinking that's the
way it should be. Sleep is a necessary first part
of the day, not an afterthought or a waste of time.
And the more valuable we consider sleep, the more likely
we are to put away the phone, turn off the TV,
and get into bed. We invest in starting the next

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day in the strongest way possible. Do you think of
falling asleep as the end of the day or the
start of the next one. Please let me know. You
can email me at Before Breakfast podcast at iHeart media
dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for
listening and here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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I look forward to staying in touch. Before Breakfast is
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