Meet Rosetta Metz

We were lucky to catch up with Rosetta Metz recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Rosetta, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
I am the youngest of eleven. I grew up with eight older brothers and two older sisters in an old Victorian home with one bathroom in Chicago. The home had a grand entrance to the creaking, winding staircase to the second floor. The first floor had a beautiful Sun Parlor encased in tall windows, A Front Room with a fireplace surrounded by bookcases on each side, and finally, the Dining Room. Coming from the entrance, you walk through a small hallway, passing the door to the unfinished basement and into the tiny kitchen. To the right should be a breakfast room, but it is used as a bedroom and a small entrance to the back porch with windows all across the back and side of the room. Six boys have the master bedroom upstairs with a couple of bunkbeds and twins, the two other tiny rooms were the oldest two brothers and myself and two sisters. My room did not have a closet, ours was in the hallway across from the one bathroom in the house. This is the house I grew up in, it was also the house my father grew up in.

Our home was not fancy, and it was old but had character. My father repaired and updated anything and everything on his own. When he did not know how to do it, he would research it in books and figure it out. I grew up watching my mother patch, paint, and continuously rearrange furniture in every room of our home. I do believe watching how the two of them raised their children and maintained their home was the beginning of my joy journey.

I observed my father from the beginning of a project to the end. I watched him assess what needed to be done, research, create a system, and make it easy for all to do and maintain, to the clean up after every session of his work. I learned more about the “Five S’” before I was ten. I would observe simple things he did, like putting groceries away, making his famous burgers and Italian cheese bread, to breaking up boxes. How my father worked all day and came home and began or continued his home projects, helped in the home with dinner, groceries, baths, etc., and got up in the morning and did it all over again is what I call perseverance. Thinking back, how many times did he want to give up or walk away from this difficult work? How did he find joy in these things?

My mother had as many systems in place as you can imagine: laundry, cleaning, lunches, painting, rearranging furniture, and more. I watched her assess, sort, purge, designate, contain, consolidate, and evaluate to maintain the spaces in her home. She created systems that would work for everyone, not only her. I learned at an early age that you need to live the best you can with others and that it may not always be done the way you prefer. How did my mother have eleven children? How was she able to push through it? How did she find joy in this life she is leading? Little did I know these lessons prepared me to do what I love.

My parents were both strong, loving, and empathetic. They were also quiet and fantastic storytellers. My father was great at “Tall Tales,” and my mother excelled at telling stories of family. I, too, enjoy storytelling and found myself becoming a librarian in my children’s early years.

Through these experiences and growing up in a very intriguing playground full of impactful lessons learned (growing up with eight older brothers and two older sisters), I have found the ability to push through and persevere in multiple situations in my life.

I have been conditioned to “figure it out,” “if you want it to do it, then do it,” or “do it now.” The last one, “Do it now,” is one of my company’s slogans, as it gets easier once you start. Understanding that you do have the ability to accomplish more than you realize is the first step to finding the joy you are searching for. I am grateful for the obstacles and challenges and the empowerment I have endured in my life. This is what brings me joy, resilience is another way to find opportunities to gain the happiness and contentment I may be searching for.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I help people sort through their dreams, disappointments, regrets, happiness, and reality and offer peace of mind. Joyologist

“Time is valuable and should be spent doing what you enjoy in life.” “It is common sense to get your business or your day-to-day organized so you can live in the moment!”

Go figure our tagline states just that:
Lettuce Organize your tomorrow so you can enjoy today. ℠

I am an experienced Business Consultant, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified. A Professional Organizer working with business partners, clients, and employees to identify continuous improvement opportunities in the home or office and provide solutions to organizational needs for a healthy lifestyle.

I am skilled in organizational assessment and planning, workflow analysis, process mapping, home organizing, decluttering, staging, and assisting with others’ chronic disorganization.
The best part of what I do is seeing the stress reduced or disappear in my clients’ eyes and body language. It brings me joy to hear how they might have changed a few habits to improve their lives!

Exciting news for Lettuce Organize is I am publishing a wonderful book called “The Joy Journey” Look for it this year!

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Looking back, I would have to say three qualities that are strong in my everyday life are Integrity, Discipline, and Empathy.

Integrity has so much attached to it. I have found that having integrity in your daily life provides so much to others and yourself. You feel good. Most of the time, honesty, reliability, trustworthiness, and sincerity flow from your actions on having integrity.

Discipline is just what the doctor ordered. “Just do it” is a great mindset to have to get it done. Having discipline does not have to be difficult, as tiny steps can be taken to get what you need accomplished. Having the discipline or the resilience to keep at it to make these baby steps become a positive habit to make you successful will bring you joy.

Finally, empathy is so important if you want to make a difference in what you do. Take the “me” out of the equation for a bit and tie the shoes of who you are trying to help. Walk around a bit and try to visualize what this person might be going through. I am not saying it is your responsibility to bring this person joy or to solve their problems. That is their responsibility. What I have experienced is when I have empathy, it brings me a better understanding of this person and will give me the ability to relate and help them at a deeper level of kindness.

In your journey, try a few of these and see what comes your way. Think of one goal you are trying to accomplish and apply integrity, discipline, and empathy in your process. Organically and naturally, wonderful things will begin to appear. Opportunities will arise, and good feelings and accomplishments will result.

Okay, so before we go, is there anyone you’d like to shoutout for the role they’ve played in helping you develop the essential skills or overcome challenges along the way?
In closing, I could not say that only one person helped me overcome the challenges in my life, or one person helped me build and develop the essential skills, qualities, and knowledge to make me successful. Learning to trust others to bring their knowledge and experiences to me, is what gave me the toolset I use daily. It was important for me to be open-minded and to feel all the good and the bad in order for me to learn from these experiences and find opportunities to help me grow and become the best human I can be.

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Lisa Kay Photography, Nikki Allen Spilt Coffee Studio and Rosetta Metz

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