Being Lucky!

I feel lucky! I have worked hard to achieve the level of luck I enjoy. Feeling lucky doesn’t mean my success has come easy. It means that I have worked for it and succeeded.

You can be lucky too!

Being lucky in business is an outcome of preparation and taking reasonable chances. Being lucky is about not quitting and always trying again.  It’s making one more sales call, testing a new product, or trying a new business idea. Being lucky is a function of doing things: not just talking about doing, but actually picking up the shovel to start digging, picking up the pen to start writing, or stepping forward and volunteering in your professional organization. Being lucky is not about chance. It’s about giving yourself a chance to succeed and also giving colleagues the same chance to succeed. I have long attributed much of my business success to the learning and support that I have received from colleagues. Some of my learning has been formal, but most of the support I have received has been a direct result of my stepping up to the plate and getting involved.

When a baseball player steps up to the plate, he knows luck is involved with getting a hit. However, the player wants to get a hit and he intends to get a hit. He has worked hard to prepare for this moment and he knows that without swinging the bat he won’t get a hit. He swings the bat with skill, but what’s really important is that he actually steps up to the plate and swings.

Being lucky is a product of hard work, preparation, and determination. I got lucky by stepping up and volunteering. I participated by using skills I already had. While doing so, I have met and learned from so many people.  At first, I gained the confidence to move my business forward. Later, I could speak my mind by enjoying a leadership position.  It has been a win-win situation for me. I encourage you to consider getting involved. Meet some new people, learn some new things, and give yourself and others a chance at being lucky.

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Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

2 Comments

  1. Janet Barclay on March 31, 2022 at 12:44 pm

    I can absolutely relate to this. Nearly everything we do contributes in some way to what happens later.

    I served on POC’s National Board for about 5 years, which connected me to many others in the field. Those relationships continued once I left the profession, which led to the blog and Facebook group I run as well as a number of speaking opportunities. That has all turned out to be instrumental in achieving my current level of success. Thank you for inspiring me to reflect on that!

    • Janet Schiesl on March 31, 2022 at 5:00 pm

      Awesome Janet. I have had a similar experience. Putting yourself out there by volunteering means you get to know people and many people get to know you. I remember meeting you at a NAPO conference where you spoke and I later hired you to manage my websites. See it works!

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