Work from home? 9 Ways to Minimize Distractions

By Jessica Hoelzel

Getting work DONE from home can be a challenge at times. Especially if you often get distracted by people, pet, outdoor noise or electronic interruptions.

Here are 9 Ways to Minimize those Distractions:

1. Work in a room that has a door you can close. And close it.

2. If you don’t have a door, fashion some separation with a tri-fold screen, bookshelf or other piece of furniture that serves as a divider.

3. Move your desk from facing out the window to facing the entry, the command position.

4. If you can still see out the window when your desk is in the command position, put a buffer in front of it. Sheers or plants still filter in light but minimize the distractions that can pull you away from what you’re meant to be focusing on.

5. Establish work times/boundaries with your family.

6. Kennel pets for short periods of time when you need intense focus.

7. Wear headphones and turn it up loud! Listen to soothing or motivating music – whatever moves you.

8. Disable the email pop-up feature on your computer.

9. Turn your phone on silent and put it in another room.

When you minimize distractions, you honor your time and your work, enabling you to be at your best.

Quote for the Day: Office Feng Shui

“The ideal office is a room of your own with a regular shape (preferably square or rectangle), natural lighting (at least one window), a solid door you can close, and a good position for your desk.”

- David Daniel Kennedy

Where is your home office? Is it working for you?

Come on, don’t be shy! Feng Shui FAQ

Feng Shui Frequently Asked Questions

What do you want to know about feng shui? I'm here to help!

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What Can Feng Shui Do For You?

“Many of us in the West have forgotten what life can be like. We feel separate and disconnected…there is so little sacredness in our lives. When we are out of balance with our surroundings, we become physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually sick….

“Feng Shui offers hope. It offers the means to reconnect and bring the sacredness back into our lives.”

- Karen Kingston, Creating Sacred Space With Feng Shui

FAQ on Feng Shui: What are yours?

What do you want to know about feng shui?

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Quote for the Day: About Cleaning

“Cleaning creates an empty space where something new – life – can happen, leaving a free area for a fresh approach. It creates neutral ground. More than that, this is sacred work, creating hallowed ground – a space that is returned to its cleared wholeness.”

- Kathryn L. Robyn, Spiritual Housecleaning

Feng Shui for Mo’ Money Luck

By Jessica Hoelzel
 
Diffuse Abundance Essential Oil

Feng shui is all about energy. Subtle adjustments that you make to your environment can bring about changes that are beyond our logical mind’s understanding.

Something I like to do to shift the energy in my house is to diffuse with essential oils. Abundance is one that I choose when I feel like cultivating the energy of having plenty, living a rich life, with lots of good things (material and immaterial) and being in gratitude for all of it.


Email me today to get some Abundance for yourself.

Best Feng Shui Advice

By Jessica Hoelzel

Some of the best feng shui advice I can give is to stay inspired. To be inspired means to be “in spirit”. When we don’t change our home environment on a regular basis, the energy becomes stagnant. Rather than filled with life force energy, it becomes void of it. I encourage you to live “in spirit”, to continuously be aware of how you can create space around you that fills you up.
A great resource for home inspiration is my friend Lisa’s blog, Inspire Chi. Check it out!

Quote for the Day: Why Do Feng Shui?

“When you practice feng shui properly, you’ll first notice the difference in your environment – your body, mind, spirit and energy level. Good feng shui makes you feel wonderful because you’ve aligned your personal energy with your home or office.”
- Angi Ma Wong

Happy Valentine’s Day! Questions to Ponder Today…

By Jessica Hoelzel
 
Do you have a strong partnership?
In feng shui, 9 areas of your life correspond with 9 areas of your home. One of the most often adjusted areas is Partnership. Why? Like money, we all want love.

Do you have it? Have you done feng shui in your Partnership area to attract love, or enhance certain aspects of your relationship?

Leave a comment below.

Your Bedroom Should Be First Priority

By Jessica Hoelzel

If you have a lot of rooms in your home that could use some rejuvenation, and aren’t sure where to start, I suggest starting with your bedroom. The energy in your bedroom is the closest energy to you, because it is the most personal space, and where you spend the most time (sleeping). What can you do in your bedroom to make it more of a space that supports you? Decluttering? Cleaning? A little design sprucing? When you pay it some loving attention, it will pay you back in nurturing dividends.

