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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

How to Create a Self Improvement Calendar to Increase the Positivity in Your Life

If you are results oriented and want to increase positivity in your life, the time to begin is now. Positivity is about bringing your personal environment and you into harmony both exte ally and internally so you can create a better life and enjoy it more. Positivity is living a balanced harmonious life that results in improved relationships, better health, increased prosperity, and abundance.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Your Guide to Social Media – Disconnect to Connect

According to several research studies done in 2011 and 2012, 39 percent of Americans spend more time on Facebook than in face-to-face relationships and 10.5 billion minutes per day are spent globally on Facebook alone. The warp speed shift in social relationships and how we interact is due to social technologies, according to a July 2012 study, “The Social Economy: Unlocking values and productivity through social technologies,” by the McKinsey Global Institute.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Rough Seas or Smooth Sailing Ahead…Take Command

Do you wish your life was smooth sailing every day, not just occasionally? Do you feel like you are you aimlessly adrift, being tossed around on the sea of life at the whim of the waves? Everyone experiences a few days or weeks throughout a lifetime where they feel out of control and tossed to and fro. However, when being out of control is the rule and is no longer the exception, life becomes very weary, uncomfortable and perhaps unbearable.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Being Grateful For What You Have - Are You?

The gratitude season is here. With Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year on the horizon, maintaining a calm grateful attitude throughout the next several weeks will reduce your anxiety, put you in-control and increase your personal blessings tenfold. Your holiday season will be filled with more hope, peace and joy within instead of worry and stress.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

The Secret Method to Achieving Prosperity

Is there really a “secret” to achieving prosperity, money and success? Do the suggestions and ideas in books like <u>Think and Grow Rich</u>, <u>The Law of Attraction</u> and <u>The Strangest Secret</u> really work? A vast majority of the world believes you are either lucky and get all the breaks or you are destined to be one of the unfortunate ones that works twice as hard to get half as much.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Use Feng Shui's Yin Yang for Self-Improvement

An often asked question is, “Do Yin and Yang have anything to do with Feng Shui?” Or, “Can I use something other than the traditional principles of Feng Shui to bring balance and harmony into my surroundings so I can improve my life?” Others even say they would like to use Feng Shui but do not want anyone to see something in their home that does not look normal, is weird or obvious.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

What’s Keeping You Down?

A lot is written at this time of the year reminding you to be grateful for what you have and thanking God or your Creator for your blessings. Yes, it is good and important to be grateful and set aside one day per year to express that gratefulness but what about the rest of the year? Most people miss the vast difference between being grateful and living a life in gratitude.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Can't Focus or Get Anything Done... A Solution that Works

According to Mac Anderson Founder, Simple Truths, a few years ago a health study determined there are three main reasons people can't cope in life: 1. They live in the past. 2. They have a low self-esteem. 3. They can't laugh at themselves. All three of these can be important when you cannot focus and are unmotivated. Moreover, if one of them fits, you need to take appropriate action. But if you have carefully checked all three of these out and none of them fit you – then what? Pam is a very determined businessperson who works from her home office.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Your Kitchen: The Key to Abundance and Prosperity

When it comes to good health, strong relationships and wealth, your home is the key. According to the principles of Feng Shui, the three areas that can affect your prosperity and future most are your front door, bedroom, and kitchen. This article, the third of three, will focus on your kitchen – especially your stove or burner top-- and its impact on your prosperity, vitality, health and overall abundance for your future. Your stove’s location, care and cleanliness will either increase your prosperity, well-being and abundance or stand its way.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Reduce Holiday Stress using Feng Shui

People often celebrate as many as three or four holidays during this time of the year. Unfortunately, each can be filled with stress wrapped in many shapes, sizes and packages that can far overshadow the potential for joy.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Create Personal Stability and Security

Is maintaining a positive attitude at the top of your “will do” list today? Are you finding it more and more difficult to go to work, look for a job or encourage others? According to a leading communications strategist the negative economy and discord in government has actually changed the way we think about tomorrow and communicate with each other. Being frugal and making smart choices is at the top of everyone’s list. We’ve moved from just talking the talk to talking it and walking it because others want to know whether you are actually committed to and doing what you say.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffMay 15, 20131 topic

Spring Clean Your Workplace to Increase Profits and Productivity

Spring cleaning is a phrase that is usually relegated to the home, but it is just as relevant to the well-being, productivity and future of a small business or a large corporation. Spring cleaning is the practice of cleaning a home from top to bottom, especially after long hard winters in colder climates. This process not only removes stagnant energy from a closed-up house in the winter and eliminates any leftover germs, improving the health of the family, but also removes c

