Doris Puls

In college I had a poster, “Not to decide is to decide.” I thought of all the decisions I put off, the things I didn’t do. If I knew I should make a decision and didn’t, I already was making a decision. That same saying can be applied to decluttering and organizing. If we haven’t done a task that we thought about doing but didn’t do, we have already made the decision not to do it. We are not living the way we could to make our lives easier. By not deciding to do anything, we are really deciding.

If our counters are messy but we keep them messy, we are choosing to live with messy counters.

If our expensive vehicle is stored in our driveway because we haven’t cleaned out our garage, we have made that decision, that it is not important at this time to store it in the garage.

If we don’t like our closets because they have clothes that don’t fit or we don’t wear, we have made the decision to live with the clutter.

If we don’t make the effort to go through our mail daily and deal with it, paper piles build up and we are left with paper clutter that can sometimes be overwhelming.

If we don’t like the way our rooms look but don’t do anything to change them, we are making the decision to live the way they are.

If we leave our garbage in our vehicle and let it accumulate, even knowing we feel better with it emptied out, we made the decision to have a messy vehicle.

Not to deal with our clutter is a decision we are making when we don’t take the time to change anything.

Why do we choose not to decide? It can be numerous reasons. One that is easy to think is, “I don’t have time.” I would guess most of us have some time, but we don’t take the time to do something. It is not a priority in our lives. Find a thing that bothers you most and decide to do something about it.

Doris Puls, of D & O Decluttering and Organizing, is a professional organizer whose mission is to make a difference in the lives of the people she works with in homes and businesses. Contact her at organizealpena@gmail.com or at 989-356-9545.