Professional Organizer Ignacio Eguiarte Shares ?
Summer is a season full of wonderful things, including my love of travel. To celebrate the sunshine, I?ve invited several guest bloggers from around the world to share their international perspective and passion for the organizing industry. Please join me in thanking them for generously sharing their informational posts and photos.
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I?ve been instructing and mentoring professional organizers for a few years and I am always fascinated by the differences based on geography. I?m equally fascinated by our similarities. So, ?I?ve decided to present a series of interviews with professional organizers from around the globe, showing not only where they live but also what it takes to?become a professional organizer?in other countries.
I continue this series with , owner and lead professional organizer of . ?With no further ado, let me present my featured Mexican organizer.
If you?re a professional organizer in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe or South America, I?d like to hear from you!
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GT: Ignacio, please share a little information about your business and you.
IE: More than a business, I write a blog about providing people with some organization insights; this could be not just home and office organization but life itself. I think the first step you need to do is organize your life, getting advice, information and inspiration from other people, so that way you can make your own opinion and work the inner self. Then when you figured a system that works on you, you can be able to organize everything around you, your house, your office, your schedule and put together a general plan for life. Those are the thoughts that led me to write a blog, especially because in Mexico, this kind of information is scarce, there is plenty of info written in English but just few sources in Spanish, most of them are from Spain. In my blog I try to give my audience some words about how we relate to things and thoughts that in some cases anchor us to negative feelings and stop us from getting a rewarding life. Up to now I?ve been writing posts for more than a year.
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Ignacio Eguiarte ? Mexico
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GT: Please describe your office or where you typically return client phone calls and work on your business.
IE: For my organization blog, I do all the work from two spaces one in my home the other one on my iPhone. You know I use the iPhone because I need to check mails, posts, pins, etc. for all the platforms in which I share contents. The main platform is Tumblr, but I have Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. Oh yes, yes, yes, you?re most interested in my actual workplace; well in our home, we have this narrow space beside the kitchenette where the washer/dryer machine is located, that place is layout in a way to work like a home office. There is the computer and cabinets for stationary and stuff. Pretty much my office works with the computer and the Internet connection. As I don?t have clients in the actual sense of the word, I barely use the phone, which is on one shelf in hand reach. I do most of my investigation and writing on the computer, sometimes I use iPhone or iPad to take notes and organize my calendar.
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GT: What is on your business card?
IE: I don?t have a business card properly, because I don?t have clients yet. I could say that my banner is my business card; its design is simple, so simple because I wanted to squeeze a characteristic name to my blog. NACHOrganiza is a juxtaposition o my short name ?Nacho? (is short for Ignacio) and the word ?organiza? (in Spanish means organize). The caps letters to my name is a way to play with the idea that me is the one who organizes you. There?s playfulness to the letter O, every month I change it with something allusive to the month or a celebration; this year I started to put a ribbon inside with a different color making people aware to some diseases or social issues we?re facing. In a second stage I?ll start to work with real clients, for now I just help several friends organizing their not so organized belongings.
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GT: How did you discover Metropolitan Organizing?
IE: Since a while A&E Latin America was airing Hoarders TV show, I?ve seen it for several seasons, that way I got familiarized with Geralin?s name among others Professional Organizers, specialists in Hoarding and Psychiatrists. The moment I decided to write a blog I started to browsing the web to get information about her, about the show and about NAPO, from there I?ve been following several organization blogs from around the world.
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GT: Describe your typical workday, please.
IE: As my tasks are delivered in my home office, I just have to go downstairs from my bedroom. Usually all week I read articles, browse the web, visit blogs and so on to get enough information to get me an idea what topics I am going to use for the posts. With the entire information gathered I proceed to write the posts; normally I don?t make notes prior to the actual writing because I always have wanted to expose my ideas or feelings about a topic the way I talk to people in a regular environment, is like having a pep talk instead of reading some elevated self-help written book. I do not have a schedule, I do my writing on Saturdays sometimes morning sometimes afternoon, but when I sit down in front of my computer is for 2 to 3 hours until the posts are finished and programed on my site, then I took pictures to illustrate and do some photo editing, with that complement the publications and I?m done for the week, speaking on the proper making of content, as I told you rest of the time, visit stores, read blogs, etc. for gather info. Recently I past from publish five days a week to just three; the reason behind is I realized that I?ve been overexposing the blog with to much information, so I took the decision to post less articles so the audience can really take in the content.
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GT: How did you get started in the organizing business?
