Between Feng Shui and Jack Welch

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"Feng Shui is so stupid. I don't understand how people can truly believe that moving a plant from one side of the room to the other will improve their life in any way. Your wife didn't leave you because your bed was facing the wrong cardinal direction. She left you because you're a jackass." Well, this is just one point of view of those who are afraid or is too skeptical to try something different.

On the West people are just to look on things black and white, good or bad. In our civilization exist divisions, separations and disconnections. Chinese people, on contrary, like some things that circulate and arise one from another. Statistical data says that Chinese that are sticks to ancient way of life are still healthier people than those of western countries.

Some people are hard on changes, while some are more flexible. I always keep in mind a saying: “If you are unhappy or don't know what to do, just change something”. It will divert your mind for some time of a problem and for a while solution of the problem will be turn up. It's very hard to work under a pressure. Let yourself a little bit different way that maybe improve your work, life and health. Researches and polls support that: The change is what makes people really happy.

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In ancient China people sad: "If is harmony in home, will be order in nation, too. If is order in nation, will be peace in world." You need that kind of peace in your home and between your employees. I just remember the Google. Thousands and thousands requests a year for a job at Google speak for itself. Excellent creative environment, lots of additional subjects like gym, basketball, kindergarten, and restaurants with different food, flexible working-hours and numerous other options.

Where is the Feng Shui here, now you ask. Well, it is not about Feng Shui, it is about how someone, in this case Google, finds a way to make the workers happy. Happy workers equal less money for health care equal happy company. But, let's back to Feng Shui. Google find an effective way how to operate with its employees, strong hand and lot of regulations are some different approach. How that way affect on you? Headache, migraine, high blood pressure, problems with hearth, insomnia... All that can lead to a range of serious illness. And when you come home your temper is the same, you feel disinclination and you can’t concentrate on family problems. Your family is not happy because of that and you feel exhausted. Nobody wins. Let's face it - you are not Jack Welch.

And the point is not to try to be Jack whatever the cost. The points it to make your employees happier which in turn makes you happier and healthier. There is no need for radical changes or tumbling everything upside down. The small but frequent changes are what every one of us needs. Be it a new sail for your yacht or new flower for your subordinate, it doesn't matter. Should you follow the Feng Shui rules or those of Jack Welch, be sure that something is happening, something that will bring relax and good mood into your working environment.

Whit this text we open the season of health articles. Be gentle to yourself and take it ease!

September 4, 2007

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