Designing Inspiring Environments

The influence of your personal environments on your health, creativity, and well-being is often subtle, yet profound. You can use the environments you live in to support you in feeling good about yourself, to experience less stress, and to be more productive. 

Personal environments can include your relationships with family, friends, and colleagues, your work environment, networks, ideas, learning environments - and your physical environment - such as your home, the community you live in, nature, your garden, the technology you use, the information you absorb - everything that you surround yourself with. It can also be the foods you keep in our house, the beautiful objects and colors around you, the books, magazines and newspapers you read, the movies you watch, and the thoughts you think.

Personal environments can also include your 'internal surroundings' - your belief systems and thought patterns. As you work on raising your awareness of your inner thoughts and eliminating negative or unproductive thoughts, you might notice increased levels of energy and focus.

It's possible to revitalize your surroundings or environments and design them so they bring out the very best in you, so that they evolve you toward a successful, inspiring, struggle-free life. As you develop your personal environments, you develop yourself and your capacity to be creative and to receive ongoing inspiration and support.

The goal is to design supportive environments that will inspire you to be your best and do great things. Success and personal development are more sustainable when there are environments and failsafe structures which support it.

ASSESS YOUR PERSONAL ENVIRONMENTS
Being fully alive calls you to play a much bigger game in life...evolving to your optimal potential or 'greatness'. Do the environments around you bring out your best? Do you receive enough creative inspiration? Do you know what sparks your muse? Is there enough intellectual and spiritual stimulation in your life?

1. When you are feeling fully alive, what is going on for you?

2. How do you feel as you walk into your workspace? Into your home?

3. On a scale from 1-5, with 5 being the most desirable, how much would you say your environments are supporting you in living the life you most desire?

4. What is something in your environment that you are tolerating that could be removed?

5. What is something that is missing from your personal environments that, if added, would inspire you to do and be your best?

6. What methods do you use on a daily basis to raise your energy level?

7. What beliefs most profoundly affect your way of thinking?

TRY THIS
If inspiration is an energy that flows through the spaces we inhabit, it is wise for us to remove any items that might block its path, and add items that would increase its presence.

Choose one physical environment in your workspace or home to concentrate on. If you could change one thing in your surroundings starting today, what would you change? Each day, do one task in that environment to establish order, create space, remove items that block your creativity, add items that you love, perhaps add color - and design surroundings that will inspire you to be and do your best.

Creating an environment that truly supports you in being your best can be a very worthwhile long-term project. Envision what an inspiring, stimulating environment would be for you, and have the patience to build that vision a step at a time. It's worth the work!

FINAL THOUGHT
"If you have not used something in the past year, regardless of how attached to it you are, pass it along. You have used up its usefulness to you... letting go of attachments is a rewarding way to feel positive about yourself, and to keep things flowing back into your own life as well." ~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer 

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How to Get the Life of Your Dreams: 7 Steps to Your Dream Life

1. Get crystal-clear about your dream.

The more clarity you have about your dream, the clearer you will be about how to make it happen. Start by asking yourself: What is that big dream, that deep desire you must achieve before the end of your life? Write it down in as much detail as possible. If the dream is in you, that dream has your name on it. Life will never give you something you can't achieve.

2. Clear away mental clutter.

If your life is too crowded and your mind chock full of "stuff", your dream has little room. Clean up past issues. Complete "incompletions." Deal with resentments. Forgive. For something new to be birthed, something old must die.

3. Ask why you're here.

Get in touch with your life purpose. When your dream is connected to a bigger vision, one that serves others, it has more power. So if your dream is to start a business to make bead purses, question what it will serve. Will you employ women from disadvantaged sections? Will you use a portion of the profits to empower women?

4. Identify your zingers and zappers.

We're energy beings. It follows that when energy vibrates at a higher frequency, we attract better health, loving relationships and abundance. When we're stuck in toxic situations or with negative people, we feel drained. Make a list of all that zaps your energy. This could be too much web surfing, TV, junk food, and relationships without boundaries. Now make a list of everything that energizes you. Maybe this list includes protein shakes, laughter, pedicures, sleep, and exercise. Commit to inviting more zingers into your life.

5. Believe, believe, believe.

The most successful people, the ones who realize their dreams, are those with a healthy dose of self-belief. No matter what your dream-a college degree, a loving relationship or world peace-it starts with the power of one. You. In order to last the course, you must ride on the stamina of self-belief. If you suffer from chronic doubt and fear, your commitment to your dream will waver.

6. Create a Vision Board.

Get some construction paper, scissors, glue and a bunch of magazines. Cut out words, pictures, phrases, inspirational sayings and symbols that represent your dream. A visual representation is powerful and sends out a strong message to the Universe that you're serious about achieving your dream.

7. Take Action Now!

As long as you stay dreaming, your dream remains a dream. Taking action on it consistently and confidently is what swings the doors to your dream wide open. The size of the action is not important-it could be something that takes five minutes or fifty. What matters is that you're showing up and taking action.

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Focus On Yourself And Not Others?

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