Feng Shui at Work
How you can make the hours spent at your job more harmonious
Book review of Office Feng Shui: Creating Harmony in Your Work Space by Darrin Zeer and illustrated by Frank Montagna. Chronicle Books. ISBN 0-8118-4215-0, $9.95 US.
Who hasn’t had a coworker she’d just as well strangle as share a lunchtime salad with? Who feels so suffocated in his cubicle he feels that all his oxygen leaves his body the minute he walks through the front door of his office? You’re not the only one who feels that way. Many workplaces have the potential to take all the joy out of life. If you let them. The key is to surround yourself with so much harmony that going to work is an extension of your chi.
Office Feng Shui: Creating Harmony in Your Work Space is a collection of words of wisdom in a book suitable for carrying in a purse or jacket pocket. Stress of the work day can be eased as quickly as it takes to read a page or two and implement the tips. Author Darrin Zeer has come up with a mini guidebook of the most basic feng shui advice illustrated by Frank Montagna in the classic retro look for which Chronicle Books has become famous.
Scattered through Office Feng Shui are inspirational quotes. Read one of the segments that sounds good to you. Try the one called Chi Flow (“Go for a walk in your office and see if you can feel the currents of chi flowing through it."). After you put the suggestion to the test, you might ponder the words of Thomas Jefferson at the bottom of the page: “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
Zeer writes for employees whose gigs are of the 9-5 variety, as well as travelers who find their offices in hotel rooms and on planes. Quick and easy feng shui techniques to bring harmony to your place of work can be performed in the time it takes to shred a handful of papers. Feng shui for wardrobe can be uplifting to your spirit and your closet. Airplane tai chi will have you sleeping like a baby on even the longest flights.
Office Feng Shui can be just as powerful for employees who work in restaurants, retail stores, or mall kiosks. Inner feng shui can improve your outlook, no matter what your environment throws at you. Harmony in the workplace is doable, wherever that place may be.
