Feng Shui CrazyMaking My World A Better One

After being in business for almost 13 year - this year - I figured we should redo our business sign.  But wait a minute - I’m also afraid that if I do it wrongly it might affect our business - afterall, business had been really good for us for the last few years and we are really moving ahead and managed to save a ton of money.

I’m sure a lot of you feel the same way as I - and since I don’t have a feng shui master with us in this town - what do I do?  I don’t want to be responsible for bring our business down right?  So I’m doing a bit more research on what color I can use and what shape and size the sign should be but I’ll have to say anything is better than our old sign?  But before you do a business sign - I strongly suggest you do your research first - or speak with a feng shui master - because the business sign is a very important piece of information to your wealth of your business.

So you have a store ?  and you want to have a lot of customers come into your store right?  so how do one attract your customers to want to come in all the time and buy things from you?  A warm and inviting store is the way to go - but most importantly - your presentation of your goods need to be inviting too.  If you don’t dust your goods - and someone wants to buy it - what would they be thinking?  that it is old stock and it might not work as well as the newer ones?  It’s not rubbish like what my spouse thinks- because when you go get a carton of milk - wouldn’t you choose the freshest one - the one right behind the rest?  I do - so therefore a warm and inviting store is important - but keeping your goods fresh and dust free is just as important.

I was invited to a grand opening of an office of a friend - he just got into the import and export business  - and like anyone who practices feng shui - I had to look around to see if they had good feng shui to sustain the business for a long time - and will he succeed.   His wife who is the purchasing manager uses shoplet coupons for all the office stationary they need - and it was she who had taken care of all other office supplies as well - from coffee maker - to the toilet cleaner that they needed in the office.  And she definitely didn’t spare any change for giving the best office environment to the employees as well - they even had a great kitchenette in the office - in case they need to work late.

I loved that they had a great seating area for guests - and in the sitting area - there was a fish tank with some live fishes in it - the water was cleaned and the fishes looked very healthy.    The wife’s office was simple - and unobstructed  - great for thinking and doing lots of work.  Overall, the feng shui looks great - but I’m no expert  - but it felt good in their office.

I find it really hard to give advice on those who wants to be property investors - because there are so many factors in the properties to look at.   As you all know I’m no expert - I’m just someone who practices it - and believes that feng shui can help make our life better.

We are also looking to invest in a building lately - and since the investment is huge - we needed to consult someone about it before we embark on our adventure which may make us comfortable in life or break us.  Different properties needs different kind of feng shui factor - and since we are investing for a store - we have been warned that the Xuan Kong Feng Shui affects the different stars and thus might cause the business to make or break.  Every placement in the store is carefully looked at - the traffic flow of your customers coming into the store - where your cash register is - all these affect the property you are in.  Very intense right?  so yes - for the property investors - best to get a good feng shui master to help out - or take course for it.  In the meantime, we are going to sit put - and see if I can contact Joey Yap to do an online consultation.

So my dear friend who owns a store wants to organize her office so that it will bring her more business - and asked for some suggestions.  I went to her shop and office to look around today and realised that she needs more than feng shui - because there were so many paper work lying around the office and store.  But it’s the same at our store and it seems like the men doesn’t like organizing the paperwork - so I recommended document imaging to my long time friend to see if it would work better for her shop and spouse.

With document imaging, her spouse don’t have to worry if he can find an invoice or a fax from a customer or supplier because everything will be in the computer.  By doing that, the mess will be eliminated and that itself is already good feng shui - tidying up the mess and giving the office and shop a new life.  But of course, if she decides on another alternative - she can use that too.  But mostly I think it’s the paperwork of all the things that is going on the store that is causing some stagnant air around her business.  So yes!  if you are like my girlfriend - I strongly recommend a way to keep all these paperwork in order first and then the rest will fall into place.

When we first started the business - the spouse’s, no one wanted to give us a line of credit - not even a small loan.  And if you have a small business and just starting out - you know will know that not many supplier/s would give you a credit line too - but can you blame them - after all, you may be a fly by night company.  So when a friend told me about money problems with his estore - I can fully understand it - because cash flow is slow in the beginning.   But unlike us - we didn’t have the option of a car title loans Oregon like my friend did, lucky for him he got a loan against his car title without a credit check - to help him tide over his situation.

