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This week's pod...
Conquering Comparisonitis: Overcoming Social Media Traps and Boosting Your Business Productivity
It's October TO-DO list time in your business--but first, we're talking about a huge block a lot of organizers have, which is comparing yourself against other organizers!
I'm talking 'comparisonitis'—the unhealthy habit of comparing yourself to others on social media—and offers practical advice to overcome it. Strategies include muting social media triggers, focusing on personal business goals, and "using your own yardstick."
As October rolls in, I am encouraging organizers to make the most of the last three months of the year. There is a lot to focus on!
00:00 Welcome to the Pro Organizer Studio Podcast
02:04 The October To-Do List for Your Business
03:22 Understanding and Overcoming Comparisonitis
16:20 Strategies to Combat Comparisonitis
23:35 Maximizing the Last Three Months of the Year
28:07 Boss October: Shoring Up Your Life and Business
29:37 Wrapping Up and Future Opportunities
31:04 Free Workshop and BYE!
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Episode Transcript
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Hey, pro organizers.
My name is Melissa Klug andyou are listening to the Pro
Organizer Studio Podcast.
Professional organizingchanged my entire life.
After 20 years of working at hugecompanies, I started working for myself.
I opened a professional organizingbusiness, grew it to six
figures, and I never looked back.
Now I get to spend all day, every dayteaching organizers around the world.
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How to find clients, how to marketand sell yourselves, how to turn this
business into what you want it to be.
Whether you have been in businessfor 15 minutes or 15 years, you
have a home at Pro Organizer Studio.
I'm excited that you're here.
Let's get started.
Hey pro organizers.
It's Melissa.
Listen, I know that I probably justsound incredibly basic, but it's October,
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which is like my prime time of life.
I love crisp weather and I love sleepingwith the windows open when it's chilly
and I love sweaters and sweatshirts.
And I know this is just basic stuff.
I sound like a trite, Instagram post, but.
It was like a hallmarkmovie at my house this week.
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You guys.
Like September 30th waswarm, verging on hot.
And then all of a sudden itwas like a movie set showed up.
And the next day I woke up and it wascrisp and I got to wear sweatshirt.
And the leaves started to changeand there were like leaves on the
ground and I'm like, October is here.
But one of the reasons I like Octoberis not just because the weather.
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Uh, and sweaters, but.
I do love sweaters.
It is because we have threemonths left of the year.
And one of the things that I seea lot is, especially when you go
into November and December, peopleare like, oh, things aren't busy.
It's the holidays.
A lot of things are going on.
Like I'm going to take the gas off.
And then all of a sudden it's Januaryand you're like, oh my gosh, I
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have to get everything going again.
And sometimes when you kindof let things go, it's harder
to get them ramped back up.
So I want to give you a little bit of anOctober to do list today of things that
I want you to work on in your business.
But I'm also going to talk about somethingelse that I think is really important
that really doesn't have anything todo with like a list of things to do.
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It's just something thatI want you to think about.
So I'm going to start with that one.
Because this one is really importantand it was based on a conversation I
had with someone that is an amazingorganizer, has an amazing business.
And I just want to talk itthrough, so let's get to it.
You know, typically I'm more on the trainof like, Hey, I want to give you concrete.
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Things to do in your business.
I like giving people, Hey,here's your list of three
things that I want you to do.
And I want you to think about thisand I want you to think about this.
But it is also reallyimportant as business owners.
That we think about some of themore global things, our mindset,
how we approach our business, whatare some blocks that are in place?
And I'm going to be talking a lot moreabout blocks because I see them a lot.
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And it's really easy by the way.
I have tons of blocks myself, and I'dbe happy to articulate them for you,
but it's easy for me to see when someonehas a block where they're like, Nope,
I'm not going to think about this.
Even if I know it's likethe best thing for them.
And so one of the biggest blocksthat I want to talk about today
that I want you to really carefullyevaluate in your organizing business.
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Is one that I just callsimply comparisonitis.
It's a cutesy phrase for somethingthat really isn't cute at all.
Which is basically this feeling ofeveryone else is doing better than I am.
Every other organizer has abetter business than I do.
Everybody else is doing X, Y, Z.
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I should be doing that too.
It's looking around you and maybekind of rejecting your own core, you
know, not core values, but rejectingwhat you know is good for you and
your business, because you are tryingto live up to being someone else.
The reason that I am.
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Really wanting to talk about this today.
Is because I had an organizer recentlywho is a great, very successful
organizer with a very great business.
Who said.
Basically, why am I even bothering?
All these people are doingso much better than I am.
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And she was talking about peoplethat she had seen recently who
were, you know, really talkingabout how great their businesses
were and, and all of those things.
And so she felt less than.
Because she had seen theseother people and interpreted.
Everybody's doing better than I am.
And that hit me like a ton of bricksbecause this person has a great business
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and so many things to be proud of.
She wants to grow it, which is awesome.
And I am excited to help her dothat, but her existing business
is already pretty great, but shestill feels like maybe she's a
little bit less than everybody else.
By the way she has the kind of businessthat other people are probably looking
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at and going, Hey, that looks like agreat business and she's going great.
So this is just your reminder.
Everybody has these feelings and youmight be the person that other people
have those feelings about while you'rebusy, compare yourself to someone else.
And that's why I want to talkabout it because I believe
with every fiber of my being.
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That the biggest reason this happens.
And I know that maybe you are tiredof me talking about my feelings
about social media, but they are so.
Integral to what we do in this business.
The reason comparisonitisexists in our life.
So not only in our business, but inour life is because 99% of the time,
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I was going to say a hundred percent,but like, you know, It's not really a
hundred percent, but it's like 99.892%.
The comments that I get.
By the way, this person that told methis last week, they're not the first
person to tell me they feel this way.
They will not be the last person totell me this, that they feel this way.
And I am honored that people trustme when they say that to me, because
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I know that's a vulnerable momentto have to say, I feel like everyone
else is doing better than me.
But this feeling almost 100% of time.
Comes because you arelooking at other people.
On social on Instagram,on Facebook, whatever.
That you perceive are doing thingsthat are better than you, or more
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important than you, or more impactfulor bigger, or any of those things.
And I just want to remind you.
Uh, you know, we all have those people.
In our lives, all of us do.
Where you go, you know, they might bevery close friends of yours and you see
what they're posting on social media.
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And then you're like, butI, I know the actual story.
I know the behind the scenes.
Um, I for sure know someone inmy life, in my personal life.
Who postings and I'm like, girl, Ihave all of your texts, receipts.
Of all of these things.
