Learn how you can get your home organized with my easy step-by-step organization course. My course is full of organization ideas as well as home organization tips and tricks to get your life and home organized and keep it that way.
ONLINE DECLUTTERING COURSE
For the past several months I have been putting together my Online Organization Course, The Balanced Home. I am excited to teach you my decluttering and cleaning process. These processes also teach you how to create simple routines and cleaning schedules which allow you to naturally maintain your clean and organized home.
No need to hire a professional organizer, or live with the clutter because you will have the skills and learn how to overcome any mental barriers or fears you might have to get started!
Stop Drowning in Household Clutter
Transform your space without the overwhelm. Join The Balanced Home Course for a step-by-step system to get your home organized and keep it that way for good.
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WHAT DOES THE ORGANIZATION COURSE COVER?
The Balanced Home Organization Core
($1,000 Value)Contains my core Decluttering and Organization Processes, which shows you how to:
- Learn how to declutter and organize your home–by learning processes and techniques that really work!
- Deal with stuff you don't know how to get rid of
- Understand what qualifies as hoarding
- Understand how to overcome hoarding tendencies
- Deal with your junk room or junk drawer
The Tools
- Workbook, Resources, Labels, and More ($250 Value). Contains everything you need to help guide you through each lesson, including:
- An easy-to-follow workbook to guide you step-by-step through the lessons
- Printable Labels
- A vision sheet for your home
- A working checklist of tasks you can accomplish in 30 minutes or less
- Shopping and To-Do Lists
- Monthly Calendar and Weekly Schedule
The Mental Foundation
The best processes to overcome mental barriers from Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi's Mastermind Course ($200 Value). Helps you to find the time, the energy and the motivation to organize your home by:
- Discovering your “true, internal why” -> what motivates you to want an organized home
- Helping you clearly identify what is holding you back from success
- Teaching you how to organize your schedule to create new pockets of time
- Helping you discover what is most important for you to accomplish with your time, as opposed to just urgent or habit
- Helping you cut out the things that aren't important and identify gaps in your schedule you can dedicate to working on your home
Your Ideal Home
The best processes to set and achieve your vision by breaking it down into actionable steps ($300 Value). Teaches you how to break down an overwhelming project into small, manageable steps, by:
- Clearly defining your goal and vision for your home
- Learning how to evaluate specific rooms and identify what you want to be improved
- Identifying specific, easy to complete tasks in each room that will contribute to your overall goal without overwhelming you
- Getting your family or others involved in the process
Cleaning and Maintaining
The best processes to clean and maintain your home after it has been organized ($200 Value).Teaches you how to maintain your home once it is clean and keep it organized, by:
- Providing you with the basic cleaning routines you need to naturally stay in control of your home
- Teaching you my amazing “Ten-Minute Clean-up” process, which allows you to clean an entire floor / room in ten minutes or less!
- Showing you how to establish routines with your kids and other members of the family
- Sharing important resources such as chore cards, favorite cleaning products, and a deep-cleaning checklist, and more
- Explaining the laundry routine we use in our home to get our laundry done every week without even thinking about it
- Teaching you how to deep clean your home after it has been decluttered and organized
- Showing you how to help the other members of your household be on the same page and not “unclean” your home
During the course, we will:
- Show you the process of how to go throughout your home decluttering, cleaning, and organizing. Then you can take this process and go throughout all the rooms in your home–including the bathrooms, kitchen, craft room, home office, basement, entryway, playroom, garage, attic, and all other rooms in your home–cleaning and organizing.
- Clean out and organize not just the rooms themselves, but organization spaces such as closets, shelves, drawers, and bookshelves.
- Learn how to properly use organization equipment, such as bins, drawer organizers, storage bins, food storage containers, lids, and baskets.
The Private Balanced Home Community
(BONUS – Priceless). Provides a community that you can go to whenever you need a place where you…
- Seek inspiration and ideas from others
- Receive support and motivation from others
- Share your successes and see the successes of others as we all work towards finding balance and clarity in our homes.
