Sync Home and Office Energy to Increase Prosperity

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Pat Heydlauff

People have a tendency to segregate their lives: home vs. office, personal vs. professional and physical vs. spiritual. However, when you observe closely you will find that there is no separation to the movement of energy as it flows from one location, duty or emotional need to the next.

 

For example, Jim a very savvy IT guy supplements his income with a part-time job. As an IT person working from a home office, everything was in its place and could be accessed at a moment’s notice. The surroundings in his house reflected the same need for no clutter, organization and ample open space to relax and meditate. In fact, he used the principles of Feng Shui to create his calm productive nurturing setting in his home.

 

Unfortunately his part-time job was just the opposite. Overflowing with boxes of unfiled paperwork and minutiae surrounding his desk, the walls were still painted a dreary green from the 80s. There was no uncluttered space anywhere to allow his mind to rest so he could just stop and think to get focused.

 

Unknown to Jim, this great imbalance was causing him stress and reducing his productivity both with his personal IT clients as well as with his part-time job. He would get up in the morning and dreaded leaving his home to go to his part-time job and was more inefficient while there. When returning at the day’s end he was so mentally exhausted that he could no longer focus and properly attend to his clients’ IT needs.

 

Balanced Work/life Energy Flow Should Inspire and Motivate

 

Who you become and how balanced and productive your life will be this year is primarily determined by the people and things you surround yourself with. Jim did a great job with his personal surroundings at home and in his home office but did not consider the effect his part-time job’s surroundings would impose on his life.

 

There is a natural flow to energy in your life which needs to be consistent both at home and in the workplace for you to be most productive, happy and prosperous. If your home and work energy flow is vastly different, they will constantly be waging a war – with you in the middle – causing stress and reduced productivity, leading to less prosperity.  When the energy in both locations flows harmoniously, stress will be reduced leaving you inspired and motivated.

 

Coordinate Home and Work Energy to Maximize Prosperity

 

Synchronize the flow of energy. Begin in the exact same place whether at home of the office – the entrance. If you control the entrance of your home and your workplace, make sure the entrance is visible, clean and inviting. Prune any overgrown shrubbery and remove any plantings that are dead or look unhealthy. If positive energy cannot find your entrance, neither can clients and new prosperity.

 

If the entrance is in the control of others such as a landlord or boss then use the same principle just inside your home’s front door and workplace space. The flow of energy needs to move freely and feel welcome in both places to maintain harmony and balance.

 

Eliminate clutter to eliminate chaos. Clutter is every bit as much of a problem in a business as it is in a home. It is the transition from clutter and chaos to calm that causes great discomfort and distraction. When you unclutter at home do the same at work. If you cannot do much about your surroundings in your workspace, at least take control of your immediate space and desk area by uncluttering and organizing to improve productivity and reduce stress.

 

Get rid of things at home that are broken or no longer needed. In your workspace, if there are stacks of paper everywhere and none are in use, file them and shred the rest. Old inventory, stacks of empty boxes, broken and outdated items create negative energy and do not allow for new business ideas, new clients and new revenue streams to manifest. The old energy is standing in the way, taking up space and not allowing the new energy to enter.

 

If possible, make sure the color of the workplace walls surrounding you are conducive to productivity and focused on prosperity. A pastel green with a touch of blue for calm is a great color for productivity and focus, and is also a great transition color for a home office.

 

Evaluate Eliminate and Energize. Evaluate all areas of your life and surroundings. Eliminate what is not working and accept what you cannot change because this reduces stress and energizes the natural flow of prosperity into your life. Sometimes you will discover that eliminating means gently removing people from your life who create stress or are not looking out for your best interests.

 

Other times it means taking a closer look at your lifestyle, as in Jim’s case. He finally realized that in his haste to find additional income he did not take into consideration the workplace environment of his part-time job and the effect it would have on his health. It was slowly driving him to distraction, creating stress and dramatically reducing his productivity and prosperity. His solution was to look for different ways to increase his IT work as quickly as possible, and permanently give up his part-time job. Once he did, his productivity and spirits soared.

