What are the three best things about your chosen profession?
Week of Grace is a 7-day journaling project, scientifically designed to you make you happier, healthier, and more productive. For 7 days, please join in and answer to the gratitude question posted! To get the full benefits, you should write out your response rather just think about it. Like the featured guests, you may comment here, or you can tweet #weekofgrace, email a friend, or even write out your response longhand.
Week of Grace for June 2010 starts Thursday the 24th and ends Wednesday the 30th.
Look for Featured Guests in the comments this Month:
- Denise Levine: Outside In Organizer
- Daniel K. Printz, Esq.: The Legacy Lawyer
- My client: Stephanie
- My client: Lynn
- My client: Paul
3 responses to “Week of Grace: Chosen Profession”
The three best things about being a Professional Organizer are my clients, my clients, and my clients! Organizing means nothing unless my clients are satisfied. Having an organized file system, closet, or schedule is meaningless unless it meets my clients’ needs. When I help someone who is downsizing and decluttering I know that I must respect their feelings during the process. We are creatures of habit and successful changes are only maintained when they are made carefully and thoughtfully. We also, despite our logic and intellect, become emotional about our “stuff” as well as the way that we do things. Working with my client means listening, asking questions, and not judging. The best reward that I derive being a Professional Organizer is realized in a satisfied client who refers me to their friends and colleagues!
There is a greater good! it is easy to get bogged down in the numbers intrinsic to a Finance position, but knowing that the financial plans developed and managed by my team are essential for bringing drugs to the market place is the big picture that makes the work worthwhile. I almost don’t need the other two reasons! One of those being that this work is something that I am really good at; I’m tempted to say that this work chose me rather than the other way around. Lastly, this job has permitted me to realize the 10-year vision that I had for myself: living and loving with beach access. :)
Top three things I love about being a fitness trainer:
(1) Lots of motivation and opportunity to stay in excellent health myself.
(2) My “office” (at the beach) has an awesome view of the sunrise & sunset.
(3) Getting to know people on many different levels. Learning to appreciate who they are, as well as who they try to be.