Just because you're organized, do you think you can actually organize someone else?
Ask any professional organizer their view of their business before they began, and a few years later. Working as a professional organizer is difficult when emotions run high, decisions come slowly and patience on the part of the organizer is prudent, or they won't be coming back. The act of organizing might seem thrilling to some. The reality is it's tough to actually move someone through the organizing process.
So take Jeff Goldblum for instance. Mr. Goldblum may be like Matt Lauer of The Today Show fame. They both seem to like organizing so much, they could do it as a profession.
In an interview earlier this year with TV Guide and Jonathan Small, Goldblum talked a little bit about his passion for purging. Unfortunately, the article is offline, presumably because his show Raines was canceled from NBC. One of our readers sent it to us, snail mail:
TV Guide: Apparently you are an expert pianist… Do you have any other hidden talents?
"I do a version of spring cleaning, which is sort of recycling, streamlining and divesting myself of unneeded accumulation. Every year I give away clothes and get down to the minimal thing. I would be very good at going into someone's house who needed help getting it cleaned. I would go through their closets and say "Why are you keeping this?" I'd be good at organizing people's lives."
We love that he recycles the things he doesn't need anymore. So, what are your experiences organizing someone else? Perhaps a college dorm roomate, a parent, your uncle or your children's homework. Did you smell success or did you bomb big time?
image courtesy Microsoft
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