What are you doing to make your place beautiful today?

"Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful." - Hazrat Inayat Khan

I have a friend who spends hours on end researching places to move. She is in her early 40s and has spent all of her life in the same mid-sized Southern town. And all these years, she has been eager to leave.
 
In the meantime, she has refused to take advantage of the events and amenities her town does have to offer. There are cultural festivals, gatherings of her family and classmates, and, more recently, new restaurants and stores to explore.
 
But this friend, instead, chooses to spend her time fantasizing about how a new place will make her happy. She lives to escape on vacation, and dreams that moving to a new place would be like a long-term vacation.
 
This friend has started to put in place a plan to move, and it looks like she might finally take the leap and move next year. I'm excited for her in a way, because I know that she has been dreaming of this move for years.
 
But I'm also quite fearful for my friend. Because I question whether a move will make her happy, when she has spent so long resisting happiness where she lives now.

There is nothing wrong with being an optimizer, and looking for places of beauty that suit you and you enjoy -- ether long-term or simply on vacation. But whatever our long-term plans, it's in our best interest to also spend time making a place -- the place we are now -- beautiful.

What are you doing to make your place beautiful today, friends?