Control Your Peace

One of the most important concepts of feng shui is bagua, a term that means the map of feng shui, a tool we use to determine the balance of our various living spaces. An octagon with nine areas that correspond to the nine areas in our life, this map helps us to determine and evaluate each of these spaces and the way they are or are not in balance.

Feng shui specializes in the art of how our spaces can be designed and rearranged in order to give us balance and harmony. The position of where you play your desk or bed can really determine the harmony you feel in that space and affect your overall health and concentration and focus when you are in those spaces.

There are five main elements that you need to keep in mind when you are harmonizing and balancing your various living spaces: water, wood, fire, earth, and metal. All of these elements change the energy of the space they are in and also move in different directions. Chi is the energy that is always changing and moving depending on these five elements and feng shui really studies the way chi moves and behaves while interacting with all of the objects and things around us.

Some things you can do in your house to restore the harmony and improve your life are simple and easily accomplished. Place items in your front and backyard that create motion such as garden stakes, figures, and make them brightly colored. Adding flower plans in groups of threes on the way to your front door, especially red flowers, also bring harmony to the entrance of your home. You want to get rid of any dead flowers in your spaces, since they are dead, they could make your wealth be dead and you will want to replace them with fake or silk flowers.

Also have real plants and flowers around the house. Having less furniture around the house is better as too much can make you feel cramped and can restrict you ability to prosper productively. Also, moving your furniture around from time to time will help relieve the tension that one arrangement might have brought on as you are constantly changing the flow of energy in your house. You might find that one flow helps you better than another as you make new space and harmony and balance than there existed before.

Always keep the kitchen well stocked with food as it will give you an inner sense of being more abundant and keep cleaning supplies like brooms and mops totally out of sight. Keep your closets and drawers clean. Play calming music in your spaces, natural sounds like ocean waves or forest noises or the sound of falling rain, anything natural that helps your working environment or home. Burn fragrant candles or incense to make your house seem like an exotic and flowery world where you find peace. Burn a fire in the hearth if you like the soft and natural ambience of real light.

Masterful Resume

Use titles and descriptors that are specific to the job you are applying for. It is easy to send a generic resume to every job you apply for, but what really makes for a good and professional statement is to specify what job you want, particularly the position, and then list your experiences and skills in an order that seems catered to fulfilling the needs of the job you are seeking. Using specific headings for your various skills and experiences also helps make a powerful statement about your qualifications about the job. One way to set your resume apart from all the others is to focus on the design and style of your resume. Gone are the days when people should fill in general templates.

Being able to identify the various needs of the job and cater your resume to list skills that demonstrate your ability to fulfill them. Another place where you can really sell yourself is in the skills section, which serves as a sort of catch all place where you can list all your abilities. Make sure that you are specific with your skills and give examples of times when you utilized these skills in the work place or in your life. This will convince employers that you are exactly what they need.

Instead, design a resume that has specific and unique features. Today's world is predominantly visual and so having a resume that is attention-grabbing is imperative. You could put in a simple navy blue or red line that runs across the page combined with a tiny logo you design for yourself. Choose interesting fonts, not crazy or wild, but something other than Times New Roman or Arial to make your typeface seem interesting and different. Headings can be bigger in size and can be set off with a nice color. The best way is to make your design both pleasant to the eye but also functional. Use the colors of your headings to separate the various sections.

Once you stun employers with your wonderfully designed resume, astound them with your rich content and skills. That might take a bit of spinning on your part to really embellish your information. For example, use strong action verbs when describing your tasks and experiences and be specific. Do not be afraid to use strong words like Managed, Directed, Oversaw, etc. Using interesting verbs and descriptors will give employers a personal sense of who you are and they will get a better picture of you. That way a general description is transformed into something unique and employers will have the sense that you have done something in a way no one else can.

Make sure that you prioritize your resume and its content so that the things that are most relevant to the job are at the top and the least on the bottom. This way employers will be pleased and stunned from the very start.

Finally, proofread, proofread, proofread. Be sure your resume is entirely free from all errors, spelling mistakes, and punctuation. Any small error can turn an employer off and is the mark of an unprofession