- Can ask questions and let me know what you may still need help with so that I can continue to cater the course to your needs
What Do People Have To Say About My Organization Course?
“This course was instrumental in helping me organize my space as well as my time. As a busy mom, I have a better grasp on what my days need to include so that I can enjoy my family rather than spend my time spinning my wheels cleaning up after everyone.”
“The Balanced Home Course helped me to be the “professional organizer” for my family! Simple steps to follow, check lists, printable labels, suggestions and worksheets will keep you on track to successfully maintain your own balanced home.”
“I am pretty sure I have solved more issues with the seven layers and clarity tool than I have in 6 months of therapy!! I think this course is going to help much more than my home. Thanks Amy!!!!”
When I realized I had been overcomplicating the idea of organization, that simplifying was a key component, then things really started to fall into place!”
When I realized I had been overcomplicating the idea of organization, that simplifying was a key component, then things really started to fall into place!””
HOW TO GET MOTIVATED TO ORGANIZE YOUR HOME
HOW TO OVERCOME FEARS AND MENTAL BARRIERS
I asked and these are the things that are holding you back from getting started! I made sure my course helped you overcome your specific fears and developed processes to address each of the concerns below. Have you ever had any of the same concerns?
- “I don't have the time.”
- “I don't know how to break it down into manageable chunks.”
- “How do I balance other activities?”
- “I don’t have enough energy / motivation.”
- “I'm overwhelmed and don't know where to start.”
- “I'm scared / unable to commit.”
- “I don't trust myself.”
- “I don't have the confidence I will finish.”
- “How do I maintain / keep on top of it?”
- “I have a hard time with inconsistency / finding balance.”
- “I'm afraid of quitting too soon and having it be a mess.”
- “How do I build the habits and routines?”
- “Keeping it clean and organized”“Staying focused and not getting distracted.”
- “What if I have physical limitations.”
- “I don't have the supplies / resources / money (i.e. containers etc.) / storage space.”
- “I don't want to part with things.”
- “What Do I do with all the stuff? Donate? Kids?”
- “What if I need it later?”
- “My family has stuff they want to keep.”
- “Family is not being helpful or even counterproductive… How do I get my family on board?”
- “No sense of design / vision for what I want.”
- “Lack of knowledge.”
- “Afraid of not doing it right.”
- “Being okay with not having it perfect.”
STILL NOT READY TO BUY?
Because I know that sometimes it can be difficult to take that initial leap of faith, I wanted to give you something that would allow you to get your feet wet a little, something that you could access RIGHT NOW. I think you'll like it. I've opened up a “sneak peek” section of my course, where you can access one or two of the lessons that are a part of The Balanced Home Course. If you click the button below you will be able to create your own personal account / log in for the course and access the “sneak peek” videos.
OTHER ORGANIZATION PROJECTS
If you are interested in taking a deeper look into some of the spaces in my home, check out the following posts!
Toffee is my favorite showstopper. People are always impressed when you make it yourself.
I use slivered or flaked almonds in mine, toasted and stirred into the toffee right before you pour it. I think it gives more of a nutty flavor to the candy itself. And a pinch of salt at the end makes it really pop.
So glad you are feeling better! I have a compromised immune system and have been fighting this for 5 weeks yesterday, I had the flu, strep throat, sinus infection, pneumonia and ear infection….ugh
Your toffee looks so yummy. Come check out my site some time! Crocheted Hugs x.x.x.x.
English Toffee is my all time favorite!!!!!!
All I can say is YUM! I am printing this recipe right now.
I tried to print this out and for some reason, all I got was 20 pages of comments.
Amy…I've just found your blog..signing up as a follower! It is the neatest blog ever, one of the best…reminds me of my life raising our 8 children and all the things we made and did. (I read about the mean spirited comments..don't give it a second thought. There are those out there who are jealous, don't let it set you back at all)
I got a bit of shaded remarks about Halloween too but then lots of good ones.
I live in So. Central Ut. red rock country…Come say hi :D
I love English Toffee! I haven't made it for a long time, but I'm thinking I'll make some this year.
