PLANNING POWERHOUSE

You have a talent for organization and planning, and you like the world around you to be streamlined, efficient, and easy to navigate. You care about quality and like to plan things out in advance to avoid unnecessary problems, delays, confusion, and miscommunication. You like systems and processes because they create structure and provide a step-by-step approach to getting things accomplished and improved. You know that the world is a chaotic and complex place, so you prefer to make it simple and easy to understand by identifying the destination of a project and outlining a roadmap to provide a clear direction on how to get there. You enjoy using these roadmaps to organize task in front of you as well as communication with other people to show them how to navigate complex challenges.

You like to plan for the future. You enjoy the process of thinking and envisioning how things could be better and planning out all the steps that need to happen day-to-day to move forward toward accomplishing little tasks and eventually completing bigger projects. It’s fun for you to think about the bigger picture and then break it down into smaller steps to create milestones that can help motivate you toward a larger goal. You have a keen eye for details and can detect when something is wrong to anticipate small problems that impact the overall final outcome.

There are different types of organized people and not everyone is considered tidy or clean. Some people like the chaos of being in the mix of a messy problem and sorting it out. Other people don’t like disorder and prefer to work only in systems that are already organized and spend their energy working to improve them and make them even better. Some organized people have a talent for detecting details and enjoy finding errors, discovering mistakes, and correcting them by making small adjustments — but not every organized person likes this type of work — some prefer to resolve bigger, messier problems. In fact, some organized people have a messy workspace but have everything organized in their head. Some organized people like to create structures from scratch and build systems where none existed before. Other organized people prefer to have these processes already in place so they can work focus on improving it rather than building something new.

As an organized person, you see the world through the perspective of structure and can provide tools, schedules, and information tracking to help people work better, communicate more effectively, and have less stress when working toward a goal. To an organized person, the future can seem less overwhelming because you can focus on a calendar to understand and communicate how to accomplish bigger tasks by arranging activities on specific dates to make sure everything is finished on time. A plan and a to-do list can help you make sense of complex projects. You understand how to use the right tools to organize information, timelines, or break complex problems down into systems that create easier solutions and less stress.

As an organized person, you are a blessing to any workplace because you have solutions that help everyone work better, communicate more effectively, and relax more. You can work in a variety of different professions but need to be in a position that allows you to make changes and improvements in the systems and processes around you. Depending on the specifics of your personality, you might either want to work in a career path that allows you to create a structure from scratch or one where that structure already exists.

The most obvious career paths for organizers are project manager, operations manager, or professional organizer, but everyone is different, and you can approach organizing careers from a variety of perspectives. You might be highly detail-oriented and be great at catching errors so a career path as a proofreader would be an ideal match for your strengths. On the other hand, you might be great at organized chaos and love the excitement of being an event planner. As an organized person, you could work in any industry. Combining these talents with other areas of interest can help you understand the right match for your career.

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