Building a career in the finance or legal sector, or as an entrepreneur, demands a lot, not just in terms of professional and personal skills, but most importantly in having a mind set that will help you to catalyze and channel your ambitions, using the right tools and always being surrounded by the right people.
Whatever path you have chosen should take you to one of the biggest desires of any successful man: financial freedom and independence.
It is clear, and all of us will have learnt that lesson by now, that we are not going to achieve our goals alone; people will teach, motivate, inspire, push and hire you at every moment of your growth. In being independent, and to get the level of freedom you want, paradoxically you need to learn to interact with people and learn how to cultivate/feed your relationships, with mutual respect, nurturing the quality of time spent with them.
Now, how can interior design help you to create that connection and shape yourself in such a way that you are more prepared in embracing the people you want and need, without losing independence in the process, on the contrary, increasing it?
Management
Most probably when you decide to take on board an interior designer it‘s because:
A. You want a professional to take care of the look and feel of your home, as it is not your field of expertise.
B. Your time is better spent making the money than it is doing something with which you are not familiar.
Whatever the reason, delegation is vital. Your independence is achieved not by doing everything on your own, but by choosing the right people to support you in achieving your goals: Management.
Clarity in what you want
The easiest way to work with an interior designer is by telling him/her where you want to go with clarity. The logistics of the plan are incidental. Your designer will make it happen for you.
Human Touch
When you invite people to your home you are offering them your personal space, you are somehow validating your appreciation of them increasing the possibilities of making a bond stronger and long lasting. This is why socializing at home is so important at certain moments of your career and in your personal life. It will do the trick of moving your relationships to the next level of trust and commitment.
Revealing yourself
Once they are in your space they will try to understand you through the choices you have made in your home: colors, furniture, style, art, objects, antiques, etc. Everything is going to convey a little or a lot about you and revealing yourself in this manner can be a great way of having control over what you want to say, it gives you more independence as you have chosen the territory. You are talking for yourself.
Trust
In hiring an interior designer, apart from his/her style and creativity, does that person inspire your trust? Trust should be at the core of your relationship otherwise important personal information won’t be provided, your vision can’t be shared or understood, the finances are likely to be always on the wrong side and finally the outcome may not be a good one.
You’ll be well aware that this trust cannot be given to everybody that crosses your path but it is going to be the wisest and quickest way to get where you want to get if you learn to give that trust to those who deserve it, and that will make the same “difference” in achieving your spectacular home as it will in your personal and professional growth.
