{"id":4986,"date":"2015-01-17T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/?p=4986"},"modified":"2017-07-31T18:51:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:51:05","slug":"most-organized-year-ever-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/most-organized-year-ever-17\/","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\/17a.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5026\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/most-organized-year-ever-17\/17a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/17a.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=\"17a be accountable\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/17a.png?fit=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5026\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/17a-212x300.png?resize=212%2C300\" alt=\"Your Most Organized Year Yet\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/17a.png?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/17a.png?resize=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 724w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/17a.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>Accountability is being willing and obligated to a task.\u00a0 It&#8217; not always easy to feel or be accountable to others. It takes a trusting relationship and a perspective of learning from missteps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways to accomplish a goal using accountability.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working together as a team can help you get a task accomplished.\u00a0 When you are accountable for your step of the project, you know you will follow through.\u00a0 You have team ownership.<\/li>\n<li>Just speaking out loud about a project, describing it and discussing it, can help you process your thoughts on a project.\u00a0 You are more prepared to complete it because you have clarified your work.<\/li>\n<li>It may be just to speak about a project out loud and it&#8217;s enough for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out all 31 Tips for <a title=\"Most Organized Year Ever\" href=\"http:\/\/professional-organizer.com\/WordPress\/category\/most-organized-year-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Your Most Organized Year Ever.<\/a><\/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":[1361,97,1],"tags":[1391,1392],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-most-organized-year-ever","category-productivity","category-uncategorized","tag-accountability-and-goals","tag-be-accountable-and-be-more-organized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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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