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How You Wake Up Determines Your Day – Mel Robbins Morning Motivation


if you’re somebody like I used to be
that hits the snooze button that kills
your productivity for at least four
hours let me explain you have to
understand this this is a Productivity
killer that most of us don’t know about
has to do with waking up now when you
think about being productive you got a
big day and you got a bunch of stuff you
need to get done most of us focus on
when when do I need to get up in order
to get everything done that’s not what
you need to focus on the thing that
really impacts your productivity is how
how do you wake up the snooze button
creates a mental state a state in your
brain that is called
sleep inertia it’s so bad it actually
has a name here’s what it is
when you and I go to bed we sleep in
cycles we sleep in cycles of like 90 to
110 minutes all night long and right
before you wake up the sleep cycles they
stop and your body goes into a wakeup
mode okay your brain is starting to
slowly wake up so that it can start the
day when your alarm goes off you’re in
wakeup mode your brain is now ready to
do its best work however if the alarm
goes off and you hit the snooze button
guess what you’ve just done you’ve just
made your brain go back into a sleep
cycle your brain is now in a mode that
takes about 90 to 110 minutes to
complete you just rebooted the system so
when your alarm goes off and you get up
15 minutes later you’re now in major
trouble and the reason why you’re in
trouble is because your brain is still
locked into a sleep cycle and this is
where sleep inertia comes in you know
how when you hit the snooze button you
wake up and you’re like oh my gosh I did
not get enough sleep last night you feel
so groggy you kind of feel like this
mental hangover that is sleep inertia
here’s the deal your brain the quartic
region of your brain which
responsible for decision-making
attention alertness self-control that
sucker is still in a sleep cycle and now
that you’re awake it’s gonna take the
chordal region almost four hours to
actually snap out of that sleep cycle
that’s why you feel groggy it’s because
the part of your brain that’s
responsible for critical thinking and
being alert it’s actually still asleep
if you don’t already do this you’ve got
to train yourself to be the kind of
person that doesn’t use the snooze alarm
because when you hit the snooze alarm
you’re not only putting your brain in a
state of sleep inertia you are directly
impacting your productivity your
alertness and your brain processing for
the first four hours that you’re awake
that’s making life harder I’m all about
making life easier so tomorrow when the
alarm goes off I don’t care how tired
you are I don’t care how much you know
wanna get out of bed I want you to
remember this I want you to remember
that you’ve got to wake up and give your
brain its best shot to do its best work
and the way you’re gonna do it five four
three two one turn off that alarm and
get up seize the day and go be productive
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