[FENG SHUI FRIDAY] Your Environment Trains Your Self Worth Every Day

In the last episode I mentioned that I hadTWO quotes hung in my kitchen.  Today I talk about the second one ... a quote from my grandma.

The way you present your daily life changes how it feels to live it. Feng Shui becomes less about objects and more about intention, standards, and small choices that remind our subconscious we are worth care. 

• my grandmother’s gold-rimmed china story and why it sticks 
• “the food tastes better in a fancy dish” as a lesson in intention 
• stopping the habit of saving special things for holidays 
• treating home and car like spaces that support the up-levelled self 
• tiny daily shifts that influence confidence, self-worth, relationships, and abundance 

p.s. I have a NASTY cold and while I almost didn't record this episode, I have decided that I will release episodes on Mondays AND ... possibly some Feng Shui ones on Fridays.  So ... today is Friday ... and I gotta.  ;)  

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Transcript

Quick Intro And Tone

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I'm so glad that you're here. You're listening to what the fuck did she just say? With your host, that's me, Stephanie Placelet. I'm all about living our best life and finding our zone of brilliance and then removing the resistance so that we can go all in. I say random crazy shit, which is why I called this podcast the way that I did it. And I really hate long, drawn-out intros. So let's fucking go. Welcome back to another episode of What the Fuck Did She Just Say? Today is Feng Shui Friday. And I want to go back to the last episode where he talked about the fact that I used to have two quotes hanging in my kitchen. The first one I shared last episode, and the other one was something that my grandmother said to me probably I was, I bet, 18, 19 years old. So a fair number of decades ago. We were standing in her kitchen and I was helping her prepare the food for supper. I think it was a special occasion, like it might have been Easter or Thanksgiving or Christmas or some sort of special occasion. And she had taken out her china. She had this beautiful 24 karat gold-rimmed china that she actually gifted to me prior to her passing. So I have these beautiful dishes now. I had already set the table with all the place settings. And I was the girl that would go to the library, because remember, we didn't have the internet back then. And I would go to the library and I would research how to fold cloth napkins so that they looked pretty on the table. So I'd already done that, and we were just about to put all of the food on the table. She had a pot of corn that was homegrown corn on the cob that she had cut off and put in the freezer. And she reheated that corn in the pot. And I asked her, Where would you like what dish would you like me to put this corn in? She handed me this smaller serving dish that was part of her China pattern with the gold trim. And she said, I think we're going to put it in this. The food tastes better in a fancy dish. And she smiled again. It's funny, you know, when we look back at people who have passed away or people that we've known from our past, and there's simple things that they've said or that they've done that we will never forget. And that is one that I will never forget. I will never forget the smile on her face. I will never forget the dish that she chose for the corn. I will never forget how she looked me in the eye when she said it. It was like with a little bit of fun and with a little bit of joke, but with so much intention behind it. And I will guarantee she probably said it and just let it go. She never dreamed I would have that quote up in my kitchen. She never would have known how important that quote was to me. I mean, side note, we say things all the time that just probably we don't even think about, but we have such an impact on the people that we've interacted with. And that was one of those moments, and it seems so insignificant, but it has really shaped who I am in so many ways. When she said that, the food tastes better in a fancy dish. I realized the importance of that china to her. I realized why it was so special for her that I would go out of my way to research a new way that I could fold a napkin, a new design, a new way of setting them up like we were at some sort of fancy restaurant. And Feng Shui to me is living like this. Most of us are waiting for a special occasion. We clean our house because we have company coming over or it's a holiday. And why I'm telling you this is it's not about the dishes, it's about intention, standard, and treating ourselves and our family and our friends and our guests as special as they are. Every moment is special. When we treat our home like it's just a container for our crab, we never really up level. When we move from one task on our to-do list to the next, to the next, to the next, and we eat supper while we're standing over the stove just snacking, or we have our kids sitting at the kitchen island doing their homework, and we sort of just shove things off to the side so that they have room. It doesn't allow us the opportunity to experience the specialness of every single moment we're on this planet. We often say, you know, we'll hear, like, use the china. You never know when your last moment will be, sort of thing, right? And my grandmother's quote was even more than that. It was more than just using the fancy dishes or drinking sparkling water out of a beautiful goblet. It's more about our lives becoming richer because we spend intention and care within them. It's important to me that our house feels intentional. It's important to me that when I get in my vehicle, that it feels clean and beautiful. On my rear view mirror, I have a tiny crystal that my cup holders have little inserts with sparkly little diamonds in them. I mean, obviously they're not diamonds, but every time I get into that car, I notice the specialness and the intention behind those two things. I always try to keep my car clean because I feel like my up-leveled version of myself takes care of her car. The up-leveled version of myself has an intentional design to my house. The up-leveled version of myself remembers that the food tastes better in a fancy dish, but also that when we live with intention like that, the more beauty we attract into our lives, the more beautiful our relationships become, and the more abundant we will feel. So today I want you to think about the small little shifts that you can make within your space that would make them special, that would trigger your brain to think, I'm special, I deserve this. Maybe use the cloth napkins or a beautiful water pitcher. Maybe you're gonna use the china more often. And maybe you're gonna purchase that beautiful lotion that just makes you feel and smell so amazing. And you're gonna use it every day, and you're gonna have that signature scent. This is how you start to shift everything, whether it's relationships, money, career, self-worth, confidence, your health. Our environment is speaking to our subconscious mind. It speaks to us before our mind ever catches up. So when we can make tiny little shifts, and we don't have to do a ton of them, but like one or two tiny shifts every single day to live in intention, everything shifts. The food didn't magically taste better, yet it did. It was just corn with a little pad of butter and some parsley flakes. But if I had left that in the pot and put that in the middle of the table, it would not have tasted as good as it did within that gold trimmed china. Your life is the occasion, and you and your family and your friends and your guests are worth special. And when you start to show up in that way and you intentionally live with those special moments, life starts to get better. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you've had some laughs, maybe some ideas, and that you've been inspired to take some type of action toward the life you've always dreamed up. If you feel so called, I would love it if you would share with your besties. Leave a review down below. I look forward to bringing you on the next episode.