Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

It's Friday. We always celebrate Fridays around here because I love it so much. We do the Friday five, a list of five random things to break it up from the inspiration we do all week.

I just couldn't get enough of my friend Michael and Smith's new book, Cozy Minimalist Home,

so I thought it would be fun to pull five tips from her.

There were so many things I could have pulled out of the book,

but five tips to share that I love to just give you a small idea of the goodness in the pages

and also just generally pass on things I know I love to know is what I'm doing today.

You ready? Let's do it.

Okay, so really, I had a hard time picking what to pull out and share from you from Michael

Lynn's new book, but here we go, five style tips from the cozy minimalist home.

Number one, Michaelin says, do you want to love your home?

Stop decorating like someone else.

I love this because, first of all, I'm a huge believer in people being themselves,

but also because I feel like we don't understand sometimes that making our homes look like

the showroom from some gallery or someone else's living room we really like. Trying to duplicate

that won't make us love it. It's the personal touches, our personal style, which, by the way,

she says in the book, we already really know what we like, actually. That's what makes us love our

home. I so agree with her, so we just need to decorate like us, not them. Number two, according to

Michaelin, we need to create one sane space. Now, Michaelin told me this tip

a while back in an interview I did with her for our Reclaim series. It was a part of my Put

Your Warrior Boots on book. We launched that and we had this free resource called Reclaim.

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