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

3 Steps to a Sustainable Prosperity Lifestyle

Is there a sustainable lifestyle that provides calm; one that reduces stress and increases prosperity? It was once thought that the only way to achieve this was to live on a mountain top, in a Zen garden or to isolate oneself from the outside world. Today, with the use of positive thinking and the flow of positive energy created by applying Feng Shui principles to your life, you can remove energy drainers that cause you discomfort, conce and worry. By eliminating them and shifting to a flow of positive energy, everything can improve.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Five Steps to a More Prosperous 2013

Are you ready to shift the energy in your world? Are you ready for better relationships, more prosperity? If yes, try using Feng Shui principles. Feng Shui is a lifestyle that is all about shifting energy in your life and surroundings to create an improved, more prosperous life. You may call it goal setting or making New Year’s resolutions but what you are really doing is shifting the energy in your surroundings and within to something that is more closely aligned with your goals. A Simple Feng Shui Formula

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Prevent the Holiday Grinch from Stealing Your Joy

“He stared down at Who-ville! The Grinch popped his eyes! Then he shook! What he saw was a shocking surprise! Every Who in Who-ville, the tall and the small, was singing! Without any presents at all! He HADN’T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME! Somehow or other, it came just the same!

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

How to Reignite Your Job Search, Feng Shui Strategies that Help

A job search can be a daunting task to say the least. But in a down market where the 24/7 news speaks only of doom and gloom, it can see almost hopeless. The good news is that you are not powerless and can be in more control than you think is possible.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Are You Stuck on the Yellow Brick Road?

Did you decide 2010 is your decade filled with the kind of change that brings you balance, prosperity and abundance? Lasting change, the kind that eliminates chaos in your life and provides you calm so you can take advantage of the law of attraction no matter what is happening in the world. Did you start this decade with well-intended aspirations and determination saying “this time I’m going to do it” only to find yourself still stuck in the last decade? Where are you on your yellow brick road? Do you have a plan?

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Food, Feelings and Feng Shui

Studies have shown that people’s food intake is susceptible to their surroundings. Simple visual clues like plate size, room lighting, room color and the eating behavior and body size of dining companions were shown to affect the portion and size of food consumption. While the studies are numerous and supported by a wide range of industries such as restaurants, psychology and color researchers, the findings are remarkably similar when it comes to the impact of color on your life and its effect on your behaviors.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffJan 6, 20131 topic

Integrity – the Need for a Spiritual Component

Spirituality is the new frontier for integrity-driven leadership. Employees, the workplace environment and economics used to drive the operation of a business; today the workforce and their consumers or clients are looking for something more. A number of years ago Vince Lombardi, past head coach of the Green Bay Packers said, “Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.” He had discovered the secret everyone is sea

Primary topic: Integrity

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Feng Shui – a Tool for Healing, Inspiration and Self-empowerment

Feng Shui is often defined as a Chinese art or a system of natural laws to govern the spatial arrangement, orientation and placement of a building, home, furniture or a grave so that maximum harmony is achieved between the flow of energy of the environment and that of the user. It is believed to bring good fortune and prosperity to those who use its principles.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Negative Thinking Cannot Live Where Positive Thoughts Resides

Are you a worrier, so much so that you actually have created exactly what you’ve been worrying about? Do you start a project and think to yourself “I’m never going to get this done” and you don’t? Are there times you dread doing something because you think you will fail only to actually do it and it turns out you were right? Have you noticed; what you fear most is what you create? According to Napoleon Hill and W.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Your Front Door - The Key to Opportunities

Your Front Door: The Key to Opportunities There are three important areas in your home when it comes to good health, happiness, good relationships and wealth: your front door, your bed and your kitchen. Their location, care and cleanliness will either increase your prosperity and well-being or stand in the way. According to ancient Feng Shui principles, these three areas of your home form the foundation of your life for maintaining the present and creating the future. This article, one of three, will focus on the front door - the entrance to your home, your life and your future.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Use Feng Shui to Achieve Goals

Feng Shui principles are a powerful way to achieve the accomplishment of your goals. Its energizing principles influence the outcome of the creativity and visual impact of another powerful tool, the Vision Board. A Vision Board, whether it is a bulletin board with push pins or an elaborate graphic created on your computer, uses images and words to define and reach your intended goals and objectives. When you apply the principles of Feng Shui to the board’s images and words, the influence of the positive energy dramatically increases your success quotient.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Is Tired the New Norm?

