The holiday is almost here. I was already thinking about taking a break when something jolted me awake: there are still a few important things I haven’t reminded my brothers and sisters about!
I have to tell you — because if you handle these few small things properly, every single one of them can help your fortune run smoothly for an entire year.
So I sat down and carefully wrote out these suggestions:
1. Your living space and workspace must not be left cluttered and chaotic. Take advantage of these few days to clean them up properly.
Whether from the perspective of classical Chinese wisdom or from a scientific angle, a disordered, dirty environment creates enormous negative resistance in your life. Pick any interview with any person who has built a successful career — you’ll find that no matter how many things are on their desk, what needs to be organized is organized, everything laid out neatly and clearly.
From the classical perspective: cluttered objects create chaotic affairs, and chaotic affairs mean an unsmooth fortune — your life fills up with endless rework, repetition, and entanglement.
Setting aside a full Feng Shui discussion for now, just remember this one saying: “Better to have the Azure Dragon rise ten thousand feet than the White Tiger raise its head.” In practical terms: always ensure your work environment is arranged with the left side higher than the right — this is the proper layout for your destiny framework (格局).
As for specific objects — since I don’t know your detailed destiny chart (命盘), I can’t advise blindly. But as a general rule: if your work is business-oriented or sales-driven, place a small Pi Xiu on your desk. If your primary goal is promotion or you work in a technical field, a small Qilin is the better choice.
If you’re eager to find a good marriage or strengthen your romance fortune (桃花运), get a small peach tree ornament. And please — don’t do what some uninformed young women do and go seeking fox spirit idols or similar objects. As the saying goes, “Borrow fortune and you owe blessings back — take six and you’ll owe nine.” That’s exactly why some people see a small improvement after acquiring such things, then watch their situation deteriorate more and more over time.
Of course, strictly speaking, each person’s life pattern calls for more specialized arrangements. But since I don’t know your detailed destiny chart, I won’t guess.
Finally — take advantage of the Spring Festival to gather all documents with negative or inauspicious content: written IOUs, layoff notices, overdue payment notifications — anything with a negative meaning. Collect them all in a paper box, bind the box with a red cord, and place it on top of a seldom-visited cabinet. This is precisely what is meant by “putting things high on the shelf and leaving them there.”
2. Absolutely do not get involved in other people’s unnecessary business at year-end. Don’t take on that petty attitude of being half-spectator, half-helper and drag yourself into someone else’s mess.
Understand this: once you get involved in someone’s misfortune, its karma (因果) begins to intertwine with yours. Staying completely out of it is always the best choice.
There’s a well-known saying: “The most loyal and righteous are often the common folk; betrayal comes most often from the educated.” This is entirely true. It’s often the street-level, grassroots types who are most willing to entangle themselves in all kinds of trouble dressed up as loyalty and righteousness.
That’s admirable, certainly — but the cost is that you’ll constantly be pulled into endless troubles yourself, making it very hard to rise above them.
Remember: don’t let yourself get entangled in too much bad fortune. The person you helped will most likely not remember the kindness. At best, they’ll offer verbal gratitude, treat you to one meal afterward, say some pleasant words, and consider the matter settled.
That’s just human nature. There’s no avoiding it.
If you genuinely want to help, just send a red envelope. That’s worth more than anything else.
You know yourself — you still have so many important things on your plate, you’re still in the hard-grinding phase. Managing yourself well is the greatest responsibility you can have — toward society and toward yourself.
When you’re strong and financially solid with energy to spare, then extend a hand to others. As the old saying goes: when you’re poor, cultivate yourself; when you’ve achieved, benefit the world.
3. From the perspective of classical Chinese wisdom and Chinese medicine theory, the best way to maintain the quality and longevity of your life comes down to two words: restraint. Never over-consume.
You might not realize it, but binge eating, irregular sleep schedules, and chronic sleep deprivation are all deeply draining acts — the cost to your Chi field (气场) is steep.
Why do some women, barely past thirty, suddenly look aged — their vitality dropping sharply, their complexion giving off an impression of hardship and poverty?
