Stress is inevitable. Life revolves around a flux of obstacles that you must work to beat. However, this is good stress. Good stress can lead you to tremendous mental growth. It is also psychologically rewarding. While the goal should be to reduce stress, the aim is to reduce the “bad” stress.
The main difference between good stress and bad stress is the amount of time the stress stays with you. To reduce stress, you must focus on the things you can control and accept the ones you can’t.
While home automation can’t completely reduce stress, it can set you on a path to living a calmer, more relaxed life. In this article you will learn specific ways home automation can set you free of that negative cycle called stress.
- Communicate With Your Home at All Times
- Stop Guessing Your Bills
- A Home at the End of the Tunnel
COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR HOME AT ALL TIMES
Home automation has the ability to give you control of a large chunk of your life. Usually when dealing with a home, you deal with uncontrollable variables. To check your consumption habits you depend on your provider. To check your home when you are away, you depend on somebody else’s security system – or your neighbor-. No matter what you decide to do in your home, it is under the control of someone else’s services or products.
Instead, with home automation, you become the puppet master, not the marionette. You can instantly check the consumption of everything in your home. Best of all is the ability to take your home on the go. This can reduce stress by never having to worry about what is going on your home. Left the garage on? Turn it off on your phone. Even more important, want to schedule lights for your homes to go on at certain times when you are away? Easy to do!
STOP GUESSING YOUR BILLS
It is fact that much of people’s stress comes from the fear of not being able to meet financial obligations. This can come in the form of rent, utility, car payments, credit card payments and so on. While home automation does bolster an initial investment, you can make that investment back in the long term with energy savings. The average savings for a home can be $1000+ a year.
But, energy efficiency isn’t the only factor when it comes to reducing stress. The KNOWLEDGE of your home’s consumption on a real-time basis is where you can relax and not have to worry at the end of the month for the bill. As Sir Francis Bacon said “knowledge is power”. Thus, home automation gives you more power over your home. You can now track where your hard earned money is going, and how to save more of it.
A HOME AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
For many people the process of buying a home is kinda like going inside of a tunnel. You buy your home – get in the tunnel -. You then live in it – go through the tunnel – and eventually sell it – leave the tunnel -. However for some homeowners, the process of selling the home – leaving the tunnel – is painful and stressful. You doubt if you picked the right home, will you lose money on the sale, and so on.
By opting for an automated home, you are taking the stress out of the process INSTANTLY. Currently, home automation users are still considered “early-adopters”. Yet, over 85% of millennials and 65% of baby boomers are interested and would pay more to live in an automated home. This tells you that while many are interested, they are also scared to make that leap. In fact, having home automation installed on your home can almost be a guaranteed 10% increase in the value of your home.
Armed with this knowledge, you can invest in home automation with the peace of mind that if you decide to sell it, you won’t be losing your money.