That you're saying that do not alignwith what I am seeing you face forward.
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Uh, and it literally, as, as I amrecording this, it happened me today.
I'm going to read this.
Verbatim.
I sent a text message to a client of mine.
A long ago, client whom I'mfriends with on social media.
And I have not seen her in a whileand I always really loved her.
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And so I said, Hey, Ijust want to let you know.
I think about you a lot.
And I see you on social media.
Everything I've seen on Facebook, itlooks like you're just really happy.
And doing well, and I'm so happy for you.
Her literal reply.
I am reading it to you from my phone.
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Um, yeah, no, my socialmedia is 100% BS, LOL.
Okay.
That is a direct quote.
Am I saying that allsocial media is, is crap?
No, I genuinely believe thatthere are people out there
who are telling a real story.
But
here's the reminderthat I want to give you.
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Is that you do not haveremotely a complete story.
On social media about anything.
Whether it is personalprofessional, anything else?
You know, those pictures that we alltake at our clients where we're like,
oh, this, this pantry looks great.
This closet looks great.
This toy room looks great.
You take that photo.
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And you are, and by the way, itfeels great to have that photo.
It especially feels great.
If you have a before photo to compareit against you and be like, man,
look at how good I am at my job.
But.
Think about that picture andthen think about when you go back
to their house two weeks later.
And real life has intervened.
there's a picture from home,edit that I use in presentations
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to groups about organizing.
And, I always use it because it'sa picture of, of course, you know,
beautifully rainbow arranged crayons.
And I say, Hey, I want moms inthe group to tell me how long
does that, how long did that.
Crayon box looked like that.
And most people answer like one second.
Okay.
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That's just a reminder that socialmedia is a picture of one moment in
time and you do not have the full story.
You do not know how many clientsthat person actually has.
You do not know anything about.
Their business.
You don't know how much money thatthey're making, how much money
they are spending and expenses.
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You don't know if theymaybe have a safety net.
Of something else that is supporting them.
And this is a hobby whereit is your full-time job.
You don't know if the house that they'rein is a house that they Airbnb to house
of a friend of theirs or a client.
You do not know if that picture wasfrom yesterday or three years ago.
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You don't know anythingabout the real story?
Success is absolutely.
Individual.
And it is not governed bywhat other people are doing.
If you are a solo organizer, butyou are measuring your success
and looking at someone who hasteams in three different states.
You are measuring, using acompletely different yardstick.
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If you are doing organizing as apart time looking to move full time.
And you're measuring yourselfup against someone who has done
this full-time for 10 years.
That yard sick.
Isn't the same.
Your success is based on howyou are measuring up toward
your own personal goals.
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Whether those are financial,whether it is just time spent
doing something that you enjoy.
Whether it is just, I want to starta business and I feel compelled.
I'd like to turn thisinto something bigger.
it may be.
I would like to just have one clienta month that I can help get organized.
Or it could be, I would liketeams in five different cities.
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And I want to grow to that.
Measuring whatever your personalgoal of success is against what
someone else's yard stick is.
You're using two completelydifferent measurement systems.
Here's another thing thatI want to remind you about.
Comparisonitis and we haveall been in this boat.
Okay.
As an organizer, I go into people'shouses, obviously we're in people's
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houses all the time, and we are inhouses in all sorts of neighborhoods.
I have one house in particular that I'mthinking about as I tell this story.
So I go to the house it's ina very beautiful neighborhood,
a very beautiful home.
And I looked at all the otherbeautiful homes in that neighborhood.
And I just said, you know what?
I'm guessing that the neighbors andthe other people around, you know,
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if they're taking a walk around thisneighborhood, they have no earthly idea
of all of the things that are going onin this house that I'm walking into.
I know these things are goingon because my clients trust
me and our clients trust us.
And they come to us with very deep things.
Right.
I know what's happening in this house.
I know the family dynamics and I know thestress and I know the marital problems.
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And I know about all of the chaos that'sliving underneath this nice exterior.
And I remember thinking, oh, Ibet every other house in this
neighborhood looks at this house andit's like, oh, it's all the same.
Guess what.
Looking at all those houses.
How many of those otherhouses have chaos going on?
Probably a lot.
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So that is the thing that I thinkabout, especially as we're looking at
social media is we don't know what'sgoing on behind that photo, right.
In the same way that people inthe neighborhood don't know what's
going on in our client's homes.
Usually.
So I want you to think of it that waywhen you're on the comparison train.
Our brains are so good.
At gaslighting, us gaslighting isa word that has gotten a bad rap.
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But our brains are good at gaslightingus about everyone's doing better than me.
I'm behind everyone.
if you're in this trap, I wantyou to find a way to stop.
I am thrilled when I seeother people thriving.
Because I really genuinely feel like arising tide raises all boats and the more
people that know about organizing the morepeople that are exposed to it, the more
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opportunities there are for all of us.
But if you think thatI do not have moments.
That I look around at other peopleand I go, oh, look what she's doing.
It's easy to do.
It's very easy to compare.
It's very easy to feel like, oh, I needto do more and more and more and more
and more, but that might not be trueto who I am and what I actually need.
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So I want to give you thismoment to just stop and reflect.
And be really honest with yourself andsay, do I get struck by comparisonitis.
It's incredibly normal andnatural, especially as we care
so much about our businesses.
We want them to be successful.
We want them to help people.
We want them to.
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You know, meet our goals, makemoney, whatever our goal is.
And so, because we care so much, that'swhy this comparisonitis is hard because
we're like, oh, we just, we mean the best.
And we want the best out there.
Right.
And so the comparisonitis comes,I think from a pure heart.
And the main thing that I want youto think about is if you are in one
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of these modes where you're lookingaround, maybe things aren't going quite
right for you and your business rightnow, and you're looking around going,
everyone else is doing it better than me.
I want you to examinewhether you're doing that.
And secondly, the most important thingabout this is is it motivating you or is
it breaking you down and paralyzing you?
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Because there are two very distinct paths.
This can take.
I'm a very competitive person.
And so sometimes when I see other peopledoing something, particularly other
people who are coaching organizers,I'm like, oh, look what she's doing.
That's really smart.
I wonder if there's something thatI could create for my particular
audience and my ideal client.
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That would make me abetter, more valuable coach.
I try to use it as inspirationinstead of letting it paralyze me.
But you need to examine if it isinspirational to you and motivational,
if you're like, oh, this is really goingto kick my butt to go create something.
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Cool because I saw this,this thing that inspired me.
Versus I'm paralyzed and I'm goingto go lie in bed and eat Doritos.