Downtime is a necessity in today’s warp-speed world. We are so busy making a living and consumed in day-to-day activities that we often do not have time to enjoy life. We tend to over-commit, never say no and turn into workaholics – always doing something or going somewhere.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Take Care of Yourself to Attract Success and Prosperity

What did you do for yourself today that helped you be more energetic, productive and prosperous while reducing your stress and anxiety about the future? Do you believe there is something you can do or you need to do to change the status quo or do you feel it is out of your control? The answer to both of these questions is found in the ancient lifestyle known as Feng Shui. Its principles provide you a roadmap for creating a better future – one that is more energetic, filled with better relationships, less stress and more prosperity.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

The Feng Shui Secret - Don't Forget It

Have you applied Feng Shui principles to your home over the last few years? Have you tried a “do-it-yourself” Feng Shui balancing act where things were better for a while then everything fell apart again? Has anything changed in your life since you created balance in your personal or workplace environment?

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Your Personal Success Roadmap

“Age is such a high price to pay for maturity,” said Tom Stoppard, a Czech-bo British jou alist and playwright. Albert Einstein spoke of it as a space in which he lives, “that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” Various resources define maturity as the state of being fully developed in the body or the mind. A Chinese proverb states that maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself. Does maturity matter?

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Picture Perfect Strategies for Attracting Home Buyers

Are you looking for easy yet inexpensive ideas to sell your home when your income or financial future depends on it? The key is attracting buyers, and there are dos and don’ts that can make a significant difference.r

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Overcomplicating Your Life... Let Go of the Old to Create the New

Do you have a tendency to over-think and over-complicate everything you do? Do you feel like there must be just one more thing you need to do, find or search to make your plan perfect, work better or be more effective? The secret is to let go of the old. In other words, unclutter your thoughts and use positive energy thinking to create a new way of doing things. It's all about enjoying the journey while being efficient and effective so you can be more productive and profitable. It's not about how complex you can make something or how many options there are and should you use them all.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Art, Fashion and Feng Shui Increase Positive Energy

What do Fine art, Feng Shui and Fashion have in common, besides the letter F? They are all about energy. Artwork can provide you the kind of energy that can make you happy or sad; be uplifting or depressing. They are also categories that fall under: “one size doesn’t fit all.”

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Holiday Celebrations with a Feng Shui Twist

Not feeling the holiday spirit this year? Feng Shui principles can help you create a joy-filled holiday season. Although our society tends to compress much positive energy (good Feng Shui) into the last six weeks of the year and forget about all of that great energy by the second week of January in the New Year, it’s possible to extend that positive feeling year-round.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Neutrals are King for the 2013 Holiday Season and Beyond

Are you excited to bring out your holiday decorations each year? Do your design accents inspire and uplift you? There are more decorating choices than ever for consumers in 2013 but even with the variety of options, this may not be the year to transition into a completely new look.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffMar 21, 20141 topic

Room Dynamics Fuel Efficiency

Although it was a beautiful sunny spring day outside, there was a dark cloud hanging over atto ey Steve and his office reflected it. Steve was the managing partner of a multiple-city law firm spread across the state. He complained about how unfocused, distracted and disorganized he felt. He was worried that the firm wasn’t going to grow and make money on his watch. Steve was also conce ed that he was not as efficient and productive as he should be which left him feeling ine

Primary topic: Empowerment

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Positive Energy at Home Yields Positive Results

Positive energy is not the type of energy that provides you the ability to turn on lights or start engines but rather the kind of energy that helps you maximize your personal productivity and enjoy life more. Do you remember a moment when you were feeling totally empowered to take on your day? Are there times in your busy life when you were so relaxed you could float off into space and just enjoy the moment? If the answer is yes to either of these questions, you’ve experienced positive energy.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Is The Fatigue and Anxiety Epidemic Undermining Your Well-being?

Acute and chronic are often used to describe fatigue and anxiety. Most people however describe them as being overworked, overly tired and worried – worried about everything from the economy and losing their job to higher taxes and how they are going to meet their family’s needs. Many are expected to do more work with less pay while taking on additional jobs just to make ends meet.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

A Gratitude-Filled Thanksgiving helps Create a Better Tomorrow

What are you grateful for this year? Have you taken time to think about and be thankful for all the positive things that have happened in the last 12 months? Or, have you been busy just trying to survive and focusing on the negative, creating your own world of more stress. When you pursue this line of thought by focusing only on the negative, you tend to miss the good things that occur daily in your life e.g. the smile of a child, the long-distance hug of a parent or a friend encouraging you.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Strategies to Overcome Stress - 10 Tips to Take Control

Just because the nightly news and electronic media preaches doom and gloom, it is your choice whether you buy into it. Millions work, find new jobs, buy homes and start new relationships daily. They do not succumb to the prevailing negativity. They choose to maintain a positive attitude, overcome their stress and live anxiety-free and confident. You too can do this by taking control first of your thinking, then your actions and surroundings. You can be in-control and create the future you want, not be stuck with the nightly news prescription. 1. Change Your Thinkingr

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Less Is Better

Is staying focused or getting motivated a lost cause in your home or office? Do you feel like you have lost the war even before the first shot is fired? In the world of Feng Shui this lack of motivation, inspiration and focus is a sign of blockage or stagnation in your physical environment. For example, a very bright young freelance jou alist named Peter was missing his deadlines and struggling to write his stories. Even once he began he had trouble staying focused and finishing his projects.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Retirement, a Choice or Forced Change?

