Change one thing, change everything

January 29th, 2009 Posted in Creating Change, Feng Shui Tips

Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? They say New Year’s Resolutions last about 3 weeks. Have yours already gone the way of the do-do bird?

Apparently the most common resolutions are losing weight, starting exercise and saving money. Nothing too specific there.

The trouble with most resolutions is that they’re moving away from something rather than towards something, and they are not in the least inspiring - lose weight, exercise more, get rid of debts etc. A lot of ’shoulds’. What could be more boring?

If you don’t have a strategy for success, perhaps it’s time for something different.

What’s your dream - you know - the one that’s been hidden away? The one you’d regret if you didn’t at least give it a go. The one that ignites your passion and is so exciting you can barely sleep - if only you let yourself feel it. Do you have one of those?

Did it make it to your list for this year?

In Gail Sheehy’s latest book she says: A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She can be maternal and playful. Assured, alluring and resourceful. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of her life.

So, imagine yourself living fully and passionately? What would you be doing? What would that mean? Can you allow yourself to imagine?

Changing everything with one small action.

If there are so many things you want to change you don’t know where to start, this will help. One of the principles of Feng Shui is that everything is connected. This simple exercise designed by psychologist Sarah Conn, will show you how easy it can be to make changes in your life.

1. Write brief phrases to describe problems/challenges that concern you. They can be personal, community, global, political, ecological, or economic problems.

Instead of making a list, you’re going to scatter them all over a piece of paper - write each of them wherever you like. Keep going till you run out of problems.

2. Draw a line to indicate any connections you feel between problems. They can be cause-and-effect connections, perhaps the problems have a similar source, may affect similar people or maybe they trigger the same response in you. Find all the connections you can.

3. Take a look - you’ve now created a web of things that concern you and you probably have each of them connected to several others.

For example, someone might list the following:

cash flow
lack of exercise
the environment
stressed out people
too much work to do
no sense of community
violence
short days in winter
discovering what I’m passionate about
writing my book

Can you see how you could connect each of these to at least one of the others? And possibly several of the others.

4. Imagine making a change in one of the things you listed - taking one small action. That one action will impact the others it’s linked to directly, which in turn will impact all the items connected to them. You can now see how one small change will ripple out to change everything else because everything is connected.

Often my clients find it a challenge to choose one thing to focus on as they fear that means all the others will fall by the wayside. Meanwhile because they are not putting their focus on even one, they don’t feel they’re making progress in any of them.

Even if you have a whole shopping list of things you’d like to change, find one you feel passionate about and make a change there - create a powerful intention and take an inspired action - you’ll find everything else changing too. Try it!

Why not try this exercise - it won’t take long. I’d love to hear how you get on.

©2009 All Rights Reserved - Vicky White

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