President's Message: Getting Organized in 2014

by Blanche Podhajski
 

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So the new year is getting older by the day.  How are you doing with your resolutions? Apparently, only 45% of us make them and only 8 % of us keep them (statisticbrain.com) so maybe the question is moot. I was thinking the other day about what might be among the most popular resolutions. For sure I thought “getting organized” would be right up there but it didn’t make the top ten. Not that I would have realized that by the numbers of organizational aids for sale.  

I was in one of my favorite stores last week and the entry way was packed with every imaginable product to facilitate putting our lives in order:  Pop-Up Organizers, Project Boxes, Laundry Sorters, etc...  I miss Cathy, the comic strip, (she retired four years ago) because every January she demonstrated her great intentions by buying a huge array of organizers and then became more disorganized in her clutter of containers. Which brings up the point of this blog: without explicit teaching, getting organized is not all that easy. As with many other life skills, like skiing, reading, singing—some of us have more intuitive talent than others.