Does PMP help you beyond your professional life?

The PMP helps you manage projects. Projects can extend beyond professional life. Therefore the PMP can help you manage projects outside professional life.

I love your answer, nothing beats Aristotelian logic (short and sweet)!

Thanks Sante

It works out good sometimes ;-)

Any project that you do in your personal life, you can provide PMI practices. For example, say you are buying a house. You would start by documenting all of your requirements for your new house. You will want to do Stakeholder management to make sure everyone in the family has their needs documented. You would then assemble your team (real estate agent, family support members, etc). Then you would start the Procurement phase where you will search for the right house. Using Cost Management you will do an ROI, check your budget, etc. Then you will put a Contract on the home you choose. At this point there is a lot of resource management, home inspections, closing agents, movers, etc. For the actual moving you will need to focus on Stakeholder management. Are the needs of everyone in the family being met? Some Quality Control to make sure everything moved has survived the move. Closing to make sure everything was moved, all of the utilities have been set up, everything has been put away, etc.
So we have projects all of the time in our lives. As we are doing these projects there are many instances where you can apply PMI practices.

I agree with Sante & Dinah.

Farouq,
PMP helps in making us more organised. It's practices help us to do proper planning, follow-up and various other required activities in order to accomplish the goal. Not just PMP, many certifications (like Lean, Agile..) give us lessons and good practices to build our personal life and to even make us a better person.