 

You, too, can create home and workplace environments that are conducive of a calmer and more prosperous life. To read more succes articles by Pat click here.

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2012 Rules of Engagement

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Pat Heydlauff

Many people have a tendency to attract exactly what they don’t want in life but often what they need most in order to learn necessary lessons which, if acted upon will lead to self-empowerment, self-improvement and a balanced prosperous life.

This is the “law of attraction” put forth in the popular book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. In other words, what you focus on is what you get. Life Echoes Back What You Transmit.

A tech savvy usually efficient and productive computer whiz, Sharon was financially at her wits end and rapidly running out of money when she decided to take a second job to make ends meet. Little did she realize that she had just jumped from the frying pan into the fire.

She loved her computer work; it gave her a real sense of accomplishment and satisfaction but unfortunately it did not generate the kind of income she needed due to her business model. Her third try at a second job took no advantage of her computer skills, imposed long work hours standing on her feet and rapidly turned into excruciating fatigue preventing her from servicing her existing computer clients in a timely fashion. Sharon’s part-time boss was unkind and relentless, imposing unrealistic expectations beginning day one which further depleted Sharon’s self-confidence and eroded her productivity.

Sharon was attracting everything she didn’t want. Her part time job and boss were echoing back her lack of goal setting and clarity in choosing her second job, the amount of time she could devote to a low-paying long-hours job and the toll it would take on her relationships with existing clients and her health.

Transmit Wisely

 

The solution – clarity and balance in all areas of your life. When balance is the objective it is nearly impossible to jump from the frying pan into the fire unless your goal is to go out of balance and get burned. Organize your life using the guidelines below to help you achieve balance and transmit only what you want echoed back.

Goals – Keep focused on your goals for 2012. Have them clearly defined. Have them so clearly defined that you can create a visual image, smell them, instantly think, touch and feel them.

  • Use a yellow tablet and make as many goal categories as needed; income, relationships, health, moving to a new home, expanding your business etc.
  • Once you have the categories, make a page for each and write all the things you’d like to accomplish in each category – using health as an example, you could write, lose weight, workout, walk two miles per day and so on
  • Then, number the items in each category by importance with No. 1 being the most important

 

Focus – Unleash the power of your focus. You can either focus on a thousand things at once and get nothing done or focus on No. 1 in two or three categories and ensure success.

  • Chose no more than three categories to focus on at any given time and then determine which of those is most important
  • Spend 80% of your time on the No. 1 item in the most important category – this will yield guaranteed success
  • Spend the remaining 20% of your time on only two other items until you have either accomplished your goals or feel confident about adding one more

 

Action – Accomplishment and success mandates focused action. No matter how much you wish for something better to happen, it won’t happen unless you take action. When you transmit information to others about your goals, are you transmitting what you want or what you don’t have? What you are transmitting is what you will receive.

You can complain to all your friends and family about not finding a job, your inability to lose weight, finding only inappropriate relationships or not earning enough money all of which only reinforces what you don’t have. Unless you actually do something to change your thinking, get crystal clear on your goals and take action you will continue to go jobless, lose clients, have inappropriate relationships or lack money.

In Sharon’s case, she is clarifying her goals now so she can focus on what she wants, not what she doesn’t have. She is evaluating what changes she needs to make in her business model as well as clarifying the type of second job that best meets her needs financially and time wise with the least amount of physical demands. Once she takes action and spends 80% of her time on her most important item which is increased income, she will be successful and the world will echo back what she transmitted matching what she wants not what she doesn’t have.

You too can create the life you want by transmitting what you want not what you don’t have. For more success artlcles click here.

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Atlanta Gift Show Busy and Inspiring

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Pat Heydlauff

I just returned from the Atlanta Gift Show which was filled with lots of new fresh bold colors designed to cheer everyone up. The 2012 colors are: Tangerine Tango, Solar Power (yellow), Bellflower (red violet) Cabaret (red), Sodalite Blue (almost navy) Margarita (light lime green) Sweet Lilac (pinkish lavender) and Cockatoo (light teal). They are gorgeous on their own in a palette but a little will go a long way if you are looking to use these on walls instead of as accents.

