Feng Shui CrazyMaking My World A Better One

Tomorrow my best friend in Malaysia will be attending Joey Yap’s class about how one can maximize your wealth potential for 2012.  With the current economy and financial situation around the world - I’m sure anyone would benefit from this class.  Only 50 people will be attending this class - and I really wished I was one.  I want to grow my wealth too - don’t you ?  no one refuses money - but of course - good feng shui doesn’t revolved around wealth alone - wealth is only one aspect of our life.

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 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.

I`ve recently bought a e-book from Joey Yap and started reading and analyzing my own Bazi - to see how I can improve myself, my wealth and my health.  And thus far - whatever I`ve read about my Bazi - is pretty spot on.  Apparently, I have an obstacle in wealth - and because of my ignorance - I may get into a lot of trouble if I don`t do something about it.

Truthfully speaking I don`t like managing money - I like the spouse to do that - so I guess I cannot be so reliant on the spouse - and get my act together.   I don`t think I`m the only person who possess this kind of traits because I`ve heard many woman say - how lost they are - when the spouse leave them for another woman.  Therefore, if you want to overcome this obstacle - I will post the solution or suggestion in my next post.

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.

Who doesn’t want more money right?  so like any business - we have a 3-legged frog near to our cash register - but some customers are so curious - and we have employees who are not careful and finally the coin in its mouth is finally broken and can’t be fixed.  So I’ve decided to search for a new one - to replace the old one - after all I don’t want to go broke and get a payday advance loan to pay my bills right.  Some people might think it is just superstition - but for me - the Money Frog (also called Three Legged Toad or Frog)  is considered as the most significant emblem of prosperity, wealth and money blessings in Feng Shui. And not only those in business can make use of the Money frog - you can also placed the money frog at home - but I was told not to place them too high up - else they might get scared to jump down - and collect all the money for you at night and bring it back to your home.

So you want to get rich but can’t afford to buy some real carp/arowana - without worrying that they will die and wasting your money.  So the best solution is to get the above - because according to chinese feng shui - represents ambition and aspiration.  The carp is a symbol of abundance and is great for not only money but career luck and good fortune.   But I’ve seen these arowana in people’s office as well - so I guess you can also give this to a businessman.

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 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.