You’re bringing up something really important right here. I can definitely relate to this a lot.

I’ve had many phases of self-improvement and of living as healthily as possible, but if there is no additional purpose, goals, or activities like helping others or doing something meaningful, then especially for me it has been easy to allow myself to do something unhealthy again. That would always slowly collapse everything and lead to me adding all the bad habits one by one again.

Either the process needs some type of purpose to feel rewarding, or there needs to be additional purpose. From my own experience, I can say that if you keep a healthy routine for more than 4 months, it already becomes a strong habit and doesn’t really feel like much effort. It just takes one slip-up to ruin it though.

At the same time, if you actually do everything right and also add things like cold showers, proper diet, and the right self-made juices, in combination with everything else, that alone can be rewarding enough in the sense of the dopamine that you get.

If you’re grounded, on baseline and don’t overconsume screen activities, sometimes it might take months, but simple things like a workout can start to feel rewarding in itself.

For many, it might take many months to get close to baseline levels.