Let it Shine
By Becky Iott, WSFS Instructor
When I don’t know what to do next for my home, I clean something. It’s fun and it’s free! Clean. Polish. Organize. Tidy up. A little mundane, huh? A little dull.
But then everything shines.
Except there are exceptions.
Sometimes when I am invited into someone’s home as a Feng Shui consultant, I walk into an almost unbelievable spotlessness, a clean so clean, a tidy so widy that I am speechless. And a Feng Shui consultant can’t stay speechless for long.
“What a beautiful home you have,” I say. “I wish my home were as clean.”
She is crestfallen. “It’s a mess. I wish it could be cleaner.”
“Does your family help with the work?”
“Oh, no,” she says. Translation: They would not do a good enough job.
“How much time do you spend cleaning every week?”
“Not much.” Clearly, every possible moment.
Later in the consultation I may ask the client if she knows her life purpose and she always does. The clarity of her cleanliness often reflects a clear mind.
“How much time did you devote to your life purpose this week?”
Now she is speechless. Because she hasn’t spent any time on it. Not that week, not in many weeks.
If your life purpose, your reason to be on this planet at this time, is to create a very high standard of cleanliness in your home—and I know people for whom this is true—do not let me or anyone else interfere with it.
But if you have something else important to do in this lovely lifetime, and you’re not devoting time and energy to it, reduce cleaning time by 25% NOW.
Enlist everyone you live with to do their fair share. Clean first whatever needs to be clean and organized for you to devote one hour a week to your life purpose, then two hours a week, then three, more if you can.
With good Feng Shui, everything shines, everyone shines, and so does your life purpose. Let it shine!
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Oh, halleluiah, YES! Many folks have never given a thought to what their life purpose might be. Or they have made one up that is too vague, or so
idealistic that it is not really THEIRS. These folks can end up merely “keeping house” until they get more clear on what they really wish they were doing, or being. Since everyone admires their sparkling house, they may not give credit to how unfulfilled they feel. I’ve seen the opposite effect of a directionless life as well–a home full of stagnant clutter, where the joy of fulfilling creativity has long since dried up. These often have a prominent TV, often used for video games, as they spend time distracting themselves from the main issue–“what do I desire to create, who do I choose to BE in this one life I have?”