Um, because I don't knowwhy I just picked Doritos.
Maybe I'm hungry, Cheetos,chips, ice cream, whatever.
I'm going to lie in bed.
And I'm just going to wallow becauseeveryone else is doing better than me.
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So why do I even bother.
That's the statement that I want youto think about where you go, wait,
I've got to do something different.
And here is what I suggest for thedoing something different part.
Okay.
Here are some things that Iwant you to think about doing.
So the first one is either unfollowing.
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You can just straight upunfollow, or if you don't want to
unfollow, which I do understand.
There is a button on Instagram.
That's called mute.
You can use the mute button justso it will not feed you people in
either your stories or your newsfeed.
That people of people who find you findyourself in that comparison trap with.
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I know a very extremely welladjusted, mentally healthy.
Successful organizer who said, I justknow that I'm better if I don't follow any
organizer that is in my geographic area.
And that's better for her because shejust knows she doesn't have to see it.
By the way I use thisstrategy with a lot of things.
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Like if there's a text messagethread that has upset me, I will just
delete it from my phone because Idon't want it to, like, I don't want
it to be there to remind me right.
So this strategy works really well.
The not seeing it strategy, or we cancall it the blinder strategy, whatever
you want, whatever you want to call it.
But if you're in one of thesecomparison traps, unfollow, or mute
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the posts that are really the onesthat really kind of set you off, okay.
It is not a commentary on howlovely that person is in real
life or on, on Instagram.
It's not a commentary on their content.
It's not a commentary on anything.
It is just a, it is better for mybrain and my mental health and my
business to not see this content.
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By the way, the reason I suggestmuting is there might be a time
that you start to feel better.
And then you're like,all right, you know what?
I would really love tosee what she's doing.
I would love to support her andyou can let that content back in,
but just give yourself a break.
And just give yourself thespace and the grace that it
just may not be good for you.
Okay.
You can also just take afull-on social media break.
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But let's say you're like, Melissa,you are not going to convince
me to take social media break.
It's not realistic, or I don't wantto, or any of the other, these other
things here is an idea for you.
If you find yourself in thecomparisonitis trap and or if you
find yourself just scrolling alot or whatever that looks like.
This is a trick thatI personally swear by.
Meta has a business page management tool.
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I will link it in the show noteswhere you can aggregate all
of your business properties.
That includes Instagram and Facebook.
It includes your DMs, itincludes your messages.
It includes comments.
So theoretically you could post somethingon Instagram and then never have to open
the Instagram app to actually moderate it.
You know, if you want to reply tocomments, which is always a nice
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thing to do that, that type of thing.
And if you don't want to miss DMS,You can do that all on your desktop.
I always do it on my desktop.
I'm sure they have an app too.
But you can do all of that withoutactually having to go to Instagram.
In order to post, youcan do a couple things.
One, you can schedule contentahead of time and just post it
on Instagram using the schedulingtool, or you can use another tool.
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I personally likePlanoly.
Will link that in the show notes too.
But you can actually post againwithout going on Instagram and then
use the Meta business tool to do allof the interaction and engagement
work that you want to without havingto scroll another great option for you.
If you really are finding yourselfon the struggle bus with it.
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The other thing I want you todo, and I want to be clear.
I'm not telling you anything thatI don't personally do myself.
So, if you want to look at the timethat you're spending on things that
don't move the needle in your business.
And by the way, this just is not,does not just include social media.
It includes reallyeverything on your phone.
I am definitely a person that spendstoo much time attached to my phone and
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I've been trying to be better about it.
It's hard.
They make these devicesaddictive, literally addictive.
And so I find myself sometimeslike, oh, I didn't get as much
accomplished today as I want to.
Why is that?
I can go to my screen time and be like,well, Melissa, I have a couple ideas.
Why you didn't accomplisheverything today.
Okay.
If you are finding yourself in alittle bit of that spiral of lack of
productivity, and you're taking time awayfrom useful things on your business, you
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can look at your screen time, which has,you know, sometimes a painful exercise,
but you can do that and determine, wow.
I spent, how much shouldI have on Instagram?
Um, the other thing that I've done formyself lately, which I advise, I have an
iPhone, I'm sure Android does this too,but there are app limits that you can set.
For instance, I have a set limitfor myself on a few apps that
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I can tend to get stuck on.
And so at the end of whatever limityou put on yourself for that day,
at the end of it, it will say you'vereached your limit on this app.
Now it gives you some choicesand you can choose to say, okay,
I can't use that app anymore.
I'm going to limit myself to the,to the time limit that I've set.
It will also give you an option thatsays, give me another 15 minutes.
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So let's say you're legitimately workingon something or it's fun time and you
just feel like scrolling a little more.
It will say, ignore this message.
For 15 minutes, it will alsogive you a choice to ignore this
message until the end of the day.
So you get to make a choice then aboutyour usage, but I use it as a tool for
myself to regulate a little bit of.
Oh wow.
I didn't realize I had spent an hourI need to hop off and be productive.
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So, these are just a few thingsthat I recommend specifically
to get out of that comparison.
I just trap, especially if you'regetting it from social media.
If your comparisonitis trap is based onsomething else, maybe it's other people
you're talking to or a networking group.
Or people that you're seeing, Ijust want you to stop and think
what about this are my triggers?
What are some of the things thatcould send me into those spirals?
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And then I like to figure out how I cantake actions on things that are bothering
me or that I am choosing to let bother me.
So I will just say, this is bugging me.
What useful things can I doover here to move myself forward
or do something different?
I might contact an accountability partnerand just be like, Hey, I'm stuck in this.
I'm stuck in this rut.
Like.
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Kick me out of it.
Right.
I have a wonderful, wonderfulwoman I've talked about.
She's actually been onthe podcast a few times.
Um, she is a friend who runs astyling business and she's very much
a person that I will run to and belike, oh my gosh, I'm having a moment.
And I need you to get me out of it.
What happens is you get stuck in acycle and then you realize you are
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not actually taking action yourselfto fix the problem that you're having.
All right.
So that is what I want to say aboutcomparisonitis just to reminder.
The things you see on social or otherwiseare never telling you the full story.
It doesn't necessarily mean thateverything is perfect and wonderful.
Do not let it get you into a pointwhere then you are not making
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forward progress to your owngoals, because you're busy thinking
about what everyone else is doing.
Then take the time to figureout how you can get out.
If you are stuck in the comparisonitistrap, how can you get out of it?
Whether it is stopping, looking at socialmedia, if that's where the comparison
starts or figuring out what those,what those trigger points are for you
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and trying to eliminate those as muchas possible and reminding yourself.
