changing my room from this to this
radically transformed my life and I want to tell you why but in order to do that we have to go back eight months ago
I was just like everyone else on self-improvement. I was doing the basic things. I was lifting weights
I was reading
meditating but there was nothing really differentiating me from the pack and at this time I was focusing on my health
I was doing many different things to improve my health like improving my sleep my diet getting rid of the harmful chemicals
Were exposed to but this video is not about health or meditation
This video is about something far greater than that and I was watching a lot of YouTube also and my friends sent me this YouTube video
It was an esoteric sleep guide and I watched it and it gave a couple good tips
But there was this one point in particular that really stuck to me
And he was talking about how your bed is actually made of materials that are bad for you
And I never knew that and so I was thinking myself. Oh, that's interesting
I got to fix that and so he gave a few suggestions on how to fix it the first option was to buy a new bed
Which didn't have any harmful materials in it
And this wasn't an option for me because it was way too expensive and I didn't have the money
The second option was to sleep on a military cot and the third option really sparked my interest
and it was to sleep on a tatami mat and a tatami mat is basically a mat that's made of grass that's all woven together
And it's like sleeping on the floor and the interesting thing about it is the samurai's actually used to sleep on the tatami mat
And so I finished watching the video and what do I do?
Absolutely nothing
Relatable right you watch an entire YouTube video through and you don't take any action
So I go on with my life and a couple weeks later
I wanted to get consistent and meditation because I'd been meditating for maybe a year at that point
But I was not consistent I would just meditate after my workout at the gym
And so I'm trying to figure out what's the easiest way to meditate consistently
Well, it's to add it to your morning routine
So I added to my morning routine and I was reflecting the issue with my
Inconsistency with meditation before was that I had it tied to a location that I wasn't guaranteed to be at every day
Which was the gym because I would take rest days
And so the solution was to make sure that I'm meditating every single morning in a location that I'm guaranteed to be at every day
Which was my bedroom and so now meditation is my morning routine
So I meditate it in my room in the morning and I find that it's difficult for many different reasons
I tried to meditate on the bed. It was too uncomfortable because I was sinking into the bed
I was trying to meditate on the floor which was an issue because I kept on slipping and sliding and another
Issue was that the environment was just not optimal
I didn't realize it at the time but all of the objects around in my room were actually extremely distracting to my subconscious mind
And so after a couple days of meditate
I'm getting frustrated because it's just not enjoyable and in an instant I get a vision and I remember
That tatami mat from a couple weeks earlier and so I'm getting excited because I'm thinking to myself. Oh, this is perfect
I can put this to Tommy Matt in the corner of my room and meditate there every single day
And then one moment later another flash entered my mind
And it was an image of my room with nothing in it except for a tatami mat
And it was an extremely optimal environment for meditation and sleep and help because there was blackout curtains nailed on the windows
And the door to block out all the light and the noise and this new room
Basically would be a solution to all of these issues that I had with meditation and health
And so I went back and reviewed that esoteric sleep guide and I bought the tatami mat
And I also bought that pillow that he recommended which actually turned out to be a game changer for my sleep
So when the mat and the pillow arrived in the mail
I went through and completely got rid of everything from my room
And I moved all of the essential things that I would need it every day into my closet like my dresser and my drawers
Now the only thing in my room was the tatami mat and a fan and a journal and my alarm clock
The true value of my newly transformed bedroom did not come from being consistent at meditation or improving my sleep or improving my health
Yeah, those were good benefits
But the true value came from something that I didn't come to understand until much later and it stems from this one principle that says
Humans have a tendency to hold themselves to a standard in parallel to their environment
So eight months ago my bedroom was average. It was common. Many people had this type of bedroom
The majority had this type of bedroom and so as a result I was holding myself
Subconsciously to this standard
I was holding myself to the same standard that everyone else does and once I radically transformed my bedroom to this dojo
I started holding myself to an uncommon standard because I had a bedroom that not very many people had
And that's the type of standard I was holding myself up to now
I found that I had a much easier time doing all these things to better my life because of this
Subconscious standard that I was holding myself to that was parallel to my environment and that was what differentiated me from the pack
Now I had the extreme advantage of holding myself to the uncommon standard and I applied this same principle
To many different areas of my life like my workspace my desk even school
I realized that school was not good for me and so I graduated early so I could get rid of that environment
But it's not just physical locations. It's also the state that those locations are in
For example, if your kitchen is always dirty, the dishes are always stacked in a pile
Well, then that's the standard you're subconsciously holding yourself to the same applies to if your room is completely clean all the time
Well, then that's the higher standard you're holding yourself to so you create a standard for yourself
subconsciously based off of your environment and with this new
Understanding of just the value behind your environment. You have two options
You can either play the safe route and not do anything which is fine. Nothing will change absolutely nothing
You won't get any rewards your life won't change or you can do the much better decision and start to think
What changes to your environment make the most sense to your goals? Do you have extremely ambitious goals?
Well, then that requires extremely ambitious changes to your environment
So the choice is yours