Of course, thereвЂ™s a lot more to meditating than just setting a timer ( aka all the mental exercising you get up to while youвЂ™re sitting there for those 20 minutes meditating), but I really donвЂ™t think I ever would have got anywhere with my daily practice if I wasnвЂ™t using such a regimented and hard-to-cheat process as вЂњDid you set a timer for 20 minutes and sit there until the timer went of? No? Well, then, you donвЂ™t get to count today as a day you meditated and the daily streak will be over.вЂќ Without that simple & strict rule, if I had left things up to вЂwaiting for when it felt like a good timeвЂ™ or вЂdo it until it felt like I had been long enoughвЂ™, IвЂ™m sure I would have ducked out of sitting for less & less time each day or just easily forgotten to meditate on any given day altogether. Back in November 2017, I started a daily meditation practice that is still going strong today - and one of the major components of getting that daily habit set in stone was the simple act of setting a timer for 20 minutes every morning and not getting out of my seat until the sound of chimes began chiming.

20 minutes timer