So obviously I’ve been musing on the evolution of architecture, and on my own evolution as a person, and I come back around again to the fact that very few of these shifts happen suddenly. Life is never really about the big stuff, but rather, most of life flows silently by us in a stream of tiny moments, subtle changes, and small, seemingly insignificant choices.

In other words … it’s the little things.

It reminded me of something I heard Simon Sinek once say. I’ll paraphrase …

If you go to the gym and work out and come back home and look in the mirror, you will see … nothing. And the next day, do the same, and you will see nothing. And the day after that. And the day after that. So clearly there are no results. So you quit.

But if you stick with it, I’m not exactly sure what day it will happen but I know you’ll start getting into shape.

It’s like falling in love. Tell me the day you loved your spouse. You didn’t love them when you met them, but now you do, so when exactly did it happen?

It’s an impossible question. It’s not that it didn’t happen, but it’s much easier to prove over time.

They didn’t fall in love with you because you bought flowers and a fancy dinner on Valentine’s Day. They fell in love with you because when you woke up in the morning you said “Good morning” to them before you checked your phone. They fell in love with you because when you had an amazing day but you found out they had a terrible one, you didn’t say, “Yeah, yeah but let me tell you about my day. It was the accumulation of all those little things that made them wake up one day and realize, “I’m in love.”

Life is not about occasional spikes of intensity. It’s about moment to moment consistency. That’s how people fall in love with each other. That’s how I make you fall in love with your home. It’s not one huge element. It’s laying down layer upon layer of consistently executed good ideas. We tell a story word by word, sentence by sentence, and one day someone walks in and says, “This place is magical and I don’t even know why.”

And that’s how I hope you’ll learn to fall in love with your own life. Stop waiting for the big thing that you think will change everything. Invest in today. Invest in the tiny, the seemingly insignificant. Invest in small kindnesses and the doing of ordinary things more artfully. Try to do it every day and one day you’ll wake up in a masterpiece you didn’t even realize you were painting.

It’s not flashy, but that’s how you build a beautiful home. And that’s how you build a beautiful life.

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