The Complete Guide to an Organized Home (& Life!)
Control the clutter, so you can finally feel zen and comfortable in your home. Expert strategies to organize your space in just one week, even if you've been messy all your life.
Featuring Kathi Burns, CPO®, Board-Certified Professional Organizer
Format
Lesson delivered daily to your inbox, complete with professional organizing tips, daily organizing challenges, and simple tricks for creating order out of chaos.
Duration
5 days, 1 lesson per day
Time
10 minutes per lesson
What you will learn
- Dig down into the why of getting organized, before you accomplish the how
- Learn efficient strategies for sorting through miscellaneous belongings (hello random kitchen drawer with pens in it)
- Discover ruthless decluttering, and learn how to let go of things you've clung onto for way too long
- Create clear and obvious zones for different items in your house, so you never lose your keys again
- Form new habits that will keep you organized, forever
Why should you take this course?
- Put peace of mind at the top of your list. Is getting organized on your list of things you'll do "one day" but you never seem to have enough time? Well, spoiler alert: being messy is zapping your time, and your inefficiency is holding you back. Put organizing at the top of your list, and see how much time you get back each day.
- Create a space that feels like home, no stress allowed. Did you know that 91% of Americans feel anxious and overwhelmed when their homes are messy? You deserve a zen sanctuary, not a place that makes you feel more stressed! Banish the stressful mess once and for all.
- Save money when you keep track of your belongings. If you can't find it, you buy it again. Misplacing your possessions leads to unnecessary repeat purchases, which is money just leaking out of your wallet. Get your home in order and see for yourself that you already have everything you need.
Course Overview
5 lessons
Establishing Your Organization Goals
Reflect on where your organizational habits come from, how your current system is working, and identify what goals are motivating you to get organized.
Getting in the “Zone”
Identify the point of your possessions, and prioritize what belongings matter most to you and why. What is serving you, and the life you want to live?
Gathering & Getting Rid
It’s go time! Use Kathi’s methodical, easy strategies to decide what you will keep and what you will let go. Your path towards a clutter-free life is getting easier!
Organizing Your Zones
Strategize where things should go. Establish systems that make sense for your life, guided by Kathi’s effective methods that can work for anyone.
Stay Organized, Forever
You made it! Your home is neat and tidy—but how to keep it that way? With Kathi’s easy, thoughtful strategies you can ensure that you continue to flex your new organizational muscles.
Meet the Expert
Kathi Burns, CPO®
Board Certified Professional Organizer
Kathi Burns is a board certified Professional Organizer (CPO) and Founder of Organized and Energized!, her consulting business with a mission to empower people to master their environment and personal image by assisting them in taking control, making change and organizing their lives. Kathi has over 17 years of organizing experience and her work has been featured on Better Homes and Gardens, NBC News, Good Morning America, and Entrepreneur. She has a BS in Communication from Ohio University.
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What are others saying?
Rao
I just followed the course step by step, day by day and implemented what it taught. By the end of the course, the results were amazing. My house which was a dumping yard before I started the course, has become almost a luxury villa at the end. My friends and relatives asked me the phone number of the professional who did it. I gave my own number, because it is me who did it. This is the reason why I loved this course. Regards to the expert.
David
I love the part that advised to organise zone by zone. That really help me never to look for stuff before finding it because everything is already is in its place. Thank you wikiHow!
Khedidja
This course is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Tips to help me organize my home, and make my life feel a bit more sorted out on the way. Super helpful, I’ve been telling all my friends that they NEED this!
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