“Why wouldn’t I want to feel like that all the time?” is the question that began permeating every category of my life. Once I made a decision to make my apartment more colorful and therefore more “me,” I started making other seemingly small decisions that had a profound effect on my happiness: eliminating social events that felt like obligations, only doing exercise that didn’t feel like punishment, and playing around with my skin care routine so it felt more like a treat (than a chore) at the end of the day.