There is a noticeable return of what was called Shabby Chic only now it is grayer and shabbier. Things seem to also be in extremes. For example in the Christmas area either decorations were very formal and done in silver, white and green (Noel Elégence) or very outdoorsy with pine trees, deer and bear (the  wild kind not the Teddy type). It was called Wintry Woods. A kind of side line look was extremely folk arty and almost funky humorous. Floral décor had lots of vines and branches woven throughout with ornaments or balls made of seeds intermingled with the greens. Ribbons were almost non-existent. And bird houses with little faux birds were everywhere with the woodsy look. Dark furniture is back “in” with clean lean lines, even overstuffed furniture has become leaner.

The good news from the show – store owners were buying and there were lots of them shopping. This is an encouraging sign as the Gift Show was much slower paced the last two years. As for me, I always come back motivated and inspired so I can better serve my clients and readers.

Let me know if you have attended any of the gift shows around the country and what you thought of the trends, colors and attendance. Wishing each of you a more colorful and prosperous month, Pat For inspiring and motivating articles click here.

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Feng Shui Improves Work/life Balance

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Pat Heydlauff

Feng Shui is easy fun and one of the greatest stress relievers in the world. It can be your best friend if you are trying to develop a new lifestyle that reduces anxiety and stress while creating a calm more peaceful and prosperous life.

Basic Feng Shui principles are easy to learn and apply. While it really is a vast and sometimes complex subject based on the number of schools or philosophies being taught, there are some basic principles that never change. And, when applied to your life will help you find balance and prosperity.

Feng Shui is about the natural flow of energy in your surroundings and how you focus on what you want so you can attract it, not attract it or even send it away. It really is a very simple principle. Unclutter your surroundings, your thinking and your actions so you can make room for a flow of new good things to come to you. You cannot change your life and be more balance and prosperous unless you change yourself, your surroundings and thinking first.

The Compass school of Feng Shui is based on the natural flow of energy on planet earth. It respects not only the north-south polar and east-west rotational energy flow but also generally speaking the eight major directional points on the compass.

Each of the eight directions in Compass School Feng Shui is assigned appropriate life categories, values, elements, seasons of the year and events. Using the directions makes it very easy to understand how to improve your life. It also takes away much of the confusion created by the various schools of thought.

How the Eight Compass Directions Help You

The chart below gives you the category, the direction and number associated with the category and some of the things you can use to improve the flow of energy and balance in that category such as the rooms to focus on, the element to use and color. For example, if you are feeling down on your luck or not experiencing good fortune, find the south area of your living room and/or office and add something red, burn a candle regularly or put the number nine there or a collection of nine things.

Career, Life’s Journey, Spirituality (1)    N

                                                                      Living room, Office

                                                                      Water, black/blue

Knowledge, education (8)                          NE

                                                                      Living room, bedroom*, office

                                                                      Earth/Hills/caves, blue green

Health, birth, growth, new (3)                  E

                                                                      Living room, bedroom*, kitchen

                                                                      Large wood, green

Wealth, prosperity (4)                               SE

                                                                      Living room, Office

                                                                      Small wood, light green/purple

Fame, fortune, luck (9)                              S

                                                                      Living room, office

                                                                      Fire, red

Relationships (2)                                         SW

                                                                      Living room, bedroom*

                                                                      Earth, earth tones, terra cotta

Creativity, children (7)                              W

                                                                      Living room, office, bedroom*

                                                                      Metal, gold

Helpful people, travel (6)                          NW

                                                                      Living room, office

                                                                      Metal, silver/white

* only bedroom of person needing the enhancement

Yes, Feng Shui is a vast subject and can be studied for a lifetime without knowing it all. But working with a few basic principles such as uncluttering your surroundings and thinking and then applying the information above takes much of the confusion out of the process and allows you to focus on what is really important; creating balance and increasing prosperity.