Whether you are one of the 77 million baby boomers reaching retirement age every seven seconds, approximately 12,000 people per day, or still part of what the government calls the non-mature workforce at 45 or under, the word retirement can create waves of anxiety, mile high piles of questions and even unrelenting fear. In today’s economy, the anxiety and fear has been magnified 100 fold when it comes to retirement. Will it be your choice to do so within your chosen time frame or will it be forced upon you whether you want to or not?

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Home Performance Audits are Good Feng Shui

Savvy homeowners realize that we are working in a new economy. Instead of moving, they are looking at home repairs, maintenance and home improvements as the best option for investing in their homes.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

How to Downsize, Re-size or Re-Locate with Less Stress

Kathy, a business person working out of a home office, has been talking about relocating and downsizing for months. She was so excited about her move. She did everything right, she uncluttered, packed and cleaned each room before moving on to the next. She arranged for utilities and the mail to be cancelled or moved. She didn't overlook anything, at least that is what she thought. It is now Wednesday, four days after the truck moved her furnishings from her old home to her new one - and she just got her key.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Wealth Begins at Home

A common belief is that wealth, financial wealth, comes from outside the home, through a job or investments. It is a little known fact that wealth actually begins at home where you sleep, eat and live according to Feng Shui principles. When areas of your home are out of balance by being filled with clutter or the wrong things, wealth becomes stagnant. It doesn’t grow; instead it diminishes or completely goes away, as in the loss of a job.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

How to Manage Time and Energy to Boost Personal Productivity

Are you stuck on the procrastination highway where productivity slows to a crawl and stress uncontrollably speeds up? Why, because you’d rather be doing something else, fear of failure or lack of organization? Or are you procrastinating just because you do not know how to manage your internal productivity clock, organize your energy and focus your attention?

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Four Ways to Generate Good Fortune

With so many people unemployed, the stock market still significantly down from record highs in 2008 and economists arguing about whether the recession is over or is going to get worse, it’s a wonder if anyone has a bright outlook on the future. Everyone has been touched by this economic downturn.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

6 Steps to a Clutter-free Computer and a More Productive You

According to the National Association of Professional Organizations, research shows a direct correlation between productivity and clutter. When clutter and chaos are on the rise, profits and productivity decline. While the mantra of the day may be "go paperless" that doesn't mean your computer should take over your life, become electronic clutter and take control of your time while you become less efficient, effective and productive. A clutter-free desktop reduces stress and frustration while increasing concentration and creative thinking.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

How to Create Prosperity through Home Improvements

Whether you rent, lease or own, any interruption in the flow of positive energy in your home and personal surroundings can cause many tiny interruptions in the flow of prosperity in your life. Your life, home and surroundings are filled with a constant flow of energy that can be positive, helpful and supportive, or negative, obstructive and act as a barrier to your prosperity. It is the flow of positive energy that helps keep your life moving forward smoothly, filled with an upbeat attitude, hope and prosperity.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Feeling Out of Balance? Create Balance with Feng Shui

Are you feeling out of balance, facing piles of unfinished projects, mounting financial indebtedness, or experiencing wellness issues that just won’t go away? If what you are doing to remedy these problems isn’t working, use Feng Shui principles to find balance and create new energy to attract good fortune. If you are holding onto old ways of doing things that are not working you are creating negative energy in your life. The result is stagnation leaving you with many unresolved issues or unfinished projects.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

Sync Home and Office Energy to Increase Prosperity

People have a tendency to segregate their lives: home vs. office, personal vs. professional and physical vs. spiritual. However, when you observe closely you will find that there is no separation to the movement of energy as it flows from one location, duty or emotional need to the next.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

How to Improve Your Prosperity

Do Feng Shui principles actually play a role in the development or improvement of prosperity? Will it make a difference if you focus new positive energy on improving your income generation? The answer is a qualified yes. Remember, one of the principles of Feng Shui is the use of positive energy to bring about desired results. You cannot expect a positive shift in energy to create prosperity and money for you unless your surroundings and actions align with your thinking so that you are in harmony and balance with your objective… improved prosperity and a better income.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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By Pat HeydlauffRecently published1 topic

3 Creative Ways to De-Stress

Stress often comes from being overwhelmed by just looking at or listening to all the clutter and chaos in your surroundings.

Primary topic: Feng Shui

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