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!
Hi Amy – this looks divine. I have not been successful with making yeast dough, so I usually just buy dough from the bakery section at the supermarket. I have been experimenting with cinnamon type breads and the last one I made was kinda like cinnabuns – spreading a mixture of butter and brown sugar, cinnamon and raisins on the dough, roll it up, cut in slices, put in a deep baking tray and pour over 250ml of cream and some more brown sugar. It bakes into these amazing buns with a little bit of a sticky caramel sauce which is very nice!!! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
I have very fond memories of my mom making me cinnamon toast when I was a little girl. This is a beautiful bread Amy, bet it tasted great!
this looks so yummy!!! I love cinnamon bread! I dont have a knack for baking though. It seems things work out better when I just buy ready made stuff. Your pictures make this look so yummy that I will have to give it a try on a weekend soon!!
Mmmmm! This looks so good, will have to try it this weekend, at the moment I'm feeding my cinnamon cravings by sprinkling cinnamon and sugar on toast and popping it under the grill for a minute or so, an excellent quick version!
Fantastic pictures!! I have this recipe, but use powdered milk rather than scalding the milk. Great Breakfast…if it lasts til then!
I am SO making this. We also buy the $6 cinnamon bread from the store and I would love to find a homemade substitute – will try it today!!!
I'm don't think I can express how much I LOOOOOOVVEE cinnamon bread :) Do you thnk I could throw some raisins on top of the sprinkled cinnamon?
Thanks for a SWEET recipe Amy :)
I'm so excited to try this recipe! My SIL made us some whole wheat cinnamon bread for Christmas, and we devoured it!! I'm gonna make this right now!!
This looks fantastic. Do you think spraying the cinnamon sugar with water after it gets sprinkled on the dough helps keep big air bubbles from forming when it bakes? I always get big gaps when I make cinnamon swirl bread.
Also, do you think this would work using the dough setting on my breadmaker?
Thanks!
I am SO making this tonight! Thanks for the recipe!
Cara
Okay, so Cinnaburst bread from Great Harvest is my son's FAVORITE treat. I've convinced him that you can only get it at his Grandma's house. So he thinks there's a magic store there that makes it. That's partly because I'd eat it, if it was here, and also because I'm too cheap to buy it.
Should I pretend I never read this entry? Or try it and become a hero? Hmmmmm…..
Geez Amy.
Now I have a dilemma!
:)
This looks yummy! Maybe I'll try it late at night. Sneaky.
Thank you!!! I am a cinnamon bread junkie and a cooks illustrated junkie.=) Can't wait to try it and eat it errr share it, with my family.=)
Thanks for the sweet comments everyone!
@Joan–You could totally make this in your bread maker. Just scald the milk first and then add the rest of the ingredients to the bread maker. It should work. Not sure if the water helps, but I had no trouble with the bubbles. I imagine the water could help to seal the dough together though so it doesn't separate.
Yum!!! I can almost smell this! Thanks for sharing. :)
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! Been looking for the perfect cinnabun/bread recipe and think I finally found it :) I made a double batch and sprinkled about 1/4cup fruit cake mix I had left over from Christmas in the one bread (on top of the cinnamon sugar mix). Came out brilliantly!
Hey Amy. Thanks for sharing this. I couldn't wait and so I did it this morning. I used half white flour and half wheat, which worked well. In addition, I'm too lazy to scald my milk so I warmed it in the microwave for about 45 seconds. Everything else I did as you wrote and it turned out lovely. My nearly-three-year old thanks you!
We make french toast with our cinnamon swirl bread and eat it with apple syrup. So yummy!
This looks great. I'd like to make some. I don't have a dough hook, though. Can I just knead it together by hand? Thanks
Jeff and Valerie – I don't have a dough hook either, wooden spoon and then hands worked just fine :) Just messy!
@Jeff and Valerie {@Erna}– Yes! You will just have to mix it together and then knead it "the old fashioned way" :) by hand. It will work just fine!
I made this today, and it's SO yummy! Thank you for posting the recipe, I'll definitely be using it again.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/Karissaa/Arts%20Crafts%20and%20Cooking/SDC14157.jpg
I made this yesterday and this morning we had cinnamon swirl bread french toast! It was DELICIOUS! Thanks for the recipe…
I also used silk instead of whole milk and it worked great!
Hi Amy! I made the bread this weekend and everyone RAVED about it! It was simply the BEST cinnamon swirl bread I have ever had. I've posted about it here: http://somethingwilde.blogspot.com/2011/01/cinnamon-swirl-bread-and-water-parks.html
I had to revise too since I didn't have rapid rise yeast. I decreased the milk to 1 1/4 cups and dissolved 3 tsp active dry yeast in 1/4 cup water. Worked like a charm!
Thank you, thank you!
Thanks so much for this recipe – it's been sitting in my "Recipes to Try" bookmarked folder for quite a while and we finally tried it last weekend. Can I just say…"OH MY!" What an awesome bread recipe! Love, love, love this! Kids went crazy, Hubs went crazy, Neighbors kids went crazy, house smelled divine…need I say more? Definitely moved to "Keeper Recipes" file! Thanks again! Love the blog, btw.
This looks amazing!!! Have you tried this recipe with instant milk? If so, what amount of milk and water did you use? Thanks!!
My family also loves the cinnamon bread from Great Harvest, especially when I make french toast with it. Though I am a fairly skilled baker & cook, I do have trouble from time to time with getting homemade breat to rise. So to save myself from the stress, I buy the frozen bread dough from the store, let it thaw & rise, & I’m ready to go! (this dough also works great for homemade pizza). I am thawing the dough now & will bake this evening with your filling recipe (all others just listed cinnamon & sugar as the filler but I knew there was more & thought it would be brown sugar-thanks for the confirmation & amounts!) for a great french toast breakfast for my kids to start their week tomorrow morning. Greatly appreciated….thank you!
Sounds like a great idea with ensured success! I am admittedly not a great bread maker. And french toast? Yum! You will be your kids hero :)