Feng Shui for Open Houses

 

Feng Shui for Open Houses

Intro:
When it comes to selling your home, first impressions are everything. Beyond staging, Feng Shui principles can create a sense of harmony and positive energy that buyers feel the moment they walk in.

Key Sections:

1. The Entrance Matters

   • Clear clutter from the front door.

   • Place a healthy plant or flowers to invite energy in.

2. Balance the Five Elements

   • Wood: plants or wooden bowls.

   • Fire: candles or warm lighting.

   • Earth: pottery, crystals, or grounding colors like beige.

   • Metal: sleek frames, metallic accents.

   • Water: mirrors, fountains, or glass décor.

3. Declutter & Flow

   • Buyers need to see themselves in the space.

   • Remove personal items, excess furniture, and anything that blocks pathways.

4. Light & Air

   • Open windows, use sheer curtains, add mirrors to reflect natural light.

5. Room-by-Room Tips

   • Living room: balance seating, avoid blocking doors.

   • Kitchen: keep counters clear, add a bowl of fresh fruit.

   • Bedrooms: neutral colors, smooth bedding, remove electronics.

   • Bathrooms: fresh towels, plants, sparkling clean surfaces.

5 Keys To Being Unstoppable

 5 Keys to Being Unstoppable

As understood by Gina, learned from Sage Robbins, Tony Robbin’s wife.

Goal:

Less stress more fulfillment

Key 1

Choose to tidy up

Tidying Up

Be aware of no junk in

We are aware of what we put into our bodies.

Powerful, what are we feeding and put into our minds.

Digesting in our minds.

Excess social media, news, television.

No social media on our phone.

Turn off all news prompts and notifications, no interruptions.

What are we putting into our minds before we go asleep.

Wake up in the morning, do not look at the phone first.

Gratefulness.

Key 2

Cultivate Harmony

Choose Harmony

No  junk out

Powerful words

If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

Stop complaining, habitual.

Stop the hatefulness. Blessings will come by changing vernacular. Where is the gift in this? What is blessed?

Stop the gossip and trouble talk. Too many opinions. 

Share a broader perspective. Hear gossiping, don’t participate. Add a fuller perspective, something nicer. We can all go blind, miss.

Sin = miss. Compassion recognized we are all human.

Key 3

Choice to Take 100% responsibility.

What can we actually shift? 

Shift from the external blame, “he always does this.” As our finger points outward, point it back to ourselves.

Tidying up, being the mirror, choosing to go first is leadership, ownership. What does this sound like, feel like? 

Can we reset, can we begin again? Blaming separates us. We give the power away. 

Sage’s thought: 

I have never changed a single person on this planet, only we can change ourselves.

Key 4

Choose Your Tribe

Who we spend time with is who we become.

How we want to be. Powerful catalyst to have support of like minded individuals around us.

Resonance of common values.

Celebratory.

Key 5

Choose to be a blessing

Simple gesture, kindness, compliment.

Don’t dismiss our identities, they are these gifts of love and kindness.

Tiny Blessings by Gina Meyers

 

There is a book called, "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff". The book goes on to say that it is, "all small stuff."

Louise Hay, also stated many times that it is far better to have a positive thought than a negative thought. So a few months ago, by my espresso machine, I decided to write down my, "Tiny Blessings" for the day.

It's like a savings account, the more tiny blessings, the more I felt blessed.

Tiny Blessing 

Thank God for the checkout boy who said, "Look at you all in red, with your red purse, you are rocking it."

Tiny Blessing

Thank God for the lady in back of me at Savemart today who gave me a bag and .4 cents because I needed it.

Tiny Blessing

Thank God for the little boy who said "hello" to me first on my walk around my boyfriend's neighborhood 

Tiny Blessing

Thank God for the lady at CVS last week who when I was told by the cashier an even # on the cash register, she said, "hey, God did that!" "God is always doing those special things, don't forget it."

Tiny Blessing

Thank God I got to play a fun game of Scrabble on Sunday!

Tips to Declutter Your Life by Gina Meyers

 Tips to Declutter your Life, by Gina Meyers

Aren’t we all a product of our environments? I believe so, if I didn’t I wouldn’t have written and published my first book, second book, third book, etc. If I didn’t truly believe so, I wouldn’t have gotten on a stage in a foreign land to accept an award for a fundraising cookbook concept that I called, Hope for Haiti. I wouldn’t have convinced my relatives during the Gulf War to purchase Patriotic Buttons emblazoned with, “I Support The Troops”. In high school, I wouldn’t have convinced my fellow students to help me “tye dye diapers” for our Senior Project, which was Designer Drypers. Within weeks of my “idea”, one of my journalisim friends Brendan showed me the article from the San Jose Mercury Newspaper about FAO Swartz aquiring a Designer Diaper business or the fact that the name DRYPERS wasn’t invented until after I said it.

