Organization

I am not the most organized person. My kids can tell you that. You can walk into my office and see that I manage by piles. I do know where everything is but it's not the perception of perfection that I would like (well at least I think I would like to do that) to present. I have leadership postions in work, at Rotary and church. I think I have done the smartest thing for me and that is to surround myself with people who have everything I don't: Organizational skills. I do things by "feeling" yet I have to be sanguine about performance in my sales team. I would like to have those skills but it just is not in my make up. I came to realize this early in my educational career. I thought I might want to be an accountant. I know, you can stop laughing and pick yourselves up off the floor from the shock you just got by seeing that as my thought process. I realized that I DID NOT want to deal with numbers (organized numbers at that) all day and have minimal interaction with people. Math was never my forte' in school as my kids can testify. I think most of them passed me up on my math skills in about the 8th or 9th grade. I don't apoligize for that only in that I couldn't help them. I am not built that way. I can't comprehend how someone came up with the Pythagoren Theorum or anything like that. I have immense respect for people that can do what they do. I have a "feeling" job. I get to know people, I listen, present options and let them make decisions. I don't and won't (though I can) manipulate people to do what I want. I like to have great people around me to do the things that need to be done and stay out of the way. It's like being organized: Can I be? I have at times (but with great difficulty) but it's not who I am. I can "organize" things however by surrounding myself with the right people. So after all, I guess I can organize without necessarily being organized.