Quote for the Day: About Bedrooms

“To work on a personal intimate relationship, the best room within which to incorporate some Feng Shui adjustments is the master bedroom. When there are relationship issues it is important to keep this room in a balanced and harmonious state.”

- Carole Hyder, Wind and Water, Your Personal Feng Shui Journey 

5 Things You DON’T Want in Your Bedroom

By Jessica Hoelzel

For romance and closeness to ensue, your bedroom space must be set up to encourage, not discourage it.

5 Things You DON’T Want in Your Bedroom

• TV
• Computer
• Phone
• Paperwork
• General Clutter (boxes of stuff, misc odds ‘n’ ends, kids’ things, piles of books or clothes)

Read Why Here

 

Unfinished Projects: What to do?

By Jessica Hoelzel

Do you have a lot of things “in the works” – projects you’ve started, but not finished, scattered throughout your house? Honor yourself and the essence of your projects by following through to bring them to completion. The things that you start – give birth to – deserve the respect of you pushing through the labor so they can be born, instead of lying dormant. Then their energy becomes stagnant.

If the projects have lost meaning for you, you should abandon them altogether and eliminate their clutter so they don’t end up as a burden to you.

Paper: Just Pitch It!

By Jessica Hoelzel

Too much paper weighs us down. It is especially burdensome when it overtakes desk or kitchen counter surfaces, and worse, the bedroom. Each piece of paper we receive asks us to make a decision about what to do with it.

Keep your paper burden from being too heavy by pitching it in the recycle bin the first chance you get. Instead of setting a piece paper aside, to figure out what to do with it later, force yourself to make a decision right away. Does it go in the “To Do” or “To File” pile? If you don’t need it, pitch it in the recycle bin.

Question to Ponder: Do you have a place of peace?

By Jessica Hoelzel

It can be a crazy world out there. So in here – in our homes – we need a place that’s sane so we can recoup.

 Do you have a place in your home to:

• Meditate
• Practice yoga
• Drink a cup of tea
• Read a book
• Cuddle up
• Relax
• Be quiet

…a place for you to find some peace?

If not, why not?

Work from Home Survey: I Need YOUR Help!

A fact is a fact – if you’re not set up for success in your workspace you’re not going to find it.

As you may have read, I’m working on a brand new program to help people who work from home create a space that helps them meet their career goals. Whether those goals are:

• growing a business
• making more money
• getting more done in less time
• feeling less stressed out

I’m looking for feedback on how I can help.

Do you work from home, or know someone who does?

Click here to participate in my 2-3 minute survey

And I’d be ever-so-grateful if you pass along this link to any work-from-home professionals you know.

Thanks!

Quote for the Day: About Clutter

“Clutter is like the tide: it comes in every day, whether you want it to or not. It slows down sometimes, but it never really stops. And unless you find a way to deal with it as quickly as it flows in, pretty soon you’ll be drowning in clutter.”

-Lori Baird, author of Cut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff

Bedroom Feng Shui

By Jessica Hoelzel

What do you see when you lie in bed? (Please don’t say a TV.) The wall opposite your bed is called a “Vision Wall”. What you see on that wall, every day when you go to sleep, and every day when you wake up should be inspirational for you. It should represent what your vision is for your life and your true purpose.

Favorite Tip for Office Organizing

By Jessica Hoelzel

One of my favorite products to use to store things in an office is the magazine butler. And one of my favorite tips is to turn them around, so you don’t see what’s inside. You only see the back. Choose a plain design for a streamlined look, or a pattern to get funky.

Some I like

Question to Ponder

Here’s a question to ponder…



How do I feel when I’m in my workspace?



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Get Rid of Dead Holiday Decorations

By Jessica Hoelzel

In feng shui, anything dead is dead. And that means something – it means that you have the energy of death wherever you have a dead thing. So if you have holiday wreaths or swags still hanging that have lost their chi (life force energy), you’ll want to take them down. Anything withered, yellowing or drooping near your front door will stop the chi from entering your dwelling.

Quote for the Day: About Work

“The same principles apply to Feng Shui at work as they do at home except that in the office the most important consideration is the energizing of wealth and harmony luck to ensure that employees work as comfortably as possible.”

- Lillian Too