© Pat Heydlauff, all rights reserved 2012

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How to Attract Calm Amid Holiday Chaos

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Pat Heydlauff

When it comes to the holidays, you get what you attract. If you are attracting chaos, exhaustion and turmoil, you will get chaos, exhaustion and turmoil. If you’ve set your intentions for experiencing holiday joy, calm amid the chaos and quiet enjoyment then you will reap those rewards and receive holiday joy, calm and quiet enjoyment.

The holidays can be a bit of a stretch for a lot of people. There are the issues of over spending, over committing and simply over consumption that can cause even the strongest willed some discomfort. Added to that is the stress created by the want-to-be picture perfect images of what a family celebration should look like, the consumption of the perfect meal and presents piled high.

If these are the nightmare images of your sugar plums dancing in your head take heart because you can create a holiday experience where you are in control and peace and calm abide.

It’s the Thought That Counts

Look carefully at your thinking. Everyone is constantly talking to themselves. The question is, “what are you regularly saying to yourself”. Are you telling yourself that you are a great person, can find peace and enjoyment this holiday season where you are and with what you have or can do anything you put your mind to? Or, are you constantly putting yourself down, sabotaging your holidays with negative can’t and won’t thoughts?

It is critical to observe carefully just what you are telling yourself because you can talk yourself right into having lousy holidays because your family is coming or isn’t coming, you don’t have enough money, you might catch a cold or lose your job. On the other hand, you can make an effort to build yourself up by regularly using encouraging positive thinking. It is very easy to put yourself down and deplete your much needed energy. Be determined to lift yourself up so you build good energy within.

Create a mantra for yourself that is encouraging such as “My holidays are a joy because they are calm and peace-filled.” Create your own version of this and say up immediately upon arising and then again at bedtime everyday throughout the holiday season. If you say it and own it you will create it, even amid chaos.

Limit Your Activities to Want To Not Have To

Look at all of the activities you participate in over the weeks and months throughout the year. Do they energize you or nurture you in some way? Are you volunteering your time or creating activities to energize or nurture others? Helping others is always energizing as long as you don’t overdo and become unbalanced.

How many activities do you participate in that are energy drainers? Evaluate each activity and every organization you belong to or every event you support with your time and/or money. If you do not receive an appropriate amount of positive energy in return for the time you invest then evaluate whether your participation is still important to you.

Make a list of all of those time and energy devouring activities – also include time spent with unsupportive so-called friends. Using a scale of one to ten with one being the most important and ten being the least important, give each of your activities a number. If the number is greater than four, consider eliminating it from your permanent activities’ list. Eliminate those constantly negative friends too, they are draining your energy and filling you with discouragement and despair. Focus most of your energy on those things you really love to participate in and they will energize you as much as you energize them. This is especially true during the holiday season.

These concepts are all based on the Feng Shui principle of creating a balanced life. Feng Shui is all about taking control of yourself and your surroundings so that you can attract calm and peace amid chaos and indeed live life to its fullest. Feng Shui is the use of positive energy to bring about desired good or improved results in your life. You can change for the better hectic chaotic holidays and attract the calm peace-filled holidays you desire by controlling your thinking and actions so they are in balance with your desires. To read more work/life balance and prosperity articles click here.

© Pat Heydlauff, all rights reserved 2011

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Prevent the Holiday Grinch from Stealing Your Joy

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Pat Heydlauff

“He stared down at Who-ville! The Grinch popped his eyes! Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise!

Every Who in Who-ville, the tall and the small, was singing! Without any presents at all! He HADN’T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME! Somehow or other, it came just the same!

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling: ‘How could it be so?’ ‘It came without packages, boxes or bags!’ And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! ‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!’”

This incredible message from How The Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Suess is such a great statement on understanding how to approach the holidays. Christmas, Hanukkah and the holiday season are coming whether you are physically, emotionally and financially prepared or not. Accepting the fact that you have only so many resources, so many days left before the celebrations and only so much time for shopping and traveling will help you rein in stress and take control of what you can control. Let go of everything else so you can enjoy the season.

Create Your Own Joy-filled Who-ville

Learn to proceed peacefully through the holiday season using Feng Shui principles as your guide? While the holiday season is busy it does not need to be hectic, harried or harassing. Enjoy the hustle and bustle while being in complete control of your world and your surroundings by eliminating the annoyed, aggravated and stressed out emotions.

