Is Your Home Making You Lazy? 6 Feng Shui Tips To Boost Your Home's Energy

Lots of us rely on our home as shelter from the crazy pace of the outside world. We make our home ultra-comfy inside to make the outside less daunting. In feng shui, that impulse is right on point: when your life is loud (yang), a house that is quiet (yin) is a good thing. However, when we’re getting dull-minded, uninspired and just plain sloth-like, your ultra-Zen home might benefit from a tune-up.

While “nesting” at home is all the rage, too much of any good thing can become bad. Today, as I find myself growing lazier by the second as my impulse to stay in as the weather gets chilly and it starts to get dark earlier.

Mind you, any home at any time could be helping to sap your motivation and focus, so no matter where or when you read this, I hope you get an idea that can kick-start a fresh cycle of action.

The goal of a well-balanced home is to add a little motivation & focus where you need it, rather than turn your home into a circus.

I cancelled TV from my life because I felt like I was becoming a hypnotized zombie with random cable streaming in the background of my life. Then I realized in a moment of weakness that I could stream just as much TV on my computer, so my desktop became a TV of sorts.

The only way to fight the lazy is to literally cover the TV and TV-like devices when I want to really socialize at home or get some work done or feel like my mind isn’t melting!

A well-heated home is a true luxury when it’s cold outside. But, when you are too comfortably hot, you become a slug. It’s true: When you get very hot, your blood pressure drops, you feel lethargic and you don’t want to wake up in the morning.

A home filled with junk food is a home that makes you feel lazy. It’s inevitable. A few hands filled full of chips and candy and away goes your sentient mind as the brain fog rolls in. I used to scoff at people who'd pay $6.00 for a $2.00 pineapple pre-cut into chunks at a deli or market. You know what? I am now the champion of that deli!

I talk a lot about adding full-spectrum light to your indoor light. How do you know if you need some full-spectrum light? I like to take a picture in a room of a home when the lights are on and see what color everything looks in the photo. If things seem blue or yellow-tinted (most common) or just plan dark, you are a candidate to change your life with great light bulbs.

These full-spectrum light bulbs don’t have to be high-powered and the light doesn’t have to be intense, but a more full-spectrum color of light in your home will boost your mood. On that note, try opening the shades or curtains in your bedroom when you sleep so that the natural sunlight can flood in to wake you up with nature. Too early? Well, early risers tend to be far more productive and energized. Try rising with the sun and feel the way that natural light can move you!

If you need a little motivation to get through one or more of these lazy-breaking tips, I will tell you that they will make you and your home sexier and more magnetic.