Every minute that you spendworking on your own business.
Is better for you.
All right.
This is going up on October 3rd.
And what that means isthere are three great.
Full months left in theyear to work on stuff.
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So I want you to think about yourstrategy for the next three months.
And what often happens in this time ofyear is people including clients start to
slow down a little bit, you know, again,we're going into the holiday season.
Uh, but I want you to think about a fewthings that you can offer to people.
First thing is, uh, Obviously I livein the U S I can only speak for the
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U S but, um, Halloween decoratingis starting to be like a much,
much more significant thing here.
So you've got kind ofthree distinct periods.
You've got the Halloween decorating seasonthan some people do some sort of like
Thanksgiving November-ish decorating.
Then we have the holiday seasonwhere there are, of course, massive
decorations, almost everywhere.
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I really always recommend thepeople branch out and think about
what other services analogousorganizing services they can offer.
Think about offering decor,put up and take down.
This is a great revenue source fora lot of people and if decorating
is not your jam, totally fine.
Don't offer this, butthink about offering.
Holiday decor organization.
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So tell people we're going into a highday core season is your decor a mess?
Let me come organize that for you.
If you want to branch out into decor.
I personally love this and I know a lotof other organizers do start setting
up appointments for this in the fall.
You can help them Halloween decorate.
You can take down Halloween decorations,you can put up harvest decorations,
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and then you can put up Christmas orother holiday decorations for them.
Then set up times that you cancome take all that stuff down.
It is a great opportunity toreally broaden your skills,
broaden your horizons a little bit.
It's great for a team, especiallyfor people that have huge, you
know, we all have those clientsthat have boatloads of decorations.
That you can help take down.
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So just a reminder that there are otherthings you can be focusing on this season.
The other thing that you can really pushto people from your email list and any
other place that you were doing, marketingword of mouth, social media, otherwise.
You can really start talking about,Hey, are you going to be hosting a
lot of people over the holiday season?
I'd love to help you get your housein order so that you are not doing the
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shove, everything into a closet, whichjust creates more problems down the
road, starting to think about , whatis the season that we're going into and
what services could I and or my teamoffer that will help people as they
move into the busiest time of the year.
A lot of times for people.
So.
Don't also forget anyother analogous things.
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If you are an organizer that offersconcierge services, also think about
a present shopping, present, wrapping.
Um, anything like that?
I know that these are not organizingspecific, but there are a lot of
organizers, myself included wholiked to branch out in our services.
And it's a great thing to focus on.
Once you come up with these newservices or just re re announcing
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all of these services thatyou do offer to your clients.
I want you to think about howto get the word out about that.
If it's been a while, since you'veemailed your list, send an email.
I don't care if there are five peopleon it, send that email to your list,
put things out into your network.
If you have prior clients, or ifyou have current clients that you're
working with, you're like, Hey.
I just want to let you know I'moffering holiday decorating and
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holiday organizing if you're everinterested, or if you have friends.
You know, let's say you're in aneighborhood that clearly it's
a big decorating neighborhood.
Maybe talk to current clients and belike, Hey, do you have any neighbors
that are like really big decorators?
Let them know.
I'm helping people organize decor andI'm helping people decorate this year.
Whatever.
I get that word out.
I'm gonna remind you again.
I'm gonna say it again.
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If you haven't sent any mailout in a while, this is a great
thing to send out an email.
October, there are threemonths left in the year.
I also want you to think aboutwhat are the major things I want to
accomplish before the end of the year.
If there are things that you wantto go into January having locked and
loaded, maybe you want to set up a CRM.
Uh, maybe you want to change CRMs.
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Maybe you want to change yourprocesses, your systems, your pricing.
Think about the plan for thatand make sure that you are ready
to launch January 1st for allof those new year's resolutions.
And that you are readyto go on the back end.
You will future you will.
Thank you.
That you did this work in October.
The other thing that I'm going to tellyou about October, you can go back.
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I'll have to look, I'llput it in the show notes.
Um, I'll link it in the shownotes, but I did a podcast.
Um, A long time ago with a clientand a friend of mine who does
this thing called boss October.
And it's like one of my favoriteconcepts in the last few years,
she actually texted me on October1st and was like it's boss October.
And I hadn't heard from her in a while.
So it was really good to hear fromher and that she's still doing
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boss October, but the concept is.
You spend the month of October shoringup all of the things in your life.
So for her.
Uh, she's not an entrepreneur, she's adoctor, but she checks her insurance.
She makes sure, make sureher insurance is up to date.
She, does price checks on, like her TVand our internet or things like that.
She makes sure that her houseinsurance policy is set up correctly.
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She, um, you know, does like stuffaround the house, looks around the
house and figures out like, Hey, doI have projects to do in the house?
She sets medical appointments.
If she hasn't sent themall of these things.
Just to make the rest ofher year, much easier.
One that I would recommendis check all the things that
you have subscriptions for.
Like, do you have subscriptionsfor things that you don't use?
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I got a notification yesterday that,oh, you have a new credit on audible.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I needto cancel that because I get my
books from the library, whatever.
Boss October, go backto that, uh, podcast.
It was one of my favorite podcastsjust because also I love Leah.
She's so great.
But it's a great concept and she reallygoes through what she does in this month
and I think it could be helpful for you
Those are your stream of consciousness.
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Thoughts for October.
As I'm recording this, I'm like, wow.
I'll have to find out in editing if anyof us made sense, but I hope it did.
One thing I will leave you with is ifthere is something that you are struggling
with in your business, whether you havebeen in business for 15 minutes or 15
years or everywhere in between or beyond.
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I have tools that can help you.
With your business, I canhelp you find clients.
I can help you get yourfoundation shored up.
I can help you grow your business.
What it wants to be.
If you do not know aboutthe services that we offer.
If you do not know what the groupsare that we have, if you want to
know the difference between inspiredorganizer and organizing essentials,
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if you have anything that youwould like to talk out with me.
I would love to chat with you.
There will be a link in the show notesto schedule a 15 minute zoom with me.
Or if you don't want to scrollin the show notes, just go to
proorganizerstudio.com/book.
And you will be ableto book a chat with me.
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To talk through where youare in your business and how
I might be able to help you.
And I would love for youto book one of those.
Also, I will be talking about this more,but our inspired organizer program is
going to be going through some changes.
And as one thing, I tell peopleall the time, raise your prices.
I am going to practice what I preach.
So the price of Inspired Organizer isgoing to go up in a couple of weeks.
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I'll be talking about it alittle bit more, but this is
the time for you to get in.
