Your Beliefs in Action!

As a practicing interior designer, I've often wondered why some projects go so smoothly while others seem to be filled with problems, mistakes and delays.  I always look to myself first to see if there are areas where I have gone unconscious, gotten lazy or maybe just had a bad attitude about a particular client.  I'm still working working on why I have attracted some of these difficult people or projects and what each lesson is here. 

 But one project stands out from all of the others.  The client was very nice, was very receptive to my ideas and was willing to spend money on purchasing good quality furniture, while we re-worked some of her existing pieces.  She seemed like the ideal client.  Although everything was corrected immediately, I was aware that it wasn't just me making mistakes.  I measured and re-measured walls before ordering custom sofas that came in too long or short, my brilliant furniture maker of 20 years who never before had made mistakes with his measurements, made pieces that were off, the dining table came in with scratches on the top and a few dining chairs needed to be re-finished.  I'm used to one or 2 things needing repairs but this was just too much for a project of this size. 

 I started wondering if the client had certain sub-conscious beliefs that were attracting these situations into her life.  Did she have fears or expectations of things going wrong?  Did she have trust issues?  What was she thinking and feeling at the time?  She was not the type of person who I could talk to about the Laws of Attraction so I never found out.  I worked with a very famous person who did have the belief that he was the only one who could do anything correctly, and his assistant informed me that he proved himself right time and time again. 

 

Luckily, most of my clients are pretty positive people, have kind and generous hearts and their projects go smoothly.  If something comes in that isn't perfect, they don't freak out, get angry or go into a blame game.  They understand that sometimes things happen other than how it was expected or hoped for, and we just fix it and move on to the next moment.

If you are thinking about doing work on your home or office, I would suggest that you sit quietly and become aware of the intentions that you are setting, notice what beliefs you may have, both positive and negative and what The Big Picture looks like.  In the world of construction and furniture making, there are so many steps and people involved that sometimes things go wrong.  What a non-professional may see as delays or seeming problems is usually seen as standard operating procedures by the professional.  Bumps along the way may look to you like very big hills, but in fact are just the nature of this business and your choice is to feel angry and upset or to stay focused on feeling good while solutions are being found.  Always try to keep The Big Picture of you finally sitting in the home of your dreams, having a drink and good laughs with loved ones.  Some of those "situations" may provide the best laughs of all.