I often get questions about finding a job after being unexpectedly laid off. Well, without knowing ANYTHING about your home, the first thing that comes to my mind is – what happened in your environment before you were laid off? Was something changed that may have supported you getting laid off? If you can think of something specific here, I’d go about trying to counterbalance that item, renovation, or thing that has changed. What if you can’t think of anything specific like that? Then my guess on what is happening in your home is clutter. If things are stagnant – …Read More
Feng Shui has brought me more work than I can handle!
How much do you really know about Feng Shui? Do you apply it to your life? Have you seen results? My New Years Resolution this year is to give you more! More content, more answers, more of whatever you need having to do with feng shui and healthy, happy living. To start, I thought we could tune into the life of a feng shui newbie and follow her journey as she moves her stuff to change her life. My business manager Sara quickly volunteered for the assignment when I told her this idea because she already is seeing great results …Read More
Feng Shui Your Desk
These are what items I most often consider and their importance with regard to desks and good, permanent full-time jobs. #1 Come to terms with the fact that you actually NEED a permanent desk. After hearing lots of complaints about jobs being unstead, I think “the laptop at Starbucks” method of doing work is correlated. You need physical space and a desk to be established for you to work consistenly. #2 A solid wall is directly behind you (as opposed to glass.) #3 Your desk is big enough to do the job, but not so big you feel dwarfed with …Read More
Front Door Feng Shui
It’s so simple of a concept, yet so many people miss the mark. According to feng shui principles, (and what I also think is common sense,) the easier it is for people to bring opportunities to your front door, the more you’ll have. So, how do you think THIS person is availing them selves to life’s opportunities? I feel like that one cactus is actually kind of “flipping me off!” Don’t get me wrong, as a landscape architect, I can appreciate a good punctuating “specimen”, but, well, we in the design world would probably be preaching “less is more” to …Read More
Feng Shui Your Way into a New Job
Try using a “three harmonies” cure to summon the right job for you! In this case, you’ll use the traditional “map of feng shui” AKA the Bagua, to help manifest the new job. The Bagua Map First, get yourself in order to receive this job by enhancing Skills and Knowledge gua, which is the front, left-hand part of your home office, bedroom, or the entire house (this area, of course, is found based upon you entering through the room or front door respectively.) Add something made from earth element, like a bowl of stones or dirt or sand, or you …Read More
Job Interview Tips with Feng Shui
My son is auditioning for an arts school this month, which reminded me to pull out the feng shui tips for job interviews. Here are some of my ideas to maximize success: 1. Employ the “helpful people box.” Place the name of the person you are interviewing with, the company name, and anyone else you can think of that needs to be helpful with regard to you getting this job on paper (try red to activate it) and place it in a metal box with a lid or a metallic envelope, and then place that box or metallic envelope in …Read More
Improve Manifesting Odds for New Years Resolutions
Question: Do you have any tips for manifesting New Year’s Resolutions? Answer: Yes, I do! Do NOT just say it. Write it down! Make it real by dreaming about completing it and then WRITE it down on paper. My best advice is to write a story about what it’s going to be like once you have completed it. All this falls back to the book I highly recommend, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn. If you haven’t read it, I would try to make that your resolution! And if you have and you need additional resources, please …Read More
A Cheap Fix for the World Economy
According to environmental psychology and the timeless rules of feng shui, the more stable and well placed the desk, the more successful the person is who sits there. As a feng shui consultant for almost twenty years, I have noticed a “desk trend” that I believe may be one of the keys to reversing this current weakened economy. The trend is this: workers have traded in their four-walled, closed-doored office with the solid wood, dedicated-to-one-worker desk for a migrating laptop on the floor, bed, lap, kitchen counter, or, you know where I’m going… a space at a table at Starbucks …Read More
How Fast Can Feng Shui Work?
I’ve been fast and furiously feng shuiing my way through New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut this week and just have to share some of the great stories that I’ve got! On Tuesday, I went to three clients in a row in NYC….all single gals in one bedroom apartments. I took along Katie, one of the gals that graduated from my online feng shui training program who wanted to shadow me as well. The first gal was an aspiring actor who has been studying the craft and trying to make connections. She doesn’t have an agent or anything like that …Read More
Which Door to Use for Feng Shui Purposes? – Q and A
Question: Some people in feng shui say to use the door that you most often enter your home into as the front door. That would make it my mudroom to garage door. Is this correct and should I align the bagua with this door? Answer: It wouldn’t be the way I would do it. You see, the goal is to direct the chi from the outlying areas into your home in the most positive and healthy way. And the most natural place to have the chi arrive in your home is the architecturally intended front door – NOT the one …Read More