So if you want to through whatinspired organizer can do for you.
I would love to talk to you.
All right.
I hope you guys have an absolutely amazingweekend and I will see you next week!
Bye organizers.
I have a brand new free workshop calledhow professional organizers can get
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clients without using social media.
It is available on demand24 seven at poroadmap.Com.
That is a wrap on this week'spro organizer studio podcast.
I will see you next week.
Have a great day.
Organizers.
Hey, pro organizers.
My name is Melissa Klug andyou are listening to the Pro
Organizer Studio Podcast.
Professional organizingchanged my entire life.
After 20 years of working at hugecompanies, I started working for myself.
I opened a professional organizingbusiness, grew it to six
figures, and I never looked back.
Now I get to spend all day, every dayteaching organizers around the world.
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How to find clients, how to marketand sell yourselves, how to turn this
business into what you want it to be.
Whether you have been in businessfor 15 minutes or 15 years, you
have a home at Pro Organizer Studio.
I'm excited that you're here.
Let's get started.
Hey pro organizers.
It's Melissa.
Listen, I know that I probably justsound incredibly basic, but it's October,
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which is like my prime time of life.
I love crisp weather and I love sleepingwith the windows open when it's chilly
and I love sweaters and sweatshirts.
And I know this is just basic stuff.
I sound like a trite, Instagram post, but.
It was like a hallmarkmovie at my house this week.
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You guys.
Like September 30th waswarm, verging on hot.
And then all of a sudden itwas like a movie set showed up.
And the next day I woke up and it wascrisp and I got to wear sweatshirt.
And the leaves started to changeand there were like leaves on the
ground and I'm like, October is here.
But one of the reasons I like Octoberis not just because the weather.
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Uh, and sweaters, but.
I do love sweaters.
It is because we have threemonths left of the year.
And one of the things that I seea lot is, especially when you go
into November and December, peopleare like, oh, things aren't busy.
It's the holidays.
A lot of things are going on.
Like I'm going to take the gas off.
And then all of a sudden it's Januaryand you're like, oh my gosh, I
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have to get everything going again.
And sometimes when you kindof let things go, it's harder
to get them ramped back up.
So I want to give you a little bit of anOctober to do list today of things that
I want you to work on in your business.
But I'm also going to talk about somethingelse that I think is really important
that really doesn't have anything todo with like a list of things to do.
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It's just something thatI want you to think about.
So I'm going to start with that one.
Because this one is really importantand it was based on a conversation I
had with someone that is an amazingorganizer, has an amazing business.
And I just want to talk itthrough, so let's get to it.
You know, typically I'm more on the trainof like, Hey, I want to give you concrete.
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Things to do in your business.
I like giving people, Hey,here's your list of three
things that I want you to do.
And I want you to think about thisand I want you to think about this.
But it is also reallyimportant as business owners.
That we think about some of themore global things, our mindset,
how we approach our business, whatare some blocks that are in place?
And I'm going to be talking a lot moreabout blocks because I see them a lot.
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And it's really easy by the way.
I have tons of blocks myself, and I'dbe happy to articulate them for you,
but it's easy for me to see when someonehas a block where they're like, Nope,
I'm not going to think about this.
Even if I know it's likethe best thing for them.
And so one of the biggest blocksthat I want to talk about today
that I want you to really carefullyevaluate in your organizing business.
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Is one that I just callsimply comparisonitis.
It's a cutesy phrase for somethingthat really isn't cute at all.
Which is basically this feeling ofeveryone else is doing better than I am.
Every other organizer has abetter business than I do.
Everybody else is doing X, Y, Z.
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I should be doing that too.
It's looking around you and maybekind of rejecting your own core, you
know, not core values, but rejectingwhat you know is good for you and
your business, because you are tryingto live up to being someone else.
The reason that I am.
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Really wanting to talk about this today.
Is because I had an organizer recentlywho is a great, very successful
organizer with a very great business.
Who said.
Basically, why am I even bothering?
All these people are doingso much better than I am.
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And she was talking about peoplethat she had seen recently who
were, you know, really talkingabout how great their businesses
were and, and all of those things.
And so she felt less than.
Because she had seen theseother people and interpreted.
Everybody's doing better than I am.
And that hit me like a ton of bricksbecause this person has a great business
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and so many things to be proud of.
She wants to grow it, which is awesome.
And I am excited to help her dothat, but her existing business
is already pretty great, but shestill feels like maybe she's a
little bit less than everybody else.
By the way she has the kind of businessthat other people are probably looking
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at and going, Hey, that looks like agreat business and she's going great.
So this is just your reminder.
Everybody has these feelings and youmight be the person that other people
have those feelings about while you'rebusy, compare yourself to someone else.
And that's why I want to talkabout it because I believe
with every fiber of my being.
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That the biggest reason this happens.
And I know that maybe you are tiredof me talking about my feelings
about social media, but they are so.
Integral to what we do in this business.
The reason comparisonitisexists in our life.
So not only in our business, but inour life is because 99% of the time,
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I was going to say a hundred percent,but like, you know, It's not really a
hundred percent, but it's like 99.892%.
The comments that I get.
By the way, this person that told methis last week, they're not the first
person to tell me they feel this way.
They will not be the last person totell me this, that they feel this way.
And I am honored that people trustme when they say that to me, because
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I know that's a vulnerable momentto have to say, I feel like everyone
else is doing better than me.
But this feeling almost 100% of time.
Comes because you arelooking at other people.
On social on Instagram,on Facebook, whatever.
That you perceive are doing thingsthat are better than you, or more
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important than you, or more impactfulor bigger, or any of those things.
And I just want to remind you.
Uh, you know, we all have those people.
In our lives, all of us do.
Where you go, you know, they might bevery close friends of yours and you see
what they're posting on social media.
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And then you're like, butI, I know the actual story.
I know the behind the scenes.
Um, I for sure know someone inmy life, in my personal life.
Who postings and I'm like, girl, Ihave all of your texts, receipts.
Of all of these things.
That you're saying that do not alignwith what I am seeing you face forward.
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Uh, and it literally, as, as I amrecording this, it happened me today.
I'm going to read this.
Verbatim.
I sent a text message to a client of mine.
A long ago, client whom I'mfriends with on social media.
And I have not seen her in a whileand I always really loved her.
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And so I said, Hey, Ijust want to let you know.
I think about you a lot.
And I see you on social media.
Everything I've seen on Facebook, itlooks like you're just really happy.
And doing well, and I'm so happy for you.
Her literal reply.
I am reading it to you from my phone.
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Um, yeah, no, my socialmedia is 100% BS, LOL.
