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How to Easily Create a Feng Shui Office
By Dianne Lawson
I felt like a fraud. As a Feng Shui consultant, I had been
telling my clients to get rid of clutter, yet my desk in my home office was piled high
with papers, books and other items. The piles were so high that our cats would
leap onto my desk and send papers flying to the floor.
Feng Shui is an Asian art of placement that helps Chi, or universal energy,
move harmoniously through spaces to enhance people’s lives. People are affected
by their surroundings and their surroundings reflect their inner selves. Changing
surroundings can help change lives.
Feng Shui principles can be applied to any place: a piece of land, a home, an
office or a desk. Feng Shui divides any space into nine areas: Wealth, Fame,
Marriage, Family, Health, Children, Knowledge, Career and Helpful People. I had
already enhanced the Fame and Wealth areas of my home which dramatically
increased demand for my work. Increased work piled up on my desk.
Feng Shui is complicated and individualized, yet some basic rules apply to
everyone and every place. I always tell my clients that the most important Feng
Shui rules are to get rid of clutter, have everything orderly, clean and in good
working order and only have items you use or love. People who have unorganized,
messy offices often feel that they have more work to do than they can manage.
Having an efficient, clean and organized office does wonders for morale and work
flow.
Besides being a Feng Shui consultant, I am also a writer, an editor and an
astrologer. The four different businesses require different books, tools and
paperwork. Keeping all of my projects separate and organized has been a
challenge.
My home office sits in a corner between my living room and my dining room.
It has a large old wooden desk, a file cabinet, a laptop desk, an office chair and a
low chest. Notebooks and books sit on top of the chest, within easy reach. The
wooden desk had been placed to face the front door of the living room. A cardinal
rule of any office is to never have your back to the door. Doing so gives you a
feeling of unease. Sometimes that feeling can intensify to feeling that someone is
stabbing you in the back or undermining your work.
Feng Shui also recommends that your back be protected by a wall in your
office. When I had just the wooden desk, I sat between my desk and a wall. I did
not have to worry about someone coming up behind me and startling me. When I
bought the laptop desk for my computer, my back was no longer protected by a wall
when I worked at the computer. I therefore put a mirror on the wall so that I could
see behind me while I was working at my computer.
Getting rid of clutter is never easy and it can help if you have a deadline to
get it done. Having company over or an important client coming to your office can
be the deadline to get your space clean and neat. Knowing that I was going to take
a photograph of my office for this article was enough of an impetus for me to finally
organize and throw away items that were on my desk.
Feng Shui says that everything needs to be orderly, not just spaces that can
be seen. That means in closets and inside drawers. I must confess that my
drawers inside my office are not completely organized, but I did go through them
and threw away items. Emptying one drawer allowed me to get all the paper off my
desk.
My office now welcomes me, feels good and helps me work more efficiently.
Now the cats jump up on my desk, look surprised, and settle down without sending
papers flying to the floor.
Dianne Lawson is a Feng Shui consultant and can help you get rid of clutter,
get organized.
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questions, or would
like to schedule an
appointment, please
contact Dianne at
(785)232-2836 or
Cappie0113@aol.com
How to Easily Create a Feng Shui Office
By Dianne Lawson
I felt like a fraud. As a Feng Shui consultant, I had been
telling my clients to get rid of clutter, yet my desk in my home office was piled high
with papers, books and other items. The piles were so high that our cats would
leap onto my desk and send papers flying to the floor.
Feng Shui is an Asian art of placement that helps Chi, or universal energy,
move harmoniously through spaces to enhance people’s lives. People are affected
by their surroundings and their surroundings reflect their inner selves. Changing
surroundings can help change lives.
Feng Shui principles can be applied to any place: a piece of land, a home, an
office or a desk. Feng Shui divides any space into nine areas: Wealth, Fame,
Marriage, Family, Health, Children, Knowledge, Career and Helpful People. I had
already enhanced the Fame and Wealth areas of my home which dramatically
increased demand for my work. Increased work piled up on my desk.
Feng Shui is complicated and individualized, yet some basic rules apply to
everyone and every place. I always tell my clients that the most important Feng
Shui rules are to get rid of clutter, have everything orderly, clean and in good
working order and only have items you use or love. People who have unorganized,
messy offices often feel that they have more work to do than they can manage.
Having an efficient, clean and organized office does wonders for morale and work
flow.
Besides being a Feng Shui consultant, I am also a writer, an editor and an
astrologer. The four different businesses require different books, tools and
paperwork. Keeping all of my projects separate and organized has been a
challenge.
My home office sits in a corner between my living room and my dining room.
It has a large old wooden desk, a file cabinet, a laptop desk, an office chair and a
low chest. Notebooks and books sit on top of the chest, within easy reach. The
wooden desk had been placed to face the front door of the living room. A cardinal
rule of any office is to never have your back to the door. Doing so gives you a
feeling of unease. Sometimes that feeling can intensify to feeling that someone is
stabbing you in the back or undermining your work.
Feng Shui also recommends that your back be protected by a wall in your
office. When I had just the wooden desk, I sat between my desk and a wall. I did
not have to worry about someone coming up behind me and startling me. When I
bought the laptop desk for my computer, my back was no longer protected by a wall
when I worked at the computer. I therefore put a mirror on the wall so that I could
see behind me while I was working at my computer.
Getting rid of clutter is never easy and it can help if you have a deadline to
get it done. Having company over or an important client coming to your office can
be the deadline to get your space clean and neat. Knowing that I was going to take
a photograph of my office for this article was enough of an impetus for me to finally
organize and throw away items that were on my desk.
Feng Shui says that everything needs to be orderly, not just spaces that can
be seen. That means in closets and inside drawers. I must confess that my
drawers inside my office are not completely organized, but I did go through them
and threw away items. Emptying one drawer allowed me to get all the paper off my
desk.
My office now welcomes me, feels good and helps me work more efficiently.
Now the cats jump up on my desk, look surprised, and settle down without sending
papers flying to the floor.
Dianne Lawson is a Feng Shui consultant and can help you get rid of clutter,
get organized.
