Feng Shui Friday

May 9, 2014

Happy Feng Shui Friday. For the past few weeks while I've be simplifying, downsizing, garage selling, bath remodeling, and getting organized, the same theme has been rolling around in my head. It keeps popping up in a variety of circumstances and sitting down right in front of me waving madly working overtime to get my attention. Okay. My attention is gotten.

If you are like me and tired of making everything harder than it has to be, let's clear clutter with a little bit of harmony and positive chi, the feng shui way.

Feng Shui Tip of the Week

Work hard. When I was a kid our family learned to work hard together. We had chores lists. When we camped (our vacations) everyone helped unload, cook, clean, pack, and police the area so we left it better than when we arrived. My Dad reminded us regularly that when we worked for someone else--babysitting, yard work, house cleaning, food service, office staff, or answering phones--whatever we were paid, $1 an hour or $20 an hour, we owed our employer one full hour's worth of work. That work ethic was one I lived by when I worked for others and when I worked for myself. My husband and our children have the same ethic, which has served us well. And yet, somehow another belief system got wrapped up in there with work hard: everything is hard work. Hmmmm. That little nugget has not served me so well.

No suffering required. So in the past few weeks several things have come up that I have made hard work--that didn't need to be--simply because of my suffering mind set. I had an appointment in an area of Denver where the parking can be problematic. So I complied. While I found a parking space, the meter wouldn't take my credit card, and I didn't have enough quarters. So I walked to my appointment a block away and could only get one more quarter. Walked back to the meter where the lady next to me made her credit card work just fine, but mine still didn't. So she gave me some quarters. Walked back to my appointment and waited and waited and the person I was meeting did not show. Ugh! So I leave a message, drive 30 minutes home and receive a phone call that my arrival at 10 was not scheduled until 11. Not sure who made the mistake, but I wasn't driving back down there. This was an appointment I was looking forward to but somehow it ended up being a huge amount of work and hasn't been rescheduled.

Then my desk did not sell at the garage sale. Someone could have purchased it, loaded it up and driven away. Instead it has been sitting in my garage for two weeks and my car has been sitting outside. To donate it, we have to load it in our pickup and drive it to the charity, unload it and get it from the front to the back of the building. It's heavy.

And the bath remodel project we started with someone else doing all the work to save Bob's health didn't work out like we expected, and Bob ended up having to do the remainder of the remodel himself. A big job he had not signed up for, exactly. More examples of us creating hard work for ourselves. "Why," I asked my husband, "are we making so much work out of everything? We need to change our minds and make our lives easier instead of harder. We don't have to continue to believe that everything we do requires hard work." I said it out loud and let it go to the Universe. That night a lady called and said she wanted to bring her pick up and see the desk on Sunday. I believe she will love my desk, purchase it, and take it to its new home on Sunday.

Be a positive chi decision maker. My acupuncture therapist tells me, and I must agree, that I am choosing to make myself miserable. And she's right. I can decide to be miserable or happy. I can decide to be positive or negative. I can be the decision maker who chooses to be at peace or be nagged by doubt and frustration and worry. Every moment of every day, I can shift my energy toward harmony and positive chi and be the decision maker--choosing happy, peaceful, joyful, and easy. From a young age, I have decided that any successful outcome was only possible with hard work and that I wasn't deserving of the rewards unless I worked hard to achieve them. Often extra effort and diligence, dedication and commitment are necessary to achieve our goals, but that doesn't require suffering. Big change! I have decided to change my mind: suffering is not required.

This week look at the changes you could make that end suffering and invite ease and harmony. Let go of worry that your stuff will not be happy or find a happy home without hard work. Trust the Universe to find the perfect new owners without your having to micromanage the process. Let go of the hard work of clutter clearing and make the decision each day to move forward easily, happily, joyfully, and peacefully.

Wishing you MORE Simplified Interiors

Kathie Seedroff

PS. Before I let go of my suffering to the Universe, I easily dropped off half my shredding to a free site near my home and then sat in line at another free site on the other side of town for over an hour, with the other half, which, unlike the previous drop off, ended up being disastrously unorganized and didn't happen. I paid to shred the rest so that project could be done. Okay! That was the last lesson required. No more suffering.

RESOURCE FIND OF THE WEEK

Design Repeats

8200 S. Colorado Blvd.

(north off County Line)

Centennial 80122

303.670.2900

www.designrepeats.com

The owners, Suzie and Camille, have created a a high-end shopping experience in pre-owned furniture and accessories at Design Repeats. This is no second-hand store. They have artfully showcased entire rooms--color coordinated, complete, and appealing. You will feel as if you've stepped into an Ethan Allen or Arhaus show room.

I saw this store when I was looking for ceramic tile for our remodel.
Great energy here!

Visit Design Repeats for a reliable source to sell your valuables or to purchase items for their second life in your home.

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