Switch Up Your Lifestyle for Your Health’s Sake

From time to time, people can benefit from a major upgrade or change in their life. Perhaps it’s something mental, but changing up the scenery or pattern can significantly boost your acuity, awareness, excitement, motivation, and will to keep at it while on the job or even just to be more comfortable and happy in your own home.

So, keeping things new or even just rearranged in general can make you feel like everything can be appreciated from a new perspective. I suppose all it comes down to is just having a change in general that will keep you on your toes and at your best.

It only makes sense that when these change happens in your home, it feels especially different. When it comes down to it, it’s because that’s where you live, the place you feel protected and comfortable in. Your home is the one place you come back to every single day to eat in, cook in, bathe in, and spend the majority of your life in. While a lot of people out there certainly do like to go out, eat nice dinners, and generally visit other places by traveling, the majority of people are tied to their homes one way or another (even for cooking at home for supper!).

The thing is, you need to take care of you just as much as you take care of your house. Taking your health for granted, as if it were some sort of thing that will be there every single day without fail, can create some bad habits of not staying healthy, not eating healthy, and not staying active and in shape. If all you do is sit around and watch television while munching on candy boxes and popcorn, well, things start to go downhill. Not only do those candy boxes affect your health: they end up strewn about within your home as well, causing an even unhealthier lifestyle.

If you find yourself in this situation, try to make it a point to stay on top of updating your home. Whether it’s installing new windows, making a new bed frame, or even adding new furniture to your living room, such change can motivate you to keep your home clean. This, in turn, helps you to stay on top of keeping yourself healthy and clean as well. You’d rather have an organized life with everything on track instead of a disheveled home with bad eating habits, wouldn’t you?

It’s Bonfire Season

The weather is beginning to cool off, which means my excitement is ramping up. I wouldn’t exactly say it’s cold weather I’m looking forward to, but I do prefer the mild weather of early fall. And with this amazing and cool weather comes a pastime favorite of many Americans: bonfires.

What’s better about being stoked for nicer weather is to be able to sit out on my back porch. It may seem like I have a secluded backyard and my own house for back porch sitting in solitude, but that’s actually not the case. Rather, I live in an apartment near a busier area of my city. And the coolest thing is I have a trail right behind my backyard, meaning I can sit out on the patio and watch passersby and dog walkers in the cool weather, if I prefer.

I’ve got to say that it’s a pretty great set up for a smaller apartment. So great that it makes the apartment seem more like a house than otherwise. Heck, there’s even a basement and second story, which isn’t very common for apartments at all. But I suppose I should get back to the bit about my porch: I’ve got a fire pit set up and raring to be used for this perfect weather. It’s really quite the apartment set up, I’m proud to say.

And get this: I also have a nice grill on the patio too. This is absolutely perfect for summer and early fall so that I can cook outside and enjoy my time doing it all while being out in “nature” instead of cooped up in my small kitchen cooking.

It’s pretty fun to add stuff to my patio, too. Recently we’ve taken on the task of decorating our deck to make it look more Halloween themed. And I must say, with the hay bales and cornstalks we’ve added so far, it’s starting to come together really nice. All that’s missing is a few “spooky” decorations, some carved pumpkins, and a dedicated bowl for candy boxes and other Halloween goodies. Even though I mentioned this is in our “back yard” of sorts, the trail behind us may actually be a spot that trick or treaters hit up every year, so we’re excited to see if any kids come by in hopes of scoring some candy boxes and treats! Even if they don’t, I guess it’s a prime location for us to eat the sugary snacks and host a little bonfire with drinks. Can’t lose with either scenario!