STEP 1 – Do the most important things first! Stop procrastinating, worrying and fretting: begin now! Organize your thinking, develop your plans and get the process rolling. Temporarily put aside all things that can wait until after the holidays so they don’t silently distract your focus while you are busy doing those things necessary for you to have a happy, successful holiday season. The larger the number of people counting on, the more carefully you need to plan and organize. Do it now.

STEP 2 – Get in the mood! Play the music of the season. The holidays are filled with some of the most joyful uplifting and encouraging music ever composed yet it is relegated to a short few 30 days in our calendar year. Play it while making your lists, uncluttering your home, wrapping gifts, calling friends, entertaining and preparing special foods. Allow these wonderful sounds to permeate your heart and soul. Stress is nowhere to be found when the heart is joyful – and the music acts like the spoonful of sugar in Mary Poppins as she helps the medicine go down. The music clears the emotional and physical paths to creativity and productivity and delivers sweetness to the heart and soul.

 

STEP 3 – Decorate, Decorate, Decorate! Unclutter your home now so there is ample room for holiday flowers, garland and decorations. Get rid of all of the stacks of stuff you’ve accumulated over the last 6 to 12 months – don’t just move it but actually look at it and either file it, store it or get rid of it. If you haven’t used it in 12 months do you really need to keep it? The more clutter free your home is the more stress-free, enjoyable and calm your holidays will be.

 

STEP 4 – Make lists and check them twice! Make your list gift list today and carry it with you at all times so you can refer to it at a moment’s notice and purchase items as you see them or find them online. You will save time. You will also save money because you will reduce impulse shopping which is costly. As you check off each purchase you will smile and continue to eliminate stress. Make a food list too and buy those extra things that are not perishable over the next several weeks. Place perishables on a “buy as needed” list that includes the date an item is needed.

 

The world is filled with Grinch-like people, places and things that will distract you. How many of you have checked your text messaging or answered a call while reading this article? Stay focused. Focus isn’t just for the corporate corner office. Others are counting on you as much as you are counting on them so maximize focus to reduce stress.

No one lives in the perfect world of Who-ville, so controlling your stress-Grinch during such a busy time of the year is the best gift you can give yourself. Everyone is in a hurry and tends to have a short fuse when so busy including family members, friends and your boss – go that extra mile to communicate, stay connected and smile.

“‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps…means a little bit more!’” Grinch-proof your holidays to find joy.  To find additional personal performance and Feng Shui based article click here.

 © Pat Heydlauff, all rights reserved 2011

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Gratitude Creates a Rich Life

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Pat Heydlauff

Increase in your personal energy and uplift your spirits by acknowledging or giving thanks for something or someone good in your life. Gratitude for even the smallest of things sets a positive mood for your entire day.

When you regularly express thankfulness or appreciation, you are surrounding yourself with positive energy on the outside along with great positive thinking on the inside. Gratitude equals positive energy, a better tomorrow for you and a richer fuller life.

A fledgling Salvation Army Lieutenant was in charge of his first post along with his wife and two young children. Being Thanksgiving, he was grateful for his post, responsibilities and family but was most anxious to help as many underprivileged families as possible by providing them a good Thanksgiving Day meal.

He and his very pregnant wife personally chose a family on the list to help that resembled their own family. With their rather limited financial resources, they shopped for the largest turkey they could find plus all the trimmings and baked pies and cookies for dessert. They were so happy when they packaged the huge meal into several boxes and drove to the family’s home.

When the Lt. and his wife knocked on the door, the family met them with tears and hearts filled with gratitude – but, there was a problem! They only had a two burner hot plate for meal preparation and a very small refrigerator already filled with baby formula and milk. There was no oven to roast the turkey, little space for cooking the trimmings and no space in the refrigerator to store the large raw turkey and the fresh produce.

