Home Motivation : Does Your Home Motivate You? -

Your home is not just ‘ a place for your stuff’, it can motivate you to be the person you want to be and support the life you want to live. (Mic drop). Home motivation is real thing.

A house is no longer just a place to put all of your ‘stuff’

Put it this way, if you had a breakfast bar where the sun lit up the room in the morning, would you be encouraged to sit in the light and soak up a little vitamin D? Would this then help naturally wake you up by kickstarting your circadian rhythm and metabolism? My gosh, after a week of waking up this way feeling energised, would you be encouraged to maybe buy a yoga mat or a barista coffee machine or juicer and add this to your morning sun ritual? Would you be happier when you arrived at work or played with your children?

Suddenly you are living the life of a smoothie junkie, your skin is glowing and your thighs are not longer hugging… just kissing, a smidge. Hmm. Did your home just quietly motivate you? You bet!

How else could you create home motivation? If you wanted to read 10 books this year, do you have a reading nook? If you wanted to lose weight/ beef up or be more flexible, do you have a gym space for that? Because chances are, if there isn’t a planned space for an activity or a ritual, it’s not going to be easy and it may not happen at all. We don’t want that to happen. Don’t be that person who created a New Years Eve goal and stopped at week two! Ask yourself what goals you have, and what daily habits do you need to be encouraged to do, that your home can help you with, in order to have productive happy days and restful NIGHTS.

Hey, I’m not saying I have a perfectly motivating home. Apparently, my bed and my pillow motivate my 6-year-old son to push me out of it at 3am in the morning! (who can relate?)

Your home motivates you, if:

You are reminded of your goals (Do you have motivation posters or quotes in strategic places?) and places for those acrivities?
Everything has a place? (shoes, keys, coats, books, yoga mats, juice bar).
You have designated space for your lifestyle (home gym, art retreat, reading nook, home study/office, relax/entertaining space)
Your home actually looks like your wardrobe (colours, textures that you personify with everyday).

Your home de-motivates you, if:

It reminds you of work or working for someone else.
You wish you were somewhere else (like on holiday).
You want to poke your eyes out because nothing is your colour or in your personal style (everything feels drab- yet you hoard interior mags and are a serial display home junkie).
There is no place to do what you need to do (your Cross Trainer is squashed between the sofa and the dining table, you do yoga on the kitchen floor the kids do homework on the lounge room rug and ‘bedazzle’ the fibres).

Are You Reminded of Your True Self?

Our homes are a reflection of ourselves and should be a positive reminder of who we are. When you go to work or leave your home temporarily, you are in the place of ‘someone else’. In the place of someone else, we constantly care for or are of duty to others. Over time, we start to mimic our environment and the people we are close to…our co-workers, our office space, the plastic pot plant that Jack seems intent on watering etc. We tend to lose ourselves a little. Home motivation is the remedy. It is everything that you are and nothing to do with anyone else. It is highly curated with life’s treasures, memories and all the rituals that you do in the privacy of ‘your own space’.

When you go to work or leave your home temporarily, you are in the place of ‘someone else’.
Cat Davis

If you want to write goals and meet them in 2020, you need LEVERAGE!

Without leverage, there is no motivation and no passionate reason why meeting your goals would benefit you. The leverage is something that is an absolute must reason you need to meet a goal and it needs to be deep and meaningful and dire. Many people choose a goal and quit because they have sloppy leverage. For instance, if you want to set a new exercise goal your leverage shouldn’t be because you want to look better. No, you need to be specific. I am going to stick to my exercise goals because I want to lift X kilos, I want to decrease my back pain, I want to have more energy, I want to add another 10 years to my life, I want to be a fit senior.

Then you have to point out what will happen if you don’t commit to thise goals. I won’t have any stress relief and I will end up working myself into the ground. I won’t be healthy at 40 and then I’ll end up putting on a stack of weight. I will have a heart attack like my dad or grandfather. My kids will out live me. I will be a weak cripple in my senior years and won’t have a happy retirement. I won’t feel confident in my swimmers when I take my trip overseas. Etc.
Once you have goals, leverage…you need to take immediate action.

Once you set a goal, you need to take immediate ACTION!

Ask yourself what can you do today for your goals. If it’s to make a ‘green machine’ juice every morning, set up a juice bar station. Make it great! Buy all the fresh fruit and veg so its ready. But a special cutting knife, a juicer, nice glasses, fancy steel or bamboo straw. All these things will add to the ‘ritual’ of your goal, and make it much more enjoyable to meet.
If your goal is exercise related, set up your gym, your meditation or yoga spot TODAY. Fresh towels, an ipad charger, speaker, new mat, new gym clothes, oil diffuser etc. Same thing, make it special. Have everything you need setup and ready to go. You are creating a ‘ritual’ for your goal to be actionable. This way, the goal is not part of a dream list stuck to the fridge but an active part of your daily life. A life built on ‘multiple habitual rituals’.

The BEST GOAL PLANNER

The last thing you might need to smash those goals is to set progress dates and end dates for focus and accountability. Putting a date on a goal or a half way point allows you a small victory and makes it easier to track and re-establish if something is not working and needs to be adjusted. If your goal is too hard, and you don’t have small victories along the way, this will de- motivate you big time. You’ll end up quitting. Pick easy and reasonable progress goals along the way. Don’t be discouraged if your goal takes a little longer to achieve or you have a small setback like having a cheat meal or being to sore to complete one of your workouts. Skip it, accept and continue the plan. It is your consistancy that pays off over time and little setbacks like that won’t matter in the end.

The BEST goal planner I have found to date is The Self Journal by Best Self

When they launched a few years back, they actually gave a way a digital PDF of the same journal and I nabbed it (still use it). Now, they have slightly changed the format, but only have the Journal in a hardcover copy, with a smaller free sample. ( I am not an affiliate). But seriously, this Journal is a game changer! Happy goal setting!

IF you need help with designing a space for your own home motivation (insert dream life description here), send me a message (insta, facey or comment/email.)