{"id":4947,"date":"2015-01-13T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2017-07-31T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:49:48","slug":"most-organized-year-ever-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/most-organized-year-ever-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Most Organized Year Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/13.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4948\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/most-organized-year-ever-13\/13-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/13.png?fit=1588%2C2246&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1588,2246\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"13 family organizing\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/13.png?fit=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4948\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/13-212x300.png?resize=212%2C300\" alt=\"most organized year ever\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/13.png?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/13.png?resize=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 724w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/13.png?w=1588&amp;ssl=1 1588w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Each year as we start the new year, we think of ways to make a change and improve our lives.\u00a0 Did you know that organizing is one of the top three goals each year?\u00a0 Throughout the month of January, I will be offering 31 tips to help you have Your Most Organized Year Ever.\u00a0 Implement just one of these tips, tools, techniques or tweaks this year.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No one should be left alone in the kitchen after dinner to clean up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Mom or Dad&#8217;s job to pick up the house.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Does it seem easier to do all the work around house rather than ask for help?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first step for working as a <a title=\"Team work and delegating\" href=\"http:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/tag\/team-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family team<\/a> is to coordinate your efforts.\u00a0 Start by partnering up with your family, assigning two people to work together to get things done.\u00a0 It can be during dinner time when two people cook and two people clean up.\u00a0 It can be a mass effort when everyone picks up for 5 minutes after dinner to get the house straightened up.\u00a0 Think about how quickly a task can be done when there are lots of people getting it done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How do you get your family on board? Does your family know they are a team?\u00a0 What does a team do to work together?\u00a0 It&#8217;s all in the conversations you have with your family to share expectations.\u00a0 When you are modeling how to work as a team is when it has the most impact.\u00a0 Above all acknowledge and generously praise each person&#8217;s contribution in the team.\u00a0 It definitely takes more effort to bring your team together, but it is worth the effort.\u00a0\u00a0 Make this Your Most Organized Year Ever by working as a family team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sharing resources monthly! Join my <a title=\"Newsletter sign up\" href=\"http:\/\/professional-organizer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newsletter here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year as we start the new year, we think of ways to make a change and improve our lives.\u00a0 Did you know that organizing is one of the top three goals each year?\u00a0 Throughout the month of January, I will be offering 31 tips to help you have Your Most Organized Year Ever.\u00a0 Implement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1361],"tags":[1382,1383],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-organizing","category-most-organized-year-ever","tag-family-team-effort","tag-working-together-as-a-family-team"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Your Most Organized Year Ever - Ellen&#039;s Blog, Professional Organizing for Kingwood &amp; 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