5 Benefits of Working With a Professional Organizer
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Often, people dismiss the need for a professional organizer because, in their mind, they don’t want to pay someone to do something that seems so simple. They feel like they can do these tasks by themselves. After all, why would you hire someone to declutter your house? Or help you come up with a decent filing system? Or to teach you how to organize your home or office better?
In my last blog post, How Much Do Professional Organizers Charge? I talked about selling the value of your services and working with a professional organizer. One way to sell your value is to communicate the benefits of working with a professional organizer. Let’s look at five benefits of working with you, a professional organizer, that you can communicate to your clients when they question working with a professional organizer:
Benefit #1 – Get You Out Of A Rut and Help You Destress
When everything around you is in disarray, entering your house can feel too overwhelming. It’s as if you’re not at ease with anything at all.
Getting organized might help you feel less stressed, particularly if this organization spans several aspects of your life. There won’t be as many frantic last-minute searches for your purse, car keys, or day’s worth of paperwork.
Your tidy closet will make getting ready in the morning less stressful, and you’ll feel less stressed as you prepare meals in your clean, uncluttered kitchen.
If you work with a professional organizer, they can help you establish routines and habits that create long-lasting systems of organization.
Benefit #2 – Ease Your Mind About Not Having Enough Time
Some people don’t have the free time to organize their bedrooms, bathrooms, pantries, closets, or drawers. Maybe you work all day and are exhausted when you get home. Or there are just too many individuals living in the same home to maintain order.
A professional organizer can be helpful in this situation. They can complete all the labor-intensive tasks as you do your daily business. You can even discuss how you want your house to be arranged with them while they are there and how their strategy works for you.
Are you moving soon? A professional organizer can help you create a timeline and follow through with the specifics, making the relocation exciting rather than stressful.
They can also help in tasks such as clearing out a family member’s estate or perhaps quickly setting up a home office if you need to do business from your residence.
Professional organizers can guide you to the right path and even bring in teams to assist you in finishing your task before the deadline.
Benefit #3 – Help You Decide What To Keep and What To Let Go
Some decisions are hard to make without a little bit of guidance and direction. When unsure, we often walk away from the thing, leading to clutter.
Once the spaces in your home or office are opened, it’s much easier to see how you can use them in a way that aligns with your current vision.
Professional organizers are skilled at posing questions that will guide your decision-making. Since they have no emotional attachment to the objects you can’t decide on, coming up with ideas is easy for them.
Benefit #4 – To Teach Organization and Inspire You To Stay Organized
These experts have seen every kind of mess imaginable—and they’ve managed to organize them all! They know how to design a workable structure that won’t fall into chaos once you’ve arranged everything. Unfortunately, some individuals find the whole “organizing trend” to be too foreign to them. If you’re not confident in your abilities, you might give up, which will only result in an even bigger mess!
What’s great about professional organizers is that they help you create organized systems and impart their skills to you so that you can keep the systems running smoothly.
The last thing you want to see after putting a lot of effort into getting a zone or area exactly right is clutter creeping back in. A sound maintenance plan prevents that from ever happening.
Benefit #5 – Creating Better Lives Through Organization
Most people want a second opinion before deciding, and friends are the best people to ask for one. When you work with a professional organizer, you bring in a friend to help you see your house from a different perspective.
They can guide you, change you, and provide you with organized systems that you will incorporate into your day-to-day life.
What benefits do you communicate to clients when they question working with a professional organizer? Please post in the comments.
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I appreciate that you mentioned how keeping your space orderly might make you feel less stressed. Additionally, it promotes productivity. Since she became pregnant, my sister has had difficulty juggling both her full-time job and household duties due to the symptoms. I believe that she might benefit from hiring in-home organizing services to reduce stress. I’ll be sure to let her know about this and suggest that she hire one. I appreciate you sharing!
I hope your sister finds some relief from working with a professional organizer!
Well I agree with all of this! I find that bringing in a professional really shifts the tone of the whole situation. Suddenly there is vision, direction, momentum, and support.
There are so many reasons why people are challenged to get and stay organized. I think POs recognize this, and are the least judgmental people out there. All we want to do is show up and help!
Vision, direction, momentum, and support – four excellent benefits right there!
Great post, Janet. I love helping my clients jump-start their decluttering and organizing systems. It is wonderful to see them stay focused and get out of their heads. Stopping because of obstacles happens not just in the home but also in their businesses. I saw it in both types of clients I service.
I remember one specific client I worked with. I went once a week for quite a while to re-organize her office filing system. I dropped in several months later and was delighted to see that it looked just the way I left it. All she really needed was someone to make sense of what she had and help her figure out what would be most functional. It’s so rewarding!
I agree with all of these, and of the many more benefits we professional organizers provide, I will just add two. First, we bring expertise — we know what should be appraised vs. donated without thought, we have the right resources and contacts, and whatever a client is experiencing, it’s almost never our first rodeo in that regard. Second, we make it fun. Everything is more fun with a partner, and even “weird” or yucky things can be humorous when you get to share the load with someone else.
Too often, people think only of the impact a professional organizer has on the space and neglect to realize how great a positive impact, in so many ways, we can have on the individuals, the families, the teams, and the lives of all of the people in whose spaces and spheres of influence we work. Thanks for the great reminders!
These are excellent points, Julie. When you mentioned getting things appraised or donating them, I immediately thought of Royal Doulton figurines. They were expensive when new and likely cherished by the original owner, but there’s not much demand for them anymore. By sharing that information, you can save your client a lot of bother.