- If you have a window in your home office, spruce it up with new curtains, swags or decorative rods.
- Add some interest outside your office window with a flower box, bird feeder, bird bath or garden pond. If there's no view at all, create interest in the window itself with a do-it-yourself stained glass or etched window kit, available in large craft stores.
- Bring life into your office with plants, favorite knickknacks, family photos and appealing paintings or posters for the walls.
- Instead of playing the radio, add the soothing sounds of a fish tank or mini-waterfall. Another inspiring alternative is a sound machine that plays cartridges of babbling brooks, gentle rains and splashing ocean waves.
- Put up a bulletin board where you can glance at favorite quotes, cartoons and pictures clipped from newspapers and magazines.
- Put a fresh scent in your office with potpourri, candles or fresh flowers.
- For a little extra work inspiration, go to one of those shops that can put your face on well-known magazine covers. Get one of yourself on Money, Forbes, Success or your favorite publication, frame it and hang it someplace where you can glance at it every now and then. If you've got a color scanner and a graphics program, you can even do it yourself.
- Take off one day to do a paper purge, and clear out the clutter from your office. It's not much fun, but you'll feel much better when you're finished. You might even find that rummaging through old papers and sorting out the useful from the junk can tap your creative juices and give you future project ideas.
- However your office is decorated, make a point of changing things occasionally: rearrange the furniture, hang up a new poster or add some touches appropriate for the current season or holiday. Even pets get cranky if their environment is not stimulating and new on a regular basis -- how can you expect any less of people?
- Keep some nonwork-related inspiration in front of you to remind you of life outside the office. If you're planning a vacation to someplace tropical in the coming year, hang a picture of palm trees or a beach sunset where you can see it from your desk. Or if you're saving for something special -- maybe, say, a new bicycle or a backyard swing -- stick a photo of it on your computer. Being able to visualize your goals helps you achieve them.
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