Okay.
That is a direct quote.
Am I saying that allsocial media is, is crap?
No, I genuinely believe thatthere are people out there
who are telling a real story.
But
here's the reminderthat I want to give you.
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Is that you do not haveremotely a complete story.
On social media about anything.
Whether it is personalprofessional, anything else?
You know, those pictures that we alltake at our clients where we're like,
oh, this, this pantry looks great.
This closet looks great.
This toy room looks great.
You take that photo.
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And you are, and by the way, itfeels great to have that photo.
It especially feels great.
If you have a before photo to compareit against you and be like, man,
look at how good I am at my job.
But.
Think about that picture andthen think about when you go back
to their house two weeks later.
And real life has intervened.
there's a picture from home,edit that I use in presentations
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to groups about organizing.
And, I always use it because it'sa picture of, of course, you know,
beautifully rainbow arranged crayons.
And I say, Hey, I want moms inthe group to tell me how long
does that, how long did that.
Crayon box looked like that.
And most people answer like one second.
Okay.
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That's just a reminder that socialmedia is a picture of one moment in
time and you do not have the full story.
You do not know how many clientsthat person actually has.
You do not know anything about.
Their business.
You don't know how much money thatthey're making, how much money
they are spending and expenses.
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You don't know if theymaybe have a safety net.
Of something else that is supporting them.
And this is a hobby whereit is your full-time job.
You don't know if the house that they'rein is a house that they Airbnb to house
of a friend of theirs or a client.
You do not know if that picture wasfrom yesterday or three years ago.
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You don't know anythingabout the real story?
Success is absolutely.
Individual.
And it is not governed bywhat other people are doing.
If you are a solo organizer, butyou are measuring your success
and looking at someone who hasteams in three different states.
You are measuring, using acompletely different yardstick.
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If you are doing organizing as apart time looking to move full time.
And you're measuring yourselfup against someone who has done
this full-time for 10 years.
That yard sick.
Isn't the same.
Your success is based on howyou are measuring up toward
your own personal goals.
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Whether those are financial,whether it is just time spent
doing something that you enjoy.
Whether it is just, I want to starta business and I feel compelled.
I'd like to turn thisinto something bigger.
it may be.
I would like to just have one clienta month that I can help get organized.
Or it could be, I would liketeams in five different cities.
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And I want to grow to that.
Measuring whatever your personalgoal of success is against what
someone else's yard stick is.
You're using two completelydifferent measurement systems.
Here's another thing thatI want to remind you about.
Comparisonitis and we haveall been in this boat.
Okay.
As an organizer, I go into people'shouses, obviously we're in people's
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houses all the time, and we are inhouses in all sorts of neighborhoods.
I have one house in particular that I'mthinking about as I tell this story.
So I go to the house it's ina very beautiful neighborhood,
a very beautiful home.
And I looked at all the otherbeautiful homes in that neighborhood.
And I just said, you know what?
I'm guessing that the neighbors andthe other people around, you know,
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if they're taking a walk around thisneighborhood, they have no earthly idea
of all of the things that are going onin this house that I'm walking into.
I know these things are goingon because my clients trust
me and our clients trust us.
And they come to us with very deep things.
Right.
I know what's happening in this house.
I know the family dynamics and I know thestress and I know the marital problems.
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And I know about all of the chaos that'sliving underneath this nice exterior.
And I remember thinking, oh, Ibet every other house in this
neighborhood looks at this house andit's like, oh, it's all the same.
Guess what.
Looking at all those houses.
How many of those otherhouses have chaos going on?
Probably a lot.
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So that is the thing that I thinkabout, especially as we're looking at
social media is we don't know what'sgoing on behind that photo, right.
In the same way that people inthe neighborhood don't know what's
going on in our client's homes.
Usually.
So I want you to think of it that waywhen you're on the comparison train.
Our brains are so good.
At gaslighting, us gaslighting isa word that has gotten a bad rap.
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But our brains are good at gaslightingus about everyone's doing better than me.
I'm behind everyone.
if you're in this trap, I wantyou to find a way to stop.
I am thrilled when I seeother people thriving.
Because I really genuinely feel like arising tide raises all boats and the more
people that know about organizing the morepeople that are exposed to it, the more
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opportunities there are for all of us.
But if you think thatI do not have moments.
That I look around at other peopleand I go, oh, look what she's doing.
It's easy to do.
It's very easy to compare.
It's very easy to feel like, oh, I needto do more and more and more and more
and more, but that might not be trueto who I am and what I actually need.
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So I want to give you thismoment to just stop and reflect.
And be really honest with yourself andsay, do I get struck by comparisonitis.
It's incredibly normal andnatural, especially as we care
so much about our businesses.
We want them to be successful.
We want them to help people.
We want them to.
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You know, meet our goals, makemoney, whatever our goal is.
And so, because we care so much, that'swhy this comparisonitis is hard because
we're like, oh, we just, we mean the best.
And we want the best out there.
Right.
And so the comparisonitis comes,I think from a pure heart.
And the main thing that I want youto think about is if you are in one
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of these modes where you're lookingaround, maybe things aren't going quite
right for you and your business rightnow, and you're looking around going,
everyone else is doing it better than me.
I want you to examinewhether you're doing that.
And secondly, the most important thingabout this is is it motivating you or is
it breaking you down and paralyzing you?
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Because there are two very distinct paths.
This can take.
I'm a very competitive person.
And so sometimes when I see other peopledoing something, particularly other
people who are coaching organizers,I'm like, oh, look what she's doing.
That's really smart.
I wonder if there's something thatI could create for my particular
audience and my ideal client.
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That would make me abetter, more valuable coach.
I try to use it as inspirationinstead of letting it paralyze me.
But you need to examine if it isinspirational to you and motivational,
if you're like, oh, this is really goingto kick my butt to go create something.
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Cool because I saw this,this thing that inspired me.
Versus I'm paralyzed and I'm goingto go lie in bed and eat Doritos.
Um, because I don't knowwhy I just picked Doritos.
Maybe I'm hungry, Cheetos,chips, ice cream, whatever.
I'm going to lie in bed.
And I'm just going to wallow becauseeveryone else is doing better than me.
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So why do I even bother.
That's the statement that I want youto think about where you go, wait,
I've got to do something different.
And here is what I suggest for thedoing something different part.
Okay.
Here are some things that Iwant you to think about doing.
So the first one is either unfollowing.
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You can just straight upunfollow, or if you don't want to
unfollow, which I do understand.
There is a button on Instagram.
That's called mute.
