Feng Shui Your Cubicle

You drag your feet going to work. You enter your small cluttered workspace, see the files that have been on your desk for months and groan.

Another lifeless day in the cubicle. When you're chained to a workspace for 8 hours a day and expected to be productive and positive, it can take a real toll on your psyche.

Fortunately, you can apply some easy Feng Shui to invigorate your tiny quarters, and invite good chi in. Before long, you just might find yourself moving on to bigger and better things! Clean & Declutter. Cardinal rules of Feng Shui apply to your workspace! In such a tiny space, anything you are not using is clutter.

Clean drawer space, remove scraps and trash, decrease your inordinate amount of nonfunctioning pens, fill your stapler and toss out the box, and remove files that are irrelevent or outdated. Trash it, Shred it or turn it over to your boss (yes, the boss with the roomy office!).

Once you've thuroughly removed the clutter, clean, using energizing scents like essential lemon oil. Clean your work surface, use an air compression cleaner on your keyboard, replace filthy old mouse-pads, wipe your computer screen and vacuum your chair and carpet, if you can.

Rearrange. If you are able, reposition your chair and computer so that you are able to clearly see the entrance to your cubicle. Keeping your back to the entryway invites negative chi, and creates anxiety. If its impossible to rearrange the space, hang or place a small mirror so that you have a clear view of the entrance.

This will give you plenty of warning next time your boss sneaks up on you, and will reflect any negative chi that tries to creep into your space. If you have accumulated files that you can't get rid of, organize them and store them neatly. If they must sit on your desk, place them flush against the wall, neatly in a work tray or other file sorter - don't be shy about asking for organization tools! You can always tell your boss that it will make you more productive!

Make it personal. A couple of beautiful plants, flowering or otherwise, are great ways to brighten the space, add lively color and breathing life to what seems like a drone existence. Place them on opposite ends of your table, or if you can, add a large potted plant near the entrance of your cubicle to invite positive chi in. One or two pictures of you enjoying life - whether with family, or on vacation, will add to the prosperity and family of your work environments - two things we often don't feel connected to while we are parked in the cube.

Just Add water. Moving water, like a table-top waterfall, is a relaxing and tranquil sound, adds humidity to commonly dry office climates (which helps ward off winter colds) and invites prosperity into your life. Adding a waterfall is ideal, but if you are unable to add a live one, a good sized picture of a water fall will invoke feelings of wealth also. Before you know it, you might have your own office - and then, you can add as many waterfalls as you like!