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!
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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!
My son, who is now 11, was diagnosed with manic depression and bipolar disorder when he was 9. We saw early signs when he was 5, but it wasn’t something that ever crossed my mind. When he started struggling in school with social issues when he was 7 was when I took him to be evaluated. I didn’t know “what” was wrong, but I knew something was off. We tried diet changes and some natural treatments first, but when he told me he didn’t see himself living past 18, I knew we needed to try a different approach. Now he’s on a mild anti-depressant and under the care of an excellent doctor. Every single one of his teachers called me the month after he went on the medication to tell me what a HUGE difference they saw in my son. I encourage other parents to get their children diagnosed. I allowed the school to classify him as Special Education for emotional needs, which I also struggled with because I didn’t want him labeled, but it opened up additional services for him and lets the schools modify his education plan to best meet HIS needs.
The third point here, be your child’s advocate, can’t be stressed enough. I have an amazing, funny, bright kid. But no one saw that when he was struggling constantly. I had to fight to find doctors that would diagnose and treat him (the wait lists can be horrible) but it was worth it in the end. There are still rough days, but the good days far far out weigh them now.
Mrs. Mike, I LOVE this success story. Thank you for sharing it with us. How wonderful that you have found the help your son needs.
Hi, thanks for this interesting article.
I am a Hungarian woman, working – among others – for a Hungarian website (www.natursziget.com) which is about healthy life.
I have read the above article, and have found it interesting for our readers. Do you mind, if I translate it, and send it to the editors for possible publishing? Of course I would mention your website (shall I mention The Idea room or Family Volley?) as the source.
Thank you for this clear description of symptoms and fantastic list of steps. As a therapist, I always encourage people to check with a mental health professional if they have a hunch that something might not be right with their child. It may feel like overreacting, but that’s ok. Most therapists are happy to help you sort through what is developmentally typical and what is outside of the “norm.”
Very informative article! I would like to to add that parents should always explore ALL possible explanations for a child’s changed behavior/mood. At 15, my daughter was a poster child for all of the symptoms mentioned here…the changes in her happened slowly over several months. We had her evaluated by her long-time pediatrician who placed her on an antidepressant and referred her to a good child psychiatrist and a therapist specializing in teenagers. She attended a small private school so all of her teachers had known her since she was 5 years old and were aware of the situation, working with us to keep her grades even keel. She started exhibiting more aggressive/violent tendencies about 4 months into treatment and her diagnosis was tentatively changed from depression to bi-polar (which runs in my family). Her meds were changed but the situation kept slowly deteriorating. Getting her to care about her appearance, friends, studies or even, on some mornings, getting her our of bed to go to school was becoming more and more difficult……it reached a crisis point until on one crisp winter morning—I told her she didn’t have to go to school—ever again. I told her that I would homeschool her (and no—I didn’t know one thing about homeschooling). In that single instant, I got my daughter back. It turns out that since the beginning of the school year, she had been bullied by girls she had known her entire life. It started out by them just making snide comments but by the start of January, most of the girls in her grade were making her life hell. We thought that she had just lost interest in hanging out with friends due to depression. We thought her grades were dropping due to depression. We thought that the aggressive behavior was indeed caused by being bi-polar. All the while, she was keeping what was happening at school to herself. Her teachers were totally unaware of what was happening in the halls at school….they assumed that her withdrawal from the other kids in class was because of depression since they were working with us (most were personal friends) and knew the initial diagnosis. Did my daughter finally tell me about the bullying? No….I few days after I told my daughter that she could stay home, a mother approached me in the grocery store and told me that her daughter (in a different grade) had told her what my daughter had been going through at school. At that moment, a light bulb went off in my head….it all made sense. She WAS depressed….a situational depression started because kids can be cruel. I homeschooled her the rest of the year and slowly got my daughter back. We changed schools the next year and she was back on track. Are there residual effects from the ordeal? Absolutely, she has trouble trusting girls and isn’t as comfortable in social situations….but she’s finishing up her last year of college and has flourished. I’m telling this story so parents can be aware and to probe exhaustively if depression symptoms start to appear in their child.
Thank you, Mrs Kay, for sharing your story. I happened upon this article on Facebook this morning after scheduling an initial visit, for my daughter, with a therapist yesterday afternoon. The timing of this article and your response only solidifies that I did exactly what I need to be doing for my daughter. The thought of homeschooling terrifies me, but the thought of her continuing to suffer is even more terrifying. If there are suggestions of steps to take now, I would love to get any help I can.
Thanks again, Amy, for posting this on FB and Mrs Kay for confirming that I am on the right track to help my daughter! You both made this dreary, rainy day so much brighter for me!
Hello! Im a single mother of a 6 year old ( he just turned 6 March 20th) his father is still in his life but comes and goes and doesn’t have much stability. I never have either until the last year I’ve made a lot of positive changes. I’ve just noticed that my son is having difficulty in school getting along with one particular kid and I try to tell him not to let the kid get to him and I’ve talked to his teacher and she says its Tyson too ( which I’m sure it is!! It’s most definitely both of them) I also suffer from depression since I was at least 13 maybe even younger and it runs in my family.. Big time. I don’t think one person in my family doesn’t suffer from depression and past or present addictions to drugs and alcohol. My son has changed me for the better. He’s very attached and tells me he loves me a million times a day but I sense something deep down inside of him is sad and it’s a lot of little things that may have built up. We struggle in the morning and argue because he doesn’t like to listen. And he doesn’t like to get up most of the time. He’s been whining a lot! Says school sucks everyday and he hates it and doesn’t want to go… And now his teacher sent a referral to someone and they called me from his school and want to meet to have him evaluated. He looses interest quick. I do math with him and he does fine on the first few and sees their are more and says ” I’m all done I don’t feel like finishing it” and literally is good at changing the subject so he gets me distracted. I have had add: adhd my whole life I just knew I had to pay extra attention and I took classes I was interested in of course… I guess my whole point is in worried he may have some depression and I want to help him so he doesn’t take the wrong path to distructiveness like the rest of my family… I would love some advice myself on ways to make mornings more fun cuz I’m not a morning person myself either but to help him feel better about himself – give him a few responsibilities that he can definitely complete and feel good about!? I don’t know? I’m sure I will figure out some ways especially since it’s something I’m determined to do… Which is to help him be a more positive person now! And if he’s not happy, well then let’s change it and do something different? You know? Life’s to short to be miserable I always say!
It sounds like you already are doing all the right things. You can tell that you love your son very much and I think that is the most important thing that you can do for him. Good luck in your parenting journey. You may want to ask Heather from http://www.familyvolley.com/ she will be able to answer your questions better. She has a Masters Degree in Youth and Family Recreation and is great at what she does!
Hello,
I believe that my son has been suffering from depression for a long time. He is now 23 years old, is doing nothing with his life and has very few interests. I have tried to talk to doctors but when your child turns 18 you lose all your parental authorities and nobody will listen. My son lives at home, tells us that nothing is wrong with him and that he will find a job but we know that he isn’t really looking. He spends a lot of time in bed. He is very talented with computers but doesn’t have the drive to start his life! I hope that other parents work on this early, before your child turns 18! The frustration and helpless feeling for parents is unbearable!
So sorry. That can be so frustrating. Hope he is able to get some help.
This was really helpful!! Thank you!! It helped me as an adult to recognize depression in my life.
Dani- So happy that you found this post helpful. Bless you and your journey.