Let`s continue the subject how to make your perfect work place customized. The point is, if you want to do it in a short time, it needs at least 2 pauses in actions to let better ideas appear. That`s why after the first stage it needs a good meal, better outside to refresh mind:

Sustainability in personal and professional life creates sustainability in close and then in wide environment. People attracts by stable mood and places. Energy became recharged in such places. If challenges come, it needs to have a place for recovery, better for active recovery. That`s why so small private case as new design of your work place can be the source of sustainability for you and for others. Small things create new effects for development and so, if you want to make a spurt ahead, it needs to have a strong background before. That`s why such a small cases creates skills to remain own energy whatever it happens, and so to win in short and long run.

Ok, everything was prepared, that`s my special place for Chinese style Ink painting and meditative practice named Bamboo Cabinet. The Inkwork was on the floor according the old  tradition which one I am changing now.  As I wanted the new table very customized for my upcoming project work, I had some ideas to it`s appearahce and size. The height was important because I planed to remain to sit on the floor to keep the feelings of traditions (and because I spent a lot of time sitting on my computer table so it needs to change activities physically). The best height in that case is near the height of normal chair. All living room tables I checked before was less or more that height that`s why I decided to make my own ideally convenient for the painting work.

That`s why I used the foots of the most simple stool for the table:

Screwdriver is important part of painting work

OK the table has done! Simple& Yes. Ideally customized to my purposes and good looking too, with special fragrance of pine-tree pitch.

That phase of work has done and this is the right time for the second pause.

I want to hightlight that moment because it very special and need to be checked, especially if you are a workoholic and want to make everything as fast as it possible ( as I am).

Two pauses is the nesessity to separate phases of a project, of any project, in your own mind. It needs to be attached to the action but make it a little bit aside. To be attached to the process and put it aside means, you shouldn`t interrupt yourself with informational streams such as Internet, because it could flow your mind far away and so it will be a big delay.

That time you allow your internal network to produce better decision in more short time. So it is important to make a 15 minutes relaxation of any way you prefer: gymnastics, yoga etc. In my case I have special conditions for tea ceremonies. As it was the second phase of the project, I allowed myself to surf along the book by Nassim Taleb "Antifragile" accompanied with milk oolong tea which always becalm me.

Ok, let`s move to the last stage of the changes: to organize everything in my new environment.

That stage could be done at any time, and you can experiment with the order in your case. In mine conditions it needed to be put in an ideal order, convenient to use easily all tools, matherials, sources I have. Othervise it could be delays between parts of projects and I don`t  allow it.

The point is, our life time is limited and we are free to choose how to make it reach with right constructive things. It needs a good conditions to keep all interests alive. For example I had Chinese 21-strings  arpa Guzhen for about 7 years, but put poor instrument in very unconvinient place so it was a lack of practice for a long time, although I like it. Now the Guzheng is nezr the table and also could be practiced on the new table, and the environment is much better to keep the mood.

If you have some hobbies which you love, it should be organized to be available in good friendly manner so you could feel the stream of gentle energy towards it. It`s important in our fast time changes just because many things streams us away.

To create oriental environment I put the small tea table with tea heater and a bonsai.

Many things around was reorganized.

The next important thing is to make something to cool your eyes. Even for offices it is a wide line of products like office table waterfalls or water tanks (with poor fishes inside).

In my case as I am working with images for many hours, I made waterpool with flowers, plants, stones, lucky Chinese turtle and a frog from glass. When I need to interrupt myself and meditate, I put into the waterpool floating candle which is safe and make the time counted (floating candle works about an hour).

If you make something like that, very simple, in your working environment you will see home productive your worl will be and how quickly and reach your relaxation became.

Ok, I put the buddha office waterwall at the left and waterpool at the right and several statues of Buddha in the centre because I like it. According you your circumstances you can arrange and design what things you want to attract your eyes for a short time during work:

That`s all about how to create your perfect work place, also a hobby place, also a place for relaxation or whatever.  To make own life effective and efficient in short and long run, and to keep pleasures of life together. it is as interesting as easy to do. Wish you the best and thank you for being with me!

Anna