180hr 90 day Meditation Challenge

I have recently completed a pretty intense rapid habit building 3-month period. One that consisted of 30 minutes every single day of gym, stretching, cardio, meditation, admin/cleaning and time with people.

I stubbornly stuck to these simple rules every single day sacrificing sleep, flexibility and spontaneity in the process. Discipline was certainly cultivated but my creativity and personality were imprisoned.

I had got my habits back and I saw a lot of progress. Stretching for example made me the most flexible and loose I have ever been while curing my chronic lower back pain. Gym consistency with workouts based around rehab workouts for my knees meant I had cured my knee pain I had experienced in football over the last few years. One thing is for sure stubborn consistency of the rules yielded results!

Having said that I discovered this was not a sustainable way to live. I do not want to be doing these activities because I have to fulfill certain rules. I want to be doing these activities because I feel like doing them. And so, for the next few weeks I abolished all rules and did whatever I wanted. I lived life with no rules.

Very quickly however I realized I found myself not doing these good habits I had developed. I was letting things slide and I was living my days with no purpose or direction. I found this extreme to be just as unfulfilling as my days packed with strict rules.

I was trying to go by feel and hoping this would lead me into maintaining my good habits. But was I really feeling? I was following pursuits of pleasure and reacting to what life threw at me, but I wasn't truly tapping into myself and what I really want.

This brings me on to the importance of meditation and its role on my life as a whole. It's the one rule I need in my life for all actions to flow from. I realize I cannot guarantee being in a fully conscious state of mind all the time and therefore I cannot trust myself in what I want to do. In this case I could acknowledge this and know I have to follow rules. This would solve the problem of making sure I do these good habits but of course I have realized this is not fulfilling.

The other option is investing in creating a fully conscious mindset and fully listen to it. The single best way to tap into this for me is meditation. This is what I am going to double down on for the next 90 days. 1 hour of meditation first thing in the morning and 1-hour last thing before I sleep. This is the only rule. For the hours in between I aim to simply observe what I find myself doing. I hope I find myself drawn naturally towards the good habits but if I am not, I will not create rules to get me there. I will simply trust myself and see what happens.

Let's see what the 90 days ahead brings!

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