Having a goal
By Isabel Melgarejo on May 4, 2022
Having a goal -a perspective from The Tidy Coach
About a year ago I started working with the sweetest lady you can ever meet. She called me because she wanted to organize her whole residence in specific a room where her mom had lived several years until her passing. During our first conversation I was shocked at how precise her goals were, she had in mind how the end result would look like and why. She wanted to turn her mom’s room into a guest room for her grandchildren to come and visit. She had a why too, she wanted her grandkids to come and visit and be able to stay with her and she didn’t want anything that could bring her sad memories. Her story is remarkable because she wanted her work to have meaning. She wanted to have a functional space because she wanted to enjoy her family and her various hobbies.
Through the process, she faced many emotional moments.
She found documents that brought painful memories, other times she remembered fun times when finding something she hadn’t seen in a while. We shared tears of joy and sadness during our sessions together, and most importantly she never quit. When I start working with clients they always have the intention of finishing and half way through the process they loose interest because there is no meaning to the hard work they are doing, so they just get distracted by life and many other things that have a higher priority in their lives.
I wanted to share this story with you, because I would like for you to start this journey with a happy ending in mind.
I would love for you to do this with a higher significance than just decluttering an area. If you do this, you will find yourself enjoying the process and making it a part of all the ones that are close to you. How can you give meaning to this?
About the author
Hello, I'm Isabel. I've been running this business for over a year now and this time has taught me more than all my years organizing just for fun at home. I was born to a very organized family and it all came natural to me. In 2019, I moved to Fort Worth and for some reason I lost the ability to keep things organized, that's when I learnt about the Marie Kondo method. The method separates belongings into 5 categories: clothes, books, paper, miscellaneous and sentimental items. It's done this way because you start with the easiest and you finish with the hardest. By doing this I was able to become organized again and regain my life (literally).