Your home office – your home, your workplace – is an everyday challenge. You are happy and free here – hey, it's home, and you are strong and disciplined – well, it's your office. You are making it work – it is a great balancing act. You do great for while and then the strain starts showing.... It is time for home office decorating.

So, you look at your office from a fresh perspective, your cupped hands resting your head. Is your office too austere-looking? Do you need to pamper yourself a little? Would you like to drag your lazy boy in here and place it next to your window where it is nice and bright? You spend two thirds of your day cooped up in your home office. Mm... that feels good. May be it is time to take out that soft, peach-cream curtain your mother gave you on your twenty fifth birthday. And oh, the dandy, bright colored, shallow, cane baskets you got from the warm south should make such great holders for all the odds and ends that clutter up your table. Now, will it be too much if you brought in your snuggly, little, pale pink cushions from your bedroom armchair too? It won't hurt to try. Your home office decorating might really liven you up and help you get into the groove.

Or, may be, you have been too soft on yourself, too indulgent, so that your cushy décor makes you slide deeper into your padded, nest of an office chair. Your home office decoration may take a cue from this. You could spruce the place up a little; have a trimmer, neater arrangement. You could add some smart, office table usables that don't cost much. A prim file cabinet, an elegant pen stand, a dapper table lamp may make you shake yourself right out of your indolence. You could also clear up the corners of your room, drag out all the comfy, homey knick knacks you have accumulated over time.

Your home office decorating has much to do with your productivity. Making little changes every now and then – adjusting, readjusting, brightening up, softening, adding a sparkle, refurbishing – subtle changes here and there, work wonders with your spirits and you find yourself all itching to start working right away. The expense is small, the gain is immense. You owe it to yourself. You have been such a good girl.