Pet Theory #1

After trying to organize my house I am reminded of one of my personal pet theories. Now that my living space is a little more organized I am moving back into the world of organizing ideas - which is what I much prefer to do. Actually, my roommate in college and I were a winning combination. People came to us to help them with their papers. I would sit and help them think through the ideas and what they were really trying to argue and my roommate was a great editor (still is - she gets paid for it!). So we helped many a person improve their writing - but I digress (she never did help me improve my grammar - but that's because I'm set in my poor grammar ways - like run on sentences).

I believe that people excel or at least prefer one of these three areas of organization: things, people or ideas. Those who are good at organizing things are interior designers, people who actually have a place and put everything in its place, etc. Others are really excellent at organizing people and getting a team together to accomplish a goal. Finally, there are those who like to organize ideas and work through arguments, etc. Again, we can all do these things - but normally we prefer one of these areas over the others. I actually used this as a question in an interview process that I did once and it was interesting to hear people's responses.

To be quite honest, I normally have a friend that comes in to help me organize my space (thanks Colleen and Sarah) but now that they have married and moved out of town - I don't have anyone to help me with that dirty work anymore. So my husband and I did it together - we are both more idea organizers that anything else - so you can imagine the results are not up to par for people who are truly "thing" organizers.

So what about you - are you a things, people or idea organizer?