Revitalize Your New Year's Resolutions with a Room Refresh: Boost Success and Break Free from Routine

If your New Year’s fresh start has already faded away, but you want to hold on to that feeling of renewal and hope, a room refresh might be exactly what you need.

Whether your resolutions are work, health, or habit related, your environment has a huge bearing on your success.

Because your space reinforces the thoughts and feelings that you have in your everyday life.

When you’re aiming to make some changes, being in the same space can have a way of… keeping you stuck in exactly the same routine as always.

If you’ve ever wondered why, it’s because the context around us - the surroundings we see - are a cue for the brain, telling it what it should be looking for or doing in specific spaces.

You might notice this in habits like putting the TV on and scrolling through social media every time you sit on your living room couch, reaching for junk food without fail around 3pm, or leaving unfinished notes and to do lists at your desk (if you work from home.)

When these unconscious behaviors are already established in a specific space, it’s hard to deprogram them. 

This is why a room refresh can be absolute magic for boosting whatever fresh start you’re after. 

By simply rearranging a space, splashing it with some new color or decor elements, or creating a new system for organizing, you’re giving your brain a clean slate to work with.

You’re giving it a new foundation to associate with new behaviors.

Here are some of the most effective ways to give your space a refresh and reinforce your New Year’s fresh start:

1. Rearrange the room. Wherever you want to change your behaviors (whether it’s to adopt a new habit or reduce an unwanted habit,) a simple rearrangement of your furniture can do wonders. It makes your brain think just enough about “what am I supposed to be doing in here?” that you can from a place of consciousness reprogram what you want to use that room for.
2. Redecorate the room. I’m sure you’ve felt the power of a room’s decor - how it establishes ambience and makes you feel a certain way. Changing or refreshing your decor can do the same for your goals. It primes the brain in the same way as rearranging, but it also has the added benefit of creating a mood, whether it’s to bolster your motivation, create some calm, increase focus, evoke playfulness, etc.
3.  Get organized. Creating a new organization system signals to the brain that there’s a process, an order of operations that needs to be adopted. It also clears up any mental clutter that comes from looking at a hodgepodge of stuff or piles of papers. Start with a clean space, and a clean brain will follow.
4. Design it with your goals in mind. Add visual cues to your environment that will encourage new behaviors, like putting your vitamins next to your coffeemaker in the morning, or getting your workout clothes ready at night and putting them on your dresser. Conversely, you can remove visual cues that are prompting habits you want to remove, like removing junk food from your home. Get creative - take a moment to look around your space and notice what triggers you see and ask yourself if they’re helping or hindering your goals.

On top of supporting your goals and promoting a fresh start, a room refresh can be SO MUCH FUN! And it doesn’t have to become a whole project - a morning of rearranging and an afternoon trip to Home Goods can provide enough of a new context to give your new habits a greater chance at success.

If you’re in need of a true fresh start - not just in your environment, but in your LIFE, my Fresh Start coaching + environment curation services are perfect for you. I combine weekly mindset coaching with environment curation (room refreshes like this) to give you deep shifts from the inside out. Within three months you’ll feel brand new and in control of the life you want. If you'd like to learn more, set up a free consultation by clicking here and we'll explore your unique roadmap and decide if it's right for you together.