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!
this looks sooo delicious and versatile! chocolate chips make everything better, don’t you think?! I’m a pinterest contributor for Better Homes & Gardens and have pinned this recipe as one of my new favorites! YUM!
Check it out here: http://pinterest.com/pin/56787645271693942/
on this board:http://pinterest.com/bhg/blogger-recipes-we-love/
xo
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Thanks so much for the pins. I really appreciate it. And yes…chocolate chips are the cure-all…at least in my mind!
Can this coffee cake be frozen
I have never put this in the freezer so not sure how well it would freeze.
Can this be frozen
This looks delish! Thanks for sharing.
I just found three over-ripe bananas in the hidden depths of my pantry. This sounds like a perfect way to use them up! :)
Haha! They have a tendency to hide at my house too…or get brown really fast…Hope you enjoy it. Hope that baby girl of yours is doing well.
Looks absolutely YUMMY! Think I will try this when all my kids are here this weekend.
I hope they all love it. Sounds like a fun weekend!
This looks heavenly! Thanks so much for sharing!
Amy this looks AMAZING! yum!
Thanks Brittany!
I can’t wait to try this! Thanks for sharing!
This looks so yummy! Cinnamon and bananas, two of my favorites. I’m going to make it this weekend and I’m definitely throwing in the chocolate chips. They’re not optional for me; they’re required! :) I’ve also shared this post on my FB page!
Thanks for sharing this Peggy. Chocolate chips are NEVER optional here! I need to restock my COSTCO giant size bag :)
Funny, this morning Mr Mindy :) was bummed that I had 2 bad banana’s hanging on the fruit basket, so little K suggested I make banana bread, but this looks much better. Thanks for sharing!
Hope Mr. Mindy likes how his rotten bananas turn out :)
Your list shows 2 cups of sour cream or vanilla yogurt but in the video it doesn’t show you adding it
Aneta- I must have forgotten it. It does need to be added in though. Thank you for letting me know.
Yum! I usually make banana bread with my yucky bananas, but I might need to try this next time. :-)
I’ve got 2 ripe bananas waiting for this recipe!! Thanks for sharing
I clicked “print recipe” before you could say banana cake! I’d make it tonight – right now – if I weren’t dead tired. I will make it tomorrow, though. I can’t wait
Haha! Yay! I know the feeling. Tomorrow will be a great cake baking day! Hope you love it too!
This is a very good recipe! Thank you so much for sharing. My husband and baby girl loved it! :)
Thanks so much Rachael!! Glad you were able to make it and your family loved it!
Oooo…can’t wait to try it. And I think you may have solved a problem I have with another recipe where the middle seems to need more baking time than the rest. Never occurred to me to cover it–thanks!
Oh yay Nancy! I have found this works for me on other recipes as well!
I have a bowl full of bananas~Thanks-looks yummy!
I have just made this and it is amazing!! It’s so easy and delicious. and looks really great too…thanks!!
So glad to hear that you loved it! And thanks for taking the time to come on back and share that with us. It is always nice for others to see that people have made it and enjoyed it! Thanks Helen!
This looks yummy. You’ve probably already heard this tip, but if I only have one brown banana, I peel it and put it in my freezer. When I have three or four, I bake. Takes a few minutes to defrost and then just toss them in and mash them. I know what I’m making next time! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I actually did not know that Kristi! That is such a great tip. I am guilty of throwing away single bad bananas! Great tip! Thank you!
Or, if you only have one bad banana and few good ones but have the urge to bake with bananas, you can take the good ones and throw them in a plastic bag, peel and all, and throw them in the freezer. Take them out the next day and they’ll brown as they thaw and be ready for baking! :)
I will definately be making this today, and I think I’ll add a nice cream cheese frosting, yum.
oooh Yum!! Cream Cheese Frosting!!! Great idea!
Heavenly!!! I can’t wait to try this…I’m thinking for this weekend’s church luncheon! Thanks for the recipe and the delicious looking pics!
If you don’t have yogurt or sour cream can you substitute with milk?…
I don’t think the milk will have enough substance and the cake may not have the same consistency.
I didn’t have sour cream or yogurt on hand either. I went to Google and found that a tablespoon of lemon juice with milk filled to 1 cup is a substitute as well (emulates sour milk according to the website I found). I tried it when I made this last night and it tastes phenomenal!
Hi!
I repinned this onto my Baking and Cafe’ board (http://pinterest.com/lesliehellohome/baking-and-cafe/) two weeks ago, and just made it this morning!!
OH WOW~ We all LOVED it!
It was moist, dense, crunchy (from the topping), gooey (from the chocolate chips).
Heaven.
We ate it as coffee cake breakfast, not a dessert. Was that okay?
;)
Thank you so much for this recipe. It is now part of our family’s recipe book!
Warm hugs from South Carolina!
~Leslie
So happy to hear that! It is all those things for me too! And…we always eat it for breakfast if it is around…cause I am a good mom like that ;) So glad you took the time to stop on over and let me know!
Made this recipe this morning while on vacation. My 2 sisters and I just gobbled up the first 3 slices. This cake probably won’t last until tomorrow with 3 families in the house!! Yummy! Thanks for sharing!
