how to create a happier home
“My home should calm me and energize me. It should be a comforting, quiet refuge and a place of excitement and possibility.”
― Gretchen Rubin, Happier at Home
Here are four steps to help you figure out what needs changing and get you started on the journey to creating a happier home for yourself and your loved ones:
- Identify what things make you feel good at home. It can be the family photographs, the comfortable furniture, the decorative showpieces, the fragrance, or the lighting.
- Find out what makes you feel bad at home. Just be honest with yourself; it could be anything: everyday annoyances, non-functioning devices, or creepy figurines in your living room that scare the hell out of you every night.
- Ask yourself how you can consistently feel more in tune with yourself — what you can do to design a home, a lifestyle, and a daily routine that aligns with your core values, your goals, and things that matter the most to you.
- Develop a growth mindset and an atmosphere of consistent progress and improvement at home, both in the face of success or good fortune and failure or adversity. It’s a human tendency to settle and stagnate. And that’s why it’s wise to always maintain our daily disciplines and sustain our intrinsic motivation. For instance, learning how to properly operate a new kitchen gadget when the old one stops functioning due to incorrect usage. Or working on your woodworking skills to make small pieces of furniture for your new home.
