Sep 15, 2026 · 13 min · 6 segments
Your environment shapes your focus, your habits - and how much like yourself you feel. In this episode, Lauren explores how the spaces, routines, people and things around us can quietly shape who…
The lesson I'm trying to convey here, my friends, the thing I want to teach you to think about is, do you have preferences of colours? of the comfy chairs versus the hard chairs, a glass table versus a wooden table, the wallpaper over paint.
What is it that you like and dislike? What is it that's meaningful for you? to be able to see around you.
Maybe it is having the calendar on the wall or you like the abstract art or the photos of experiences and people that matter, photographed and framed and put around you.
The biggest lesson that I've really learned over the years is that when my environment is aligned with me right now, it's the biggest and quickest tool for me to get things done.
It's the best tool for me to be able to focus, for me to be able to rest, and for me to be able to share as well.
And by share, I mean whether someone's actually coming over or for me to be able to relax enough to pick up the phone and talk to my friends.
How can you make your environment feel a little bit more like you? You don't need to go create a Lauren wall, but maybe you might consider making the space you're in that little bit more your own.
Maybe you want to go old school and clip out posters from magazines and pictures, create your own vision board of a wall.
Maybe you can go and purchase some of the cheap frames, print out a couple of the photos you have on your phone from the last summer, the last year, with memories and people you love to think about.
Or maybe it's as simple as taking the deodorant out of the wash bag, putting it on the counter and knowing that that's where it lives.
It has a place.
There's a home, if not for forever, but at least for now.
For you and your things, your thoughts and your dreams to be and to grow with.
That second year college room, It was cold, there was damp on the bed at times coming back after the weekends, little bits of mold in the corner, like most college rooms.
It was not perfect, but it was probably my favorite environment.
more than the Lauren wall, more than the clothes, the books, the things that were around me, more than the friends that were either side of the walls that could hear the alarm going off when I'd forget to wake up to hear it myself.
more than the shared sitting room of watching Pretty Little Liars, half keeping up with Chicago Fire, I think it was, and Home and Away.
That environment allowed me to be in the routines, the habits, the thought processes that allowed me to be me.
Not because it was perfect, not because it was forever, but because it felt like home.
The lesson I'm trying to convey here, my friends, the thing I want to teach you to think about is, do you have preferences of colours? of the comfy chairs versus the hard chairs, a glass table versus a wooden table, the wallpaper over paint.
What is it that you like and dislike? What is it that's meaningful for you? to be able to see around you.
Maybe it is having the calendar on the wall or you like the abstract art or the photos of experiences and people that matter, photographed and framed and put around you.
The biggest lesson that I've really learned over the years is that when my environment is aligned with me right now, it's the biggest and quickest tool for me to get things done.
It's the best tool for me to be able to focus, for me to be able to rest, and for me to be able to share as well.
And by share, I mean whether someone's actually coming over or for me to be able to relax enough to pick up the phone and talk to my friends.
How can you make your environment feel a little bit more like you? You don't need to go create a Lauren wall, but maybe you might consider making the space you're in that little bit more your own.
Maybe you want to go old school and clip out posters from magazines and pictures, create your own vision board of a wall.
Maybe you can go and purchase some of the cheap frames, print out a couple of the photos you have on your phone from the last summer, the last year, with memories and people you love to think about.
Or maybe it's as simple as taking the deodorant out of the wash bag, putting it on the counter and knowing that that's where it lives.
It has a place.
There's a home, if not for forever, but at least for now.
For you and your things, your thoughts and your dreams to be and to grow with.
That second year college room, It was cold, there was damp on the bed at times coming back after the weekends, little bits of mold in the corner, like most college rooms.
It was not perfect, but it was probably my favorite environment.
more than the Lauren wall, more than the clothes, the books, the things that were around me, more than the friends that were either side of the walls that could hear the alarm going off when I'd forget to wake up to hear it myself.
more than the shared sitting room of watching Pretty Little Liars, half keeping up with Chicago Fire, I think it was, and Home and Away.
That environment allowed me to be in the routines, the habits, the thought processes that allowed me to be me.
Not because it was perfect, not because it was forever, but because it felt like home.
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