The day before I was to begin organizing for a new client, she called to tell me that her street was being worked on so much to the point I may have to drive through a yard or two to get to her home. My reply was quick, “I have a Jeep; I Ain’t Skeered!” As I hung up the phone, I remembered that a subcontractor had said she hadn’t worked with anyone as fearless as me. “You’re not afraid of any situation and you’re not afraid to try something that I may think is impossible!”

Perhaps that’s part of why I love my job–it calls for trying things new, and I’m not afraid to do it. After all, you can’t know that something does or doesn’t work if you don’t try it first. And if it was working fine, you wouldn't need our services.

This doesn’t mean that there haven’t been times that I was afraid during my job. Once, while working in a closet, I moved some paper and 2 inch-long cockroach scurried across the shelf. I dropped the paper and screamed of course. And while my fear of the roach did not dissipate; I was NOT afraid to deal with the situation. I put a plastic sandwich bag on my hand wrongside out and caught that fiesty creature, pulled the bag up around it, sealed it and delivered it to my client so that she could show her exterminator.

We try to help instill the “I can do this” trait in our clients. For some, change is very difficult. We remind them that they can do it, and revisit how getting organized will help them free themselves from the bondage of clutter.

I’ve been through enough transformations to know that it does work out, and that anything is possible…especially if You Ain’t Skeered!