Why professional organizing makes you a badass
You make your passion your purpose.
When you organize others for a living, it says a lot about you, like the fact that you don’t mess around. Being an organizer is like a whole different breed of a woman. You are taking being a “doer” to a whole n’other level and turning your skills into a purpose.
Whether you are an in-home, virtual or digital organizer, you know what it takes to take a chaotic situation and turn it into a calm, orderly and functional space. And you know that organizing professionally is NOT for the faint of heart. Clients come to you when they’re stuck, overwhelmed and under motivated to tackle areas of their life and home that are causing them stress. Usually chaos leads to clutter but sometimes the clutter leads to chaos. No matter whether the chicken or the egg came first, it can be a difficult cycle that clients can’t see their way out of.
Clients come to you during stressful life transitions like raising kids, career changes, moving, renovating homes, downsizing and even after major losses in their lives like death and divorce. They put their trust in you to be a problem solver for them, get up close and personal in their things (even their underwear drawers), and hold them accountable for accomplishing their organizing goals and turning the current state of their home - and life - around.
If you didn’t LOVE organizing and feel called to pursue your passion, you simply would not choose this profession.
Remember your badass traits.
Organizing professionally and running a business can wear us down and sometimes negative business experiences can have us doubting ourselves. Here’s a few reminders of just how f*ing capable you are:
You thrive on other’s cluttered chaos. The bigger the mess the better, am I right? What may seem downright twisted to others is precisely why clients trust you and pay you to be their organizing “magician.” You see opportunity where they see overwhelm. You stay cool, collected and in control.
You walk into a consultation and then an organizing project with confidence. Even if you don’t know exactly the steps you will take to complete that specific job, you 100% know that you can - and will - do a killer job.
You’re focused as hell. You can spot inefficiencies before your client finishes speaking (because efficiency is your love language). You know what the client wants out of the project space, and you know what it takes to complete the task at hand. You have the process down, the product knowledge, and the experience and expertise to deliver results.
You are a compassionate truth teller. You have the skills to walk a client through hard decisions. You are authentic and transparent with clients who sometimes need a swift kick in the ass to get through the process (but you always remember they’re a human with feelings and truly do not judge them). You know you’re there to support, not shame.
You’re a problem solver. Clients hire you because they want to make less decisions and have more of their problems solved. Even if you don’t have all the answers yet, you make it clear that you do or you will, and then you go figure it out without stressing them out. You create systems that are functional (and still look good) and that actually work for their real lives.
A badass isn’t just someone with attitude - it’s a whole energy. Home organizers and productivity coaches are basically professional slaymakers with the precise energy it takes to transform homes and lives. Don’t you forget it.
Keep slayin’
Meg
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