Nighttime Unplug

How to complete Nighttime Unplug

Charging your phone in another room removes the late-night scroll and the first-thing-morning doom check in one move, protecting both your sleep onset and your first waking hour. The harder part isn't the night, it's resisting the grab the moment you wake.

1. Pick a charging spot outside the bedroom: hallway, kitchen, living room
2. Set an old alarm clock or a basic alarm so you don't use the phone as your wake-up excuse
3. Put the phone on the charger one hour before your target sleep time, every night
4. Leave it there through your whole morning routine and only retrieve it after you've eaten breakfast

Tips

• Tell anyone who might worry that you're offline overnight so you're not tempted to check
• Swap the reach-for-phone reflex with something pre-placed by the bed: a book, water, a notebook
• If the alarm-clock excuse is real, buy a $10 one today; it removes the only legitimate reason to keep the phone close

What counts as done

The phone spent the night in another room and you got through breakfast without touching it.