As a highly detailed person, you probably have had people tell you that you:
- need to chill a bit more,
- are anal,
- worry too much, or
- are too picky.
And guess what, you probably are some of those words. But you know what?
Clients need those strengths! Business owners want those characteristics in their virtual assistant.
You will use those strengths to bring value to your client by:
- editing the weekly newsletter
- thinking through step by step the needed work to be done
- organizing her inbox
- writing a quick note to a colleague of his
- communicating with her client that needs the report
- checking into a product that wasn’t delivered
- drafting the next blog post
- reminding them of an important event
- creating a template for a broadcast
- and so on.
So if someone calls you picky, gently remind them that there are various other words, thanks to Thesarus.com, to describe yourself such as:
absolute, accurate, careful, complete, comprehensive, consummate, detailed, exact, exhaustive, extreme, finished, full, ingrained, intensive, meticulous, out-and-out, painstaking, profound, thoroughly, unmitigated, utter
Have you ever been called picky?
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not picky… more like too mellow…. (which sometimes translate to not caring… – not true, of course)
Hi Daphne,
Mellow…wow, I have a very mellow friend, and we are great for each other! But love your point about mellow can be translated into not caring. Thanks for that.
j
I am guilty of being too picky in both writing and oil painting. I believe I can accept that as partial description of the whole ME. Not everything needs to be done to my standards (I’m a reasonable person), but some things will never sit well with me. For instance, I will never be tolerant of seeing toothpaste cap marks on the counter. Just my picky way 🙂
Yes, I’ve been called picky… I prefer to call it detail-oriented. If the details are important, then I’m the person for it, whatever it is. Thanks for a great post!
— Lois, a fellow blogathoner
Good advice, Jan. I am not picky about many things, in fact I tend to alternate episodes of avoidance with a headlong approach to life’s challenges. But when it comes to facts, spelling and grammar, I learned to be picky years ago. Being a wee bit anal in even one or two facets of life can be a great advantage.