Time is broken. For almost two decades, our lives have been ruled by screens that ignore our most basic needs. We live in a world that never sleeps – 24/7 notifications, infinite scroll, and an “always on” culture – and it’s driving an epidemic of anxiety and burnout. Depression and stress are rising as our natural rhythms are thrown into chaos. Enough. It’s time to break the old cycle, and rebuild it around what really matters: our health, our relationships, our biological rhythms.
Time Is Broken – And Our Minds Are Paying the Price
We are fighting an attention crisis. Every buzz of the phone, every late-night study session under harsh fluorescent light, every skipped meal or all-nighter is a crack in our mental well-being. Young people feel it most. With a record number of students seeking mental health support on college campuses, the system is screaming for change. We’ve been taught to treat time as an enemy – to squeeze more work out of each day, no matter the cost. But the cost is real: shattered focus, poor sleep, anxiety, depression. Our relationship with time is broken, and it’s breaking us in turn.
This is a call to arms (and alarms): it’s time to reclaim our time. The solution isn’t hiding in a pill or a new injection – it’s in rediscovering the rhythm that already beats inside us. Our circadian rhythm, our “body clock,” is the evolutionary guide. We are meant to rise with the sun, wind down at night, and flow through days in a balance of focus and rest. When we live against this natural rhythm, we suffer. When we align with it, we thrive.
The Time Revolution: Sync With Your Body Clock
Owaves is more than a calendar or day planner – it’s a new way to think about time. As the pioneer of circadian wellness, Owaves has one bold mission: “to revolutionize time around health and well-being”. This manifesto is our declaration of war on poor, unstructured, and mindless daily hygiene. We’re tearing down the old paradigm of grind culture and building up a new one centered on mental health, balance, and biological first principles.
Owaves isn’t just a brand, app, or product—it’s a movement. Over one million of us worldwide are leading the charge in healing our relationship with time. Activity-by-activity, and day-by-day, we are now over 26 billion minutes strong in this new direction. It’s no accident – from day one, this physician-designed platform set out to integrate modern science into the way we plan our days. Owaves is the first timekeeping system designed to integrate circadian rhythms – the body’s internal clock – into your daily routine. It means your planner finally honors your biology. Oriented to sunrise and sunset, Owaves helps you design daily routines for sleep, study, work, exercise, and meals when your mind and body need them most. As TechRadar put it, Owaves is, “Getting things done for the mindfulness generation.”
Instead of lifeless lists or rigid calendars, picture your day as a living, breathing clock. In the Owaves app, your 24 hours unfold in a vibrant circle of life: golden hours for work and study, leafy greens for meals, and sea blue for self-care and rest. Each segment represents an activity aligned with your optimal time of day – your body’s time. By visualizing your day this way, you can literally see whether you’re balanced. Are you packing all your focus into the wrong hours? Skipping exercise or shortchanging sleep? Owaves Star, our new subscription, gives you the tools to find out and optimize, day by day.
Owaves Star: Built on Nobel Prize-winning Science
Owaves Star (oStar) 💫 isn’t just a new product; it’s a time machine you can hold in your hand. oStar is transforming the way we experience time. It was born from the idea that time can heal us, not just age us negatively or stress us out. For the very first time, Owaves users can discover a planner that adapts to their personal body clock. The new oStar subscription introduces circadian coaching right inside the app – delivering tailored recommendations for your optimal Deep Sleep, Deep Work, and Meal Times each day. In other words, Owaves now guides when to do things, not just what to do, helping you achieve peak focus, energy and balance.
How does it work? oStar customizes Deep Sleep, Deep Work, and Meal Time recommendations based on your personal chronotype, or “Body Clock Type“. We integrate lifestyle medicine recommendations with evidence-based circadian biology, to offer a unique, powerful, yet simple guidance tool within our existing calendar. It starts with a quick, science-backed Body Clock Quiz that identifies your chronotype (morning type, evening type, or in-between) in less than one minute. Based on your results, oStar customizes your daily schedule with color-coded Deep Sleep, Deep Work, and Meal Time “Windows” optimized for you. Deep sleep and recovery periods appear when your biology needs rest; deep work intervals (for productivity or study) are timed when your focus naturally peaks; and eating windows align with when your metabolism is primed. These guided time blocks adapt to you – making healthy routines feel intuitive.
Seamless integration: oStar’s features are woven into the beloved Owaves interface without adding complexity. A new oStar toggle lets you switch your view with one tap: you can display the circadian windows on your O (Owaves’ iconic 24-hour “My Clock”), revert to your regular activity schedule, or show only imported calendar events – a top user request now fulfilled. This means you can easily compare your ideal circadian plan with real-life commitments, and even overlay them, ensuring nothing gets missed while you strive for wellness. The design remains playful and colorful, staying true to Owaves’ mantra that planning your day should be easy, fun, and inspiring.
Students like Sophia and Chloe are already using this approach to transform their daily lives. Guided by oStar, they’re weaving healthier habits into jam-packed college schedules. Late-night homework? Now it ends at a sensible hour, protecting precious deep sleep. Lunch on the go? Now it’s a mindful break, fueling both body and mind. With Owaves, they reclaim time for movement, sunlight, and real rest – the very things that today’s hyper-busy culture too often cuts out. The results are emerging, and profound: sharper focus, better moods, stronger mental health. This is what happens when you put the body clock back at the center.
Wake up! – Join the Time Revolution Now
Which algorithm will you choose today? One that optimizes your health and well-being? Or one that profits from your attention?
Choose an algorithm that promotes health and longevity. Not one that plunges you into distraction and despair. Feed your nervous system stimuli that promotes your own inner symphony, harmony over chaos.
A revolution is only as strong as its people. This is your invitation to join the Time Revolution today. Try Owaves for yourself – experience what it feels like to plan a day that feeds your soul instead of fracturing it. Even one month of living in sync with your body clock can jumpstart a healthier, happier you. This isn’t more noise; it’s a wake-up call. Your mental health can’t wait, and neither can the people you care about.
Here’s your mission: Share this call to (al)arms. Share it with the college student pulling all-nighters and scrolling through TikTok at 3am. Share it with the friend who always says “I wish I had time to relax.” This message is the antidote to the attention crisis that’s sweeping an entire generation. We owe it to our young people – and to ourselves – to spread the word that there is a solution.
We are revolutionizing timekeeping for mental health, and we need you with us. The era of chaotic, health-blind schedules is ending. The sunrise of a new approach to time is here. Every single one of us has a body clock ticking inside – it’s time to listen to it. It’s time to own our hours again and demand that our tools, our schools, our workplaces all respect the rhythm of life.
The movement has started. Will you join us? Reset your clock. Recharge your mind. Revolutionize your life – one day at a time. Share this with someone who needs it, and let’s heal our relationship with time, together.
If you’d like to learn more, please see: Lifestyle Psychiatry: How Everyday Habits Shape Mental Health