Try playing with these ideas to bring more awareness to your Shores Workspace.

Some Environments are better for Shores than others, but considering what’s available to you in the space around you can go a long way. Take what feels fun and expansive and leave the rest. These ideas are to get you thinking about your Environment in a more expansive way.

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Prioritize the windows

If there are no windows in the space, seriously consider working in another environment as no window or immediate view of outdoor space (or another space) will be very hard for you to think clearly in and perform your best work. You need a view even if you work on something that has nothing to do with looking outside. You can’t be in a box with a door. You need a view to another world. Worst case scenario that view of another world can be a screen.

Build the space around the views

Notice how you like to be oriented in the space based on its natural and artificial light sources. Consider entering the space at different times during the day to view which lighting you enjoy the most, and build the space around that lighting. Great morning light? Build the space around it. Great afternoon light? Build the space around it.

Seek a two-sided desk

Whether that’s an L-shaped desk, an island, or a desk that has a chair on either side — it’s ideal to have a desk that allows you to have two different views. When you sit one way, perhaps you’re viewing a window. When you sit on the other side, perhaps you’re viewing a whiteboard. Having a space like this available will keep your mind clear depending on what you’re working on and when you need to shift.

Always consider what’s behind you

When setting up a space, you may tend to focus on what’s in front of you and available to you or within reach, but it’s just as important that behind you is as clean and organized as the front. You feel what’s on both sides. Sitting with a mess behind you may feel awful. Or tuning in to a Zoom call to reveal all your mishap behind you can be destablizing to see. Consider your front and your back.

Have access to an outdoor space

Whether this is a balcony, patio, deck, veranda, or beautiful walking path or garden, have some kind of feature outdoors that you can escape to and take breaks in or neutralize through when you need a change of environment. This might even be a nearby park that’s in walking distance.

Bring in a water feature or water visual

This can be some kind of fish tank, fountain, water or ocean painting, a water-inspired desktop background or iPad or iPhone background. Try water-like colours such as blues and greens, or even deep navies and blacks and whites. Water sounds are another great way to bring in the movement of water in another form.

Play with mirrors in your workspace

Play with angling mirrors in strategic ways to reveal new angles, make the space look bigger, or reflect the sunlight. Avoid angling mirrors in front of doors, as this is said to send new energy bouncing right back out the door as soon as it comes in (in feng shui principles). See if you can place a mirror in a way that allows you to see into two worlds at once.