21 Ways to Make Your Home Happier

You’ve heard it said before, “Home is where the heart is.“

But the home is so much more. Home should be where your heart, healing, happiness, and humanity are best magnified. If you don’t show or won’t show humanity, forgiveness, kindness, and encouragement at home, then where?  Your home is your loving lab, where you can make mistakes in a loving environment and grow from them. Your home is the place where you GROW your family and pass on your values.  It gets frustrating worrying about all the bad things in the world and feeling hopeless, so focus your energy on the one place where you can make a difference.  Your home is your first responsibility.  Make it more loving, healing, encouraging, and trusting.

Home is a safe place to dream and expect encouragement and support.  We are truly in a sad state of affairs if our homes do not restore us to wholeness. Even worse, when our homes are the cause of our sorrow, depression, fear, and self-devaluing. Your home must become your fortress for well-being, the place you go to heal, restore, and flourish.  It should be the one place where you can let your guard down and be able to trust. It should be the one place where you will have the most influence. What you DO in your home affects its power to heal.  These are 21 Things we do to make our house a home.

1. We do second chances, and sometimes third, fourth, fifth, sixth…….infinity
2. We do grace.
3. We do real.
4. We do trust.
5. We do loud; Sometimes, we do real loud!
6. We do encouragement.
7. We do mistakes.
8. We do, “I’m sorry.”
9. We do hugs.
10. We do, “I love you.”
11. We do prayer.
12. We do faith.
13. We do forgiveness.
14. We do gratitude.
15. We do service.
16. We do laughter and lots of it!
17. We do, “Please!”
18. We do, “Thank You!”
19. We do “Excuse Me!”
20. We do, “Let me help you!
21. We do, “Let go and Let God!  (a whole lot)

I’m Barbara Talley,  The Poet who speaks and inspires.   To find more about me, check out my promo sheet or visit  my website.