IE: One important aspect of the blog and myself is that I do the blog not as a hobby per se but is not remunerated; I?m an Architect with 15 years of design experience, I love it and that?s my job. The curiosity about organization grew so strong in me because I used to watch organization and home improvement TV shows, so becoming aware that I have potential and passion for organize spaces I realize that I could bring something new to the table especially in my language because of the scarcity of information in Spanish.
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GT: Which blogs do you read to learn more about organizing?
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- Managing Modern Life particularly helpful for organizing tips and for business advises.
- Unclutterer is other blog that I like, have so many articles about life coaching and general organization.
- I?m an Organization Junkie, is so visual and rich in ideas for organize everything.
- We Organize U I used to watch Neat a TV show hosted by Hellen Buttigieg, actually have one of her books.
- Sostenibilidad y Minimalismo is a Spanish blog with posts about minimalism and sustainability, really good life coaching advices.
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GT: Name 3 things you?re terrible at:
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- Artistic painting that is odd because Architects in general are pretty good on it and I?m not
- Sports, I?ve never been a jock and I?ll never be, even I?m not into watching sports live or on TV.
- Keeping my mouth shut, I?m very opinionated and even when I manage to stay in silence my eyes can tell you how I feel about something I dislike. Always try to express myself with respect.
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GT: What do you see yourself doing in five years?
IE: The first is elevating NACHOrganiza from an organization blog to a business in the field, I mean having touch with clients in need of my advice. Getting my CPO degree from NAPO; writing my first organization book focused in my very own Mexican market. The whole idea behind this is take advantage that there is practically a virgin organization market down here and I would like to be leader in this field in my country.
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GT: Could you describe how you plan on growing your business?
IE: Because of the peculiarity of my blog (just a blog not a business yet) I?ll like to take it to the next level, having clients who pay for my services, then have some education attending NAPO webinars or teleconferences and attending to the events. From that point making flourish the business and getting the skills and professionalism to educate people in my country that are interested in the organization world like myself. It?s pretty obvious that I need to resign eventually to my ?day job? and pursuing this new adventure.
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GT: What do you do for fun when you aren?t working?
IE: I like to spend quality time with my partner and my two dogs. Because of his job as Pediatrician, he works on weekends and holidays so we don?t have that much time together, but when we have the opportunity like in vacations we travel, watch movies and time to time attend dinner parties with friends.
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GT: ?If we were taking a road trip, what type of music would you want to play in the car?
IE: Sarah Brigthman, Adele and Pandora (not the American metal rock band; this one is a Mexican pop ballad trio of ladies)
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GT: Describe your ideal client and how many hours a week you?d ideally work?
IE: My ideal client would be an open-minded person who really wants to make the leap to an organized life with natural fears to make changes, but enough courage to go ahead. I?d work with that person at first 4 hours a day and eventually have 4 hours follow-through appointments once a week. Why just 4 hours? Because being and 8 hours shift would be a huge imposition to someone trying to make changes. I prefer having two clients rather than one.
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GT: Name one place you?d like to vacation.
IE: I like to go to Europe and to be more [specific] London in a rainy, foggy, gloomy day. Yes I?m weird.
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GT: Are you a morning person or night person?
IE: More night than morning person but I don?t have problems with either one.
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GT: Have you ever been to the USA?? Where did you visit?? If you have not been to the USA, if you came, where would you like to visit?
IE: I?ve been with my partner several occasions. The most visited place is Las Vegas; we have very good friends up there. We also have been in Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles Area, San Francisco, Grand Canyon Park, Paso Robles and San Diego Area.
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GT: Calendar Style:?Paper or Electronic?
IE: Electronic, I am kind of gadget fella.
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GT: Your very favorite smart phone app(s)?
IE: Mmm that?s a tough one, first of all, the apps from the platforms I work on like Pages for Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter, then Snapseed (photo editing), Cloudword (iPad app for typing my posts), Dropbox (have [access to my] info anywhere).
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GT: If you kept a candy dish on your desk, what would it be filled with?
IE:
- First act, have little dark chocolates in it.
- Second act, have nothing but wrappers.
- Third act, having huge remorse reminding myself to take the candy dish out of the room.
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As an organizing business consultant, I work with professional organizers to create sustainable, profitable, and sensible organizing businesses. Through Metropolitan Organizing?Metrozing for short?I offer coaching internationally to organizers via phone and Skype. Additionally, I offer products like the New Organizers? Essentials kit to help get your organizing business started. Click the SHOP button in the upper right corner to purchase products and consulting sessions. Additionally, Metropolitan Organizing helps chronically disorganized clients in Raleigh, NC to organize their office, home, time, or life. For organizing help, leave a message at (919) 380-7718 or fill out the contact form on my website. Connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Linkedin
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