Our in-box this week included a disturbing e-mail announcing the new candidates from Yahoo Personals: The "real people" behind "Project Real People 2006." Instead of paying professional models to play pretend in their ads, they like to fake it with Real People. This has everything to do with expectations and paralyzing the public into not being able to move forward because they can't be perfect.
Every year, Yahoo hand-picks 46 members to march out to San Francisco for a photo shoot.
They snap an average 550 shots per person.
The irony behind this media sending us messages of perfection, "how easy it is" and how this kind of message influences our expectations everyday. The next time you tackle an organizing project, stop looking at images with perfect locations, perfect lighting and 550 pictures to get the right one.
We've been in enough Hollywood homes to know that real families, even celebrities, live in real homes-- not architectural masterpieces. I recently read in the LA Times Ellen DeGeneres bought the "house next door" to use as an entertaining and party house-- presumably to use her "real" house for what? Living. Your personal level of "being organized" should be for what YOU desire, not what people tell you. This is the value of working with a Professional Organizer. They won't be judgmental. They're not there to criticize and you should make that very clear. They're there to just lead you to a system that works for you. Not the cover of Dwell Magazine, or Yahoo Personals.
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