Four Feng Shui Habits to Add to Your New Year's Resolutions
As we close the chapter on 2025, the blank slate of a new year opens before us. Such excitement! Such potential! There’s nothing quite like the beginning of a new year to make you feel like anything can happen and this is a powerful mindset to have when it comes to manifestation. If you believe that this will be the time that all your dreams come true, who is the Universe to argue?
To help make the most of this year’s fresh new energy flow and capitalize on that optimistic “The sky’s the limit!” attitude, here are my top five Feng Shui habits that you should be adding to your list of New Year’s resolutions. In addition to helping you to attract good harmony and abundance to your home, they’ll help to boost your manifestations all year round.
Resolution 1: Space Clear at the Start of Each Season
In Feng Shui, energy needs room enough to move and flow about. When your home is filled with clutter, mess, and hordes of things you’ve been meaning to throw out or pass on to someone else, this can cause the energy flow to become stagnant. When the energy flow starts to slow down like this, you’ll find that you have a much harder time manifesting your goals. So what can you do to kick that energy flow into high gear?
Space clearing is a way to mindfully sort through your possessions to determine what you should hold on to, and what no longer serves you. When your home contains only what you need and what supports your goals, you’ll find that you’re able to attract your goals far quicker and more effortlessly than ever before.
Begin by deciding what area of the home you want to start with. Then, empty out all the cupboards, closets, drawers, storage boxes – whatever’s in that area. With everything now out in front of you, have five different bags or boxes close to hand:
The first bag will be for everything you decide to keep
The second bag will be for anything you decide to throw away
The third bag will be for anything you want to give to your friends and family
The fourth bag will be for anything you decide to donate to charity
The fifth bag will be for anything you decide to sell, perhaps online or in a consignment store
Place everything you have set out in one of these five bags. Remember to be critical! A quick and easy way to decide what stays and what goes is to ask yourself whether you’re going to use this item in the next six months. If it’s a no, strongly consider getting rid of it or donating it. All the things you have around you should serve a practical purpose to make your life easier.
Once you’ve gone through everything, give the space a good dusting. Place the items that you’ve decided to keep back into their correct place and deal with the other bags accordingly.
Space clearing is a fabulous thing to do at the start of each season, so be sure to add it to your to-do list today!
Resolution 2: Update the Family Photos in Your Home
Displaying photos of you with your family, friends, and loved ones is a lovely way to honor your relationships and attract harmony to your home. However, issues can arise when you don’t take the time to update the photos. I once had a client who spoke about feeling an emotional distance between her and her adult children. Looking around her home, I was immediately struck by the fact that the only photos of her children she had on display were ones taken from their childhood. To me, this was a clear sign that she still saw her children as young kids, and this led to feelings of resentment, tension, and confusion on both sides. I recommended that she replace these photos with ones taken within the last 12 months and once she did, she noted a dramatic improvement in their relationship.
When you display recent photos, you are sending a message to the Universe that you value and respect your relationship as it currently is, not an idealised memory of what it once was. To help strengthen your relationships and keep your sights set on the here and now, go round your home and replace any photos you have on display with ones taken within the last 12 months.
Resolution 3: Update your Personal Directions
With each new year comes a brand new set of goals and dreams. Perhaps in 2025 your focus was all about getting ahead at work and climbing your way up the corporate ladder whereas this year, you want to focus more on reconnecting with family and friends and taking time for spiritual growth. People change and priorities shift, so the key is to make sure that your home is aligned for your current goals.
Set some time aside to go through your Personal Directions and make sure everything there still reflects what it is you wish to attract. Display new images of the things that inspire you, set out new books that reflect your goals, and decorate with new symbols or objects that represent your dreams. Take down anything that no longer aligns with what you want to manifest, and either dispose of them, pass them on to a family or friend, or donate it to charity.
Resolution 4: Give Your Front Door an Abundance Makeover
If “Boost my abundance and kickstart that cash flow” is at the top of your New Year’s resolutions, this is the Feng Shui hack for you! The front door of your home holds a special significance in Feng Shui as it's the area where all the fresh, new energy enters from. The key to increasing the amount of active, abundance-attracting energy making its way into your home is to make the entrance as welcoming as possible.
When was the last time you gave your front door a good scrub with soapy water? Or added some new solar-powered or battery-operated lighting to better illuminate the pathway up to your door? Do you need to invest in a better storage solution for your garbage cans to keep them out of sight? Is your front yard filled with weeds, clutter, or broken toys? Is your door number easy to spot from the street, or is it hidden away and out of sight?
Put on some rubber gloves and set some time aside to give your front door and its surrounding area a thorough clean and decluttering. Focus on making sure everything looks tidy, well-lit, and welcoming. Remember, you can’t expect good fortune to come knocking on your door if it can’t find you from the street!
With Love and Joy,
Dame Marie Diamond
Feng Shui Master and Best-selling Author
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