Feng Shui this!

Today the move began. I am currently home taking a break before I go back tonight to paint. Everything stared well but as I was progressing every one seemed to keep having these "Great Ideas". Essentially I am now relocating all of the storage and stockpiles of other peoples stuff. It turning out to be quite a bit more than I bargained for. I have piles of things spread through nearly the entire office.

I told every one that it would all be done Monday, my mother is coming into town tomorrow night with her parents (my 90+ year old grandparents), and for religious reasons I don't work on Sunday. This leaves me with one busy evening tonight and a fun morning tomorrow.

If I survive I will let you know the results and may even post a picture of my new office.

Signing off, a very tired evil Octopus (those four other limbs would sure be helpful).

Office Zen and the art of Feng Shui

I am going to move my office. The one I am in now has no windows and gets very hot. The new room I am moving into is currently our storage room. NO one minds as we all think that we need a larger storage room and I want the window so badly. The new office is smaller than the one I am in but I have measured it out and feel that it is sufficient for my needs.

Because it is a smaller room I have been reading up on my Feng Shui. I want my smaller office to have a more comfortable/healthy feeling in it. So I am going to incorporate the following elements:

• Something Red on my south wall.
• An 8x10 inch mirror so I can see the doorway (unfortunately the size and layout requires that my desk face away from the door)
  
• An odd number of green live plants
  
• A fountain of water /picture of running water near doorway
• A Quartz Crystal by the computer monitor

As I have never subscribed to the Feng shui Philosophy I don't know if this will work. But I have always held an interest in eastern cultures (I even speak Laotian and Thai fairly well) so I am willing to give it a try and if it works ... Don't knock it until you try it as THEY say.

Experiment Failed

Well, after the silence experiment yesterday I have come to a few conclusions. One my friend must have listened to awful music or there are two types of people on this issue, those who do well in utter silence and those who don't.

I found that not only did I not get more done than usual but I did less, a lot less. I couldn't keep focused I was jittery and on edge. I felt like I was in an isolation camp.

After this I came to realize that I really don't "listen" to the music while I work. I do occasionally tune my mind in to a song that I really like. But for the most part it is just back ground noise. I feel like I am near other people and I guess that is important to me.

So instead today I am trying a relaxing music (Enya) as opposed to the regular chatter and annoying advertisements on the radio, to see if that improves the work experience.

No Music Today

The other day a friend of mine told me that he stopped listening to music in his car or at work and that his productivity increase dramatically as well as his sense of peace. Well always one to give something a try I am trying it today, and quite honestly, so far all I feel is the oppressive silence in my office.

As I am in the far back corner office next to the copier and no other human soul, I use my radio to add back ground noise to keep me from going crazy. But if I can get more done at work well...

I will let you know if any thing changes but I am not sure that it will.