How to Create a Home Office That Inspires

Whether your workspace is a studio, a rented office or a card table set up in a corner of your bedroom, efficiency is only one of the requirements. Your working space needs to be inviting, a place where you function easily, surrounded by things you love and find inspiring.

It’s obvious that most of us do not duplicate the corporate cubicle look when we set out to design our personal working space. Gray and gloomy may be an appropriate backdrop for corporate workers, but home workers like to spice things up a bit. Colour, personal objects, music, incense, fountains and toys are apt to be part of the new entrepreneur’s decorating style.

Create good energy

Feng shui, the Chinese art of placement, is an old technique with a growing number of modern followers, including both large and small business owners.

Here are some suggestions that are easy to implement.

• To invite opportunity to knock, fix your front door. Allow no squeaking, sticking or wobbling door knobs. To further your opportunities, unblock doorways and remove stored items from behind doors.
  
  
• To support your vision and commitment, sit at a desk that is spacious, allowing room for the expansion of your ideas.
  
  
• To call forth a clear vision, hang a brass chime just inside your office door. To think creatively, hang a mirror to the right and to the left of your desk.
  
  
• To cultivate good luck, place fresh flowers in your office.

Place your desk facing the door with the back to a solid wall rather than a window. Chances are you’re reading this on your office computer. So take a look around. Does your office reflect your power and vision or does it resemble a junk room with a desk? Are there objects, pictures and words that lift your soul? Is it easy to find things or do you waste precious time going through piles of papers?

Does entering your office make you smile? It should, you know. This is your laboratory, your creation centre, your idea place. So listen to Vivaldi, light some incense, get a fountain, paint the walls terracotta, hang a poster from your favourite movie or decorate with whatever brings you joy. It’s a one-of-a-kind creation and you’re the beneficiary. Make it both beautiful and useful.

SOURCE: ZenBusiness