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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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Decision Paralysis Due to Overwhelm

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-12-21T12:37:25-06:00December 21st, 2023|Categories: Overwhelm|Tags: create a plan, decisions, overwhelmed, prioritize, projects, stress, tasks|

We all go through this at some point in time. Having too much going on and having to make a lot of decisions. What happens? This can cause us to freeze so that we can’t make any decisions on anything. It’s called decision paralysis. You’re already overwhelmed with the number of tasks related to a project or multiple projects that you have in the works. Then when you consider the sheer number of options associated with these projects, it makes the overwhelm monumental. The most beneficial solution is to either defer or put one or more projects on hold. Unfortunately, [...]

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6 Things To Consider That Will Help Prioritize Maintenance Tasks

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2023-05-25T12:52:19-05:00May 25th, 2023|Categories: Maintenance|Tags: prioritize, proactive, tasks|

When you prioritize maintenance tasks, you can save money, avoid service interruptions and potential catastrophes. Anyone that owns a vehicle of any type or a home, understands that there will be ongoing maintenance tasks of these items, or their parts. Nothing lasts forever. Typically, we prioritize tasks based on urgency, but when you prioritize maintenance tasks, they may or may not be urgent. It may be that you didn’t keep up with a maintenance schedule which now creates a sense of urgency, and that is what you want to avoid. Maintenance tasks are an important part of keeping your home [...]

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20 Simple Tasks You Can Complete in 10 Minutes or Less

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2022-02-18T11:11:15-06:00February 23rd, 2022|Categories: Productivity|Tags: goals, motivation, organized, project, routines, tasks|

Everyone, or at least that I know, is always looking to get a lot done in less time to increase their productivity. Completing simple tasks during your busy day when time allows, can contribute to a routine, goal or a project. Simple tasks are typically part of a routine, goal or a project as mentioned above. Breaking them down into small chunks, or simple tasks, is a good way to avoid overwhelm and to reach the end goal, which is completion. Even if your project is to get the home, or part of your home cleaned and organized, that’s the [...]

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Get All Your Ducks in a Row

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2022-01-28T11:50:56-06:00February 2nd, 2022|Categories: Preparation|Tags: documents, folder, income taxes, organize, tasks|

Get all your ducks in a row. I’m sure we all know the meaning of this statement – to organize your tasks, time and tools to be prepared to take action on the next step. There are theories as to the origin of this statement that goes back a long way. This is especially pertinent at this time of year, tax time. In order to prepare your annual income tax returns, you need to get all your ducks in a row, or to gather all the documents required to complete this task. It’s a term that means to prepare for [...]

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My Story of an Unreached Goal

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2022-01-10T15:22:43-06:00January 12th, 2022|Categories: Planning|Tags: goals, new year, project, schedule, tasks|

We are once again at the beginning of a bright & shiny new year. It’s time to reflect on the past year, to look at the goals we set to see if we achieved them. If not, let’s see what we can do to make sure that we don’t have an unreached goal by the end of this year. This isn’t a post about creating goals for the new year. However, if you need help creating goals, click on this link for an article that may help. This post is about understanding why we didn’t meet a goal, and what [...]

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Delegate Tasks to Increase Productivity & Relieve Stress

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-09-21T15:00:24-05:00September 29th, 2021|Categories: Productivity|Tags: goals, overwhelmed, productivity, reduce stress, tasks, team|

Delegate, delegate, delegate! This is such an underutilized option, especially when you’re overwhelmed. When you’re overwhelmed, your productivity level drops and your stress level increases. Some feel that they have to do everything themselves or these things won’t get done correctly. What this does is creates a tremendous amount of stress on themselves. If something isn’t done to perfection, what’s the worst that will happen? It’s less stressful to get things done and adopt an attitude of ‘good enough’. You wouldn’t try to perform a task when you don’t possess the skills would you? So, you delegate that task to [...]

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6 Ways to Work Smarter Not Harder

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-05-10T17:47:10-05:00May 12th, 2021|Categories: Productivity|Tags: brain dump, get organized, process, productivity, schedule, tasks, to-do list|

The phrase work smarter not harder could have a different meaning for everyone. After researching this phrase, I discovered the term originated in the 1930’s by Allen F. Morgenstern. As an industrial engineer, he created a work simplification program to increase productivity using less effort. There are differing opinions on this idea, some agree, while others don’t. These opinions come from the perspective of each person. My perspective, or opinion, leans the way of agreement in the phrase, work smarter not harder. Allow me to explain. In the past I wrote an article titled ‘Why I Say Professional Organizers Are [...]

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Using a Process to Put Down Mulch

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-04-29T14:35:52-05:00May 5th, 2021|Categories: Productivity|Tags: mulch, options, process, productivity, tasks|

Every year I contemplate whether I should put down mulch in my garden beds. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t, but when I do, it’s a big job. And spring is typically when you start to see landscape companies spreading mulch in the yards of homes and businesses in the community. This may not seem like a topic related to organizing or productivity, but it does relate to using a process which does optimize productivity. The process I use to put down mulch may be different than yours, but a process is used all the same. Whether you hire it [...]

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Planning a Successful Organizing Project

By SOS Simple Organized Solutions|2021-03-25T16:16:15-05:00March 31st, 2021|Categories: Home Organization, Planning|Tags: brain dump, get organized, organizing process, planning, prioritize, tasks|

There are numerous reasons why someone would want to get organized. Maybe they can’t find things they are looking for such as their car keys and it causes them to be late for work, a lot. Maybe they buy duplicates or triplicates because they don’t know how many of one item they own. When they realize what the real issue is, they decide it’s time to work on an organizing project. There are several things to consider when planning a successful organizing project. A person can become overwhelmed if their project encompasses many areas, or a whole house transformation. I [...]

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