For many, feng shui business cards tips offer invaluable tool to strengthen marketing efforts and business results.
Business cards with good feng shui can increase profits as well as attract more clients, better employees and excellent mentors. On the other hand, cards with bad feng shui, can create a lot of pressure, frustration, unforeseen problems and difficult obstacles.
Feng shui principles bring essential harmony and balance to your business cards design. How?
Good feng shui business cards and logo design take these important rules into consideration:
1. Principles of Yin and Yang
Most successful and strong businesses work in line with nature's principles. If you want to bring more harmony and prosperity into your business, you need to apply Yin and Yang principles to your cards and logo design. For instance, Yin and Yang Balancing principle advises that for things or people to work in their perfect order, they must be in balance. You need to avoid conflict at all cost. More harmony, including harmonious business cards and logo designs, add more value to your customers and business.
2. Personal element according to your date of birth
According to feng shui, our surrounding consists of 5 elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. Personal element can be easily identified according to your date of birth. For instance, personal element for a person born between January 23, 1974 - February 10, 1075, is Wood Tiger.
3. Business element
Each specific type of business has its own business element. For example, if you work in furniture or paper business, education, hospital or design studio your feng shui business element is Wood. If you work in real estate, financial, construction, accounting or funeral business, your business element is Earth.
4. Supporting and Weakening cycles of 5 elements
All 5 natural elements - Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water, interact through supporting or weakening cycle. In the supporting cycle Wood fuels Fire, Fire makes Earth, Earth creates Metal, Metal holds Water and Water feeds Wood.
Balance between your personal element and element of your business is essential for good feng shui business cards design. Additionally, good combination of elements can enhance your luck and business prosperity.
5. Colors and Shapes
Each element is represented by certain colors and shapes. This is very useful to know when creating your own good feng shui logo shapes or choosing auspicious business cards colors. For instance, element of Metal is represented by color white, gold, bronze, chrome, silver and round shape.
Shape of your element can further help you to select the best feng shui font type for your cards. For instance, the nature for metal font is round.
6. Placement of the important information
Where you place important business information on your business cards is crucial to your success. For instance, if your name appears in the bottom row of your cards, you shoulder a lot of unnecessary stress and problems. You work very hard but see no positive gains.
Did you know that the flow of money in your business is mostly determined by the business cards design for your employees and sales people?
If you wonder why your sales team just hangs around the office and isn't proactive enough to get more sales, change your business cards design. Never place their names on the left hand side in the middle row of the business cards. It has very negative effects on the overall business performance.
If you don't want to spend too much of your valuable productive energy and time to fight invisible natural forces that can easily put obstacles and problems in your way, use feng shui to help you design the best business cards and logo for your business.
Every day you do many extraordinary things to improve your business. If you wish to create strong, profitable and successful business, while making the entire process easier and more enjoyable, make feng shui part of your daily life. Your family, business and your employees might thank you very soon.
Author : Marcela Gargas
Marcela Gargas writes articles about improving business and home environment and relationships. To see more examples of bad and good business card designs and other valuable tips visit her site at http://www.lucky-feng-shui-for-life-and-love.com/Feng-shui-business-card.html
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The kitchen
- The stove must be away from the door, but the cook should be able to see the door. If not possible, install a mirror.
- Never position the stove opposite the sink, refrigerator, or dishwasher. A clash of the elements fire and water is not a good idea.
- Keep your cupboard and refrigerator well stocked with food supplies. It implies wealth and abundance.
- Avoid positioning the stove directly in front of a window. Placing the stove to the side of a window is better.
The bathroom or toilet
- Never place the toilet opposite the kitchen. The feng shui fire and water elements will clash in this situation.
- The toilet must not be placed adjacent to the front door. Place the toilet somewhere far away from the front door.
- Avoid positioning the toilet door directly opposite the front door. This may lead to wasted opportunities.
- Place a huge mirror behind the bathroom sink. But never use the kind that is split in the middle, often seen in bathroom cabinets.
- Make sure that the plumbing fixtures in the bathroom and toilet are not leaking, especially the faucets.
The bedroom
- The bedroom should not be adjacent or opposite to a bathroom or toilet. If this is unavoidable, make sure you keep the bathroom or toilet door closed at all times.
- Position the bed as far away from the door as possible. But make sure you still have a good view of the door from the bed. At the same time, do not place your bed where your feet are pointed towards the door when you are sleeping.
- Mirrors should not be placed where they reflect your image as you sleep. Round and oval shaped mirrors are ideal, but make sure they are larger than your head.
- Sleeping directly on the floor is not suggested as it does not allow the Chi to flow beneath you.
The stairway
- Traditionally, the favorable number of steps in a stairway is an odd number. A spiral staircase is also a blunder because it confuses the Chi.
- The worst mistake that can happen is when the staircase leads directly to the front door. This leads to the loss of opportunities, and the residents tend to be always rushing, seldom settling in.
- A good way to slow down the flow of Chi outside the front door is to hang a wind chime on the ceiling above the base of the staircase. A heavy figurine at the floor level below may also act helpful.
Lobbies and hallways
- Hallways need to be free of impediments and are needed to be well lit. It should also be clear to anyone where they are to go next in the house.
- A nice piece of art may be hung on the wall to the end of a hallway. However, never place a mirror there; it will only reflect back the entering Chi.
- There should be no hallway in the house that leads directly to a toilet. If it is already there, just make sure the door is closed at all times. These are some tips to overcoming and preventing Chi flow problems, giving you a harmonious feng shui home.
Gargi Nath,a Professor in English in a reputed college in kolkata for the last 5 years having done masters and Phd.A keen creative author and have written many articles on numerous topics.Many of the articles are published regularly in newspapers and magazines.Please visit my blog http://a-to-z-on-feng-shui.blogspot.com for more information.