Made this today with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Minis instead of the chocolate chips and also baked the banana’s in the skins (350*–15 mins until the skins looked black) to bring out a stonger banana flavor. Started out hand mixing, but decided the stand mixture was the better way of blending. Can’t get much better than cinnamon, chocolate, peanut butter, & banana. It’s very moist & good. My husband loves it, especially with the peanut butter cups but said it would be equally as good with the chocolate chips! Will definately make again. Thanks Amy for sharing a great recipe!
Yum. Love your addition of PB cups! I just might have to try that for the family the next time we have ripe bananas!
Hi! I pinned this cake on Pinterest & I have baked it twice, now! The first time to take as a thank-you for a dinner invite. & just today I baked one to send over to my husband in Afghanistan! He will LOVE it, I’m sure :)
Anyway, I am new to the blogging world & I just wanted to tell you that I am sharing your recipe, but I will shoot all credit back to you!
Thank-you so much for sharing! I love your page!
Hi,
Fantastic recipe, can’t wait to try it out. One tip with freezing the bananas is just to throw them in the freezer as they are, in their skins. When ready to use them, leave them to defrost and then squeeze them out of the skins. No mashing as they will be nice and squishy from freezing!
Made this tonight after searching on Pinterest for yummy looking banana cake recipes to use up my overripe bananas. I usually make banana bread but decided I wanted to try a cake. This looked delicious and couldn’t get it out of my mind until I made it! My kids are going to love it! Thanks so much Amy for an awesome recipe and I will be following your other recipes! I am eating it now and I absolutely ❤ it!!!
I am so happy you enjoyed it. It is absolutely one of our favorite desserts as well and a good way to use up our old bananas. Thanks so much for actually taking the time to come back here and share that with me. I love to hear from people who have actually tried the things I am sharing here! Hope you continue to like what you see!
Do you have any suggestions for a (cow) dairy free alternative?
I made it last night and everyone who has eaten it so far loooooves it, they are all asking for the recipe! :) Thanks for sharing.
How did you know that I have two overripe bananas sitting on my counter that I was just about to toss? Thanks for the timely post (my waistline hates you though) :-)
I made this tonight for dessert, but because my family and I have given up chocolate for lent, I substituted 1/2 cup cinnamon chips and 1/2 cup butterscotch chips. Oh, my, goodness! This cake is so yummy that my hubby had 2 servings. Thank you!
This is a family classic at my house too! We call it “Cathy Baginski’s Banana-Chip Coffee Cake” because my mom got the recipe from her friend Cathy
I want this soooo bad!! Any ideas on a dairy free version? Either way, love your website :) you rock!!
I have some yogurt that’s about to go bad (bananas in the freezer ;) ) and immediately thought of this recipe!
Before my father-in-law passed away he wasn’t eating much but I made this cake for him anyway. He absolutely LOVED it. We hadn’t seen him so excited to eat in a while. It was really touching. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.
Oh! That makes me feel so happy. I am sorry to hear about your FIL but happy to hear he was able to find some joy in this recipe! xo
I just made this after seeing it on Pinterest. Not only did it make my house smell like baking heaven, it tasted amazing!! For sure a new favorite that I will be making again and again!! Thank you for sharing!
It really does fill the whole house with goodness…and your belly! So glad to hear that you enjoyed it!
I made this yesterday as a bundt (baked for 60 minutes). And I added some cinnamon chips with the chocolate chips because I had an open bag in the pantry. It was a hit with the entire family!!!
Yay!! I am so glad to hear that!!
Thanks so much for sharing, Amy! My whole family enjoyed it. I was a little concerned when I was making it because my batter was just about the consistency of mashed potatoes! But it turned out perfectly and that crunchy filling on top is TO DIE FOR. Perfect anytime treat!
The batter is a bit thicker than normal! Glad you enjoyed it!!
I just pulled this or of my oven. My house smells amazing. I told my mom that I wished I could text/post /email her the smell. Google will have to work on that feature. I’m taking it to mom’s club at my church in the morning if I can keep my fingers out of it until then. Thanks!
Looks Delish! I wish it didn’t have that much sugar and butter. I don’t mind sugar in the filling but then also in the cake?? What if I replace butter for applesauce and honey for sugar? Thoughts please :)
this recipe looks wonderful! I need to make it gluten free, so do you know what the flour substitution would be? I would be using all purpose GF, but I’m not sure that I would use 3 cups? TIA
This article may explain how to substitute flour for GF flour: http://www.myrecipes.com/healthy-diet/baking-with-gluten-free-flour
thank you for the article….it is very helpful!!!!
This is the best
Can I use milk instead of yogurt?
You can substitute sour milk for yogurt. To make sour milk, put one Tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice in a one-cup volume measuring cup. Add milk up to one cup total, and let it sit for a few minutes before you use it. I would add only enough sour milk to make it moist, since yogurt is thicker than sour milk.
When do you add sour cream or vanilla yogurt please , it doesn’t say in your video ?? Or is it just for pouring over ??
Here is the printable recipe. Thanks. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E_-QCIDaZGQg3ecA6WNiSLcdKlF1OP6mVL1aUM-MyTU/edit
Made this a couple times….it’s yummy!!
Amy- So happy that you enjoyed the recipe.
This cake is delicious! Thanks for the recipe. My kids and my early morning seminary students really enjoyed this.
Kathleen- Yay! So happy you all enjoyed it!
I didn’t see you add sour cream or yogurt in the video. Is it necessary or can you make it without?
Kayla- I must have missed that. Yes, I always add the sour cream or yogurt. Hope you enjoy the recipe.