Feng Shui achieves worklife balance

How Feng Shui achieves worklife balance for this all-male household – against the odds.

Feng Shui red light

Colin is a multi-skilled Company Director and Corporate mentor working from home which he shares with his lodger. He felt his professional presence did not reflect who he’d become yet he was unclear how to change.

When a lack of clarity is evident in a client’s brief, a red Feng Shui light goes on.  It says to me, before they attempt anything further on the career front. They need to make space for change to allow the new to come through. This means eliminating what’s distracting and slowing them down while breaking free of unhealthy patterns of operating cramping their style. The photographs below illustrate my point…

Feng Shui & worklife balance

There was a lot going on in Colin’s home/work environment, which he shared with a lodger.  During Covid season he works long hours online while his lodger goes out to work but needs space to pursue his hobby at home.

When you invite people into your online office you would do well to see your world through their eyes.  You want to make sure you’re not giving them the wrong impression. 

Feng Shui provides a systematic way of evaluating an environment while clutter clearing is a practical method to create space for change. Both deliver measurable physical and metaphysical benefits. 

When your living and working space is aligned to your aspirations, the qualities you are lacking – such as clarity, inspiration, motivation – are restored and the ways to proceed become obvious without even trying. 

Unlocking the flow

I took a Zoom tour with Colin and quickly surmised they had about 50% more furniture and boxes than they needed in their space.  Like a river which has too many rocks and debris deposited in it, they had silted up.

To enable them to focus better we began with a systematic decluttering and reorganisation of the furniture. Even when stuff is hidden in boxes or crammed into cupboards behind closed doors, it still has a presence and therefore has an effect.

We focused on two rooms – the lounge and the conservatory – and Colin worked diligently over two weekends in accordance with the directions I’d given him:

·         sell off or give away furniture

·         burn or shred papers

·         reorganise the various filing systems

·         ransack and thin out the bookshelves

·         rearrange the remaining furniture

·         fresh lick of paint to the walls

·         hang a new set of curtains

·         place artwork mindfully

Feng Shui achieves worklife balance in 2 weeks

With an infusion of life and creativity now filling the space, the men did not need to work so hard to achieve their goals.

1.     Once Colin’s head space was clearer, I was able to interview him to gain a fresh profile story.  A lot of good writing emerged from me that could be crafted and used across many social media platforms and to construct a new Profile-led website.

2.     During the Feng Shui and clutter clearing process, Colin reconnected to his hot air ballooning career.  Within days someone he’d not spoken to for 10 years asked to interview him for a podcast on the relevance of this sport to his mentoring today.

3.     Out of the blue, a Leadership & Development Director of a large national corporate invited Colin’s company Business Athlete to pitch for their business.

And that was just in the first two weeks.

Colin’s side of the story

“I had been lucky during Covid to be able to work from home.  However I wanted to open up my horizons and mentally break out to re-discover my creativity.  I was also desperate to update my increasingly out-of-date public and social media profiles as well as find new business. Who would have the requisite combination of skills to

·         coach me

·         redefine my sense of self

·         create my physical client-facing shop-window (online and offline)

·         and help me rewrite my personal and business profile?”

“While you hear more about her Intuitive Visioning, Feng Shui and Clutter Clearing I knew Mary was also a whizz at business development – and writes very well. I felt her style and energy was exactly what I needed. The divergent process she led me through touched on so many more dimensions than I’d never bargained for.

“By the time she’d shaken out the old rubbish (in the house and more from my head) and rearranged both, alignment and congruence occurred naturally. While accompanying me on my clearing, sorting and organising journey with verbal outpourings from me, she gleaned enough background and business orientation to write some key drafts from which I was able to update my profiles and recreate my website. “

Mary Nondé

Mary is an Intuitive Feng Shui practitioner who is passionate about creating living and working environments mindfully.  She has trained in the Western School of Feng Shui and with Denise Linn, USA and has been working in homes and offices since 1995.

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