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Your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. To put things in order means to put your past in order, too.

Marie Kondo

When your room is clean and uncluttered, you have no choice but to examine your inner state.
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Choice Cleaning Examination Room State
Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.
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Complete Start Task
But when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.
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Attachment Fear Future Past Reason
We amass material things for the same reason that we eat—to satisfy a craving. Buying on impulse and eating and drinking to excess are attempts to alleviate stress.
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Material Reason Satisfaction Stress
Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.
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Cherish Love Yourself
Clutter has only two possible causes: too much effort is required to put things away or it is unclear where things belong.
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Clear Effort Possible Reason
Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.
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Allow Physical Space Yourself
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
If you have reduced your possessions but feel no joy at home, try gathering selected items that you really love in one spot to create your own special space.
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Creation Feeling Home Love Place Possession Reduce Select
If you want to meet a beautiful home that is just right for you, take good care of the one you live in now.
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Beautiful Care Goodness Home Live Right
Keep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.
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Heart Life Lifestyle Talk Yourself
It is only when you put your house in order that your furniture and decorations come to life.
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Decoration Furniture Home Life Order
A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.
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Awareness Important Lifestyle Person Perspective Segregation
Storage, after all, is the sacred act of choosing a home for my belongings.
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Home Sacred Storage
I’m sure most of us have been scolded for not tidying up our rooms, but how many of our parents consciously taught us how to tidy as part of our upbringing?
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Childhood Cleaning Habit Ourselves Parents Room
Human beings can only truly cherish a limited number of things at one time. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can’t take proper care of too many things.
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Care Cherish Forget Limitation Myself True

Your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. To put things in order means to put your past in order, too.

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Your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. To put things in order means to put your past in order, too.

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