Alarms are evil

If you're struggling to get up on time, you don't need more alarms, louder alarms, puzzle alarms. You need fewer alarms.

Those five alerts with escalating ringtones? The snooze button negotiations every morning? They're not solving your problem—they're creating it. Your body already knows how to wake up. You just need to let it.

Your body has the best alarm

Your body will wake up on time if you let it. For thousands of years, humans woke up when they needed to—for hunting, farming, caring for livestock—all without mechanical alarms. Our bodies haven't suddenly lost this ability; we've just stopped trusting it.

It's only during the Industrial Revolution two centuries ago that people started to let the clock dictate life. 1 Mandating strict start times and long hours become a way for factory…