Random thoughts on art, technology, stuff, and occasionally Real Estate: Hooray For Helpful People

Thanks to Carole Provenzle, I have rekindled an interest in Feng Shui.  If fact, I even found a stash of Feng Shui books I'd bought a few years ago, never read back then, and hauled them off the shelf. 

This is the one I picked up first:  Move Your Stuff, Change Your Life  by Karen Rauch Carter, while its probably not a textbook for purists, it dispenses a lot of information in a kind of fun, humourous way.  It seems to be a good introduction to Feng Shui.

I happened to flip open to a page discussing the Helpful People area of the bagua. 

First of all, a the bagua is a basic Feng Shui idea that says various areas in a building or in a room correspond to various areas of our lifes.

Here is a diagram of a bagua:

Step through the main entry door, then look directly to your right ... the front right corner of the home is your Helpful People zone.

I never gave much thought to Helpful People.  Hell, I'm self-sufficient.  I do my own thing in my own way ... what do I need with Helpful People?

Karen Rauch Carter's Helpful People chapter gave an example of a contractors:  You know the ones that rip a big hole in your house, and then disappear for several days.

Oh. My. Gosh.  My neighbors have a large project going on and I hadn't seen the contractor on the site for over a week.  True it's the neighbor's project, but one of the items in the project is the wall/fence dividing our properties, so I am rather intimately involved regardless.

Following Karen's advice, early yesterday morning, I found a little silver colored box amid my stuff.  (I do have a lot of stuff around, too much stuff, in fact, but I'll work on that later.)   I filled the box with good intentions for the contracter, and I set it in the Helpful People area of my house.

Darned if the contractor didn't show up about an hour later and get back to work!  Maybe he planned on coming yesterday anyway, but humor me here.

Suddenly I see Helpful People in a whole new light.  Our clients, buyers and sellers are Helpful People.  They are helping us make a living and achieve our goals.  If we own rental properties, our tenants are Helpful People, they are helping us pay the mortgage. Our business associaties are Helpful People. Our employees and staffers are Helpful People.  The clerks we interact with when we buy things are Helpful People.  The contributing writers on my outside blogs are Helpful People.  The bloggers that I depend on for news, ideas and opinions are Helpful People.

How did I live this long without realizing how many Helful People there are in my life?!!  I wish them all prosperity, peace, joy, and many blessings!

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