Every morning I wake up with a full plate, and I’m guessing you do too. Family, fitness, work, finances, everything we talk about inside the 6Fs. It’s all good. It’s what we’ve built, what we asked for, what we’re responsible for. But there’s a weight that comes with that, and some days it hits before your feet even touch the floor getting out of bed.
You feel behind, a little anxious, like you’re already playing catch-up in a game you’re supposed to be leading.
If you’re wired like me, that feeling doesn’t just pass. You run hot. You push. You expect more from yourself than anyone else does. You’ve got that constant edge, that voice telling you it’s not enough yet, not quite there, keep going. That drive is what got you here, but it’s also what makes it hard to ever fully settle down and just operate at a level that feels controlled.
I’ve tried a lot of ways to manage that. Therapy, meditation, breathwork, yoga, more training, better sleep. All of it has value, and I still use a lot of those tools. But most of them require time, space and intention. They’re not always there for you in the middle of a packed day when you’re bouncing from one thing to the next and need to reset quickly.
That’s where Apollo Neuro came in for me.
It’s a wearable device, a simple strap you can put on your wrist or ankle, connected to an app on your phone. But what matters isn’t what it is, it’s what it does. It doesn’t just track how you feel, it actively helps you change your state in real time through subtle vibration patterns designed to calm your system or sharpen your focus depending on what you need.
What I’ve found is that it gives me a way to regulate instead of react. I can come out of a stressful call, take a few minutes, and feel myself level out before jumping into the next thing.
I use it before speaking, when I’m traveling, at night when I want to wind down, and even in those small windows during the day when I feel that pressure starting to build. It’s not dramatic or overwhelming, it’s subtle, but it works.
If any of this sounds familiar, if you feel that constant low-level pressure or find yourself running on edge more often than you’d like, this is worth looking into. It’s an investment, but so is anything that actually moves the needle.
In health,
Greg