How to Truly Enjoy Your Yard (Again)

A Yard Beyond's goal in everything that it does is to allow its clients to "enjoy their yard again". This is our focus in every job we do at every location. But even if you choose not to employ AYB (or just to employ us for certain services), you can still enjoy your yard greatly through a combination of mindset choices and yard work. 

Mindset!

Mindset is very important for enjoying your yard, whether or not A Yard Beyond services you consistently. The fundamental thing to understand is that your yard is never going to be 100% perfect: there's always going to be a bare spot somewhere in the lawn, a paving stone just out of place on your patio, something not quite centered, or an area that could use some more color or flowers. Accepting the inevitable understanding that you will never achieve perfection in your yard is the most important mindset choice you can make to get to the point of truly enjoying your yard. Start with understanding this, and all the rest should come easily.

Also get into the mindset of always repeating to yourself when you are doing the hardest, most strenous yard work that it is "worth it so that you can enjoy your yard". Even though doing weeding and mowing in the hot afternoon sun is objectively horrible, you will appreciate the work you put in earlier when you're sitting on the patio with your drink of choice with a book in hand watching the sunset--enjoying your yard. Remember always that the work you put in will always give a benefit back if you do it right. 

Yard Work!

Yard work is pretty terrible sometimes (especially when you do it in the afternoon--don't do this if you can avoid it!) But with a combination of yard work "hacks" and the mindset choices detailed above, this can be a much more enjoyable endeavor that can actually be fun if you make it that way. 

Refer to this article for information on how to make the actual physical work of yard work enjoyable: 

Remember to get into a routine, complete your checklist each Saturday (see below for an article on the checklist you should have for each day you do yard work), and use the hacks above to make it fun. Put in the work to not only enjoy your yard, but enjoy the work that goes into it. It'll repay you in full, we promise!

Put in the work, and your yard will repay you. It is possible to truly enjoy your yard, and it really doesn't take as much work as you think it will. (Or just use A Yard Beyond and we'll do the work for you, but we won't pressure you). Now, when you read this comment (which is also AYB's slogan)--truly read it and understand it. It is really quite wonderful to do this. So: ENJOY YOUR YARD AGAIN!!

Published August 23rd, 2023.

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