Life Hack: Revive Your Life by Redecorating Your Front Door

It’s a simple thing yet often overlooked, but your front door, the entrance to your home is important. It welcomes you every time you return. However, we often think to decorate our front area so that it conforms to the neighborhood, or is a style we want to portray to those coming to visit. The décor is often chosen to welcome others, not ourselves.

Shouldn’t we put aside trying to impress others and make it a picturesque setting that welcomes us home and brings positive emotions to our minds, thoughts, and soul?

If you start with the front door then it will continue on into the home. Start with the very basic spot that you walk into each and every time you arrive at your home. That might even be the connecting door in your garage, the side entrance, or a gate that allows passage into the yard. Wherever your main entrance is, that is where you need to put some love.

Repaint the door, add a new bright and shiny knocker, frost the glass, add a hanging plant, place an antique vase with decorative branches, plant some cheerful flowers, or place a comfortable chair next to a planter box of flowers you remember from your childhood. Make it all about you, what you enjoy, what brings you joy, and what makes you happy to walk into your abode.

Every time you pull out a paint sample, look at a plant, or other item you are considering to spruce up your area, if a single thought comes into your head about someone else judging it or liking it — put everything down. Walk away.

This is an exercise in building a life for yourself in which it isn’t about trying to impress anyone else. This is about moving toward decisions that are in your best interest. It is about choosing things that are right for you even if it isn’t what will impress the crowd.

It’s the start of something that will flow inside your home and will then spread and cover every inch of your life.

You will feel empowered to take down the oversized painting that you thought would make your home look expertly decorated, but you have grown tired of in the last five years. You are the one that looks inside your home more often than anyone else; shouldn’t it inspire you, cheer you, and give you a restful heart? Who cares if it takes you six months to find a replacement for the wall? Maybe it offers a good opportunity to repaint, to rearrange, to do a major declutter, and give your home a fresh feeling.

Soon other choices will be made that lacks the impression of others, but is filled with moving you toward the life you want for you. You’ll be making choices that are rooted in making you happy and an investment in your future happiness.

Take care of your home, whether it is small or large, whether you rent or own, whether it is a temporary stop, or it is where you plan to stay. Surround yourself with things that make you exhale, not things that remind you that you have to perform and influence the thoughts of others. Declutter, downsize, and rid yourself of things that weigh you down. Take care of the area in which you rest, eat, and serves you as shelter. It’s a start in learning to care for you, to really care for you, and learn to take actions that are an investment in you and not opinions.

Start visualizing the entrance you cross each day to enter your home in a whole new way. Start there and move throughout the rest of your home. It will impact your life in positive and major ways. Make it happen.

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