One year, my mom made some toffee for Christmas & then she and I stayed up late and ate the whole batch! Then we were up the rest of the night because we were both sick to our stomach from way too much sugar! :)
Glad you are feeling better AND I love your blog!
My mom makes this every year at Christmas, and just seeing the picture makes me want to eat a whole batch! :)
Amy, I've made English Toffee a few times but have never been thrilled with the recipes I've tried. Yours looks fabulous. I look forward to trying it! Thank you!
Jenn @ rookno17.blogspot.com
um… freaking YUM!!! I bet that beats store bought heath bars any day. Ill have to make some now. Thanks for sharing :)
I am def trying this.
I see you have a recipe for Peppermint Bark too.
I had some from WmSonoma last year. It was delicious. I am not a big peppermint fan, but I want to make it this year for take homes.
Thanks!
So glad I found your blog!
Kathleen
Southampton, NY
I made this for my husband for Valentine's Day and it is fabulous! Thank you for this recipe!
Just found your blog. Someone pinned your toffee recipe on Pinterest, oh lucky me. Can’t wait to try it. I am torn between almond or pecan. Yummy!!!
I first found this recipe in the Better Homes and Garden cookbook back in the early 90s. I make it every Christmas and it is the best toffee I’ve found.
I followed the recipe but when I broke up the toffee, the chocolate slid off. What did you do to make sure the chocolate stayed stuck to the toffee?
Erin – I have the same problem after trying a couple different recipes. I would love to know the secret.
I’ve learned that if you cool the finished product at room temp, it will stay together (after many frustrating results of cooling the freezer or fridge and it sliding right off when trying to break it) Thru trial and error, you must cool at room temp! Do NOT freeze or put in refrigerator. This takes a few hours…I put in a cool room (closed off bedroom). If you do not do this, the chocolate and toffee come apart when you try to break it. I think because when it’s in a fridge or freezer, the chocolate cools much faster than the toffee and separates. That’s my not so scientific take….haha
Also if you score the toffee with pizza cutter sprayed with Pam, that helps too (before you put on the chocolate and nuts). Do this a couple minutes after you’ve poured the toffee into the pan. Also…another tip. I have much better luck with parchment paper than tin foil.
Terry- Great tips! Thanks for sharing!
I wish there was a print button:(
omg just copy paste into word doc and print from there
Be nice!
Wow this looks great! I used to make something similar to this with my Mom and we called it Almond Rocha. I’ll have to compare the recipes to see how close they are. Either way, I know I’ll love this! Thank you!
I just made both the almond and pecan toffee! It is delicious and turned out great! I waited about a minute or two after pouring over the nuts and then put the chocolate on. It did fine. I took a large knife and cut it into squares after I had hardened it in the refrigerator.
I can’t wait to make this recipe for Christmas. I do have a question that may be dumb but what does the T stand for tablespoon or teaspoon or something different? Thanks for the help!
Found this through Pinterest– but I wish I could pin it directly :(
t= teaspoon
T= tablespoon
3t= 1T
Found you on Pinterest as well. Just wanted to share that I made this over the weekend for a party and it was lovely! Not a morsel left at the end of the night! Thank you for sharing! :)
LOVE this recipe! Sooooo easy and a great gift to give over the holidays. Thank you!
Just made this today. It took all of about 20 minutes (I’m a slow poke and triple check everything)…LOL…Anyway, it was awesome. I’ve tried several other recipes and although they were good, they weren’t quite as good as this one! I’m sooo happy…Yummo. Thanks for the recipe.
So glad you loved it and had great results!
Think I may try this ‘English’ toffee as it looks quite different to anything we have in England. Looks interesting :0)
I was going to say the same thing! It’s like ‘English’ muffins you get in the States. I’ve no idea why they’re supposed to be English either – but this does look like a yummy recipe all the same :-)
Thanks, they are yummy!
Can I use something else besides corn syrup? This looks so good, but I don’t use corn syrup in anything.
Thanks!
That’s my question as well.
