It is so easy to see your home as simply the place where you sleep before heading out to the world. Instead look at it with the same eyes you had when you were excited about moving in, remembering the joy you felt when you browsed through the brochure before your first walk around the place.
Whether you live in an apartment, a back to back house, a penthouse, a building that is attached to one other or to hundreds of others in the street, this is the place you are in right now. You could be in a place you love, or you may be in one that leaves you with all sorts of feelings that you need to move on to something better. What matters is that either the whole space or a particular part of it is dedicated to being special for you.
Create a special place in your living room, decorate it just the way you want, hang great pictures around the property that inspire you. Find a corner of a room that you can fill with special photos, pictures, artwork or decorations that have special and positive meaning for you.
My own study occupies what was a spare bedroom. The doors of some fitted wardrobes are covered with fabulous cards with quotes on them that inspire me and fill me with hope. Pictures of friends and other special people smile out at me from the walls. I chose the space from a few options in the house, and it was important for me that I settled for an area where I could have some privacy when I wanted it, but also enjoy great views. Those views of the countryside are there precisely because of the time and thought that we put into the selection of the house as a family home that would create feelings of security and happiness for each of us.
The last thing you want to create is a mental picture of your home as a place of burden, debt and mortgage repayment! It is so much more enjoyable and also practical to see it the source of inspiration and place to rebuild yourself before venturing out into the world. And the biggest irony of all is this, that the less you focus on the things you don't want, the more you get what works for you and pleases you!
Create the space that will nurture you and allow you to be supported to do and achieve the things you seek, and to be the person you were born to be.