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🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. |
0:07.8 | So lately I've been struggling with this issue, and maybe you can relate to this. |
0:12.4 | Here's what's going on. See, by the time I get to the evening, I am dying to get a good night's sleep. |
0:18.9 | And yet, I'm not getting in bed. You know what I'm doing? I am finding |
0:22.7 | myself spending more time than ever just scrolling through my phone, flipping through the channels, |
0:27.7 | and the next thing you know, I've stayed up three hours later than I wanted to. Turns out it has a |
0:33.2 | name. Maybe you've even heard of it. It's called revenge, bedtime procrastination. |
0:40.1 | It's this phenomenon where you want to get a good night's sleep, but then you make a decision |
0:45.4 | to get less sleep in order to regain personal time. |
0:49.3 | But you're doing nothing with the time. |
0:51.0 | And the experts are saying, this is an epidemic, that you and I are choosing |
0:55.7 | to scroll and we're choosing to stay up later than we want to doing nothing. And here's the thing. |
1:03.2 | I know better. You know better. I mean, aren't you so mad at yourself when all of a sudden |
1:08.0 | you look up and it's 1237 and you're like, why am I still awake? |
1:12.7 | And then of course you want to know the result of this, you get less sleep. You can't focus. |
1:17.5 | You're exhausted. You're dragging yourself through the next day. And that's why I wanted to talk to you |
1:22.0 | about this today. Because you and I need to reclaim our evenings. Now I just realized, oh boy, this revenge bedtime procrastination |
1:30.9 | thing has crept up on me, which means it's time to go back to my simple five-step evening |
1:37.8 | routine for how I fight this. These five steps are just how I reclaim my evenings. And by the way, there's a lot of science as to why |
1:46.6 | you're going to want to try this five-step routine too. I'm even going to walk you through what |
1:50.6 | the medical experts are saying that there are four symptoms that are a telltale indication |
1:55.8 | that you're struggling with decision fatigue. And it's probably ruining your evenings, you're staying up way |
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