Now, let us say you completed this small task, what next? You feel partially motivated but what else can be done that's easy to keep the momentum going? Beauty. Beauty is what is missing. But mayhaps one asks, where can I put something beautiful? Walls of course. Take down that tacky movie poster, dispose of that generic mass produced picture of a sunset and seek something beautiful. But what do I mean by that, are sunsets not beautiful? They can be but they hardly represent true beauty or greatness in picture form when one has a window to look out of to see the real thing, it is a poor and very semetic simulacrum of what you already possess. You can often find framed art cheap in a variety of places be it in print or real replicas. Charity shops can sometimes yield something beautiful if you shop around and often at ridiculously low prices (at least in the UK they can, British Heart Foundation etc are places you can locate some art fairly cheaply at, I should think there is an analogue in the US for such shops). But let us say you have no shops like that close, then consider looking up specific framed prints on Ebay (yes I know it's a giant flea market but it is a useful avenue in this regard). As an example i've included a picture with this post demonstrating a piece I ordered via Ebay of the Battle of Rorkes Drift, a snapshot of heroism in the face of horrifying odds. This is but one avenue for you to consider however, there are so many beautiful moments of European history, heroism and culture captured in art (I find the Romantic style most appealing personally), it is these things that inspire that should ordain your walls, not the vacuous things reminding you of how hollow this age has become. What has a deeper meaning, Robert Downy Jnr wearing a tin suit pretending to be a hero or the Birth of Venus by Botticelli? Which one has a more intrinsic link to your being, to your blood? A gimp in a silly suit or a reminder of the beauty made specifically for you to inherit as part of your birthright?

These are but two examples, there are so many more. Looking for proper furniture can be good, I know it sounds trite but for instance if you need a desk rather than Ikea, for the same money and with patience you can find a beautiful oak desk in antique shops etc, something solid and grand rather than the tedious toughened glass desk or the cheap chipboard rubbish so often sold. The key is to rise, rise above the mire and embrace things that are beautiful by nature, not the things that your told to like by media and the mass produced garbage of this age.