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changing my room from this to this

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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

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I was just like everyone else on self-improvement. I was doing the basic things. I was lifting weights

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I was reading

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meditating but there was nothing really differentiating me from the pack and at this time I was focusing on my health

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I was doing many different things to improve my health like improving my sleep my diet getting rid of the harmful chemicals

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Were exposed to but this video is not about health or meditation

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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

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It was an esoteric sleep guide and I watched it and it gave a couple good tips

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But there was this one point in particular that really stuck to me

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And he was talking about how your bed is actually made of materials that are bad for you

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And I never knew that and so I was thinking myself. Oh, that's interesting

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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

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Which didn't have any harmful materials in it

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And this wasn't an option for me because it was way too expensive and I didn't have the money

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The second option was to sleep on a military cot and the third option really sparked my interest

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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

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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

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And so I finished watching the video and what do I do?

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Absolutely nothing

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Relatable right you watch an entire YouTube video through and you don't take any action

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So I go on with my life and a couple weeks later

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I wanted to get consistent and meditation because I'd been meditating for maybe a year at that point

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But I was not consistent I would just meditate after my workout at the gym

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And so I'm trying to figure out what's the easiest way to meditate consistently

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Well, it's to add it to your morning routine

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So I added to my morning routine and I was reflecting the issue with my

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Inconsistency with meditation before was that I had it tied to a location that I wasn't guaranteed to be at every day

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Which was the gym because I would take rest days

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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

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Which was my bedroom and so now meditation is my morning routine

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So I meditate it in my room in the morning and I find that it's difficult for many different reasons

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I tried to meditate on the bed. It was too uncomfortable because I was sinking into the bed

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I was trying to meditate on the floor which was an issue because I kept on slipping and sliding and another

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Issue was that the environment was just not optimal

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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

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And so after a couple days of meditate

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I'm getting frustrated because it's just not enjoyable and in an instant I get a vision and I remember

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That tatami mat from a couple weeks earlier and so I'm getting excited because I'm thinking to myself. Oh, this is perfect

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I can put this to Tommy Matt in the corner of my room and meditate there every single day

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And then one moment later another flash entered my mind

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And it was an image of my room with nothing in it except for a tatami mat

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And it was an extremely optimal environment for meditation and sleep and help because there was blackout curtains nailed on the windows

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And the door to block out all the light and the noise and this new room

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Basically would be a solution to all of these issues that I had with meditation and health

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And so I went back and reviewed that esoteric sleep guide and I bought the tatami mat

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And I also bought that pillow that he recommended which actually turned out to be a game changer for my sleep

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So when the mat and the pillow arrived in the mail

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I went through and completely got rid of everything from my room

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And I moved all of the essential things that I would need it every day into my closet like my dresser and my drawers

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Now the only thing in my room was the tatami mat and a fan and a journal and my alarm clock

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The true value of my newly transformed bedroom did not come from being consistent at meditation or improving my sleep or improving my health

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Yeah, those were good benefits

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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

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Humans have a tendency to hold themselves to a standard in parallel to their environment

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So eight months ago my bedroom was average. It was common. Many people had this type of bedroom

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The majority had this type of bedroom and so as a result I was holding myself

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Subconsciously to this standard

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I was holding myself to the same standard that everyone else does and once I radically transformed my bedroom to this dojo

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I started holding myself to an uncommon standard because I had a bedroom that not very many people had

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And that's the type of standard I was holding myself up to now

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I found that I had a much easier time doing all these things to better my life because of this

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Subconscious standard that I was holding myself to that was parallel to my environment and that was what differentiated me from the pack

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Now I had the extreme advantage of holding myself to the uncommon standard and I applied this same principle

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To many different areas of my life like my workspace my desk even school

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I realized that school was not good for me and so I graduated early so I could get rid of that environment

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But it's not just physical locations. It's also the state that those locations are in

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For example, if your kitchen is always dirty, the dishes are always stacked in a pile

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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

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Well, then that's the higher standard you're holding yourself to so you create a standard for yourself

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subconsciously based off of your environment and with this new

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Understanding of just the value behind your environment. You have two options

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You can either play the safe route and not do anything which is fine. Nothing will change absolutely nothing

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You won't get any rewards your life won't change or you can do the much better decision and start to think

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What changes to your environment make the most sense to your goals? Do you have extremely ambitious goals?

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Well, then that requires extremely ambitious changes to your environment

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So the choice is yours