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!
I love all those pictures. The one with the baby goat is just too cute. I have the same problem during the summer. I hope you get some great ideas! Wish I had one to leave you???
Last year fund were limited and we didn't get to take a real vacation, so I planned "themed" days for my kids. Our favorite was Beach Day. When the kids woke up, I had the table decorated with buckets and sand toys, little beach balls, and water bottles. We played with Moon Sand, ate crab-shaped calzones for dinner, made beachy mobiles, etc. We ended the day with a visit to my sister's pool.
The beach and the library are a must in this house. I can't wait to see what the others suggest.
I live in Georgia so I don't know that I would be much help but around here there are tons of businesses which sponser free days for kids whether it be restuarants or attractions. Disney World is a must for my family. And your little girl is too cute!
This blog just posted a few things.
http://partiesandholidays.blogspot.com/search/label/Summer%20Activities%20for%20Kids
When I was a kid, I loved going to the library. It would also be fun to do local day hikes or exploring.
One idea I came up with and already implemented was 'panning for gold'. I took a bowl of gravel and spray painted it a glossy gold. Then I found some normals sized rocks and spray painted them too (golden nuggets). I buried them all in the sandbox. It was some good excercise too:) I told the kids there is gold in our sandbox and they tell every friend that comes over too. Already, they have spent hours 'panning for gold'. I love that they can do it all by themselves too:)
Next I'm going to find some chunky sticks and spray them white. This will be some dinosaur-bone-digging fun!
I love this idea of sharing. I'll be checking back to see what everyone says. My best summer tips are community events and freebies. I look through our local newspaper every day to find out what is going on and what my kids might enjoy. This has given us a chance to experience lots of new things we might normally not attend. We also love the 1.00 movies through companies like cinemark. Can't wait to hear what everyone else is doing.
We do an annual pass to the zoo which is lots of fun and after the initial cost is pretty cheap (bring your own lunches, drinks, etc.) I know our county library system is doing a weekly craft day along with their reading program that we'll be doing. There are a lot of museums around here too that are either free or have a monthly free day. My kids favortie thing we did last summer was a "summer bing." Each square had a different activity on it. I don't remember what we did when someone got a bingo, but they loved it. Guess I should get one ready for this year. :)
Can I just say that you are a great photographer? You are.
For fun stuff…it sounds like you have got it covered but I do have one game that was a hit with us as kids. I am from AZ so we did a lot of swimming. We would grease up a watermelon and play "football" in the pool with it. Needless to say it is hilarious and gets really confusing and tiring.
Here are a few ideas that have already been running through my head. (Some apply to the SLC area).
Mountain hikes, Gardening and sprinkler fun, SWEET's Candy Factory Tour is always a winner, UMFA and Natl History Museum Free Days, Wild Wild West Jordan Park is a MUST, Murray City has some cute children's concerts on Fridays lined up, Kennecot Copper Mine Visitor Center, This is the Place $2 Wednesdays, Looking for a creamery or icecream factory tour (anyone know of one? [email protected])
I have a recent SMMART Reading post about a Summer Learning Activity Calendar.
Looking forward to a great summer. I like that you actually ask your kids for input as to what they'd like to do this summer.
Amy-
First of all I never got to thank you for the cinnamon chip lead! I appreciate your time!
Our favorite summer activities are:
1) letterboxing!!!
http://www.letterboxing.org
This is our families favorite thing to do…others like geocashing or something like that.
2)Cupcake Shop hopping (I do this about three times in a summer-it's fun to discover local shops)
3)Summer Reading Program
4)Mystery Trip (don't tell the kids where you are going and take them to the zoo, children's museum, metro park, lake, etc)
5)Cooking classes with my four kids. I choose to let them help make bread or muffins, cookies, mini pizzas, etc.
6) Strawberry or raspberry picking
7)Swimming Lessons
8)Catching Fireflies
9)Fishing-the local rec center has a casting pond for kids
10)Picnic
11)Camping or backyard camping
12)Smores over the bbq
13)Discover a local farmer's market. I love showing all the different produce to the kids.
14)Scavenger hunt walk and come back with collected items and glue on a paper.
I don't know if these are helpful but I've got four kids 8 years to 3 years and these are some of the fun summer things we like to do! I can't wait to hear what other like too!
Amy,
You truly are a great photographer and I hope it's ok to say how beautiful your kids are too. :)
Well, I love this post! I do try to be organized with summer fun for my kids ages 10, 8, 5 and 3. Something that really helps me is to have a weekly outing that we do with our ward/neighborhood friends.
* Each Wednesday we will do something fun such as go to the Willow Park and zoo in Logan and then go to the Gossner Cheese Factory after ward…so good!
* Find a local park with a track and go rollerblading, scootering or biking around it
* hiking, hiking, hiking! We love to do that as a family weekly
* I love to visit each of the libraries in my county during the summer. It's fun to see the different libraries and see new games or books to check out. My kids love doing that
* Explore a new park that is a bit further from home
* Go to the Ogden Nature Center
* Do you have a Splash Pad? Those are fun and free
* Take a tour of some of the LDS church buildings in SLC
* Camp out in the backyard
* Join a 5k with your kids!
* Free bowling for kids during summer
* Check out the nearest pool by you to see if they offer discounts on certain nights or days…ours offers a 2 for 1 deal on Wed. or a Family Fun night on Mondays for only $15.
* One of the best ideas I did with my kids last year was to go to the dollar store and pick up some plastic lizards, insects or shiny beads etc. Then, I put them in water—froze it and then put more creatures in—and froze them. We had a layer effect. When all layers had frozen, I gave the kids toothbrushes and let them go to work discovering treasures! This kept them busy for over an hour or so! I loved it!
It's so fun to hear what everyone else is saying about summer fun ideas. Keep them coming! We can all use the help from each other. :)
I just did a post all about this on my blog last week! Seems like this topic is on everyone's mind. Go here to read my list: http://shannonbrown.typepad.com/life_in_general/2010/06/the-summer-fun-list.html
I also came up with a cute, easy way to display the list on our fridge.