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!
YAY for you! I loved reading your story. I ran my first half marathon two years ago. As a mom with 4 kids and very little time to spare I can greatly appreciate your committment to training. It is tough to balance it all! Did you cry when you crossed the finish line like I did? Oh….and I slept with my finisher’s medal around my neck too. :p
I think that is amazing. I don’t really like running, but I am in such awe of people who are able to do it! Maybe someday.
Congratulations to you! Being a non-runner, I have recently gotten into these long distance runs. They are a huge time commitment, but well worth the effort. And there is NOTHING like having your family there to cheer you on at the finish line. If you want a SUPER FUN run, enter in the Disneyland Half Marathon (over Labor Day weekends) – completely over priced but well worth it. It sells out quick (in January is when it opens). Last year I went for the weekend by myself and have an amazing experience, this year my hubby is coming (and we are leaving the kids at home.)
Good luck to you in whatever you chose to accomplish next – btw, no need to worry about those last pounds, you look great. And thanks for all your time with The Idea Room – I love to check it out each day!
you. are. awesome.
Congrats for accomplishing such a great goal! I can only imagine it being hard for you to juggle your sweet family and training…but so worth it! I can see they’re so proud of you in that picture :)
and thanks for the link to that training schedule! I’ll have to share it with my sister in law Sharla (Kjar) who’s going to run a half marathon in October. It’s the Halloween Half in Provo. Ever heard of it? It looks pretty awesome!…most of the people dress up (from a simply face painted mask, to a full on grim reaper costume. HA!) which makes it look like a blast! Here’s the link for you to check it out: http://www.halloweenhalf.com/index.php
You go, girl! What an awesome accomplishment. I can’t even run around the couch!
Yay!!! Congrats! As mothers, we are always the cheerleader – what a sweet memory to have your children cheerleading for YOU as you cross the finish line! I’m a runner too, but I really enjoy measuring my runs in miles, not timed runs. Some mornings I’m fast, some mornings I’m slower. But like you said, I always come back a happy momma!!
That’s so awsome!! You totally ROCK!!
Congratulations!!!!
I’m so stinkin’ proud to know you! I know how hard you worked on this. What an awesome accomplishment. I seriously hate running. Like, I just can’t do it. And I am in such AWE of those that do. You are super woman, Amy. I am going to try and be 1/4 as awesome as you. That’s my new goal.
CONGRATS CONGRATS, THRILLED FOR YOU! and I am totally on board with Ellie G. that is me too. ZUMBA and dance on the other hand…. LOVE TO DEATH.
winks-jen
I just completed my first ever triathlon June 4th. In Feburary I couldnt even run 3 miles so I was pushing it. BUT, I must say the reward was worth it in lots of ways. It did more for my body than I ever imagined and then mentally was very rewarding. I cried as I crossed the finish line and didnt wash off my markings for a couple days ( they were my way of showing off LOL ) My next goal is to do a Tough Mudder or Spartan race in 2013. CONGRATS on finishing and dont quit find another goal :) Up next for me is my first duathlon Sept 10th in Panama City :)
Hi Amy! Congratulations! What an awesome accomplishment! You should be so proud of yourself and I’m sure your family is too. It’s been so long since I’ve seen you. I hope your Summer has been fantastic. Hope to see you soon!
Wow, I’m so impressed! Great job on a great race! I am right there with you as I just ran my first half marathon back in July with a very similar story as yours and am planning on doing another in october!
Yay! I am so proud of you! I think it is amazing that you did something out of your comfort zone. Running is something I don’t think I could ever master so kudos to you! You’re Super woman :)
P.S. How fun to come to the finish line and see your cute family. I probably would have bawled my eyes out.
Congrats!!! I love that you posted about it on your blog. To me, that is just as much of a project or accomplishment as anything! I bet you’ve worked hard!
I just ran my first half too, on my 29th birthday. It was a very rewarding day.
Here’s the link if anyone’s interested! I gave some tips about running and lessons I learned!
http://familyeverafter.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-i-celebrated-my-29-birthday-131.html
Congrats! this is a great accomplishment!
Congrats on running your first half marathon!!! I ran my first one in June and it was so empowering to know that I could do it. Not to say that I didn’t have points where I wanted to punch anyone that was running with a grin on their face, lol. ;)
Congratulations. I’m so proud of you.
