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Creating Weekly Goals Helps Keep Me Accountable

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2024-01-23T14:09:06-06:00January 24th, 2024|Categories: Planning|Tags: goals, objectives, plan, planner, tasks|

If you’re a planner like me, you create goals that will help to hold us accountable. When you create a main goal, you may need smaller goals, objectives, or tasks to help reach the main goal. When creating goals, they need to be S.M.A.R.T. This is an acronym meaning – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant & timebound. The very act of creating SMART goals puts us in a good position to hold us accountable for achieving our goals, or figuring out why we don’t reach them. There are a number of reasons why we may not achieve our goals. Some things [...]

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Become a Detective To Understand Your Needs

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2024-01-17T10:44:42-06:00January 17th, 2024|Categories: Problem Solving|Tags: goals, mindfulness, plan, resolutions|

This is the time of year when a lot of people think about what they need to do in the new year. Some call this thinking making resolutions, others call them goals, some don’t put a label on it. Whatever you call it, if you do this, you may not even understand your needs. You may need to do some detective work to figure it out. January has been named GO Month or Get Organized month many years ago by NAPO (National Association of Productivity & Organizing Professionals). Getting organized is a good way to start off a new year. [...]

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The Benefits of Something to Look Forward to

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-09-13T13:34:40-05:00September 20th, 2023|Categories: Focus, Health Benefits, Motivation, Reduce Stress|Tags: benefits, focus, mindset, motivate, optimistic, plan, positive|

Having something to look forward to can benefit us in multiple ways. Days, weeks, months, and even years can drag on with activities of daily life when there’s nothing planned that we enjoy, that would make us happy, or accomplishments that we celebrate. Think about it in terms of our life’s journey. There will of course be ups and downs, but focusing on the positive things and events can help us get through the not-so-positive things that happen along the way. Positive life events such as graduating from high school or college, getting married, having a baby, retirement, coffee with [...]

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Adapting to A Lifestyle Change

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-06-02T10:30:49-05:00June 2nd, 2021|Categories: Change|Tags: adapt, behaviors, habits, plan, routines, stressful|

A lifestyle change means new behaviors that could result in new routines. It can be in various aspects of your life such as your health, your professional life, or manner of income, moving, a relationship, getting organized, going to college, a new baby, retirement, etc. In each of the situations mentioned above, the lifestyle change will mean a change, or changes that will occur. To adapt, prepare yourself mentally by expecting some things, or possibly many aspects of your life to change, especially existing routines. Because, with behavioral changes comes a change to existing routines, or eliminating one routine and [...]

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Keeping Spirits up With The Tradition of Baking Cookies For The Holidays

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-12-15T10:04:59-06:00December 16th, 2020|Categories: Holidays, Planning|Tags: baking, holidays, kitchen, plan, traditions|

I think baking cookies is a tradition for most, if not all of the year-end holidays. This has been a difficult year to be sure, and traditions are important to keep up with to lift our spirits. And what better way to make your spirits bright than baking cookies with family or friends. This is an activity that will surely take your mind off of your troubles, even if it’s only for a short time. If it’s not been a tradition for you in the past, maybe this is the year to start a new one. Every year for many, [...]

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What Emergency Preparedness Means Today

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:10-06:00September 16th, 2020|Categories: Emergency Preparedness|Tags: emergency, pandemic, plan, protect, supplies|

In the past I wrote a couple of articles about emergency preparedness - Being Prepared Is Not Just For Boy Scouts Anymore & September is National Preparedness Month. Both of these articles, which are basically the same, were written to encourage the development of a documented plan to stay safe in the event of a natural disaster. These types of naturally occurring events are specific to the region of the country in which you live. As these articles suggest, a plan and supplies are the main requirements for emergency preparedness. Everyone in your home needs to understand the plan and [...]

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Holiday Priorities

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:17-06:00December 18th, 2019|Categories: Holidays, Time Management|Tags: perfectionism, plan, preparations, stressful, tasks|

What are your holiday priorities? We all have them. As we get closer to the actual day, or start of the season, we need to check in to see if we are on track to get all the preparations done in time. Holidays are a stressful time for many people. Getting everything done can be nerve wracking, depending on our individual standards. Hopefully you created a plan, did you? It’s always a good idea to have a plan. It can be as simple as jotting down tasks, prioritizing them, and then scheduling them in a planner. Plan the work and [...]

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Making Changes May Not be as Difficult as You Think

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:19-06:00August 21st, 2019|Categories: Change|Tags: decisions, mindset, plan, problem solving, routines|

Some people dread making changes, others not so much. I get it. We get into our comfort zones especially as we age. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying, ‘she’s set in her ways’. There’s that comfort zone again. It’s called a comfort zone for a reason. We may not be happy in our current environment, but we know what to expect, so there’s a certain level of comfort in knowing what’s going to happen next whether we like it or not. Making changes just for the sake of change is not a good reason as far as I’m concerned. If [...]

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Overthinking Can be The Demise of Your Productivity

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:19-06:00July 26th, 2019|Categories: Planning, Productivity|Tags: motivation, perfectionism, plan, priority, productivity, scheduling tasks|

When you create a plan, are you overthinking the steps needed to reach the end goal? Does your research go on forever? Does your plan need to be perfect before you take action? Are the tasks so complicated that you just don’t want to perform them? If any of the above questions resonate with you, you may need to rethink your planning process. Perfectionism and procrastination are the enemies of productivity. There is no such thing as perfect and good enough gets the job done. Think about what motivates you - listening to music, a reward as you complete a [...]

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How to Clear Out a Home to Sell After a Death

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2020-11-17T13:41:22-06:00March 27th, 2019|Categories: Decluttering, Organizing Tips|Tags: accumulation, after a death, grief, plan, sell a home, team|

Have you ever had to clear out a home to sell after a death? If so, then you know how much there is to do. You also know that it’s an emotional journey. We learn things about our loved ones that we didn’t know as we cull through their things. These things are small pieces of their lives that live on through the memories they leave behind. Several years ago, I had to clear out a home to get it ready to sell after my aunt passed away. I was her caregiver, although I didn’t live with her, for 8 [...]

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