Question: Do you have any tips for manifesting New Year’s Resolutions?
Answer: Yes, I do! Do NOT just say it. Write it down! Make it real by dreaming about completing it and then WRITE it down on paper. My best advice is to write a story about what it’s going to be like once you have completed it. All this falls back to the book I highly recommend, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn. If you haven’t read it, I would try to make that your resolution! And if you have and you need additional resources, please feel free to dig into Henriette Anne Klauser’s book Write It Down, Make it Happen.
These two books are exceptional at teaching you techniques on how to get clear on what you want and making it manifest in your life. A fun way to manifest your dreams is to write down the list and share it with a group of friends. Pass out copies of your lists to each other so you can monitor all of the group’s dreams as they come true! (I love getting friends involved in my rituals – it seems to #1: make me do it. #2: hold myself more accountable for it. #3: have more fun doing it.) Try it – what’s the harm?
Now, from a feng shui perspective, I would suggest enhancing the front left-hand part of the home or room called the Skills and Knowledge gua. This gua is related to the mountain trigram, which symbolizes the place to go within to reflect and learn. The element is earth, the color is blue, a great symbol is light…so feel free to take some time to enhance this gua with the intention of you gaining wisdom about your life’s path and what is best to give your energy to this year.
Next, accent the center front and front right-hand areas of the home (called the Career and Helpful People guas respectively) and you are on your way to placing yourself in the right place at the right time for what you are supposed to be doing in the coming year. Items that help hold good energies here are things made of metal. You can place that list you just wrote in the front right-hand area in a metal box to tie it all together with your resolutions.
Dear Karen, Best wishes for 2023 !
The strange thing is that there is a tricky gap between making a new life resolution and then to act upon it. There is a lot of good will, intention and even urgency to find the right path and then a total lack of how to to put such intentions to action. Personally I have eagerly read both of your books, made many changes and applied the principles as explained and although changing things makes me feel better, I have yet to see any life changes. At 60 and following many many personal and professional mishaps and health issues, today I find myself with work injures to heal, unemployed, having changed careers many times in life to support my children, wondering what I am and where am I going ! My interest in living is fading, I am tired of life’s constant hustle and hazzle for everything, I even dislike people and feel like a monastery on top of a mountain would suit me better. Also alone, never found the right partner, very disappointing.
I became a Jack of all trades by necessity not by choice and now at this stage in my life I just don’t know who I am anymore, and I have again to start from zero. Honestly I am done. Feng Shui or not Feng shui I don’t have the will or strength so maybe some things cannot be changed. If you have a miracle remedy that helps, I am all ears. Thank you very much, stay safe.
I would love for you to join the move it group (first month is free) so you can send in your floor plan and pictures of your place so I can give you some sound advice. with no more than this I’d say, remove pictures of water, if there are mirros on your headboard wall or even in your bedroom, remove them as well. Pump up skills and knowledge with eareth element after seriously decluttering it. And finally add a bit of fire to the fame and rep gua for the courage to make big changes. Good luck.