YAY YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! that’s AWESOME!!!!!! I am gearing up for my first in October! thanks for the inspiration!
woooohoooo! How did your shin splints feel during/after the race? SO awesome on finishing, and I think thats a great time! I wish my family was at the end of the race, but it was in a remote place and we had to be bussed in and I would have had to wake them at 5:30am to wait 5 hours to watch me finish…so we didn’t. I ran with 2 friends, so it was ok. The last 2 miles were a BEAST, too! Did your brother run it with you the whole time?
Way to go Amy! So excited for you- what a wonderful accomplishment! I’m feeling the way you described about the TriathaMom in Sept. WAY out of my comfort zone. i know I’ll be so happy to finish.
xoxo,
Amy
Way to go Amy! What an accomplishment! A half marathon is the most running in a race I would ever want to do. My husband ran his first half on Saturday too! The Hobble Creek Half.
Amy that is so awesome! You are absolutely amazing and I don’t think you give yourself enough credit for how incredible you are. Great job!!!
Congrats! You are amazing! I just started running last year. It was a deal that 3 friends of mine and I made to each other after we completed the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer (39 miles). We figured that since we did that far of distance in 2 days, that running in some kind of race would be the natural next step. So, last November I ran in my first ever 5k. I beat my practice time by 6 minutes! So cool! I’ve never been a runner, but I am slowly enjoying the benefits–I am so much happier and clear minded after my runs, too! I had foot surgery in April which has dampened my training, but I am doing 2 more 5k’s in October and then the November one again. I am not sure I will get to the half-marathon stage, but WOW–so glad you did and shared the story! Thanks for the inspiration!
WOO HOO for you! What a great accomplishment! I did ride in a Century (100 mi.) bike ride once, and it was a good feeling:)
You are awesome! I am running my first this coming Saturday. (The TOU 1/2) I’m SO nervous!
Congrats!! That is awesome! I’m currently “training” for the Triathamom. :) And by training I mean I ran/jogged/walked 3 miles once last week and rode my bike for about an hour. I have NO idea when I’ll ever get to practice swimming. Oh well. At least I’m trying. :)
Congrats on such an awesome accomplishment. I ran my first 1/2 in 2008 a year after I had my second daughter. I remember feeling like a rock star when I crossed that finish line! Beware, it becomes a bit addicting. :)
CONGRATULATIONS! You should be very proud of your accomplishment! It is so hard for a mom to find time for herself, or I should say make time for herself. I have 4 kids and I struggle with that ALL the time. But you have given me hope!
Congrats on your run! I am in awe of anyone who can run that far! I started running two years ago at the age of 56. I had never run before. My daughter and son-in-law started running and that got me interested. I did some 5K’s and that was sometimes a challenge for me. Then this summer my daughter was putting together an all women team to run a Ragnar Race in MN. (Our team ran 195 miles in 30 hours.) She needed one more runner. She somehow got me to agree to be the 12th runner. I had to run three legs: 6.2, 5 and 4 miles. I had one month to train. By race day I had run 6 miles about 4 different times. When it came time to do my first run it was hot, humid, wind-still running on new black tar uphill. I was disappointed in myself that I couldn’t run the entire 6 miles. I had to walk every once in awhile. My team members didn’t care they were just happy that I could finish!
HUGE kudos to you! What a fantastic accomplishment.
GREAT JOB!!! I ran a half marathon this summer, too! I completely agree with you when you say, “I came back a happier wife and mom.” As a homeschooling mamma of five, I use to think, I don’t have the time to run. Now, I say, “I can’t afford NOT to!” Running helps me sort out my thinking, as well as giving me twice the energy to get my work done. I never return from a run and say, “That was wasted time.” I like to think, “I’ve just invested my time.” (Same with my quiet time with God!) I love running because I’ve learned to “call upon the Lord through those especially difficult hills” and that has trained me to do the same in my day to day living.
Thank You so much everyone for all your support and sweet comments. I read each and every one and really appreciate them. Thanks for taking just a minute to make my day! And to those of you who are also training for your own various races…Good Luck! You will be glad you did it! My readers are AWESOME!
awesome job!!! love to see people who run a half and say the liked it!! i am doing my first in october and couldnt be more excited!