the floor plan

When I worked in merchandising every morning I would check the fixtures and overall floor plan of my store. Straitening anything knocked off center, a scooch here, an omg this is heavy where in the world is Adam (my now husband) there. 

Occasionally, there would be a big change up and the whole plan itself would move around. Push this table there move this cart here. 

Never perfect — one thing out of line and the whole store is off — but prettttty close.

Not to toot my own horn but, I became incredibly good at this task. Largely, in part to a level eye and a touch of OCD but those rows would match from every angle and the level of satisfaction was unmatched. 

Ask me if I can read that street sign though and it's going to be a no from me. We've all got our strengths. 

Anyways, at some point in time I was tasked with teaching this very skill and I found myself constantly asking my peers what do you mean you don't see it?

How can you not see the corner of the table so obviously at a different angle than the cart 3ft away from it aligned with the cris cross thing on the ground and the grain of floor going in that direction?? 

I've got issues. I know. You should watch me try to buy jeans — the stitching omg. 

Back to the story — after many failed attempts to teach my insanity I really had to take a step back and ask myself what it was I was actually doing. 

And I realized almost every time I would go to focus on what was further away to align what was right in front of me for a split second, I would actually lose it. 

Not my mind — we all know that sh*ts gone but the visuals. Focusing on the goal made the present item blurry but in the end they were both aligned. 

I didn't realize how much I've utilized this practice in my business until I sat with the thought of closing a portion of it.

So we’re just going to scooch some things over there and trust that once the whole store is in focus, it will be perfectly placed — by design.

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