Thank you so much for this yummy recipe! I have made six batches for Christmas presents. No complaints yet ;) I love your blog, thanks for sharing with the world!!!
This recipe looks super NUMMO and can’t wait to try it!
interesting factoids i just found out about Toffee:
English toffee is actually made with brown sugar and butter- no other ingredients should be added (nuts, chocolate, vanilla, etc). it’s served plain- most often broken into chunks with a hammer (fun!)
American style toffee is made with white sugar
Toffee with chocolate and nuts is actually called Buttercrunch
I thought that was really interesting and thought i’d share :-)
This picture is beautiful…but…my candy thermometer clearly says that soft crack is 265. Hard crack is 290. I cooked it to soft crack and its really white. It does not taste like toffee at all :( I’ll buy a new thermometer and try again…or maybe I’ll just cook it till it turns that amber color. Phooey
I had the same problem too. I followed the recipe exactly and mine was still too white in color and once cooled it was too chewy and not crunchy. Made it a second time and just cooked it longer until I saw it turn a beautiful caramel color (stirring constantly though). Betty Crockers recipe says to heat to 300F degrees. It has the perfect crunch now and the color.
Yes! I have found the key is too pay attention to the color of it. When it turns a caramel brown color it gets thicker and smells different. This is when it is ready!
I made this with my children yesterday and it is absolutely divine. Great recipe, worked perfectly!
I know that you said a cookie sheet, but it doesn’t spread out on the entire sheet. Is it maybe 12×12?
No! You can use either. This is a great question. I should have been more instructional in my tutorial. It does not spread out on the entire sheet for me either. As long as it thins out evenly whichever size sheet you use should be fine! Thanks for bringing that to my attention!
If you preheat your cookie sheet prior it will help the hot mixture spread more evenly.
Great tip Christina!
I had a hard time getting the chocolate to melt! Maybe my countertop was too cold. Also, it looks like it is not going to be hard like your picture shows! Should I have cooked it longer even though it was at the soft crack temp.?
This is the same thing that happened to me. I followed the directions. It looks like it is going to turn out sticky and the chocolate got mixed in, not floating on top. Mine doesn’t look anything like this picture. lol- I feel like a baking failure!
I made this yesterday….SO FABULOUS!!!!! and easy….wouldnt change a thing!!
I used your picture in my post today! Hmmm. Toffee. http://betterscienceteaching.com/2012/12/14/tis-the-season/
I used to make this toffee from the original Better Homes and Gardens recipe. I used Hersheys milk chocolate bars for the chocolate and put the chocolate and finely chopped roasted almonds on both sides. I wish I could find that original recipe.
I made this just now and it sure was easy. I put almonds on one end and pecans on the other since I ran out of almonds. Anxious to try it. Thanks and greetings from Okla.
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Can anyone tell me if this is a “softer” toffee? I am looking for a recipe for one that is more a “melt in your mouth” rather than a “tooth breaker”, if you know what I mean.
Thanks!
If you cook it right, it has a nice soft buttery texture and more “melt in your mouth” than hard. It is so good!
Thanks, Amy, that is what I wanted to know.
Can I trade Honey for the Kayro syrup?
After breaking apart, all the “crumbs” left on the tray, are great as a ice cream topper as well! We actually make a batch in Spring (vs the usual Christmas season batches) to chop up and give as ice cream toppers! Can be used in chex mex recipes too! :) Love multi use recipes!
Great idea!!
The English Toffee calls for 1T of light corn syrup & 3T of water. Is that tee spoons or table spoons?
What size cookie sheet small or large ? Looks so good !
Large
I use this exact recipe, but put in the chocolate chips as soon as I pour the toffee. It seems to keep the chocolate and toffee from separating later. It’s the best recipe ever.
My choc chips when melted turn white and small circles like its moldy or something. I’ve used many different kinds and still happens. Never used to years ago?? Any help???
Thinking of trying this toffee. I’ve tried so many & they all usually end up sticking to our teeth. Does this one as well, or is it crunchy?
Cindy- I dont feel like this one sticks to my teeth at all. Hope you give it a try!