067: Bill Hirsch | How Your Living Space...

Look around you. Is your living space creating a centered, balanced and successful lifestyle? Today’s guest Bill Hirsch believes the space you live in is a key to happiness. Bill is an architect boasting an incredible award winning portfolio, building with the belief that each home should express the personality of the owner. He is also the author of the book, The Well-Centered Home: Simple Steps to Increase Mindfulness, Self-Awareness, and Happiness Where You Live, where he shows readers how you can make your home a "recharging station" for your emotional and psychological self.

Let’s listen in to Bill’s insights and learn what your living space can do to make you a better communicator. 

In this Episode:

[00:01 - 06:39] Opening Segment

• I introduce and welcome Bill Hirsch
• A bit about Bill
• 30 years as an architect 
• Author 
• How Bill started on his path 
• Degree in psychology
• Incorporating psychological factors into designs 
• Homes that benefit the emotions 
• A Well-Centered Home 
• A place where you feel stress lower 
• We spend a high percentage of time in our home 
• There are ways we can improve our homes 

[06:40 - 10:39] How Creating Well-Centered Home Centers you

• Bill gives examples of the small things you can do to make your home centered
• Earth Grounding 
• Enhance what you can see outside 
• The benefits of connecting with nature
• How having a well-centered home makes you a better communicator 
• The frame of mind to be receptive 

[10:40 - 25:15] Different Personality, Different Needs; Being the Guide

• Bill talks about the construct of identifying home types
• Home Body Types 
• Astaire 
• Galileo 
• Nightingale 
• Plato
• Different tendencies and preferences 
• Helping people to understand themselves 
• Suggestions from Bill’s book 
• Getting people started with colors
• Reassuring the decisions of the clients
• Helping people who don’t know what they want
• Being the guide like sacajawea
• The process 
• Picking the most critical factors 
• Preparing a project 
• The program 
• Supporting the goal 
• Centering a home around several different personality 
• Safe space for each individual 
• Prosper interaction 
• Space to gather
• Bills Dinner table example  
• An anchor in the day 
• Creating ‘Home Base’ 
• Learning to have conversations

[25:16 - 31:04] Communicating to Others Through Our Living Space 

• Bill’s thoughts on how we communicate to others through our space
• Spaces to induce conversations 
• Open seating 
• How your items and there placement express you 
• Your office space 
• Key insights from the books
• Recharging Station 
• Improving your psyche 
• How it affects communication 
• Your emotional state 
• Energy levels 
• Your composition 

[31:05 - 42:56] Closing Segment

• The most impactful conversation of your life? 
• With a professor while studying architecture in college 
• Encouraged to do independent research
• Not a lot of architects think emotionally 
• One communication skill that you could have had?
•  Avoid speaking negatively and always speak positively
• Job interview example
• Elevate yourself by speaking in the positively 
• The best communicator that you know? 
• Ronald Reagan 
• A champion of communication 
• Stew Stewart 
• How to find Bill
• Links below 
• Final Words

Tweetable Quotes:

"That is what a well-centered home can do for you, it can change you emotionally and help YOU become centered.” - Bill Hirsch

“My role isn’t to make the decision for them, but to reassure them that their own decisions are going to work and be accurate for them.” - Bill Hirsch

“Your home can be your ‘recharging station’ for your psyche and your emotional wellbeing… You can improve it so that the effect is more pronounced and more positive and it will put you mentally in a better place…” - Bill Hirsch 

Resources Mentioned: 

• The Well-Centered Home

You can connect with Bill on LinkedIn and Facebook. Be sure to check out www.williamhirsch.com to learn more about a more balanced home space.

Guest email: hirschnc@nc.rr.com 

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