Sunday, August 7, 2011

Home Office?

When you have to work at home, sometimes it makes it difficult to stay focused on your work or on what you would like to do with your family.
What is really helpful is to have space dedicated to your work and just your work or you end up with all the paper work on the dining table to clean up rigth before dinner! (it happened to all of us at least once!).
Try to find a space that could be separated from the rest. The separation doesn't have to be a wall or a separated room (even if it's always better and easier that way!).
You can create an easy private space adding screens or curtains or anything that will create that path from "home to office and office to home".
If you have the space to have actually a separated room... enjoy it and make it just for work! Open the door when you want to achieve something for the work part and enter that space AND close the door when you're done and leaving the space to go back to your family space.
Choose the right area for you and the right colour for your area. The separation from the rest of your "home life" can actually be done by changing colours as well. Painting an area is always fun and create a geat change in the energy!

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Free the Qi (chi)

One of the goals of using Feng Shui in your house or office is to make sure that the energy flows freely and in harmony, not too fast, not too slow and that the energy is not stcuk somewhere. Sometimes it is hard to feel where the energy can be stuck and how we can make the changes to have the energy flowing freely. The best way to know where you need to bring some changes is to imagine water entering your space. You can easily visualize the water coming from the front door and going through your space and you can actually "see" where the water stays stagnant, goes too fast or slows down. These are the indications that you will use to change funriture, decor, and anything else that seems to be in the way to reach harmony.