Radiant orchid door

1. Change the colour of the front door
There are different ways to decide on the colour for the door.
• You can use the colour for the year (in 2014 it’s radiant orchid)
• You can calculate the energy for the career zone in the bagua for that year or month.
• Or just follow your heart and decide on a colour that will energies you when you go out (and come in).

2. Get a new doormat
Again you can use the above ways to decide on the colour or just find a doormat that means something. You can also place something meaningful underneath the doormat. In many cultures, people bury some coins (ideal number is eight so for example, eight 1$/£ coins) and offerings for spirits outside the house.

3. Hang something on the door
Temporarily, you can stick a photo / picture or something that will stimulate and energise your career. Classic images or metaphors for career zone are rivers since they symbolise movement and new positive energy. Avoid any images that are too dramatic ie waterfalls or turbulent waves, etc and on the other hand anything that is too still or stagnant. Read the feng shui tip 5 below.

4. Hang a wind-chime above the door
Make sure it sounds nice and it’s not a nuisance. There are different types of windchimes and sound is one of the best ways to moderate the flow of energy (chi) in any environment. Depending on what you want to achieve you can use Feng Shui Five Element Theory to choose between different energies for your goals. Here’s the chart for all the elements and the corresponding materials for wind-chimes:
WATER = glass (blue) windchimes
WOOD = wooden or bamboo (green) windchimes
FIRE = wooden wind chime painted red
EARTH = ceramic (yellow) windchimes
METAL = metal (silver or gold) winchimes
If you’re not sure what type of windchime to use consult your feng shui practitioner or contact me.

Horsehoes for prosperity

5. Place some meaningful images or things around the door
In Hindu culture people place images of Lakshmi and Ganesh for protection and prosperity as part of Vastu Shastra practice which is a Hindu version of feng shui. Chinese hang strings of coins around the door and place lucky cats (I like this solar powered lucky cat).  Greeks hang the evil eye symbol for protection. In the west people hang the horseshoe above the door and the ‘correct’ way is to hang them like the letter U to keep the prosperity in like a container.

“I understand that it (feng shui) works whether you believe in it or not.” said Niels Bohr, Danish Nobel Prize winner in Physics, when asked why he has a horseshoe above his door.

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Feng shui for Londoners

The live/work model has been around for centuries, for example, Huguenot silk weavers in 17th century Spitalfields used to live/work like that. And in the sixties, self-employed creatives such as designers and architects embraced this trend.

If you’re running a business from home there are two questions you need to ask yourself. Is my live/work home working for me or not? And if it’s not, what exactly do I need to do to make it work? Feng shui has a set of tools that will boost your working and living environments that will bring measurable results. Whenever time are difficult, our home becomes the last bastion of peace and security. You can benefit from the timeless wisdom of feng shui that has been enhancing the lives of countless people for more than 4000 years.

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Success in business depends on the congruence between you and your brand and the environment. Holistic Success Design allows for maximum benefits from the minimum effort because it is based on the key business areas such as branding, coaching and feng shui.

The aims of the training are
• to significantly increase the number of clients and customer loyalty (revenues and market share)
• to ensure that your name is ubiquitous in the business world (brand awareness and effectiveness)
• to improve brand’s authority (brand value and relevant differentiation)

Change can be best initiated in three key domains: environment (feng shui), appearance (branding), and inner mind (coaching, values, behaviours). Holistic Success Design will improve the reputation of your brand and it will affect the quality of your services. With feng shui the feeling in the office will improve, people will become more enthusiastic and productive.

Successful people are made, not born. The research suggests that successful people don’t necessarily have an especially high IQ, but they almost always have 1) very supportive environments, 2) they have important mentors and 3) they always put in a lot of effort. So in fact, people who have good coaches or mentors always achieve more than those without. You might even say that good coaching makes success certain.

Structure of the training
There will be 3 modules (of 3 days) spread over the whole year (2 modules before summer and 1 in the autumn) – 9 days in total. Each module will contain a day for each 3 key aspects of Holistic Success Design (Friday: Coaching, Saturday: Holistic Branding, Sunday: Feng Shui.)

1. Coaching (how to lead and manage yourself and others) – Friday
1. What coaching is and how it works
2. Miracle question (Solutions Focus Process)
3. How to elicit what you want and find out what is stopping you
4. Coaching strategy: goal setting, action plan, key coaching questions
5. 80/20 coaching: maximum benefit from the minimum effort
6. Storytelling strategy: 7 life stories that run your life
7. Executive coaching
8. Leadership vs management
9. Personal coaching
10. How to manage stress and neutralise negative emotions and blocks to success (EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique/tapping)
11. How to make decisions/choices
12. Time management
13. Coaching and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming

2. Holistic Branding (how to design and manage perceptions about you and your brand) – Saturday
1. What Holistic Branding is and how it works
2. Key branding concepts and working principles
3. Elicitation of core brand values (Richard Barrett model) and brand affects (emotional connection)
4. Fine-tuning clarity of the vision
5. Produce ideas for a strapline/slogan: to communicate the brand relevant differentiation and value
6. Brand congruence alignment (focus, differentiation, people, identity and brand, values, vision, website, environment, positioning): to produce trust and long-term brand loyalty
7. Secrets of branding
8. How to develop a brand story
9. SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) – how to get your website ranked high on the search engines
10. Logo for life: personal metaphor for life
11. How to live the brand: developing a brand-building organization and how every employee becomes a brand ambassador
12. Develop your brand: logo, business card, etc

3. Feng Shui (how to make the environment work for you) – Sunday
1. What feng shui is and how it works
2. Brand alignment with the environment (feng shui)
3. Feng shui management and congruence checklist
4. Secrets of feng shui
5. How to affirm space/homes/offices
6. 80/20 feng shui: everything you need to know to feng shui businesses and homes
7. Feng shui your own home and business
8. How to feng shui your website

Please bring: plans, logos, business cards for assessment – yours and your clients. We’ll work on your personal and business brands. This is very practical sessions that will help you personally and business wise. You will receive a personal coaching, branding and feng shui advice from Jan worth thousands of pounds. This is your one in lifetime opportunity to learn and experience Jan’s brand wisdom and years of expertise.

What you will receive
• A comprehensive manual for Holistic Success Design
• A diploma in Holistic Success Design
• Personal and executive coaching
• Personal Holistic Branding
• Personalised feng shui consultation

Date: tbc
Venue: tbc
Price: tbc

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