Chris Heck

Lately I’ve taken to only wearing my Apple Watch to track my sleep or when I’m exercising. The interesting thing I’ve noted while wearing my analog watch throughout the day is I’ll get phantom alerts on my wrist that feels exactly like a notification coming through on my Apple Watch. Weird.

I go back to work tomorrow after two weeks off. I’m disappointed the two weeks didn’t go as I hoped, expected, or planned. Most of the time was spent feeling under the weather with no energy to do anything I wanted to do. Not the best way to burn my PTO. Trying to be optimistic about the week ahead.

Running on just 4.5 hours of sleep last night, plus being held hostage by a cat curled up in my lap for hours this morning, has completely derailed my plans for the day.

I completed my first trip of the year to Home Depot. I had to grab some plumbing supplies to repair the drain for my bathroom sink. This is sure to be the smallest and least expensive of our home maintenance tasks this year. Especially with the need to replace our roof this year.

Settling in to watch the Kraken play the Canucks. 🦑🏒

I’ve been using the Monk Manual Weekly Planner, an analog tool that includes monthly and weekly “prepare” pages for setting intentions with “reflect” pages for weekly retrospectives. This year, I plan to scan these pages and upload them to my Day One journal. It feels like the perfect balance: staying hands-on with my planning and reflections while preserving a digital archive for future reference.