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Follow your intuition and all will be well.

Marie Kondo

Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, not the effort needed to get them out.
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Effort Need Reduce Storage
We may think that we have stored things to suit our behavior, but usually we have unconsciously adjusted our actions to match where things are stored.
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Action Behavior Store Thinking Unconscious
Never discard anything without saying thank you and good-bye.
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Goodbye Leave Thankful
People who use the KonMari Method never revert to clutter again.
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Clutter Method People
Start with clothes, then move on to books, papers, komono (miscellany), and finally things with sentimental value.
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Book Clothes Emotion Paper Start Value
Your real life begins after putting your house in order.
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Beginning Home Life Order Reality Yourself
The best method is to experiment and enjoy the process.
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Best Enjoyment Experiment Method Process
Although we can get to know ourselves better by sitting down and analyzing our characteristics or by listening to others’ perspectives on us, I believe that tidying is the best way.
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Analyze Better Character Myself Perspective Way
Discard first, store later.
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Discard Store Throw
To throw away what you no longer need is neither wasteful nor shameful.
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Away Need Shame Waste
Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong.
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Clutter Deep Failure
If you use the right method and concentrate your efforts on eliminating clutter thoroughly and completely within a short span of time, you’ll see instant results that will empower you to keep your space in order after.
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Cleaning Effort Elimination Method Order Result Right Space Time Yourself
When deciding how to spend your time, remember: Don’t trade an activity you’d love to pursue for a reward you don’t value.
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Activity Decision Pursue Remember Reward Time Value
If you are going to buy clothes, choose them with the intention of welcoming them into your home and caring for them.
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Care Clothes Home Intention Welcome
The true purpose of a present is to be received.
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Present Purpose True
In Japan, we say that words make our reality. The words we see and with which we come into contact tend to bring about events of the same nature.
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Contact Nature Ourselves Reality Word

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