What my apartment looks like
My clients always want to know what my apartment looks like. Prospective clients too. Most people I meet actually, once they find out what I do. A follow up question is, “Are you organized? What does your place look like?” I think people want to catch me with my junk drawers down. My place is a mess on occasion and I am completely fine with it. Mess being a different issue from dirty…which I’m not so fine with. (Mess = stuff everywhere, dirty = um… dirty, dust, dirt,
sticky, dust-bunny-madness-running-the-all-star-dirt-show… right?)
I have a small apartment in Venice and if I don’t put my jacket away the place is a mess. In a small place if you are not on top of every one of your items it doesn’t take much for the place to look frumpy. Having said that about 50% of the time I just don’t care. I will walk in the door with bags on every arm. Drop them, head for the couch with the takeou
Venice Beach, Sketch Image by roberthuffstutter via Flickr
t, watch 6 hours of Mad Men and go straight to bed. Nothing and I mean nothing, gets put away. (Shocking – I know, but I like to live on the edge.) But those last two words are the key to it all for me and for what I work with clients on. Put away. There is a place for it all to go when motivation strikes and I feel like putting it all away. That is the key to organization – having a place for everything…and trusting yourself to eventually put the thing in the place it lives in. There is sanity in letting it live both in and out of its place.
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