An inexplicable urge pushes your thoughts towards making your home more comfortable. The cost and effort involved in some ideas is enough to make you decide to leave everything as it stands, but shop around and you’ll find it isn’t that impossible to transform where you live cheaply.

Even if you have to use words of one syllable, go out of your way to explain what you have to say clearly and concisely. Only when you’re certain the penny has dropped can you move on. It’s tedious but not as much as it would be if someone gets it wrong and you end up clearing up their mess.

Resist the temptation to borrow as an easy way out of a cash dilemma. Unless there are no strings attached you could be stung by someone who sees you as their payroll. Turn to money-lenders and you’ll only make a bad situation worse. Beware a financial wolf in respectable sheep’s clothing.

To get the most from a relationship spend as much time listening as you do talking. If someone you love or work with can’t get a word in edgewise, they’ll start to feel left out and then you’ll wonder why they suddenly lose interest. Share and share alike and make a fuss of a person you care for.

Having difficulty understanding someone you love? Try standing back and seeing your affair from a distance. Think about how your feelings have altered since you first met and how this changes the way you treat your partner now. Has familiarity bred contempt? Ponder a while to find the solution.

You don’t appear to be able to channel yourself into anything constructive or productive and the more time you waste the more agitated you get. If you want to feel useful, volunteer to help someone close. This will take some of the pressure off them and make you feel better about yourself.

Don’t be too hard on yourself if the bills are coming in and you now regret a recent bout of extravagance. Everyone deserves a treat now and again but where’s the pleasure if you’re going to scrimp and save later? Look at how to cut costs to a minimum and then stick to your more balanced budget.

The less you say today the better and the sooner you can put things right. Even if someone’s does their best to annoy you, say what you think and you’ll play into their hands by giving them the argument they’re looking for. Let them release their aggression elsewhere as you’ve far better things to do.

Be careful about accepting what seems an easy request as some things are more complex than they look. Even if it’s a matter of carrying out a routine maintenance or job the last person to have used equipment or machinery may have damaged it without saying which leaves you high and dry with the responsibility.

Anything involving money is best dealt with on your own. People have bags of advice to offer along with all the bags of goodies they urge you to buy but for who’s benefit? Don’t feel obliged to make purchases or investments you don’t want or need so as not to hurt someone’s feelings.

One reason you can’t concentrate is because you’ve so many things on your mind, and yet you cannot string them altogether to make any sense. Try bringing them out into the open and talking them through, and although some ideas sound crazy at first someone visionary will see their potential.

Unless you want to spend the whole day in isolation and miss out on excitement, you should tune into what’s going on around you. Your mind is miles away and that’s exactly where your body could be too if you take a chance to take up an invitation to get away from familiar surroundings.