Learn Your Flow, Discover Your Style
More indoor time provides the opportunity to really assess what is working for you and what is not in your home!
Here are some ways of clarifying what you are experiencing and ways that you might answer your needs.
When do you know if your home is working for you or not?
To the degree you can refresh, your productivity will follow.
The accessibility of your materials and the ease in which you can utilize them whether you are working or recreating/relaxing affect your performance.
How do you measure this and discern whether you are having a particularly emotional day or if something is contributing to your particular unpleasant or pleasant experience?
Your emotional and intellectual status carry key indicators of how your space and the items in it, and even the layout or structure of your home, are supporting your life’s work and enjoyment.
What this means is that your level of sensitivity and responsiveness to your emotions is essential to learning what you need from yourself through your daily - even moment-to-moment experience.
Ask yourself to pause and assess. Require yourself to pay attention throughout your day!
What do you do with the feelings and thoughts you detect?
Great question! It may be quite easy to acknowledge that you feel stuck or to identify that you are low energy. You may consider it automatic to recognize that you are not feeling motivated or discouraged.
Taking these realizations a step further takes some practice, but asking questions can be helpful to translate your experience into what to do next.
If I could wave a magic wand, what would I “magic” into this moment to help me engage again?
Often we ignore the importance of “dreaming.” If you could have the perfect set-up, the perfect equipment, the ideal shelving or desk, what would that look like?
Why would that be beneficial?
What materials do you have at your disposal to create even a prototype of what you imagine?
Visions and goals help you clarify your flow. Put them on your walls!
Creating a vision board or laying out goals is for the over-achievers of the world, right? Even if you do make them, do they somehow get relegated to a pile of paper or behind a dresser, out of sight?
Think of vision and goal setting as a necessary 2-step process.
1 - Dream big then put specific goals on your daily calendar.
2 - Make your home, itself, your vision board! Put pictures, words, reminders up.
Put pictures, words, reminders up
Set your rooms up to support achieving those goals!
For example, when I want to move forward building my musical talent, I clear all distracting music away and place only my current project on the music shelf. I can easily grab a moment to practice as I walk by, or sit down for undistracted time by getting right to the job rather than sorting music first and risking getting lost in the prep.
I noticed that although I had created an office in my home, I gravitated to the room with a more peaceful view. Eventually, I transferred my workspace to that room with the current items I am working with. Neglected or difficult projects were prioritized and organized in an office closet for easy access when I make time to do them.
My productivity has soared! And, I have found even more ways I can refine my space to increase my productivity.
Time = Love
Love is in this? Absolutely! Loving yourself is an important first step to serving your own interests in good measure with serving your loved ones and your clients or meeting your work requirements.
The catch is that learning how to love yourself, your space, others, and your work takes time. It takes developing a keen sensitivity to your internal feedback system and it takes time to translate and implement those messages.
One small change after another, you can claim greater enjoyment each day. Good luck taking a look around you, inside and out!
