Our homes are the places where we are meant to be able to let our hair down and feel as much at ease as we can anywhere in the world – but one consequence of being so relaxed in your home might be that you end up taking it for granted.
If your home is currently just the background setting for where you sleep, shower, and eat, there is a good chance that you might be really undervaluing the space and robbing yourself of the great feel-good potential of what your home could be.
As of this writing, a huge number of people are currently stuck at home under quarantine due to COVID-19. So, this is as good a time as any to begin planning for some serious home projects, whether that means contacting Audio Video Company for a home cinema installation, or simply doing a bit of spring cleaning.
Here are a few reasons to take your home seriously and treat it with respect.
- Because any place you spend a major chunk of your time will have a serious impact on your mindset and well-being, whether you like it or not
First and foremost, unless you travel more or less constantly, you will typically spend a huge chunk of all your overall time, in your home.
Psychologists have long known that any environment we spend large periods of time in will have a major impact on our mood, perspective on the world, and general sense of well-being, too. If you doubt this, just imagine how you’d feel if all the windows in your home were shuttered up, and you only had dim lamplight to illuminate the place.
Many people put in a lot of effort and explore many different avenues in order to try and achieve a more positive and upbeat mindset. It might be that one of the best ways of actually achieving the desired change is simply to organize, decorate, and arrange your home in a way that you find personally uplifting.
- Because your home is one of the few things that you really do have a high degree of control over
It’s not hard to feel overwhelmed by life, due to the simple fact that we are all subject to many social circumstances and forces that we do not have a significant degree of direct control over.
Your home, though, is one of the few things that you really do have a high degree of control over – whether you want to invest in window replacement or simply paint the walls pink – meaning that it would be a real waste to not take advantage of that fact, and to shape your home as a way of shaping your life to better fit your ideal template.
- Because the way you structure your home will determine the “paths of least resistance” that you will tend to travel down
According to the habit writer and coach James Clear – and the assortment of psychological research he cites in his book “Atomic Habits” – you are most likely to follow the paths of least resistance that present themselves to you, on an everyday basis.
A clear consequence of this is that if you want to let go of a negative habit, you should make it significantly harder to actually indulge in that habit in a purely logistical sense. Likewise, if you want to engage in a positive habit, you should make it significantly easier to do so – also in a purely logistical sense.
The way you structure your home will directly determine the “paths of least resistance” that you will tend to encounter and travel down on an everyday basis.
Taking an active hand in how you structure your home, therefore, can directly and dramatically influence the kind of destiny you end up weaving for yourself.