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Cherish the things you love. Cherish yourself.

Marie Kondo

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
It’s far more important to adorn your home with the things you love than to keep it so bare it lacks anything that brings you joy.
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Happiness Home Important Joy Yourself
Be sure to completely finish the first task before starting the next.
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Complete Start Task
Follow your intuition and all will be well.
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Follow Health Intuition Willing
I believe that tidying is a celebration, a special send-off for those things that will be departing from the house, and therefore I dress accordingly.
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Believe Celebration Home Myself
Many people have equated my tidying method with minimalism, but it’s quite different.
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Different Equation Minimalism Myself People Quite
Clutter also adversely affects health. According to a study by scientists at UCLA, being surrounded by too many things increases cortisol levels, a primary stress hormone.
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Adversity Affect Clutter Health Hormone Level Primary Stress
In essence, tidying ought to be the act of restoring balance among people, their possessions, and the house they live in.
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Act Balance Essence Home Live People Possession Restore
Everyone needs a sanctuary.
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Need One Liner Sanctuary
I begin my course with these words: Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day.
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Beginning Course Day Myself
Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?
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Believe Happiness Heart Myself
To quietly work away at disposing of your own excess is actually the best way of dealing with a family that doesn’t tidy.
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Best Dispose Family Quiet Way Work
No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.
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Excitement Important Live Past Wonderful
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
Your storage space is your private paradise, so personalize it to the fullest.
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Paradise Privacy Space Storage Yourself
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
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Cleaning Mindset Order Purity

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