Why do some men, also just past thirty, experience a sudden decline — energy, physical strength, endurance all regressing badly, feeling powerless no matter what they attempt?
There’s no mystery here. It’s because they failed to exercise restraint in five areas: alcohol, tobacco, desire, sleep, and food. They burned through their energy reserves prematurely.
Never forget: the Spring Festival is the time when people most easily let their guard down and give themselves over entirely to indulgence. And you know how desire works — once the floodgates open, pulling it back is harder than climbing to heaven.
So during the festival: eat what you eat, enjoy what you enjoy — but keep a quiet mental brake gently pressed in the background at all times.
Don’t believe it matters?
Ask yourself: isn’t it always after the Spring Festival that you find yourself deeply regretting that your weight, blood lipids, and blood sugar have all hit new highs? And then, once work swallows you up again, there’s no bandwidth left to think about losing weight?
The result is a body growing heavier and more bloated, a will becoming more self-abandoning, until you’ve become a heavy, sluggish mass of flesh.
Restraint. Restraint. Restraint. Never forget it.
4. During the Spring Festival, don’t exhaust yourself trying to work. If you want real results, there’s a full year after the festival to hustle — for now, rest properly when it’s time to rest.
But of course, you can’t just lie in bed and do absolutely nothing.
What you should do during this time is reach out, as much as possible, to friends you believe have genuine potential — people with full, positive energy and upright character. Strengthen those ties. A few sincere words is all it takes.
Don’t underestimate those casual exchanges. Few in words, they work like seeds, planting a meaningful connection in another person’s heart.
Whether it’s a warm greeting, a shared laugh, or saying something that might feel a bit forward under ordinary circumstances but truly deepens a friendship — say it now, while the moment is right.
And please — don’t be like certain foolish people who blast out a flashy New Year’s mass greeting to their entire contact list, then think they’ve done something masterful, that they’ve made their presence felt.
In reality, everyone who receives it finds it annoying and dull. And they’ll think: this person must be desperate for connections — why else try so hard in such a hollow way?
Connections: not quantity, but quality.
If every Spring Festival you can reignite three high-quality friendships, just imagine how dramatically your life could transform in five years.
On the flip side — during the New Year period, actively distance yourself from friends who carry heavy negative energy. Especially the type who, the moment they see you, launch into everything that went wrong in their year, pouring out all their grievances, self-pity, and complaints — demanding your comfort and emotional energy in return. Distance yourself from them as much as possible.
Let me ask you this: if you absorb this much negative energy at the very beginning of a new year, how good can your year possibly be?
5. Don’t be naively optimistic — assuming next year will just be great on its own, without making any preparation or plans — and then charging forward recklessly.
If you’ve ever spent real time around even one person worth over a hundred million, regardless of gender, whether from poverty or privilege, whatever their industry — you’ll find that no one who holds steady at that level of wealth got there by shooting blindly in the dark.
Their working style is: first predict, then plan, then execute. Everything advances in an orderly way, yet with remarkable efficiency.
Borrow this quality from them. If you hope to accomplish something meaningful — a critical career advancement, purchasing a solid investment property, finding a lasting quality relationship — then absolutely do not lie to yourself by saying: “Oh, things will work themselves out as I go. I’ll deal with it when it comes.”
I’m sorry — reality is that without preparation, things will not work themselves out. They will crash to pieces.
So take this opportunity to map out your goals for the entire year, then allocate your energy to the right people and the right events based on those goals.
Otherwise, why do you think wealthy businesspeople across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan place such intense importance on understanding their fortune outlook (运势) at the beginning of each year?
It’s not simply about knowing what will happen. It’s about planning ahead, building contingency strategies, and preparing for every scenario. When opportunity appears, they’re already positioned to seize it. When danger appears, they’ve already built their defenses.
Of course, I don’t expect you to reach the level of grand destiny framework optimization — turning fortune and avoiding misfortune on a large scale. That isn’t something anyone can accomplish alone; it requires far too much knowledge across far too many domains.
But regardless, the rational preparation and judgment that is within your power must never be neglected. Keep this firmly in mind.