Trusting the Wrong Consultant

 I received an email in the beginning of this year from a lady. She informed me that she finally found my email and contact after she googled up her Feng Shui consultant's name on the web.

She has hired one of my student G to do audit for her home and also business. In fact it was a letter of complain and also asking for help. Because according to her, G had convinced them (both she and her husband) to find a shop lot, buy it and do business. And G literally guarantees them that the business would definitely prosper with the help of his Feng Shui skills.

In trusting G, they invested a substantial amount of money to start the restaurant business. Of course the end result did not turn out as G as promised. They are now having a hard time in getting customers, maintaining their staff and making enough to even service their bank loans.

The most IRONIC part of her situation, was that G have informed them that I am his Shi Xiong (師兄) which means both of us are the same generation of student under Master Lau. He did not informed the lady that I am his teacher.

To make things very clear.

1. I have NOT taught anyone in my 10 years of teaching Feng Shui, that they should convince their client to take a loan, invest their money beyond their means to start a business JUST because they could help their client find a suitable Feng Shui premise for their type of business.

2. If you are starting a business, your Feng Shui consultant should have advise you on your luck period and also upcoming yearly luck on whether you have the capability to start a business.

Just because

          your product is superior

          your are the sole distributor

you have years of experience in the market
you are a very good cook/chef – everyone says that you food taste like a piece of heaven

you have good taste for clothing and people would buy you selection
and the list goes on...

Does NOT mean a thing, when your luck is unable to support your business. When your major luck period is not suitable, the BEST Feng Shui can do is only to help you break-even. Because without the help of Feng Shui, the business would have to suffer early termination.

In her case, I tried to advice her and the 1^st thing that I have requested from her and her husband are their BaZi. I did not charge them anything, because they mentioned G was the starting point of their biggest nightmare.

I looked over their BaZi and informed them that if they still want to maintain the business, they must have the capability to sustain it beyond 2014. But coming 2014 will be year of great financial difficulty for them. So best option for them would be to sell the business while there is still value in it to ride it out if they can.

3. When you study in a good university, does everyone in the same graduating year end up serving their community? Good university provides good education – but in a graduating year, some becomes leader of their own community while there are also some that end up as criminal ! The university is not the problem but the people themselves. Just as in this case, G studied with me, San Yuan Feng Shui has 4 Level. ALL students that have studied with me maximum has only reached to LEVEL 3. In essence G has not even graduate yet.

Furthermore, he is lying to his client that I am his peer.

4. After teaching San Yuan Feng Shui for so many years. In each of their level, I have URGE the students, if they do have the resources and time, do learn up BaZi in our style. Because there are some differences in the way my REAL peers and Master Lau analyse BaZi compare to other schools which are more suitable to implement San Yuan Feng Shui. Unfortunately many students thinks that they already learn BaZi somewhere else and do not need to learn it anymore.

Even as recent as few weeks ago, this lady continues to email me, each time in her email she will write on her disgust, dissappointment and also strong frustration for being duped in by G to start her business. I have already advised her on her business and what she needs to do with it. When you major luck is not supporting, there are no 'cures' for it.

Moral of this case

1. Check the credentials of your Feng Shui Consultant.
2. Coming from a good school does not mean they have good ethics.
3. Before starting a business, check your own luck period for suitability (get a good BaZi consultant).
4. NO Feng Shui consultant can guarantee you would be profitable when your luck is not supporting. If they do guarantee, please turn around and RUN as fast as you could and hold your wallet really tight.
5. You should check for LUCK first before checking skills in starting a business. Many people act in opposite way.