Every article I have written about the first ten minutes of the day, from the alarm you sleep through to the grogginess after it.
Waking up was the part I was worst at. For years I slept through two phones and a clock radio, and Waffles did a better job at 05:40 than any of them. These are the articles about the morning itself: why the alarm does not reach you, why you feel wrecked for the first half hour, and what finally got me out of bed on the first ring.
Waking up
If you can't wake up in the morning, count the sleep you are short and where your alarm lands before you try new habits. Here is what I checked first.
Read more: Can't wake up in the morning? Check your sleep debt first
Waking up
How to become a morning person without lying to yourself: what the chronotype studies say moves, what stays put, and the light and alarm plan I use.
Read more: How to become a morning person, and which parts of you will not budge
Waking up
How to get out of bed in the first 90 seconds after the alarm: light, feet on the floor, one small task, and the research on why lying there makes it worse.
Read more: How to get out of bed in the first 90 seconds, with a cat as the enforcer
Waking up
How to stop snoozing, from someone who hit it nine times a day: why the habit sticks, one alarm across the room, and a bedtime that lands on light sleep.
Read more: How to stop snoozing when your hand finds the button before you do
Waking up
How to wake up early without forcing it: move your bedtime 15 to 30 minutes at a time over two weeks, with the sleep math and studies I used to do it.
Read more: How to wake up early by moving your bedtime, not your willpower
Waking up
Why do I sleep through my alarm? For me it was sleep debt, deep sleep at the wrong minute, and a ringtone my brain had learned to ignore. Here is the math.
Read more: Why do I sleep through my alarm, and what finally fixed it for me
Waking up
Why do I feel groggy after waking up? Sleep inertia, the studies that measured it, how sleep cycles fit in, and what I changed so my mornings got clearer.
Read more: Why do I feel groggy after waking up? What the fog is and how long it lasts