If I don't manage my sleep schedule at all, it tends to become really irregular, and that can make it hard to make early morning or late evening plans. But I d

If I don't manage my sleep schedule at all, it tends to become really irregular, and that can make it hard to make early morning or late evening plans. But I do feel better waking up without an alarm, so I got into a habit of setting one as a failsafe rather than as a trigger to wake. I usually wake up well before it and just turn it off, but once in a while I sleep in until it goes off. By making sure I never sleep past the failsafe time, I avoid having my schedule careen into its extremes. I find it's a nice sort of compromise between keeping an alarm and not.