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!
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Thank you for posting your directions. I’m going to make a few for Christmas gifts! I appreciate and love your blog!
Love this cute idea! Thanks for posting the tutorial. Pinned it!
Thanks for the tutorial! I’m so glad you didn’t say I needed a nail gun because I have yet to convince my husband that I really need one! The miter/chop saw is mine though, so I did a good job of convincing him I needed that one :)
Thanks for this tutorial. I have ideas floating in my head on how I can use the same box for various holidays.
This is a neat project, I hope I can tackle it next week. I like that you don’t have to have a miter box for the corners– the flat corners look just as nice as the mitered ones and appear to be something I could manage. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing the how-to! I’ve been wanting to make a similar box for my table for months! After I finish my mirror project…I may have to tackle one of these :)
Ashley
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Love this, Pinned this! TFS :)
I absolutely love this idea and look, but too much of a fire hazard for me.
Right! You could opt for flameless candles or just not light them!
I made my first one using your exact directions but thought that the sides of the box were too high to see the items I put in it so I made another with a 1×3 board for the sides and I really like it. It made a beautiful centerpiece for Thanksgiving and now it looks great with pinecones, evergreens and berries for Christmas!
What color stain did you use, very nice piece
I used Minwax’s Red Mahagony Stain!
Love your website! My husband made me one of these boxes this weekend. Can’t wait to decorate it!! Where did you get your pearl garland and berry garland??
Julie
Do you have to have a wood saw or will they cut it for you where you buy the wood?
We cut the wood with our saw. If you ask nicely, sometimes they will cut the wood for you at the big hardware stores.
If you have recommendations on the “small” ingredients– is that small pieces or garland like material? Thanks!
— sorry. “Do” you have recommendations?
Love it! My husband made me one with left over oak that he had and it is beautiful on the table! Thank you.
Oh yay! I am so glad to hear that and hear that you are loving it! Thanks for sharing that with me! xo
What am I doing wrong here but 5 1/2 inches for the side is way to long?
I was enjoying reading the article, but then your stupid popups started “please sign up for the mailiing list…” blah blah blah.
You know people HATE popups, right?
These are some really good information about building a wooden box. It would be nice to have wood boxes for storage uses. However, I don’t think I have the skill to build a box myself. Do you know if you could order some from other places?
I am sure you could find some online or your local home depot may have something similar.
You do know that glue doesn’t really hold on the end grain of a wooden board, do you? In this case, the nails will hold it, but for anyone trying this for a serious wooden box: don’t try gluing wood on the end grain, it won’t hold.
(Sorry for my English)
Thanks for the suggestion.
I just had to leave a comment on this. This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for posting such detailed instructions and measurements this looks to be the perfect size I was looking for! I will be making this soon and will post how it turned out as this is my first time!
Erin, I would love to see pictures of the finished product!
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I love it! And I made it. I’m so happy with how it turned out :)
I wanted to post a picture so you could see it I can’t figure out how to do that.
Camaron- I would love to see a picture. Maybe send it to me through email or on facebook message. I am so happy that you made one!