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!
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!
Great idea to put the file folder games in a binder. I was a teacher and just had a baby so I have tons of curriculum and tons of file folder games. Question: Where are you putting the ziplock bags. I know you said in the binder, but did you put a 3 hole punch in the bag and put it behind the game?
I have been trying to get up the nerve to make a quiet book, but don't sew. This is a great alternative! Thanks for the great idea. Where do you take your photography classes?
Any thoughts on where to find templates to make our own books? I am so new at things like this
thanks
Andrea
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wonderful game idea…beautiful photo!xo
My SIL had the grand idea to scan all the pages into her computer and she colored them with a basic paint program. She then prints them out, cuts and laminates them in no time, and gives them away as gifts.
A good source for free file folder games is:
Childcare Land
I love the sillouette picture…I am sort of obsessed with them as a photographer and I just had a big canvas printed with one of my family…
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PS LOVE this idea…going to start working on one for my kiddos!!! Thanks for all your great ideas!!
Great Sillouette pic. I really like how thw little one is reaching up it adds compsition to the photo! 80) Check me out at trulygifteddesigns.blogspot.com Tell me what ya think 80)…..p.s.-Love the file folder games I used to make them for my kids when I was a preschool teacher, They are so versitile. 80)
Amy, what a gorgeous picture. And those games really sound like fun. I never heard of those!
The silhouette picture is amazing!
I've heard of file folder games, but never knew what they were. Our oldest hardly sits still, so appointments and restaurants aren't fun. Maybe I'll make some and see if they help. Thanks for the ideas!
My boys used file folder games in kindergarten and I took the idea to my daycare…The kids love them….
Your silhouette is beautiful….
I've never seen these…so cute and great way to keep the kiddies occupied. Love the silhouette picture!
I worked of file folder games for my son during conference yesterday. I also used the finch family games pages. I laminated my at home using clear contact paper. Works great.
Thanks for the great blog!
I've done a lot of those file folder games, but have looked for a way to keep the organized. The binder idea is great. Just what I was looking for! Thanks.
Thank you for this great idea! I've come up with games to keep the kids busy with felt and foam but never thought of folders, duh!
Love the picture for your class!
I LOVE the photograph in this post!
That silhouette pic is awesome!
Do you have multiple binders with multiple file folders so each child can have one? Or are they all in one binder and they take the file folder that they want to play with out of the binder?
That picture is awesome. That gives me a great idea for Christmas pictures.
I loooove file folder games! I make them and use them in my classroom! They are such a great learning tool! I especially love how little storage space they take up! AWESOME!
Love the photo. How do you do that? Maybe you could just post all you're learning in your photgraphy class-TEHE-and save us all from having to take one. Actually I would love to take a class, but they don't really offer them here. Another great idea!
I for one, have never heard of file folder games, but they sound like a great idea! Definitely going to try those out.
GREAT picture, btw…stunning!
Love the picture. Where are you taking classes from?
Such a beautiful photograph. This really needs to be enlarged.
My kids LOVE file folder games! I love the idea of putting them all in a binder! Thanks!
Thank you for the great idea! I'd love to know where you are taking your photo class. I've been looking all around for a good one.
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I was so excited to see this post about file folder games. I was having a hard time deciding what to do for my nieces for Christmas and this is a great idea. They are going on a vacation right after Christmas and this will be awesome to help keep them entertained on the plane. Thanks for the fabulous idea!
Which of the Finch family books did you get the animal one and the Noah's Ark from? Thanks so much. [email protected]
I’m wondering the same thing too. Please let me know if you found out. Thanks!
You have the coolest blog EVER! Wow I am so impressed and can't wait to try so many of the ideas you have on here! My youngest son will be so excited to make things like slime and eyeballs and bouncy balls!!! Thank you for sharing them all!
These are adorable! Just one question, what did you color them with? I have a few theories, but wanted to ask because they look so great! Thanks.
Hi Amy I was wondering if you new the names of the file folder games you have posted or the name of the books they came from. I tried to order them on line but ended up more confused than when I started. I think this would be a great idea for my 3 year old. Thank You
My favorite sites online for FREE file folder games are:
www(dot)filefolderfun(dot)com
www(dot)mormonchic(dot)com
Also visit http://www.filefolderfarm.com for more free file folder games.
love this idea! have a new baby girl and am going to make some of these folders for her. thanks for all the links to free websites they are awesome.
I love this idea and the file folder games. I, too, am SAHM, and think this is the perfect thing for myself and my toddler! I love the Noah’s Ark game but was interested as to how it was colored. I would love to hear back from you before I make any purchases. I’d greatly appreciate your time! Awesome blog :)
I’d also like to know the title of the Finch Family Games book that you got those cute file folder games from. I went to the Finch Family Games site, but it doesn’t look like any of the books they are currently selling feature the games that you have.
WOW I found your blog from the glow-in-the dark slime we made tonight! (It turned out awesome). Anyways i have never heard of file folders! I am so excited you better believe i am making one tomorrow!!!!!!! My daughter is so restless when we go anywhere this is going to be a huge weapon in my arsenal! I am loving all your awesome ideas. Oh on the tutus i also like to take a 1/2 in ribbon and wrap it around the top too for another idea. keep up the great work!
Thanks so much Nicole. Glad you are enjoying it. That has always been my hope for this blog. And file folders are awesome. My kids LOVE them. Great idea to add some ribbon to the tutus. Adds a nice touch and probably can cover up some of the knots on top too.
Love your pictures! I just bought the file folder book and can’t wait to make them:) Quick question though, how did you make your pictures so beautiful!? Did you use colored pencil or chalk? I want to know the secret… Thanks!
Melissa
Which Finch Family Book are these from? I actually have some of their workbooks but would like to get this one. Thank you!
your file folders look amazing. What did you color them with. I am trying to make some for my son but don’t know what to color them with. I love you photograph silhouette. It is very professional.
Thank you! I LOVE coloring with colored pencils! That is what I used here and on almost all the things I color!
What a good idea to use magnets! I’ve been wanting to make these for my kids but was worried about the velcro being too loud for church…the magnets are a great alternative!