Before that incident, at the age of sixteen, I had a brainstorm, why not make college campus videos for parents and students who couldn’t travel too far from home. Some butthead at the SBA of San Francisco took one look at me, pointed to his neck, (of which he had a chain) and said, “see my idea it makes sense”, not yours. No funding and within months, I cut out a magazine article which did my idea.

The hit Netflix series “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” is inspiring people to keep possessions that "spark joy," and get rid of the rest.

So, maybe it's no surprise that the show may also be sparking an increase in thrift store donations around the country.

Lately, it seems like everyone has been talking about the new series from Kondo, the Japanese organizing expert who first came on the scene with her 2014 best-selling book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.”

The show follows Kondo as she helps people organize and clean out their homes using her unique “KonMari” method. Her approach to getting rid of possessions is elegant in its simplicity: Hold each item in your hands. If it “sparks joy,” keep it. If not, get rid of it.

The influencer here, of course, is Marie Kondo, a Japanese organizing consultant-turned-author whose book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, re-popularized the idea that the first step to achieving inner peace is to give away the useless piles of things you’ve accumulated over the years. (Per the KonMari method, you’re first encouraged to hold the stuff, think about the stuff, and thank the stuff for its service). The guru’s new Netflix show, Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, has drawn people further down the anti-hoarding rabbit hole: Binge all eight episodes and you might find yourself purging your earthly belongings.

Short Story, Meet Cute in the morning, by Gina Meyers

 Meet Cute in the morning

I thought I was waving at an employee named Erik, so I started waving back to the man in the white truck. I pulled out my car and rolled down the window,

“I thought you were waving at me.”

“I have a cold, I’m a little bit out of it”, I say. 

“But I wanted to wave at you, you look gorgeous by the way.”

He was waving at the workers doing the slurry coat.

What is your Joseph Story, by Gina Meyers

 The story of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat

Some of us have Joseph moments, what type of leader are you?

God can lead us all to something greater, like Joseph.

What is your Joseph story?

Are we humans having a spirit experience or spirits having a human experience?

When God calls, how do you answer?

Do you put him on hold?

Hang up?

Say in a text: “I’ll call you back”

Answer the call?

As a writer, I’ve found it difficult to write fiction, my truths are definetly richer, wilder, and stranger than fiction.

I was reminded that in whatever situation God puts us in, that there is a lesson.

7093 North Teilman #102 Fresno, CA. 93711 is an exceptional 2-bedroom (+ loft), 2-bathroom home tucked away in the highly sought-after Northridge Terrace gated community.

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Townhome/PUD for Sale

7093 N. Teilman Avenue #102

Fresno, CA. 93711

$339,900 sales price

Ideally located off of Fruit & Herndon Avenues in Northwest Fresno

7093 North Teilman #102 Fresno, CA. 93711 is an exceptional 2-bedroom (+ loft), 2-bathroom home tucked away in the highly sought-after Northridge Terrace gated community. 

Designed for both comfort and style, this home features vaulted ceilings that enhance the bright and airy living space, ceiling fans throughout the home, and a skylight that fills the home with natural light. The openness of the layout is complemented by a cozy fireplace in the living room. Upstairs, the primary bedroom with ensuite offers privacy, along with a mezzanine space with built-in storage cupboards that can be used as an office, game room or additional sleeping area. The downstairs bedroom provides convenience and flexibility and has an outlook onto greenery. The kitchen has a built-in microwave, stainless steel refrigerator with built-in water and ice maker, and electric stove along with a breakfast bar. The dedicated laundry room adds everyday convenience with electric hookups for a washer and dryer. The home also enjoys the ease of an attached 2-car garage.

Outside boasts a private patio, an inviting space for relaxing and entertaining, along with access to the shared community pool for those warm summer days. 

Situated in a prime location, off of Fruit and Herndon in Northwest Fresno. This home is just minutes from shopping, dining and entertainment. Easy access to Freeways 99 & 41 offers options for an effortless commute, and there are medical facilities nearby for the whole family. Schools are part of the award-winning Clovis Unified School District.  Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity and schedule your private showing today!

Northridge Terrace has unique amenities for its residents including a pool as well as a barbecue pit/ grill.