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Feng Shui Your Workspace For Dummies

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John Wiley & Sons, May 23, 2011 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 288 pages
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese art of arranging physical space to maximize positive energy. Whether you’re a novice or knowledgeable about Feng Shui, a powerful CEO or an assistant, this guide will help you tap the power of Feng Shui in your workplace to boost your productivity and performance. Feng Shui Your Workplace For Dummies will help you work more effectively, with dozens of simple fixes and tweaks to enhance energy, increase harmony, relieve tension, and promote career achievement. You’ll get an overview of Feng Shui terminology and principles and discover how to:
  • Deal with any type of workplace, including a cramped cubicle, open concept office, traditional office, or a makeshift home setup
  • Choose and arrange furniture to bring more energy and flow to your workspace
  • Deal with improper lighting, glass doors, and walls
  • Reduce clutter
  • Use light, flowers, and sound to create harmony
  • Make the most of color and texture, including dressing for success
  • Use Feng Shui in your interactions with others for harmonious relationships with colleagues
  • Build a business the Feng Shui way

Written by Holly Zeigler, a Feng Shui devotee and consultant for commercial and residential architects and developers, and Jennifer Lawler, a master at Martial Arts and author of Martial Arts For Dummies and ASVAB For Dummies, this book helps you put the time-honored principles of Feng Shui to work in your workplace! It even includes a workspace sketch pad to help you plan your furniture placement. After all, according to Feng Shui, something as simple as moving the furniture in your workspace can help you move up in the workplace!

  

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Contents

Introduction
Conventions Used in This Book
Conceptualizing and Strategizing Oddly at Peace with Peace
Interacting with Others Implementing for Success
Where to Go from Here
Part I
Chapter 1
Showing What Feng Shui Can Do for You
Chapter 9
You Werent Raised in a Barn but You Work in One
Reducing the roar of the crowd
Beaming you up
Minding your own beeswax
Desks Together Newsroom Style
Chapter 10
Kicking It in the Corner Office

Making efficiency with an ounce of prevention
Allow myself to introduce myself
Form school
Compass school
Black Sect school
Getting in Touch with Your Masculine Side with YinYang
Flowing Like Chi
Going with the Octagon
Chapter 2
Constructing Fabulous Floor Plans
Fixing a funky floor plan
Taking the Ouch from Angles
Going with the Pathways Flow
Seeing all pathways
Bustin Clutter to Break Chi Free
Kicking clutter in the bum
Enlisting the troops
Chapter 3
Using a 9to5 Bagua
Juggling Chi YinYang the Bagua and the Five Elements
Putting in the PS with Intentions
Listening to your gut
Respecting Workspaces
Playing Yoda
Tailoring your approach
Part II
Chapter 4
Having a runin with the sun
Flowers and Plants
Choosing wisely
Placing properly
Soothing the Savage Beast with Sound
Playing some mood music
Honing in on rippling water
Chapter 5
Reinforcing your goals
Whipping up some energy
Looking good in red or blue or yellow
Getting Next to Textures
Applying Color and Texture to Floors Walls and Windows
Climbing the walls
Balancing Color and Texture
Correcting the Overuse of an Element
Keeping metal in balance
Chapter 6
Banging into the yang
Whats that sound?
Cords
Designating EquipmentFree Zones
Part III
Chapter 7
Picking the best locale
Staying away from inappropriate locales
Judging the impact of surrounding structures
Curing Unfavorables
Designing Your Workspace the Feng Shui Way
Putting accounting where it counts
Projecting Your Image
Signs signs everywhere
Planning a Specific Business
Combining friendliness and function
Chapter 8
Loving Your Bland Burlap Walls
Peekaboo
Cramping my chi
Taking it down a decibel
Chilling next to the water cooler
Sizing Up Your Desk
Using the Bagua on your desktop
Curing layout problems
Moving the mauve furniture
Cutting chi off at the knees is bad
Chapter 11
Location location oh and staplers
No bedroom to spare
Creating room plans
Swanky Equipment and Furnishings
Ensuring Success While Wearing Your Robe
Highfiving the Five Elements
Chapter 12
You want fries with that? Working behind the counter
Trucking in your fourwheeled office
Factories and warehouses
Temps and contractors
Packing a Portable Feng Shui Kit
Chapter 13
Making a Plan and Working It
Reception Areas
Keeping clutter from clients
Pulling up a chair
Waiting on the Five Elements
Making a Chi Break for Copy Mail and Storage Rooms
Clearing a path from the fax to the printer
Putting some pillows on that printer
Keeping the space sparse
Conference and Board Rooms
Meeting with the Five Elements
A meeting of the minds on chairs
Treating the Water Closet with a Little Respect
Working near the porcelain god
Part IV
Chapter 14
Feng Shui and Relationships
Your what is connected to my what?
Putting in some chi before me
Spotlighting the Relationship and Helpful People Sectors
Relationship sector
Helpful People sector
Chapter 15
Positivity at Work
Surrounding yourself with what you love
Aromatherapy and music
Establishing Your Professional Goals and Setting Career Intentions
Getting to your goals
Dressing for Success
Dressing up your intentions
Part V
Chapter 16
Placing Cures with Intention
Mixing in Some Music
Crystallizing Your Thoughts
Chapter 17
Giving the Wealth Sector a Nod
Cashing In on Desk Placement
Lighting Your Wealth Life
Honoring Your Helpful People
Chapter 18
Finding the Baguas Coworker Sector
Sticking in Shapely Elements
Coloring Your Space
Understanding the Animal in Us All
Chapter 19
Your Best Direction That Is
Having Your Back Against a Wall Is Good
First in Line First in Mind
Stating Your Intentions
Appendix
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About the author (2011)

Holly Ziegler is a sought-after Feng Shui instructor and consultant.

Jennifer Lawler is a master at martial arts, a Tae Kwon Do competitor, and is also the coauthor of ASVAB For Dummies.

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