The Lt. and his wife promptly picked up the boxes of fresh foods needing preparation plus the turkey, took them home and spent the remainder of the day before Thanksgiving preparing a complete dinner for a family in need, delivering it Thanksgiving morning. They went back home both exhausted and exhilarated to start all over again to prepare their own family meal. They were filled with:

  • Gratitude for being able to help another family in need
  • Gratitude  for the realization that so many have so much less than most
  • Gratitude for what they had.

 

It was at times like these that this young Lieutenant realized how grateful he was for being part of the Corps with its motto “Doing the Most Good” and how blessed he and his family was with their modest surroundings. 

Find Gratitude Where You Are

Sometimes, in difficult times it is hard to be grateful for the small things in life when the needs seem so great. Do some of the following to maintain positive gratitude energy:

  • Place an item that is symbolic of gratitude for you in the center area of the room you spend most of your time. Items such as a gift from a treasured friend, a small framed hand written note of appreciation or a picture of someone who is always there for you will provide you great gratitude energy.
  • Place a candle in a safe container in the middle of your home in fall or earth tone colors lighting it weekly with the intent of expressing appreciation and gratitude for what you have.
  • Create a gratitude journal and add something to it every day, even if you have to begin with a seemingly endless list of the mundane such as a refrigerator, food in your cupboard, a chair to sit on when eating or resting at the end of a busy day. Your list will grow and so will your joy and well-being. Be sure to go back periodically and read some of your earlier entries to life you spirits and see how you’ve grown.
  • Make a point to look at or use your symbolic gratitude reminder on a daily basis. It will not only bring a smile to your face but you will also be reminded to think of something right at that moment to be thankful for.

 

“Gratitude creates great attitude,” a much richer personal life and should be a mantra for everyone and every day, not just one day a year. The rewards for being grateful for even the smallest things are encouraging, can help you emotionally thrive on even the worst of days and are uplifting so you can soar with the eagle on the great days. To find additional personal performance and Feng Shui based article click here.

© Pat Heydlauff, all rights reserved 2011

 

Pat Heydlauff speaks from experience. She works with organizations that want to create an environment where employees are engaged, encouraged and involved, and with people who want to be in control, anxiety-free and confident. She is the author of Feng Shui, So Easy a Child Can Do It and can be reached at 561-799-3443 or www.energy-by-design.com. – for Feng Shui music for meditation, relaxation and energizing http://www.energy-by-design.com/HealingMusic.html. Visit her strictly business site by clicking here www.engagetolead.com.

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How to Create Prosperity through Home Improvements

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Pat Heydlauff

Whether you rent, lease or own, any interruption in the flow of positive energy in your home and personal surroundings can cause many tiny interruptions in the flow of prosperity in your life. Your life, home and surroundings are filled with a constant flow of energy that can be positive, helpful and supportive, or negative, obstructive and act as a barrier to your prosperity. It is the flow of positive energy that helps keep your life moving forward smoothly, filled with an upbeat attitude, hope and prosperity.

When your personal environment does not work properly, it needs to be refurbished, repaired or replaced in order to provide you supportive and prosperous energy. Things that should be working properly but are in disrepair, cluttered, dirty or broken, provide an interrupted flow or completely stop the flow of prosperity energy throughout your surroundings.

This type of broken or missing energy flow affects you the same way a power outage affects your home. Without electricity, you are unable to run appliances, heating or cooling equipment, use computers, watch the television, take a shower or wash clothes. Without a flow of positive energy in your home and surroundings, little or even big things go wrong, and you can become discouraged, depressed and disengaged from family and friends.

Refurbish, Repair or Replace to Encourage Prosperity

 

Whether your home needs a minor facelift like painting rooms and replacing tattered rugs and accessories – or fixing nuisance type repairs and annoyances like dripping faucets, do not hesitate one minute longer. Eliminate the negative energy in your surroundings and make room for prosperity energy to flow throughout. In Feng Shui, the rule of thumb is “if it’s broken, fix it, if you can’t or don’t fix it, get rid of it”.

The little things in your life do matter. It’s not only what you think, say and do that matters but also what you surround yourself with on a daily basis. Think like a realtor would if evaluating your home for a prospective homebuyer, inspect your home and belongings from top to bottom and inside out. The following points will help you eliminate any blocked negative energy and create a new flow of prosperity energy.