You can use the mute button justso it will not feed you people in
either your stories or your newsfeed.
That people of people who find you findyourself in that comparison trap with.
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I know a very extremely welladjusted, mentally healthy.
Successful organizer who said, I justknow that I'm better if I don't follow any
organizer that is in my geographic area.
And that's better for her because shejust knows she doesn't have to see it.
By the way I use thisstrategy with a lot of things.
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Like if there's a text messagethread that has upset me, I will just
delete it from my phone because Idon't want it to, like, I don't want
it to be there to remind me right.
So this strategy works really well.
The not seeing it strategy, or we cancall it the blinder strategy, whatever
you want, whatever you want to call it.
But if you're in one of thesecomparison traps, unfollow, or mute
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the posts that are really the onesthat really kind of set you off, okay.
It is not a commentary on howlovely that person is in real
life or on, on Instagram.
It's not a commentary on their content.
It's not a commentary on anything.
It is just a, it is better for mybrain and my mental health and my
business to not see this content.
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By the way, the reason I suggestmuting is there might be a time
that you start to feel better.
And then you're like,all right, you know what?
I would really love tosee what she's doing.
I would love to support her andyou can let that content back in,
but just give yourself a break.
And just give yourself thespace and the grace that it
just may not be good for you.
Okay.
You can also just take afull-on social media break.
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But let's say you're like, Melissa,you are not going to convince
me to take social media break.
It's not realistic, or I don't wantto, or any of the other, these other
things here is an idea for you.
If you find yourself in thecomparisonitis trap and or if you
find yourself just scrolling alot or whatever that looks like.
This is a trick thatI personally swear by.
Meta has a business page management tool.
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I will link it in the show noteswhere you can aggregate all
of your business properties.
That includes Instagram and Facebook.
It includes your DMs, itincludes your messages.
It includes comments.
So theoretically you could post somethingon Instagram and then never have to open
the Instagram app to actually moderate it.
You know, if you want to reply tocomments, which is always a nice
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thing to do that, that type of thing.
And if you don't want to miss DMS,You can do that all on your desktop.
I always do it on my desktop.
I'm sure they have an app too.
But you can do all of that withoutactually having to go to Instagram.
In order to post, youcan do a couple things.
One, you can schedule contentahead of time and just post it
on Instagram using the schedulingtool, or you can use another tool.
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I personally likePlanoly.
Will link that in the show notes too.
But you can actually post againwithout going on Instagram and then
use the Meta business tool to do allof the interaction and engagement
work that you want to without havingto scroll another great option for you.
If you really are finding yourselfon the struggle bus with it.
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The other thing I want you todo, and I want to be clear.
I'm not telling you anything thatI don't personally do myself.
So, if you want to look at the timethat you're spending on things that
don't move the needle in your business.
And by the way, this just is not,does not just include social media.
It includes reallyeverything on your phone.
I am definitely a person that spendstoo much time attached to my phone and
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I've been trying to be better about it.
It's hard.
They make these devicesaddictive, literally addictive.
And so I find myself sometimeslike, oh, I didn't get as much
accomplished today as I want to.
Why is that?
I can go to my screen time and be like,well, Melissa, I have a couple ideas.
Why you didn't accomplisheverything today.
Okay.
If you are finding yourself in alittle bit of that spiral of lack of
productivity, and you're taking time awayfrom useful things on your business, you
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can look at your screen time, which has,you know, sometimes a painful exercise,
but you can do that and determine, wow.
I spent, how much shouldI have on Instagram?
Um, the other thing that I've done formyself lately, which I advise, I have an
iPhone, I'm sure Android does this too,but there are app limits that you can set.
For instance, I have a set limitfor myself on a few apps that
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I can tend to get stuck on.
And so at the end of whatever limityou put on yourself for that day,
at the end of it, it will say you'vereached your limit on this app.
Now it gives you some choicesand you can choose to say, okay,
I can't use that app anymore.
I'm going to limit myself to the,to the time limit that I've set.
It will also give you an option thatsays, give me another 15 minutes.
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So let's say you're legitimately workingon something or it's fun time and you
just feel like scrolling a little more.
It will say, ignore this message.
For 15 minutes, it will alsogive you a choice to ignore this
message until the end of the day.
So you get to make a choice then aboutyour usage, but I use it as a tool for
myself to regulate a little bit of.
Oh wow.
I didn't realize I had spent an hourI need to hop off and be productive.
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So, these are just a few thingsthat I recommend specifically
to get out of that comparison.
I just trap, especially if you'regetting it from social media.
If your comparisonitis trap is based onsomething else, maybe it's other people
you're talking to or a networking group.
Or people that you're seeing, Ijust want you to stop and think
what about this are my triggers?
What are some of the things thatcould send me into those spirals?
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And then I like to figure out how I cantake actions on things that are bothering
me or that I am choosing to let bother me.
So I will just say, this is bugging me.
What useful things can I doover here to move myself forward
or do something different?
I might contact an accountability partnerand just be like, Hey, I'm stuck in this.
I'm stuck in this rut.
Like.
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Kick me out of it.
Right.
I have a wonderful, wonderfulwoman I've talked about.
She's actually been onthe podcast a few times.
Um, she is a friend who runs astyling business and she's very much
a person that I will run to and belike, oh my gosh, I'm having a moment.
And I need you to get me out of it.
What happens is you get stuck in acycle and then you realize you are
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not actually taking action yourselfto fix the problem that you're having.
All right.
So that is what I want to say aboutcomparisonitis just to reminder.
The things you see on social or otherwiseare never telling you the full story.
It doesn't necessarily mean thateverything is perfect and wonderful.
Do not let it get you into a pointwhere then you are not making
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forward progress to your owngoals, because you're busy thinking
about what everyone else is doing.
Then take the time to figureout how you can get out.
If you are stuck in the comparisonitistrap, how can you get out of it?
Whether it is stopping, looking at socialmedia, if that's where the comparison
starts or figuring out what those,what those trigger points are for you
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and trying to eliminate those as muchas possible and reminding yourself.
Every minute that you spendworking on your own business.
Is better for you.
All right.
This is going up on October 3rd.
And what that means isthere are three great.
Full months left in theyear to work on stuff.
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So I want you to think about yourstrategy for the next three months.
And what often happens in this time ofyear is people including clients start to
slow down a little bit, you know, again,we're going into the holiday season.
Uh, but I want you to think about a fewthings that you can offer to people.
First thing is, uh, Obviously I livein the U S I can only speak for the
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U S but, um, Halloween decoratingis starting to be like a much,
much more significant thing here.
