Your art can impact you and your space
If you are a visual learner, thoughtfully curating what goes on your walls will impact your life for good.
What are the images around you suggesting? What do you want your office to feel like? What is the vision you are working for?
Inspirational Art can not only enhance the aesthetics of your surroundings, but it becomes a tangible reminder for you, about your values, and your legacy.
In fact the University of Glasgow conducted a study that noted how placing motivational posters, at a point of decision, can have a behavioral effect in people. (Mutrie & Blamey “Encouraging stair walking.”) So, placing what you want to see in a key spot in your home or work will too.
We all have physical and digital areas that we look at often. What if we use those spaces to keep ourselves in check, to remind ourselves of our goals, to give us and others love and encouragement.
In “Make a Big Splash in a Small Space: Tiny Apartment Décor You’ll Love,” a collaboration article with Alison Bentley for the Redfin blog, you will find a ton of good ideas about meaningful ways to add to your surroundings. As I find myself in a summer de-cluttering mode, reading the advice has given me ideas of what I may want in the spaces I am creating. Give it a read, scroll down for my contribution.
Our days are made up of small and big choices and when we pave the way, with inspiring to us images and/or words, it could only help getting to the finish line we want.