  • Eliminate clutter throughout your home, especially at the front door, in the bedroom, kitchen and living room
  • Make sure the prosperity generating areas in each room are totally clutter free:
    • East – new everything energy
    • Southeast – wealth
    • South – good luck
    • West – creativity and gold for money
    • Northwest – helpful people
  • To liven up the energy in a room paint it a fresh new color – keep the colors peaceful and calm if stress is an issue, make them a bit brighter to overcome discouragement
  • Add a spark of new energy by using accessories in brighter colors such as pillows, artwork, silk or fresh flowers and area rugs
  • Place live fresh green upward reaching plants or indoor trees in the east and southeast – keep them healthy and replace them immediately if they are not prospering – quality silk will also work
  • Place a mini or tabletop waterfall or aquarium in the north area of your living room so prosperity can flow in
  • If a stairway by your front door sends prosperity energy flowing right back out of your front door, place a round rug at the bottom of the stairway to send the energy circling back into your home instead of out the door – no room for a rug, hang a 35 mm multi-faceted round crystal from the ceiling halfway between the foot of the stairs and the front door to do the same thing
  • Keep doors to all rooms along hallways open so prosperity energy can flow throughout each room – a closed door prevents the entry of prosperity energy
  • If a room or a specific corner of a room is always dark, add lamps or floor lighting to energize those areas – put them on timers so they are consistently on at least two hours each day
  • Add a bowl of fruit – fresh or quality faux fruit  will work – place it on your dining table or kitchen counter, whichever is nearer the center of your home to energize abundance

 

Design the flow of prosperity energy throughout your home and personal environment so that prosperity is not only encouraged to enter but will flow freely and abundantly throughout your home and the life of each person living in the home.  – click here to read more flow of prosperity articles –

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How to Reignite Your Job Search, Feng Shui Strategies that Help

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Pat Heydlauff

A job search can be a daunting task to say the least. But in a down market where the 24/7 news speaks only of doom and gloom, it can see almost hopeless. The good news is that you are not powerless and can be in more control than you think is possible.

The following strategies are based on the Feng Shui principle of making sure the flow of your focus is clutter-free and fully engaged on getting a good job even in a poor economy. Clarity in your job search and your flow of focus comes from letting go of all of the negatives, the “I can’ts, the what ifs and the if onlys” and replacing them with “I can, I will and soon.” Keep both your thinking and your personal physical environment, e.g. your office, desk etc. where you work on your job search, clutter free so new thinking can enter and your enthusiasm can be reignited.

State of Mind – When focused, new opportunities will emerge as your clarity and enthusiasm grow. When one job does not work out, adopt the attitude that others will come along, and soon. The results of your search has as much to do with your thinking and positive or negative attitude as do the external circumstances of the down economy. Eliminate the negative gloom, doom 6:00 news cycle, and eliminate negative people in your life who discourage you even more.

Feng Shui Strategy – Spend 15 minutes each day in quiet space, journaling or meditation focusing on and fine tuning your internal attitude. Be grateful for who you are, the talents and skills you have and the opportunities that are coming your way. Gratitude is empowering.

Connections and Engagement – Include everyone in your job search and continually expand your contact database. When job searching, there is no better alternative for connecting with people than one-on-one. Join local organizations whose members could be a potential employer. Get connected via social media and stay connected, do not isolate yourself. Get in contact and stay in regular contact with past employment colleagues. Ask friends and neighbors for help – they are all connected to someone that might know of a job opportunity that may not otherwise come to your attention.   

Feng Shui Strategy – Use clarity and focus. Create a 30-second commercial (elevator speech) you can use anytime someone asks “what do you do, what type of job are you hoping to find?” Use it often both in person and online.

Routine – Create a job search schedule and maintain the routine. Searching for a job is Your Job! Treat job hunting like any other job and schedule specific hours to work on it. Keep informed of trade and industry trends to help you obtain a competitive edge and provide you greater knowledge about which will be poised for future growth. Schedule a certain number of hours per day or per week to spend on your job search and stick to that schedule. Also schedule down time and creative time to remain balanced and stay encouraged.

