How Your Environment Shapes Your Success – Or Lack Of It

How often have you heard or read that a good work environment is an essential ingredient to business success? Probably quite often. But what makes an environment good? How can you ensure that your environment supports you in your goals.

Indeed, have you ever considered that it may be features of your workplace that may contribute to poor networking, staff disharmony, invoices just not being paid by your customers, lack of recognition, delays and obstructions in projects, or even ill-health

Feng Shui is a powerful paradigm for looking at the environment in a whole new perspective. Far from being a batch of superstitious beliefs, it is being seriously followed by architects, designers and leading business people all over the world. There is a growing recognition of the impact environments have on inhabitants, both in the workplace and in homes.

Take the Sick Building Syndrome, for instance, or the situation of the growing number of people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. These are examples of negative influence. Environments can just a simply provide a positive influence on our lives, allowing us to reach fully into our strengths and possibilities in any area we wish – relationships, prosperity and health.

Originally, Feng Shui was developed in China from observations of agricultural successes and failures. From these observations, certain principles emerged, which, if followed, would almost certainly assure the success of crops – and thus, also of communities.

As societies became more sophisticated, so did the principles for successful living. Observations of nature were extrapolated to human affairs (humans were considered inextricably involved with the earth and the cosmos), and refinements of the principles continued over thousands of years.

Imagine, for a moment, a surfer riding the waves skillfully. Here is a person who has mastered the rhythms of the waves, and knows how to proceed with confidence and joy. So it is with Feng Shui. Life is full of rhythms – personal rhythms, seasonal rhythms, celestial rhythms, and so on. Feng Shui is about mastering these waves, so that individuals can live optimally.

Additionally, just as humans have different personalities, so do environments. Just as you learn to co-operate and appease people with difficult personalities (if you don’t have the luxury of ditching them from your life!), difficult environments can also be appeased. It’s all a matter of “opening your Feng Shui eyes”, and learning to read the signals.

If you’re still unconvinced of the people-environment connection, consider the following scenarios:

Visualise a dark, internal office. No windows. Small. Old desk with broken laminate. Office chair from the fifties, tilting, wobbly and ripped vinyl. Three sets of filing cabinets, stuffed to overload, with additional piles of files stacked on top, and on the floor. A dead plant sits by the door. The lighting, an ancient fluoro, flickers slightly. And there’s a strange smell…

You are asked to prepare a submission for additional funding, and you have been given this space to do it in. How do you feel? Do you think you would be able to do your task quickly and easily? Why?

Fortunately, you are rescued by a perceptive colleague who lends you a space in her area. It has a pleasant external view, and lets in plenty of natural light, without the glare. The chair is strong and comfortable, the desk attractive in a simple way. No files are visible, but you can organise your notes in a way that lets you find things easily. You smile as you sit down to your task.

Humans are so powerfully affected by their environments, but we have become oblivious to its influence. When I was studying, my teacher offered this definition of bad Feng Shui: “Bad Feng Shui is whatever pisses you off!” Whether it’s the view, the smell, the noise, the ugly curtains, your creaky door, whatever! It all counts as bad Feng Shui.

So your Feng Shui exercise is to cast a ruthlessly critical eye over your work place (your home too, if you’re up to it). Note what irritates you. Now, what can you do about it? Fix it, alter it, replace it, remove it, hide it, avoid it? But DEAL with it! Feel how your load lightens right up after you’ve finally tackled the annoyance, freeing you up to deal with your preferred tasks more powerfully and with more focus. That is what Feng Shui is all about.

Common sense? Of course!

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