I have to admit that I’m not a person who likes routines. I fly by the seat of my pants most of the time, especially since I retired five years ago. But I am smart enough to know that my day goes much ...

Sweeney is a contributor for TIME. Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Natalie Board—Getty Images, Ira T. Nicolai—Getty Images, Tess Trunk—Getty Images, fongfong2/Getty Images ...

As someone who has struggled with insomnia my entire life, my sleep tends to come at odd hours. To say I’m not a morning person is a severe understatement. I don’t even see a lot of mornings; my body ...

Long after we watched Patrick Bateman wake up to apply his expensive skincare lotions and do a thousand stomach crunches in American Psycho, the earnestly aspirational “morning routine” video is now a ...

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," Benjamin Franklin once said. And while phrases like "the early bird gets the worm" may feel overused, the underlying principle ...