Feng Shui Strategy – Take frequent short breaks to maintain your enthusiasm and collect your thoughts. A short walk filled with fresh air will often be the perfect break. Sort your job searches into short tactical strategies to reduce boredom or discouragement. Select one field to search in at a time. For example if you are in management, search for a certain period in the high tech field, then move to the health care industry then on into yet another field.

 

Career Enhancement Opportunities – Improve you searching skills by reading career books and attending seminars. Take advantage of learning opportunities to improve your job search and career management skills offered by local business groups and the government.

Feng Shui Strategy – By pursuing professional development and participating in classes, seminars, certifications and conferences, you will keep your interactive skills sharp, increase your employable value by staying current and expand your connections.

Technology is Your Best Friend – It is critical in today’s marketplace to utilize web sites and online services to connect with your industry as well as build personal visibility. Create a career online profile, using tools like VisualCV (www.visualcv.com) and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com). Many companies have company LinkedIn and Facebook sites where you can follow them and they love to learn about potential employees. These sites are career gateways and often lead to contacts even faster than job boards. This may be a harder step for anyone over 45 but everyone under that age knows that the internet and social media sites are the fastest way to connect.

Feng Shui Strategy – Learn how to use all online tools like Facebook, blogs, and virtual job fairs. Be sure to post only those things that you would want a potential employer to read and nothing more. Also, follow potential employers and create short blog posts twice a week on ways to help a potential employer in your field. Build a trustworthy bridge through technology to your next job.

Tangible Results – In a down economy you cannot ask, “What’s in it for me” but rather, “What can I do to help a potential employer?” This means that you need to zero in quickly and identify a potential employer’s most pressing needs and challenges – and then explain how you can successfully address those issues in the short term based on your past experience and education. It’s all about fulfilling a need they have, not what you want.

Feng Shui Strategy – Shift your thinking from “about me” to an “about them” attitude. Holding clarity on this one thought will set the right tone to reignite you job search enthusiasm and have a great interview.

Draw on Inner Strength – Do not face your job search alone, especially in a down job market. Look to supportive and encouraging friends, family members and your religious leaders to help you and get you through difficult times. While you are quite able to handle finding the job on your own, it is the words of encouragement that help you maintain a calmness and clarity during the process. Despite what the news says about the employment marketplace, you must have clarity; stay focused on your search strategy so you can continually reignite your enthusiasm because enthusiasm is contagious and demands positive results.  — for more Feng Shui empowerment articles click here –

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Roadmap to Holiday Joy: Start Now

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Pat Heydlauff

Do you ever daydream about how great it would feel if, for just one day everything in your life was great – no financial bad news, no weather disasters, no unexpected illnesses, and no new repair problems on computers, cars or your home. In addition, a time when all your important relationships stay united and loyal?

While these are just a few of the issues most deal with daily, the list of things everyone worries about has dramatically expanded in recent years with the advent of terrorism, instant communications, a floundering housing market and joblessness.  The usual phobias still exist but are superseded by fears of financial failure, public ridicule – especially through social media sites, rejection/acceptance by parents-employers-friends-loved ones, even the end of the world with 2012 fast approaching, often referred to as the last recorded year on the Mayan calendar.  

In the categories of financial fear as well as rejection and joblessness comes a sub-category, the fear of the forthcoming holiday season. With Hanukkah and Christmas some 110-115 days away, many who already feel overwhelmed say that just thinking about holiday shopping, entertaining and added expenses contributes to their feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Life is already out of balance and the upcoming holiday season throws everything further out of balance.

The good news is that the upcoming holiday season does not need to be filled with dread and stress. Don’t wait, plan now to create the holiday celebrations you would like to enjoy so they are both financially and emotionally achievable and less stressful. Start now by developing your personal holiday roadmap giving you direction on how to fully enjoy the holidays no matter what your circumstances.

Roadmap to an Enjoyable Holiday Season

 

Begin Now!  Don’t wait until you are “in the holiday mood” or to see how much money you will have left to spend when December 1st arrives.  – to read more click here –

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