So you've got kind ofthree distinct periods.
You've got the Halloween decorating seasonthan some people do some sort of like
Thanksgiving November-ish decorating.
Then we have the holiday seasonwhere there are, of course, massive
decorations, almost everywhere.
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I really always recommend thepeople branch out and think about
what other services analogousorganizing services they can offer.
Think about offering decor,put up and take down.
This is a great revenue source fora lot of people and if decorating
is not your jam, totally fine.
Don't offer this, butthink about offering.
Holiday decor organization.
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So tell people we're going into a highday core season is your decor a mess?
Let me come organize that for you.
If you want to branch out into decor.
I personally love this and I know a lotof other organizers do start setting
up appointments for this in the fall.
You can help them Halloween decorate.
You can take down Halloween decorations,you can put up harvest decorations,
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and then you can put up Christmas orother holiday decorations for them.
Then set up times that you cancome take all that stuff down.
It is a great opportunity toreally broaden your skills,
broaden your horizons a little bit.
It's great for a team, especiallyfor people that have huge, you
know, we all have those clientsthat have boatloads of decorations.
That you can help take down.
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So just a reminder that there are otherthings you can be focusing on this season.
The other thing that you can really pushto people from your email list and any
other place that you were doing, marketingword of mouth, social media, otherwise.
You can really start talking about,Hey, are you going to be hosting a
lot of people over the holiday season?
I'd love to help you get your housein order so that you are not doing the
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shove, everything into a closet, whichjust creates more problems down the
road, starting to think about , whatis the season that we're going into and
what services could I and or my teamoffer that will help people as they
move into the busiest time of the year.
A lot of times for people.
So.
Don't also forget anyother analogous things.
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If you are an organizer that offersconcierge services, also think about
a present shopping, present, wrapping.
Um, anything like that?
I know that these are not organizingspecific, but there are a lot of
organizers, myself included wholiked to branch out in our services.
And it's a great thing to focus on.
Once you come up with these newservices or just re re announcing
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all of these services thatyou do offer to your clients.
I want you to think about howto get the word out about that.
If it's been a while, since you'veemailed your list, send an email.
I don't care if there are five peopleon it, send that email to your list,
put things out into your network.
If you have prior clients, or ifyou have current clients that you're
working with, you're like, Hey.
I just want to let you know I'moffering holiday decorating and
(26:59):
holiday organizing if you're everinterested, or if you have friends.
You know, let's say you're in aneighborhood that clearly it's
a big decorating neighborhood.
Maybe talk to current clients and belike, Hey, do you have any neighbors
that are like really big decorators?
Let them know.
I'm helping people organize decor andI'm helping people decorate this year.
Whatever.
I get that word out.
I'm gonna remind you again.
I'm gonna say it again.
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If you haven't sent any mailout in a while, this is a great
thing to send out an email.
October, there are threemonths left in the year.
I also want you to think aboutwhat are the major things I want to
accomplish before the end of the year.
If there are things that you wantto go into January having locked and
loaded, maybe you want to set up a CRM.
Uh, maybe you want to change CRMs.
(27:40):
Maybe you want to change yourprocesses, your systems, your pricing.
Think about the plan for thatand make sure that you are ready
to launch January 1st for allof those new year's resolutions.
And that you are readyto go on the back end.
You will future you will.
Thank you.
That you did this work in October.
The other thing that I'm going to tellyou about October, you can go back.
(28:02):
I'll have to look, I'llput it in the show notes.
Um, I'll link it in the shownotes, but I did a podcast.
Um, A long time ago with a clientand a friend of mine who does
this thing called boss October.
And it's like one of my favoriteconcepts in the last few years,
she actually texted me on October1st and was like it's boss October.
And I hadn't heard from her in a while.
So it was really good to hear fromher and that she's still doing
(28:23):
boss October, but the concept is.
You spend the month of October shoringup all of the things in your life.
So for her.
Uh, she's not an entrepreneur, she's adoctor, but she checks her insurance.
She makes sure, make sureher insurance is up to date.
She, does price checks on, like her TVand our internet or things like that.
She makes sure that her houseinsurance policy is set up correctly.
(28:46):
She, um, you know, does like stuffaround the house, looks around the
house and figures out like, Hey, doI have projects to do in the house?
She sets medical appointments.
If she hasn't sent themall of these things.
Just to make the rest ofher year, much easier.
One that I would recommendis check all the things that
you have subscriptions for.
Like, do you have subscriptionsfor things that you don't use?
(29:06):
I got a notification yesterday that,oh, you have a new credit on audible.
I'm like, oh my gosh, I needto cancel that because I get my
books from the library, whatever.
Boss October, go backto that, uh, podcast.
It was one of my favorite podcastsjust because also I love Leah.
She's so great.
But it's a great concept and she reallygoes through what she does in this month
and I think it could be helpful for you
Those are your stream of consciousness.
(29:28):
Thoughts for October.
As I'm recording this, I'm like, wow.
I'll have to find out in editing if anyof us made sense, but I hope it did.
One thing I will leave you with is ifthere is something that you are struggling
with in your business, whether you havebeen in business for 15 minutes or 15
years or everywhere in between or beyond.
(29:50):
I have tools that can help you.
With your business, I canhelp you find clients.
I can help you get yourfoundation shored up.
I can help you grow your business.
What it wants to be.
If you do not know aboutthe services that we offer.
If you do not know what the groupsare that we have, if you want to
know the difference between inspiredorganizer and organizing essentials,
(30:13):
if you have anything that youwould like to talk out with me.
I would love to chat with you.
There will be a link in the show notesto schedule a 15 minute zoom with me.
Or if you don't want to scrollin the show notes, just go to
proorganizerstudio.com/book.
And you will be ableto book a chat with me.
(30:34):
To talk through where youare in your business and how
I might be able to help you.
And I would love for youto book one of those.
Also, I will be talking about this more,but our inspired organizer program is
going to be going through some changes.
And as one thing, I tell peopleall the time, raise your prices.
I am going to practice what I preach.
So the price of Inspired Organizer isgoing to go up in a couple of weeks.
(30:56):
I'll be talking about it alittle bit more, but this is
the time for you to get in.
So if you want to through whatinspired organizer can do for you.
I would love to talk to you.
All right.
I hope you guys have an absolutely amazingweekend and I will see you next week!
Bye organizers.
I have a brand new free workshop calledhow professional organizers can get
(31:19):
clients without using social media.
It is available on demand24 seven at poroadmap.Com.
That is a wrap on this week'spro organizer studio podcast.
I will see you next week.
Have a great day.
Organizers.
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