| Is maintaining a positive attitude at the top of your | | | | The average person has at least twelve thousand |
| "will do" list today? Are you finding it more and more | | | | thoughts per day according to the National Science |
| difficult to go to work, look for a job or encourage | | | | Foundation. Taking positive mental and visual action |
| others? According to a leading communications | | | | helps to energize your thinking and replaces all the |
| strategist the negative economy and discord in | | | | negative thoughts that race through your mind daily. |
| government has actually changed the way we think | | | | Energize Your Surroundings |
| about tomorrow and communicate with each other. | | | | Now that you've energized your thinking it is |
| Being frugal and making smart choices is at the top | | | | important to bring into alignment the energy in your |
| of everyone's list. We've moved from just talking the | | | | surroundings to also be supportive of your goals. This |
| talk to talking it and walking it because others want | | | | is how you gain control of your surroundings and |
| to know whether you are actually committed to and | | | | your outcome. This is the formula for creating |
| doing what you say. Financial stability, responsibility | | | | emotional stability so you can work on financial |
| and being in-control are today's new language. We | | | | security. |
| have truly hit a point in history where "everything | | | | TO BEGIN: Unclutter your living environment, |
| you think, say and do matters" because that is how | | | | especially your bedroom, the kitchen and your office. |
| you create the future while living through today. | | | | Whether your clutter is stacks of magazines and |
| Recession Proof Your Thinking | | | | papers, boxes of books or piles of clothes you never |
| Rather than being at the mercy of the doom and | | | | wear, sort it, organize it and put it away or "get rid |
| gloom in the news use Feng Shui principles to develop | | | | of it." Remember, clutter can hang on walls too and |
| a positive attitude. You will be more in-control of your | | | | be magnetized to refrigerators. If there is a lot of |
| today while creating a better tomorrow by Feng | | | | chaos in these areas the consequences will be a less |
| Shuing your thinking. | | | | productive low energy discouraged you. You cannot |
| FIRST: Get rid of negative thinking by uncluttering | | | | energize your surroundings until you unclutter them |
| your mind. Imagine a large black balloon, then fill it | | | | first because when you focus energy on specific |
| with all of the negative "can't do" and "won't be able | | | | areas of your life you will energize more clutter |
| to" negative thoughts that come into your mind. All | | | | unless it has been cleaned up and prepared for new |
| thoughts such as "I'll never find a job," "I won't be | | | | energy to enter. |
| able to pay my bills," or "They won't return my call" | | | | NEXT: Once you have completed the uncluttering |
| should go into the balloon. Then release the balloon | | | | process then energize at least the following three |
| into the atmosphere to be recycled into positive | | | | areas of your life. |
| thinking. Then, welcome new positive thinking energy | | | | • Energize the east area of your bedroom and |
| in. Instruct your subconscious mind to allow only | | | | office with a green plant or a picture of a lush green |
| positive thoughts in to replace the old. The only way | | | | field or forest to focus energy on new things in your |
| good new thoughts can enter is to make room for | | | | life such as income, jobs, business even relationships. |
| them. | | | | • Energize the south area of your office with |
| THEN: Create an Intentions Board (bulletin board with | | | | something red that is upward reaching such as a red |
| push pins) or a poster that reflects your short term | | | | candle or a picture of mountains framed in red to |
| intentions and goals. If it's income you need to | | | | great good luck energy. |
| create, put large dollar signs on the board, contracts | | | | • Energize the center of your home with a stone |
| or a paycheck. If you've been searching for a | | | | or rock that symbolizes your commitment to yourself |
| significant other for quite some time, create the | | | | and your desire to create a better brighter in-control |
| characteristics of what you'd like to see in the other | | | | future. This can actually be a rock you collect from |
| person and put it on the board. Whether it is income, | | | | the garden or the seashore or it can also be an item |
| housing, a job or a relationship you are seeking | | | | like a piece of marble, rose quartz, turquoise or onyx. |
| doesn't matter, what does matter is getting a good | | | | It should be something you've selected purposefully |
| visual of it and keeping those objectives energized. If | | | | to energize you and keep you centered on your |
| possible, use your computer to create a miniature | | | | future. |
| version of your Board on a business card and carry it | | | | Make everyday count. Remember you are |
| with you at all times. | | | | exchanging it for a day of your life. When you adopt |
| NOW: Take action. You can only succeed if you have | | | | the motto "everything you think, say and do |
| a plan and take action. If you want to build a house it | | | | matters" you are impacting your future because you |
| isn't enough to buy lumber, nails and a hammer. You | | | | are creating what you want by your thoughts and |
| eventually need to create a plan and then pick up the | | | | not being a victim of the gloom and doom attitude |
| hammer piecing together the wood with the nails to | | | | permeating the country. Using this results oriented |
| create the structure. The same holds true for your | | | | outlook you can achieve whatever goal you've laid |
| future. It takes a commitment on your part and then | | | | out before you because you and only you will be in |
| action to achieve a successful outcome. Make your | | | | charge. |
| plan reasonable, responsible and one in your control. | | | | |