So he wrote and asked me how feng shui can help him with his money flow problems.  In which I told him about the remedies that I’ve found worked for us in the past - but also commended on his right decision to use the car title loans instead of getting a high interest loan.  That is why I told the spouse that we must buy a house and car and assets that we can use as collateral in the future instead of begging for money from the bank.  The bank wasn’t as kind to us then - but now that we owned a house - they called us for a follow up on a building we were looking to buy - now had we not owned a house already - and had no collateral - they wouldn’t have been so earnest to help us out.   So my friend was definitely a lot luckier than us - we had to pay so much interest and we are never going back to that again.

Faces of Fortune is launched by Joey Yap’s student - Tee Lin Say - so the student is going to be more popular than the master eh.  But in this book - Tee described how a person’s look can tell a lot of the person.  The art of face reading - is well known with fortune tellers - but i didn’t know that it goes for feng shui too.

Tee is said to have written the book - so that the laymen like you and I - can understand it better with the lingo of the experts.   Also this book can help one - with making sure that a business partner or an investment is well invested because you can tell if the person is honest - can bring you luck etc.    You can find some very prominent personality in her book too.   I don’t know how much the book is going for - but I’ll let you know soon.

The spouse owns a business and I’m constantly looking for ways to make the store a better business to make more money, therefore, I always check the feng shui of the store.  I always remind the spouse - who is an “ang moh” aka westerner - that the environment of the store is very important to everyone in the store and the customers.  I remind him that our store cannot be too dark nor too bright.  . Making the store look alive, vibrant is very important - because a store looking like it is depressed or struggling does not attract your customers. The smell of the store is important too - but hold on a minute - if you own a clinic - or a pharmacy - you don’t want your clinic or pharmacy to smell like vanilla scent right?  or do you?  well you get what i mean.  Looking fresh is also important - but what if you own a antique store?  Yes - all these have to be taken into consideration - when a person walk into your store - what does the customer/s think?  happy? sad?  depressed?  yes all these you have to think about.  I always tell our employees - that it’s show time - when they come to work - regardless of what is happening at home - don’t bring it to work - but some just don’t understand this.  Feng shui plays an important part - so it is important to make them aware of all these.

So a friend who sells insurance asked me the other day - about getting more business for his insurance job - since in this economy it is very hard to make a sale.  Even the more established insurance agent and company are having a hard time trying to get new customers and retain the old ones.  But that reminds me of someone that I’ve gotten to know - a long time ago - and he sells insurance as well - but he was doing so well - he was driving a BMW 7 Series.  But then if you had a BMW 7 series - you must be doing considerably well - so how does he do it - while other insurance agent are struggling - I asked myself - and can feng shui help?

Well, lets look at all his toys - from the newest cellphone to the newest car and to what he is wearing - all of him shouts success.   I thought about my own insurance agent - who had a blackberry and several  RIM BlackBerry accessories - and he too looked like he is very successful and his blackberry is constantly ringing and even when we had lunch the other day - he was using his blackberry to text his office. So if you are like my friend - I suggest - you have some blink on your blackberry - since you cannot hang golden coins or fortune coins.   Crystals are best to entice more business phone calls - so if you are a lady agent - you are in luck - but if you are a guy - some hidden blink on your blackberry accessory is the way to go.  Good luck - hope this works for you.

So I read on Forbes the other day that even big advertising company like StrawberryFrog from New York had their offices in New York renovated but not without thinking about Feng Shui.  I was pretty pleased about it - because if I were to move to a new store for my business - I too would think of the feng shui for the store to bring in wealth and health - wealth from the customers and health for us the owners as well as employees.  But more so harmony amongst workers and also employers and employees. Like mentioned on the Forbes website - the principle of Feng Shui is all about harmonizing the environment around you - so that the positive energy can work for you and yours to benefit you and not against you.