Stop Living Like a Guest in Your Own Life

You know exactly what I'm talking about.

The moment you find out someone's coming over, you become a different person. Suddenly, that pile of dishes gets washed. The coffee table that's been collecting random junk for weeks gets cleared. You vacuum places you haven't touched in months. You light candles, arrange throw pillows, and transform your space into something that actually looks like the home you always imagined living in.

For three hours, your place is perfect.

Then your guests leave, and within days, you're back to tolerating the same mess, the same broken blinds, the same burnt-out lightbulb in the hallway that you walk past every single day without fixing.

You're treating yourself like you matter less than strangers.

Think about that for a moment. You'll spend an entire Saturday making your home beautiful for people who will be there for a few hours, but you won't invest that same energy for yourself - the person who lives there every single day.