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Four Tips to Creating a Successful Atmosphere Anywhere

Tamar RoutlyBy Tamar RoutlyAugust 18, 20223 Mins Read
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Any place you go: a coffee shop, work, or home, can be transformed into a thriving atmosphere. It doesn’t take fancy equipment or money to make it happen either. A successful atmosphere just requires positivity, responsibility, movement, and organization – all skills you can learn and possess over time with practice and patience.

Transforming any atmosphere into a successful one is a crucial tool. Understanding how your environment can harm you or help you is essential. To be sure that you achieve your goals and live the life you desire no matter where you are, minding your atmosphere counts.

The following are four tips for creating a successful atmosphere anywhere.

Declutter and Organize by Goal

Always start with proper organization and only allow items that make sense to your overall objectives. For example, maybe you need to get writing done, but you only have a coffee store for the night to do your work in. Pick an area best suited for your laptop and nothing else. If something doesn’t help you meet your objectives, it is unnecessary.

Ditch Negativity

Avoid negativity but be cautious of toxic positivity too, where you brush off real problems rather than face them. Positive reinforcement allows you to manage your emotions better to finish your important tasks with a clear mind. On the other hand, the more you allow negativity to cloud your judgment, the less likely you are to make the right choices.

Practice Effective and Open Communication

A successful atmosphere also requires effective and open communication with those around you, and with yourself too. If you continue to let negativity cloud your judgment, you won’t be able to form a consistent action plan that achieves your goals. And without action, there is no success.

Take Responsibility and Action

The environments you are in, the people around you, or the tasks you procrastinate on are not excuses for your lack of success. To ditch negativity and always create an inviting and successful atmosphere, you must take responsibility and action where appropriate. Taking responsibility allows you to stay focused on what matters; your goal and the actions you take to live up to your full potential.

As you can see, the key to creating a successful atmosphere primarily lies within you. It’s totally reliant on your ability to be mindful. A successful atmosphere is void of negativity and toxic positivity. It requires focus, drive, and commitment to your goals. It requires taking responsibility and learning to create a relaxed, organized, and productive space.

By cultivating a successful atmosphere, you will be able to do what you need to do and live a happier and more fulfilling life.


YOU’RE SOBER NOW WHAT? With over 35 years of continuous sobriety Tamar Medford & Lane Kennedy teach sober women over 40 how to feel ten years younger, do what they love everyday and live their best lives. Discover how you can create your dream life through mindfulness, meditation, science and spirituality.


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Tamar Medford is a Relapse Prevention Strategist, Neuro Change Master Practitioner, Author, and host of the You’re Sober! Now What? Podcast. Her mission is to empower sober women to create a life so good for themselves they never want to go back to their old way of living.

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