I seriously considered getting a series 0 Apple Watch – it was the first product I didn’t get at launch in a while. The apple vision pro will be the second. A few years later, I got a Series 3, and my wife liked it and got one, and I used it for a few years. About a year ago, the battery started to swell so I got a refurb series 6 because I didn’t want to pay full boat for a series 7, but wanted the ECG.
Having the ECG was both and good and bad last fall, as I had a scare with my blood pressure being high. The meds make you feel off when you start taking them, so I was constantly checking my pulse rate and my ECG and seeing if anything “looked off.” Looking back, that wasn’t a great idea and definitely fed into some of the anxiety I dealt with earlier this year. I think, even when I was getting the series 6, I wasn’t sure I was as committed to the idea as I was.
What also happened was that my dad gave me his vintage bi-metal Rolex Datejust, which he got the year I was born. I really like wearing it, and I find that it helps me visualize time more, if you tell me its 9:40, I think “its almost 10, no time to do much before that meeting, might as well mess around on the internet.” When I look at it on an analog watch, I see it as “look, there’s a third of an hour, you can do a “15 minute” task and still have space before your meeting. It just clicks more.
The long and short of it is that when my wife’s series 3 died at the start of the summer, I gave her mine and got a nice strap for a Seiko “cocktail” time she bought me, and a nice person strap for a titanium Tissot I bought when I was 18. I’ve been wearing those two, or the Rolex, every day since.
I did miss some of the fitness tracking, so I got the smallest, cheapest Fitbit on Prime Day, and I do wear that on my right wrist, with the display off unless I press the side buttons. It lets me track the distance I ruck more, and I do find it helps me with my sleep some – while I can’t do much about a bad nights sleep, it does affect how hard I’ll train the next day. It’s amazing though, you only need to charge it once a week or so – it emails you when it’s getting down to only a day’s charge left. It’s much easier than charging the Apple Watch every night. I can also quickly set a timer if I’m grilling.
Leveraged Intention 