Our activity for today (Day One):

This will help you to assess your life and guide you to where you may want to focus your feng shui energy as we proceed this month:

Get out your journal or notebook and ask yourself:

• Are you satisfied with your career?
• Do you just barely make rent every month?
• Are you stuck in a dating rut or a boring relationship?

In your journal, write down anything that’s bothering you or coming between you and true happiness.

You can even carry a pen and paper with you throughout the day, and any time anything at all bothers you, or you hear a complaint running through your head, write it down! It might be something as simple as “I have a headache” or “My boss never listens to me.” Even if you are being repetitive, write down the complaint each time.

You can ask yourself the following questions to uncover some of the areas in which you are dissatisfied:

Career and Life Path: Are you fulfilled in your current career? If not, what is less than optimal? People? Money? Type of work? Location? Stress? Boss?

Skills and Knowledge: Are you content with your current level of education? Seem to repetitively make bad decisions and wish you were wiser? Want to change careers but don’t have the skills to master your dream?

Family: Do you have a good relationship with your family? Is it hard making enough money just to pay for the basics? Have they ever based an after-school special on your family?

Prosperity: Do you live paycheck to paycheck? Do you have a yearning for a material item but the only thing stopping you is lack of money? Do you make a good income, but it goes out as fast as it comes in?

Fame and Reputation: Does it appear that people are talking poorly about you in public, hurting your career, family, or feelings? Do you want the courage to do something you can’t seem to make yourself do? Does fear stop you from fulfilling dreams and being happy?

Relationships and Love: Are you content and fulfilled with current relationships (family, spouse, business associates, children, friends?) Do you feel depleted from your relationships with certain people? Do you wish to be in a committed relationship but can’t seem to find the right person? Do you need an exorcist to fight off the partners you attract?

Creativity and Children: Are you having trouble having children? Having trouble with your children? Wish you were more creative? Are you burned out or bored in your work, hobby, or life? Do you feel limited, as if there is no opportunity?

Helpful People and Travel: Do you always do everything yourself? Do you have a hard time finding the right person to help with things such as baby-sitting, home improvements, spiritual guidance, health issues, business ventures? Do you get taken frequently or played the fool? Do you yearn for new places to visit and explore but never seem to get there?

Health and Other: Do you have any complaints about your current state of health? Do you always seem to come down with whatever virus is going around? Can’t find your funny bone? Is “Clutter” or “Pack Rat” your middle name? Do you have any other complaints that did not seem to fit in any of the above categories?

Now, take a quick inventory of what IS working. You don’t need to use a feng shui cure for something that isn’t broken!

Now you have a list of specific areas to work on during this month and beyond, and you have a starting point to refer back to as things get better and better in your life!

From: Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life
by Karen Rauch Carter